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by emsy 10y ago
There's currently a huge demand of plumbers in the US, because the president said he wants to drain a whole swamp or something.
872.
by emsy 10y ago
I once was a fan of electron until I ran some apps on a low end surface with little disk space. Something like react native for the desktop could become a huge success.
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by emsy 10y ago
Pondering nihilism while people are dying.
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by emsy 10y ago
Not only that but it doesn't make sense. Would protest voters really think the winner of the election cares if he/she won with 51% or 80%? I think the protest voting interpretation is an uncharitable one, because it assumes spite,
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by emsy 10y ago
Freedom of speech means free to speak, not free of consequences. That was never my argument. A threat of violence is an attack, and I should expect defensive consequences. Stating the opinion that the Holocaust never happened is not an atta
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by emsy 10y ago
Advocating violence and denying a historic fact are two completly different things. You're not allowed to threaten someone with murder either, but that's not a restriction of freedom of speech. Threats of violence are neither idea
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by emsy 10y ago
Germany does not have free speech. You are not allowed to deny the Holocaust by law.
878.
by emsy 10y ago
You're arguing for security by obscurity.
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by emsy 10y ago
I'm kind of on the fence on this one. I remember the Wii had a much higher entry barrier but iirc still a lot of shovelware. A high number of games makes discoverability harder for "serious" developers (people who don't
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by emsy 10y ago
This will bite you if your code depends on int being 32 bit (for example if you depend on overflows or use asm). If your code explicitly uses an int32, this will always be true. Silently increasing the size of an int is more likely to break
881.
by emsy 10y ago
Have you encountered any major compiler bugs? Nim looks great, but the list of open issues on GitHub would scare me from using it in production. Or isn't it as severe in real-world use?
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by emsy 10y ago
Android still lacks behind in regards of disk encryption. See this in-depth article that was posted on HN a while ago: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/11/24/android-... Also the parent post was
883.
by emsy 10y ago
There isn't a label for "these people" but their agenda is called "identity politics" and it often operates on the same scientific level as creationism.
884.
by emsy 10y ago
A little bit of comment digging brought me this: https://itunes.apple.com/se/developer/inlovewith-ab/id666807...
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by emsy 10y ago
I've stopped liking or disliking companies altogether. I try to look if a company isn't crossing my personal moral boundaries (child workers etc.) and whether it satisfies my needs. Then I buy their product. As for the moral part,
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by emsy 10y ago
iOS Apps can read your clipboard (But only if the app is open i.e. not in the background, which was possible in earlier iOS versions). I would welcome it if they introduced a permission for clipboard handling. Personally, I use Workflow to
887.
by emsy 10y ago
My solution is to buy an iPhone. I don't mean that as a snarky response, as I'd very much like to use an Android phone (And if it's just to be able to use Tasker). But I simply don't have time to bother with this stuff
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by emsy 10y ago
Reminds me of DoorPI, which uses SIP software to build a programmable Doorbell that calls to your phone: https://github.com/motom001/DoorPi
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by emsy 10y ago
I started 2 or 3 similar side projects that went nowhere, so my current setup is still an iPhone that stores notes on my private IMAP server and a Thunderbird plugin to edit the notes on my PC. I'm extraordinarily thankful that this co
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by emsy 10y ago
If they pardon him that doesn't mean he will or has to go back to the US. Also your ""feelings"" argument can easily be refuted: A) There are proves that he did use the official channels first. B) This isn't ev
891.
by emsy 10y ago
I think that's the Not-a-casual-user fallacy :P
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by emsy 10y ago
I also distinct between people that use a debugger to find problems in code and people that use the debugger to write code in the first place. The latter are the ones I've criticised in my original comment. I expected to receive many d
893.
by emsy 10y ago
It's perfectly fine to use the debugger in such situations. Please see my other response on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13367946
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by emsy 10y ago
I never said to ban them. I think my wording was really badly chosen. By "rely" I mean people (and I've seen this on numerous occasions) who write code without a plan and then use the debugger to adjust it till it's work
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by emsy 10y ago
Yeah I know, which I aknowledged. My problem is with people who write 50 lines of code and then open up the debugger to see what it does (As in "rely on the debugger")
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by emsy 10y ago
I don't think you understood what I've said. Debugging is perfectly fine when you can't explain what's going on even though you understand the code. "The silicon is wrong" so rarely, that it makes for nice, mem
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by emsy 10y ago
That's a terrible comparison. The body already lies open before you in the form of code. A debugger should be the measure of last resort, when you can't explain why something fails or you have strange side effects. In my experienc
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by emsy 10y ago
Virtually every new phone released today looks like the iPhone. That's your revolution right there. There are many technological advantages the iPhone brought. First and foremost the capacitative touchscreen. Nokia didn't go with
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by emsy 10y ago
Yeah I meant the OEM situation. If google cared for Android user's security there would've been a certificate a long time ago. Where Apple might be overprotective (certs for charging cables), Google is absolutely negligent.
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by emsy 10y ago
I loved my Symbian phones, but the iPhone was indeed a revolution. There's a reason Nokia and Blackberry are suffering losses.

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