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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Client-API round trips matter, because the latency is very high. API-DB latency will be much lower, so the number of round trips there is less important. GraphQL allows you to query any nested structure in one Client-API round trip, but the
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Sure it's not a new concept. But on the web graphQL is the most prominent implementation of that concept. You can roll your own version of the concept, but why bother when a perfectly serviceable one already exists? With already writte
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by biggestdecision 7y ago
Sure, it's possible to setup a REST api with those features (return full objects for fields rather than ID's, client specifies which fields to return in the query). But then you've basically just built a graphQL api. Any synt
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by biggestdecision 8y ago
> Anybody suitably competent to pull off the technical side of the attack is likely to be able to spoof MAC addresses. From reading the article, the technical side of the attacks seems to be illegitimately using an administrators passwor
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by biggestdecision 8y ago
This bug only applied to grub authentication, which isn't a widely used feature. And you could achieve the same result with boot from disk/USB if that is enabled. The vuln doesn't give you access to the actual accounts on the
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by biggestdecision 8y ago
I agree this would be positive. But the source only get's you halfway there though, you still need to actually be able to reproduce a compatible build system. And the longer ago the software was originally developed, the more challengi
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by biggestdecision 8y ago
The biggest issue with CMake is how many libraries seem to have really low quality CMakeLists.txt's. CMake is very easy to use, if you do things properly with targets. include_directories and link_libraries should never never ever be u
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by biggestdecision 8y ago
If you write standard compliant C, don't use platform specific headers, and use some kind of cross-platform build system (I can't recommend CMake enough here), it's easy to use C/C++ across platforms. UI/graphics is
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by biggestdecision 8y ago
Valve has been doing a lot of work here lately, they've essentially made Wine into a first party citizen of Steam (in the form of Proton). So Wine is stable & easy enough for non-tech users - at least for gaming purposes. But there
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by biggestdecision 8y ago
Wine Is Not an Emulator - but to run x86 Windows applications on an ARM Android device with Wine you will need to use emulation. Wine is essentially just a userspace implementation of the Windows API. Outside of API functions & syscalls
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by biggestdecision 8y ago
So much of C++'s value proposition is based off the fact that it has such strong legacy compatibility. It's a language that is used today by businesses who are risk averse. Deprecating parts of the standard will make C++ a much le