carlosrg

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by carlosrg 9y ago
Good for him. I might not agree 100% with his memo, but what we've seen the last days, treating the guy like he just wrote Mein Kampf, silencing any favorable opinion in the media (big headlines when a scientist disagrees with him, bei
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by carlosrg 9y ago
The Revision History shows that Apple is not really interested anymore in people doing kernel programming.
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Software developer and free speech activist Bassel Khartabil executed in Syria(bbc.com)
173 points by carlosrg 9y ago|36 comments
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by carlosrg 9y ago
Exactly. It's just bad engineering. Taking shortcuts to save money and not paying attention to important non-functional requirements.
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by carlosrg 9y ago
The same exploits that are used to jailbreak the device can be used for installing malware. There has been remotely exploitable bugs in iOS, for example in WebKit, but luckily there hasn't been people exploiting them. iOS is very safe
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by carlosrg 9y ago
This thread shows clearly the negativity around everything Microsoft does, especially if you compare to other technology companies. Apple deprecates some API or removes a feature? "It's the future, you have to adapt, etc" Mic
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by carlosrg 9y ago
Free applications can be downloaded without an account. I downloaded Spotify from the Store without being logged.
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by carlosrg 9y ago
You have to be pretty delusional if you think macOS or Linux don't have security problems.
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by carlosrg 10y ago
Chrome was released as a beta the 2 September 2008. The first version of Spotify was released 7 October 2008, and the download size was around 5 MB. I know because I've using Spotify since it was invite-only, back in those days. So acc
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by carlosrg 10y ago
Bullshit. Spotify, for example, existed before Electron, and it was very fast. Text editors existed before Electron, and they didn't require 300 MB minimum to run. Same with collaborative chat programs. Electron is just a way to reuse
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by carlosrg 10y ago
I'm interested in this too. I'm tempted to install it just to remember old times - play around FreePascal and real mode programming, inline assembly and so on - and I guess supporting UEFI would make it easier to coexist with mode
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by carlosrg 10y ago
This (and the replies on this thread from Linux supporters) shows how far away Linux is to be an acceptable alternative to Windows on the desktop. Instead of welcoming such a big hardware manufacturer with open arms and try to reach a compr
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by carlosrg 10y ago
Yes, because NVIDIA has been great contributing kernel code. /irony
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by carlosrg 10y ago
> There was outrage over Apple’s refusal to support Flash on iOS. Genuine controversy in the mainstream media. Most people saw it as competitive spite against Adobe, not a principled stand for a superior technology, superior experience,
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by carlosrg 10y ago
>Wake me up when Visual Studio or SQL Management Studio is rewritten as a UWP app. Given that they already ported an entire browser to UWP (Edge), that may happen sooner than you think. I wouldn't consider a browser a "toy&quot
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by carlosrg 10y ago
The thing is that if one day Microsoft decides to phase out the Win32 platform and leave only UWP, right now the only official way to get UWP apps is through the Microsoft's Windows Store. So the competition you're talking about
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Epic Games founder says Microsoft's patches will make Steam progressively worse(pcgamer.com)
115 points by carlosrg 10y ago|131 comments
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by carlosrg 10y ago
Every single article on HN with a little of criticism of Apple gets the same kind of responses and becomes basically a giant appeal to novelty fallacy. You're against progress, it's new so it's better, Apple knows best, etc.
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by carlosrg 10y ago
>leopard print box design looks like packaging for some kinky underwear It's funny witnessing how certain people that a couple years ago considered Apple designs the pinnacle of design and far ahead of everything else using the same
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by carlosrg 10y ago
Yes, I've read the parent closely. The downsides are still wrong, because they assume that Xamarin is a cross-platform UI toolkit, which is not true. The performance downside is wrong, the newer features downsides is wrong, the front-e
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by carlosrg 10y ago
I can see you have no idea what Xamarin is. With Xamarin, you still use UIKit and the native Android UI, the difference is that you program it in C# and thus the non-UI code can be shared seamlessly. Performance is not "very meh"
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Yep, this deserves a more detailed explanation (or maybe they still don't know what happened). I updated from the previous version to 2.90 through the app built-in update, and I don't seem to have any "kernel_service" pr
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by carlosrg 11y ago
> it's only a matter of time before Python 3.x is more widely used I've been hearing that for a long time...
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by carlosrg 11y ago
In my experience, Eclipse performs far better than IntelliJ and the UI is more responsive. Probably because Eclipse uses SWT instead of Swing (which has another benefits as well, like better font rendering in OS X).
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by carlosrg 11y ago
You can make a mess with any language.
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by carlosrg 11y ago
> Perl was probably the first language I did interesting stuff in but I gradually moved on to other languages Same here. But recently I had to convert a strange proprietary file format from a poll into CSV for a personal project of mine,
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by carlosrg 11y ago
I'm not sure if he's going to read this, but anyway: be strong. I think Western countries have finally understood that Daesh is a problem that can't be "contained", that the only way is to completely eradicate them,
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by carlosrg 11y ago
The developers should open their code while the OS maker keeps its system tightly closed and restrictive. Very coherent argument.
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by carlosrg 11y ago
>The suckless way is to have a short usage and a descriptive manpage. The complete details are in the source. Can't agree with that. Also this reminds me to the chapter about documentation in the "UNIX Haters Guide"[1]. (I
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Agreed 100%, particularly the thing about thin fonts and lack of contrast. I'm 27 years old and I had to turn on the accessibility option "Increase contrast" on newer OS X versions to avoid getting headaches; so I went back t

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