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by alxlaz 7y ago
> It makes it extremely difficult to legally be a tech firm unless you're already a tech giant Why? There are plenty of tech companies that collect very little data, and don't sell any of it. I fondly remember one of my custome
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> More info about the privacy settings: https://portal.facebook.com/privacy/ I'm just saying, the privacy page doesn't address a lot of real concerns. It talks about being able to shut down the camera an
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Ever tried to teach an introductory Physics class without using geometry, trigonometry or calculus? (Edit: for that matter, teaching statistics to students with limited exposure to calculus is not a very successful endeavour, either...) The
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Definitely -- but while most places don't actually suffer from all those things at once, a lot of them do worry about most of them, and will bring them up if they're out of criteria based on which to differentiate candidates. I&
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> I really don't understand why there is a bias against age. I've observed this first-hand while doing interviews. Even in companies that insist there's no bias against age, and even with people who insist they don't
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> if you can't express yourself clearly or understand native speakers without them having to make allowances, then I don't think you should get credit for being smart Why? Engineers have to "make allowances" for under
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by alxlaz 7y ago
It's a pretty common thing among non-native speakers who have nonetheless interacted or lived in the English-speaking world for virtually all their lives. I know a bunch of people who are in the same situation (although, clearly, not a
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm not trying to argue that people who prefer a particular behaviour are wrong, just to point out why it's a valid technical choice. You may find it pretty rare that you have a document that compresses the scroll bar that badly,
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> The fact that this is also not the OS default (clicking usually _incrementally_ scrolls towards where you click, instead of jumping) is infuriating. Why? Incremental scrolling works fine for pages and files of any length, whereas click
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> For designers accustomed to Mac environments but designing multi-platform web experiences, trying to make everyone happy in a way that doesn’t place a lot of performance burden on the end user can be tricky. Well here's a recipe t
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm a bit out of my waters when it comes to aerospace, hopefully someone more familiar with the field can correct me if I'm wrong on any of these accounts. I knew I should have given examples from the medical field, but the pare
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by alxlaz 7y ago
What they are saying is that every language runtime, even stricter ones, has its own safety implications and you have to consider them when writing the specs and the code. Simply switching to a language with a stricter runtime may automagic
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> That is true, but I found that in more strict languages you have a bit of a slower ramp-up, but the time you save later before production in bugs you don't have could be used to take more looks at the spec and better simulations.
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This is a slightly more complicated topic (i.e. it's complicated by whether or not manual recovery is possible and by whether or not carrying on makes it worse), but in general, the worst thing you can do if you encounter an error in t
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm a big fan of the GDPR and it certainly improved things over here across the pond, but "pass a GDPR clone" isn't something that leads to progress. There's a lot of stuff that can be improved about the GDPR, and t
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I mean, since we're here already, we could remove those as well, as they can be approximated with sufficient precision using Taylor series.
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> I was sympathetic to these arguments, especially the second. But many customers repeatedly asked for the export feature. This is the gist of what I think is good design: don't second-guess your users . When you're doing the
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This doesn't sound like the use case that the parent comment was describing. Parent comment was about what is inferred if you are a user and no longer have FaceRec setting on, but used to have it on at one point, and opted out. That&
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Lacking in charisma hardly describes a person like Theo de Raadt. I've never met the man, but I doubt that someone who lacks charisma could have lead a dedicated, opinionated team through more than 40 releases (counting OpenBSD release
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Over here in Linux world we're all super thankful that the kernel community is big on interface stability and compatibility (and not just backwards), because pretty much nobody else is. Lots of folks don't realize how important th
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Not parent but it's something that's been bugging me for a while (especially since I work in a field where you often have to debug based on field logs from three weeks ago from a device halfway across the world). My two cents, I t
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by alxlaz 7y ago
There's a bunch of "plugins" for Emacs (and vim, I guess, that provide that, but I wouldn't know). xcscope largely does what I want and I've successfully used it on very large codebases (think Linux kernel + vendor-
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> What's the chance this is also due to less limitations in the hardware, rather than C compiler achieving "parity" ? I'd say it's pretty small :). There's this quasi-mythical image of assembly language bein
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Oh yeah, don't get me started on the Linux hellhole :). I like Haiku (in fact I keep putting off that weekend when I'll try my hand at fixing a bug or writing a new app for it, because I really liked BeOS back in the day, too). A
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Now the real question, do you need to implement PNG decoder and PDF viewer? If you ask me, no, but that's because I remember (and not very fondly) an age when it seemed like we'd have a new arbitrary code execution bug in a P
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Hey, no cheating -- one that has a substantial baggage of applications on top of it. A research kernel is something you can do in one year working with a few dedicated undergrads. But then so is pretty much every single thing running on top
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Plus, it's not like it's any different when you're a full-time employee somewhere. No job that you want to bet your career on consists of nothing but stuff you already know how to do. Some companies understand this and attemp
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> I am at the stage that I am more than happy to rewrite whatever it takes to get better experience. This includes the OS Ever tried to rewrite one (and the software on top of it, since we're "including" the OS) :)?
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Yeah, I don't know if I gave the right impression with that last post. I don't think Plasma 5's non-touch experience has been going down disastrously lately. There's nothing that screams "made for mobile" that
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They're a world of difference apart! TDE uses its own fork of Qt 3. Qt 3 is huge, and while Timothy Pearson, who maintains it, is an extraordinarily capable programmer, I doubt he and his team can maintain it and TDE that well. LXQT,

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