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by carlosrg 11y ago
I bet Jony Ive & Co. consider that "unnecessary ornamentation".
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by carlosrg 11y ago
> But we also have to acknowledge that we as a profession are not able to write secure code in C/C++. Wrong. You can write perfectly safe code in C++. You seem to have this ridiculous idea that pointer arithmetic is mandatory on C++
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by carlosrg 11y ago
C++11 is pretty "memory safe". But obviously it allows the programmer go low-level and deal with dangling pointers if he/she wants. After all, the programmer/engineer is supposed to be a professional that can handle thes
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by carlosrg 11y ago
I say every language except Logo should be banned. Programmers can't be trusted with memory and all these weird things! Also processors should directly interpret Logo. And operating systems too. And memory access isn't allowed. Me
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by carlosrg 11y ago
The human brain doesn't have any problem interpreting non-flat icons, as it doesn't have any problem with real world objects. We didn't have that problem you're saying before the flat design trend. Also icons should be a
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Why do you need a citation, if you have two eyes? Just look at iOS or OS X included icons, or Windows 10 icons, or the App Store top 100 apps. Most icons are a flat background and some boring bland logo outline. We are in the dark ages of s
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Someone with enough Cocoa knowledge should use it as the basis for an OS X implementation of UIKit. And for other OSes like GNU/Linux using GNUstep. Very interesting stuff, diving into the Frameworks directory in the repo.
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Good olive oil, as any mediterranean knows ;)
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Terrible post IMO. I've been using both OS X and GNU/Linux (Arch) for several years (OS X since 2006, several GNU/Linux distros since ~2000), so I think I can weigh in. I'll quote a few interesting parts. > Be customi
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Until I see really big and open source projects like WebKit or Clang itself moving to Swift or whatever, anything I read about moving to "better systems languages" is like reading a letter to Santa Claus. I doubt C++ is going anyw
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Yep. A lot of people here have trouble discerning between their _own_ personal experience and the needs of the rest of the world. I don't even use Windows, but I know plenty of people using it, and I don't see them either spending
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Yes, having a deprecated currency and therefore deprecate the savings of everyone, not having money to import enough oil, food or even paper for everyone, and nobody lending money to you, sounds like a great plan.
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Well, the UNIX case is not a bug, it's by design. A directory is a list of files, so you remove a file by removing it from that list, the directory. The permissions of the file itself are for access/modifying of the contents of
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by carlosrg 11y ago
FINALLY. I don't understand why they didn't do it earlier.
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by carlosrg 11y ago
> I haven't really enjoyed swift so far I haven't either, but I haven't used it a lot so I can't give a final verdict on it. But I'm the kind of person that enjoys C++ (well, especially after C++11, feels like a
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Exactly. Putting the blame on others is easy, but the reality is that Mandriva couldn't compete with others like Canonical or Red Hat.
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by carlosrg 11y ago
The web browsing part is obsolete. In the last LibrePlanet he said he now uses the GNU IceCat browser (free software distribution of Firefox + several privacy protection add-ons, http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla&#x2
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Have you tried the propietary graphics drivers in Linux? They improve things a lot. I'm using the Nvidia ones because Nouveau performance was very poor (not their fault, Nvidia is not very open to release specifications or code so they
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Minimum qualifications: "HTML5, CSS3, Javascript". I think it's pretty clear. You can question why the company needs a JS programmer in a design job. I don't know. But it's clear in the requirements that Javascript
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by carlosrg 11y ago
The job advert asked for someone that knows Javscript. This person doesn't know JavaScript. The person that got the job probably knew Javascript. I don't think this deserves a blog post ranting against that company because they as
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by carlosrg 11y ago
More like a story of someone that applied for a job that asks for Javascript skills without knowing Javascript and then blamed the company, and made a blog post/rant about it, because they hired someone else that probably fits that par
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Introducing Apple Web Search. Only available on iOS and OS X devices.
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by carlosrg 11y ago
Windows is far, far away from becoming irrelevant.
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by carlosrg 12y ago
The "Silicon Valley" TV show :P
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by carlosrg 12y ago
I don't think a casual poll in his Google+ page can be considered bikeshedding.
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by carlosrg 12y ago
So you don't see any issue with paying Apple _again_ to grant you the right to install what you want in the device you already paid for (and I'm not talking about distributing it in the App Store). Well, we can agree to disagree.
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by carlosrg 12y ago
iPad is the first computing device in history that essentially takes away any user capability to tinker with its machine, forbids installing any software that Apple decides it shouldn't be running on it, including basic things like alt
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by carlosrg 12y ago
Beautiful.
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by carlosrg 12y ago
Well, a microkernel is harder to implement than a monolithic one and from a theoretical standpoint is a better design, IMO it deserves a higher grade in an operating system design course. Let's not mythify the 1992 Linux kernel, which
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by carlosrg 12y ago
I have Fedora 21 on my MacBook Air and it was just insert the Live USB, click install, reboot and done ;) Arch has always been more complicated, regardless of the computer.

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