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541.
by annnnd 13y ago
Good summary. The answer to the question in title would be: yes.
542.
by annnnd 13y ago
Nice to know I am not the only one - I have a similar answer that brings me enough points I can see my reputation safely (and undeservedly) rising. However my biggest problem with SO is actually that it is narrow in scope, but due to its su
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by annnnd 13y ago
Interesting. I have an opposite view - for me it was easier to find answers before SO. One good example is when you need to get a library recommendation (which is quite a useful thing for a programmer). "SO is Q&A site and doesn&#x
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by annnnd 13y ago
Not sure where I first heard this (and it applies more to single developers), but I find this very true: when estimating the time needed to perform something, try imagining how much time ANOTHER person would need. In general we underestimat
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by annnnd 13y ago
The caveat being that in document-oriented store (like MongoDB) the queries tend to be simple(r) - after all, you have no joins, so how complex can they be? Instead of complex queries you need to use appropriate document schemes and/or
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by annnnd 13y ago
Of course Postgres is also relational. Have you tried using a document oriented store like MongoDB? I have. For some problems it just plain rocks. That doesn't mean I would want to store financial transactions for a bank in a MongoDB,
547.
by annnnd 13y ago
One could argue that at least mass-surveilance would be much more difficult to pull off... But I am afraid that the governments would start cooperating (in 1984 style).
548.
by annnnd 13y ago
Am I the only one who has trouble sifting through all this marketing? Even "read more" link leads to an article where half of the text promises what will be covered and another half talks about some subscriptions and how they are
549.
by annnnd 13y ago
He only has the license for a trial version.
550.
by annnnd 13y ago
Are you saying that you opened a bank account in Netherlands or that you have business entity there? (I am genuinly interested in this) Netherlands is among the supported countries [1], so the latter should work. But it makes no sense - wha
551.
by annnnd 13y ago
Not really - can USA spy on credit cards issued by Chinese banks? And vice-versa? There is at least some level of privacy. But with BTC every time you make a purchase you can be linked to all your previous and future purchases.
552.
by annnnd 13y ago
Of course you also have about zero privacy with bitcoin (by design), but who cares about that, right?
553.
by annnnd 13y ago
Especially when the person making both of them is the same. :)
554.
by annnnd 13y ago
> Worse yet, was an initial claim that it was more efficient to do it that way This is a classic excuse... so what if it leaks e-mail addresses (who looks at source code anyway?), makes clients wait (at least server's CPU is intact)
555.
by annnnd 13y ago
There is a difference between networking infrastructure and e-mail services. I wouldn't call it a precedent as it is not similar enough.
556.
by annnnd 13y ago
Well, look a ti this way... USA government has access to such nice data - Brazilian gov. wants that too. Maybe they'll exchange the mails. :)
557.
by annnnd 13y ago
... which is exactly what the OP is saying. "Writing elegant code and managing complexity" means using proven and familiar technologies (or spending enough time to know them inside out). If I could upvote the post by 10, I would -
558.
by annnnd 13y ago
TL;DR: use VMware player. Yes, I ran several versions of Hackintosh VDI files on VirtualBox under Linux. It all works, but it is slooooooow (on some seriously fast hardware too). I tried many versions because of that, and used both OSS and
559.
by annnnd 13y ago
Not really - that was how I understood it too, and the title just didn't make any sense. Is "defragging" a common substitute for "defragmenting"? I have never encountered it before.
560.
by annnnd 13y ago
Nokia, rest in peace - we will miss you. Your phones were legendary.
561.
by annnnd 13y ago
So detector tests are basically "security by obscurity"?
562.
by annnnd 13y ago
I don't want to sound negative, but how is that any better than using jQuery UI and similar tools? In other words, what are the advantages of web components over traditional JS+HTML+CSS?
563.
by annnnd 13y ago
Guessing: "black doggie"?
564.
by annnnd 13y ago
> There are loads of ways to DoS the basestation. Yes, but this way you can DoS a single receiver. So, my wife expecting a call from her lover? Well, we'll see about that... ;)
565.
by annnnd 13y ago
The way I understand it, this attack prevents GSM from receiving calls, not from calling, so preventing people from calling 911 this way won't work.
566.
by annnnd 13y ago
Interestingly, your explanation shows that in this case the term "terrorists" can (should?) be applied to "commercial interests and their lobbyists", as the parent suggested. Or is that what you were saying too?
567.
by annnnd 13y ago
This also means that if you work in a shop you can go home shortly after 8pm and you have a free Sunday. The difference here is that Germans (arguably) respect the time off-work more.
568.
by annnnd 13y ago
Or that password strength meters can't do a good job.
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by annnnd 13y ago
+1: I thought the same thing... Maybe the problem would be finding the entry to a "rabbit hole" (as he puts it). If there are no weak passwords it might be more difficult to find the patterns in use... but then again, the patterns
570.
by annnnd 13y ago
Interesting - one of the few links where the article delivers more than the title promises. How about "dissipating short bursts of heat in mobile CPUs"? Just for HN, of course, where people are genuinely interested in such topics.

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