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by ebbv 11y ago
> Also, there seems to be a number of people here commenting very strongly in favour of Microsoft, which I find very surprising. Perhaps people from MS trying to do damage control? Sometime in the last couple years Microsoft has realized
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by ebbv 11y ago
Allowing web sites to access the file system is not a great idea.
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by ebbv 11y ago
If the FBI's technical teams can't figure this out they should all be fired and it's all the more reason we shouldn't trust them with back doors into anything.
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by ebbv 11y ago
iPhone 4-digit codes are not alphanumeric, they're digits only so there's only 10,000 combinations.
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by ebbv 11y ago
Wow, when Google makes this available to businesses they're going to be able to charge whatever they want and every business is going to have to use it. This is not good.
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by ebbv 11y ago
What exactly do you wish Twitter had done? Allow longer posts? That's not going to have the big positive impact some people think it will. Hosting longer posts on Twitter isn't going to bring more users to Twitter or keep more peo
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by ebbv 11y ago
What a disingenuous and snide response. Software engineers outside the valley, especially in the late 90s and early 2000's don't make ludicrous amounts of money. Even if you live frugally and save up, being suddenly laid off will
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by ebbv 11y ago
They only "walked it back" enough to squash the bad PR they were getting. Once the headlines went away they went forward with their plan after all: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-c
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by ebbv 11y ago
I recently did a game jam with my brother where we wrote a small OS X game in a weekend in Swift using SpriteKit. It was quite fun, and Swift was really pleasurable to write in. These changes look great and will really improve the clarity o
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by ebbv 11y ago
It is 100% illegal, but Disney got away with it so other big firms are following suit.
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by ebbv 11y ago
This isn't a good manual for Twitter because it doesn't distinguish between features, quirks, bugs and just "interesting tidbits". It just lumps things together categorically. That means anyone who is new to Twitter is g
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by ebbv 11y ago
It's only free to upgrade to it. If you buy/build a new PC you have to pay $100 (or more) for the privilege of being shown ads on your login page.
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by ebbv 11y ago
I dunno, I think the ultimate hacker would sometimes reach over to the other side with her left or right hand. Split keyboards seem like kind of a walled garden to me.
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by ebbv 11y ago
Right so even if your application is only meant for 10 concurrent users it's your duty to optimize it to the point where it can handle HN traffic... Come on man.
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by ebbv 11y ago
This idea that laptops should be tinker able is just so weird to me. No laptop is really tinker able. The best you can do is replace RAM and HDD. Motherboards, battery modules, etc. are all proprietary in these things and usually anything b
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by ebbv 11y ago
This article seems to assume that people who criticize Emacs don't understand that Emacs isn't a monolith, and that the various features are modules. I'd guess the majority of people who say "Emacs is bloated" do ge
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by ebbv 11y ago
Yes that is respectful, and a gracious way to announce it. But you'll note they still accepted credit and get attributed with credit.
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by ebbv 11y ago
I think articles coming out ahead of the announcement, explaining to the general public what the announcement means is actually really helpful. Then more people who might be interested can turn in to the announcement itself.
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by ebbv 11y ago
> I feel really sorry for the scientists who've spent decades working on this as part of a global collaboration to now have LIGO take all of the credit for this discovery. You might as well say the same thing about CERN and the Higg
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by ebbv 11y ago
This is a terrible change. Twitter has been trying this feature out for a long time and every time a sample of it has come up in my Timeline I Dismiss it and when they ask "Did you like this?" I said "No." The strength o
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by ebbv 11y ago
> just like no single entity really controls Bitcoin. That's just not true. The core developers do control it. Look at the problems its having with the blockchain limit. Yes in theory anyone can fork it and people can run the fork,
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by ebbv 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a for profit company telling me to use the currency, no commodity, they created and control in order to have privacy? How about I just stick to actual money?
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by ebbv 11y ago
So because you prefer Vim/Emacs you came into a thread about the new version of another editor and posted a comment about how much you prefer something else? Do you get why that's immature and pointless?
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by ebbv 11y ago
Yes Vim is great. This post has nothing to do with Vim, why did you make a comment about how much you love Vim? Is your point that you think Sublime has no staying power so everyone should just use Vim or Emacs? There's reasons other t
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by ebbv 11y ago
Give me a break. Steve Jobs put out plenty of crap products and buggy software over the years. Don't pretend like he had a perfect record just because he's dead.
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by ebbv 11y ago
I think you have rose colored glasses about Snow Leopard. It had plenty of bugs and hiccups. People deride the "iOS style" features of El Capitan but first, what specifically are you referring to besides Launcher? Do you think add
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by ebbv 11y ago
What? They could have done any number of things. They could have added a parameter "-trim" that's more clear than the "-" alone. They could have made it "8<" that looks like a little pair of scissors. O
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by ebbv 11y ago
That's a fair point, but official libraries should be held to a higher standard, I think.
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by ebbv 11y ago
> The whole point of this feature is to be terse... I get that. I don't think you understood my objection, which was that being terse is not as important to me as being elegant and easily understood. {{foo -}} is not clear looking a
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by ebbv 11y ago
The problem then is what whitespace do you keep and what do you ditch? The default behavior you want is to maintain everything inside. But I agree the - tag seems like a really inelegant hack.

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