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by emsy 6y ago
Sometimes builds are complex. You have several deployment paths, platforms, modules, features, signing and what not. Then the build is akin to a small program. That’s still reasonable. The problem is that all build tools that allow this mak
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by emsy 6y ago
Having used Gradle, I disagree. Even if you know Groovy, declarations in Gradle are executed in a certain order and you don't really know what a closure does or what it's side effects are. Sometimes you have to read the source cod
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by emsy 6y ago
The problems match my experience with Gradle pretty well, and they point to a bigger issue in build systems: you usually can't easily debug the build system. Most build systems try to be declarative, but can't help to have imperat
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by emsy 6y ago
It’s true that VSCode is more than a simple byte changing tool. But the responsiveness is still unacceptable. A game reacts to my input virtually immediately while doing much more. Also, I have yet to see a proof of the increase in developm
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by emsy 6y ago
When asked about his opinion of the Apple M1 (which is heavily discussed recently on HN), Blow said it doesn’t matter in the long term, since software will eventually eat up the performance improvements. It’s easy to get defensive about thi
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by emsy 6y ago
It also happened several times in history, so it’s not without precedent.
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by emsy 6y ago
That’s not a good comparison. There are many alternatives to WhatsApp and it’s not a „critical“ infrastructure. In contrast, you sometimes can’t choose your ISP and internet is much more critical.
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by emsy 6y ago
That’s a terribly generalized advice. At least in the EU companies are obliged to delete your data (I don’t know about the US). Of course whether they delete it is another matter but that would be a violation of GDPR.
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by emsy 6y ago
Windows just adds this stuff and keeps the old cruft (in some cases it’s necessary because the Win 10 network settings are so awfully lacking you need the legacy option). We now have settings dating back to Win 95 with no uniform guideline
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by emsy 6y ago
Pinterest is one of the worst sites on the internet and I will cherish the day it vanishes from Google image search results which will hopefully kill it off, leaving space for a superior competitor (one that doesn't hijack 50% of searc
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by emsy 6y ago
I don’t like your username. I believe HN mods should simply remove your account without a name change.
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by emsy 6y ago
I agree with the part about an URL being less secured than a password. However, it's not security by obscurity. It's just less secure and more convenient. But the URL scheme merely grants you access to a ticket, not the whole acco
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by emsy 6y ago
What are passwords if not difficult to guess strings? It’s usually safer to create a link with 32 random characters than letting users come up with their own passwords such as „qwer1234“.
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by emsy 6y ago
They usually sell with pre-cut replacement cases in fancy colors.
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by emsy 6y ago
Organism evolves the capabilities to understands diseases and develops ways to fight them, if that isn’t natural selection what is?
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by emsy 6y ago
That doesn't really matter. Facebook has more than used up its credit of trust. Anyone that is not suspicious when FB messes up yet again hasn't paid attention to what they're up to.
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by emsy 6y ago
That’s an uncharitable interpretation. I understood it as “average quality to price correlation”.
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by emsy 6y ago
A lot of high-end headphones have interchangeable earpads, cables and sometimes even headbands.
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by emsy 6y ago
These look magnificent. I’m Looking forward to a couple of years when the battery is dead and you can’t change it without breaking the glued case. This is similar to the reaction I have to announcements of new Google services due to notorio
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by emsy 6y ago
I agree and I doubt anyone starts new projects with JSF anymore. But it’s still very much on my mind when I think about Java web apps. As I said, it’s an image problem, not a technical one. the comment I replied to laid down why the JVM is
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by emsy 6y ago
These days I’d go with a JAX Rest backend. The frontend is pure HTML+JS (so no server side templates unless they make sense). No dependency injection but „hand-wired“ dependencies at the top level. I also don’t use ORMs anymore. This means
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by emsy 6y ago
The JVM is vastly underestimated. I think the root cause is an image problem, stemming from a combination of bad programming practices in the past (getter/setter bloat, Factories for everything and unnecessary object orientation) and h
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by emsy 6y ago
That’s not quite right. Cannabis in the Netherlands is decriminalized. The production is downright illegal, but it’s not pursued by the law enforcement. Other than that I agree with the rest of your comment.
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by emsy 6y ago
Same hear, I call them Freudian misreads.
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by emsy 6y ago
The Porsche not fitting a family of four is a technical restriction. The iPad not running arbitrary software (within the bounds of the sandbox) are a political restriction.
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by emsy 6y ago
>It's so much better than lugging around a 15-16" monster with you. Exactly, but not everyone works on a remote machine. I would love to work on an iPad but can’t because Apple thinks those kind of apps don’t belong on an iPad.
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by emsy 6y ago
It’s not that the iPad isn’t suitable for work. It’s that if you decide to commit to it and use it for your work you’re now at the whim of Apple. They can wreck your workflow because they have a dispute with the developer. Combined with the
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by emsy 6y ago
Exactly this. The closest to this would be an i7 iMac but not everyone wants an Aio PC. It’s kind of a bummer. We finally have an iPhone for everyone, even a high end small form factor option. Whoever is responsible for that decision please
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by emsy 6y ago
Or mud
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by emsy 6y ago
I agree, but if we’re being honest, iOS is probably the prioritized platform for developers of apps like Hey that are commercial and used for professional work. Also, Apple doesn’t allow sideloading in the way Android does and PWAs are not

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