dvdkon

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by dvdkon 8y ago
Of course, people whose workload consists of talking to or otherwise dealing with other people can't have flexible schedules like this. A cashier can't walk off, because there's a line of customers waiting to be served. Howev
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by dvdkon 8y ago
I get your point, but have to say I interpreted your previous post as "why would I do something that doesn't maximise profits?" I like messing with electronical/mechanical devices of all kinds, so I'll try to repair
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by dvdkon 8y ago
So what's going to happen if you write "nigger" that you're so unwilling to write it? It's not like you'd be calling someone a nigger, you'd be using it in a clearly informative manner,
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by dvdkon 8y ago
As a young kid I didn't play any action games (especially first-person shooters) at first, because I didn't have the skill to play them properly, and instead I played games from other genres, like point-and-click adventures. I thi
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by dvdkon 8y ago
Buttons with no labels are certainly not a modern design trend. A lot of older (Windows, mostly) software had a complex interface consisting of a menubar, a toolbar (that sometimes had functionality not available elsewhere), and a space for
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by dvdkon 8y ago
I think the vast majority of people who want to make money building software don't start off by finishing a product and then trying to sell it. A much more common scenario is building software for someone from the start (or building a
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by dvdkon 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but the problem is that it's actually quite hard to distinguish "legal" and "illegal". Judges do that for a living and see how long a single case takes them. It's simply not feasible
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by dvdkon 8y ago
Do you really want to be the arbiter of right and wrong in all these cases? A lot of people think naked baby pictures are fine. Who are you to tell them they're not? It seems to me you want to police the whole world to make what you th
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by dvdkon 8y ago
I'd say "Do anything remotely shady anonymously" would be more practical advice. People do things because they're somehow motivated and that motivation won't go away just because they could get into trouble.
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by dvdkon 8y ago
It really puts map websites loading for around a second or more after panning/zooming into perspective.
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by dvdkon 8y ago
The privilege escalation vulnerabilities that have been found in Mac OS in the last few years have made me distrust its security. It's not like Apple can't create secure OSs (see iOS), they just don't seem to care nearly as m
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by dvdkon 8y ago
Really, not losing documents (at least not frequently) is one of the core requirements of bureaucracy. Permanent and semi-permanent documents are the basis of a modern society. It's no use trying to institute any laws when you can&#x27
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by dvdkon 8y ago
> More attractive targets need more secure, less easy to use, systems. That seems to me like a justification for doing the least amount of work needed. Sure, it's true to some degree, but (taking this case as an example) PKI is obje
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by dvdkon 8y ago
But that’s a big part of designing anything: Trying to find a solution’s faults to then be able to implement a better one or at least be aware of the faults and work around them. I don’t see anything wrong with that.
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by dvdkon 8y ago
But those two statements seem to me to be very different. The first would make you a web backend developer and the other more of a network engineer or sysadmin. I know this probably isn't too different for many people, but those people
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by dvdkon 9y ago
I'm currently doing something very similar for my school project and it's been quite a journey, the OSM ecosystem sure isn't simple. My current solution is based on OpenMapTiles and uses their stack for creating, and subsequ
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by dvdkon 10y ago
Sure, but writing a graph (any kind, but even more so undirected) in a language without GC is a minefield from the standpoint of memory safery. You simply need some kind of reference counting. High-level languages like C# and F# hide this n
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by dvdkon 10y ago
We both seem to have a different view of what a "fatal flaw" is. For me (especially when talking about a computer security tool), it means a very serious security vulnerability and nothing less. You seem to have a more relaxed vie
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by dvdkon 10y ago
I don't agree with the author on many of his points. 1 and 2 are "merely" convenience features. Sure, those things make a truly stateless password manager harder to use and a very niche tool, but they're by no means fat
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by dvdkon 10y ago
What's wrong with Qt? Apart from how big it is, I think it's the best GUI toolkit around.
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by dvdkon 10y ago
I use Gmail and other web apps, because I'm accessing remote data through them, and running remote apps to do so is a good idea IMO. However, I think "the Web" is not a good platform for native-like apps. It's not only s