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by _xzxj 8y ago
Fair enough, it is very frustrating to see the industry i am a part of be so...sociopathic.
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by _xzxj 8y ago
HN is an ideological battle whether you like it or not, dang. Especially political threads like this one. Expressing views outside of the techno-libertarian norm around here should be allowed.
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by _xzxj 8y ago
I believe the person you're replying to may have been referring to themselves (look at their post history). That said I think you're giving SV a lot of credit if you're framing the choice as "Silicon Valley or Feudalism
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by _xzxj 8y ago
https://github.com/jlaine/aiortc may be a better option than janus. It's a much simpler to use implementation and is python. quick summary of the acronyms... STUN/TURN/ICE are all related to NAT travers
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by _xzxj 8y ago
Nice site. This isn't the first visa site like it i've seen, but they all focus on travel visas it seems. I suppose that's the low-hanging fruit. What would be interesting to see are work visas, entrepreneur/freelance
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by _xzxj 8y ago
The author didn't really complain about too much specifically, just generally complaining about the language. I guess it's hard to say whether or not the situation is better in the latest versions of C++ (though as someone who us
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by _xzxj 8y ago
I'm not sure why this person listed so much hardware, I've done some USB protocol reversing using a TotalPhase Beagle 480. I think I probably could have done something in software, but the nice thing is the TotalPhase software is
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by _xzxj 8y ago
Canadian here (who lives outside of Canada but recently did a stint there for a bit) and this will sound negative but f-it. Canadian culture sucks when it comes to trying new things. Canada has some extra safety net but the culture is pur
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by _xzxj 8y ago
Google please take a few notes here: 1. It’s in its own repo 2. The build instructions are concise and clear. Dependencies are listed. You have to follow a total of 0 links. 3. They use a common build system and not an in-house thing.
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by _xzxj 9y ago
I wish they were more specific about when to use and not use exceptions. Truth be told I really hate exceptions and I strongly feel that they should only be used in the most disastrous situations. I'm messing with the 0MQ C++ wrapper
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by _xzxj 9y ago
No offense but Pieter Levels seems like a bit of a bastard, and you can see it in that thread. I don't pay much attention to him, but when I do come across his social media posts they're pretty off-putting. He's pretty succ
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by _xzxj 9y ago
During the election Trump was promising things like a muslim ban, and increased deportations of illegal immigrants. Regardless of how you feel about these issues politically the plain fact is that they impact the lives of real people, and n
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by _xzxj 9y ago
LGBT people are a protected class, nazis are not.
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by _xzxj 11y ago
On first glance I thought the mirror said "Wear pants today" as if the mirror should know whether or not my legs will get cold...
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by _xzxj 13y ago
On the other hand, when I was a kid whenever I broke something on the computer it was my responsibility to fix it. My parents told me I broke it, so I'm able to fix it. So this particular paragraph really actually resonated with me,