galacticpony

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by galacticpony 10y ago
It wasn't their mistake, it was his mistake. You can't just register an account, then hand it off to someone else and not be at least partially responsible for what happens through that account. If Apple didn't want to
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by galacticpony 10y ago
After listening to the entire thing, I can say that Kapeli sounds like a complete ignoramus. He has registered an account using his credentials, the account was involved in fraudulent activity, that makes him responsible, as an individu
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by galacticpony 10y ago
The only thing it could do is alarm you for navigating away from any webpage that has any form that has ever had input put into it. Also, the website could intercept the "go back" event for some purpose. Should the browser fire an
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by galacticpony 10y ago
"Judging by the other comments here, I'm not the only one who uses this shortcut." So what? There's a lot of people who actually lose data due to this "feature". Even if there was more of "your kind&qu
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by galacticpony 10y ago
I don't understand your point, then. We are talking about web apps. Is Chrome supposed to alarm you when navigating away from any site with form input? How would it know if your changes are unsaved or not? (It can't )
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by galacticpony 10y ago
You're extremely self-centered and dismissive of other people's experience, I have to say. I'm sorry, but maintaining your little piece of convenience isn't worth denying other users a more forgiving user experience. Y
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by galacticpony 10y ago
"But generally, applications that accept user input and cannot save it for some reason ask for confirmation to lose it, so users won't lose it accidentally." You'd think they do, but they don't , at least not all
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by galacticpony 10y ago
That's not the problem. What you're talking about already works . There's numerous things that can go wrong, here's two common ones: 1) The page you are going back to is a login prompt, which immediately redirects you,
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by galacticpony 10y ago
It may be confusing, but that confusing "back behavior" is the one behavior it has , even if it has changed over time. It is not overloaded . It doesn't start deleting characters depending on where your last tap may have (a
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by galacticpony 10y ago
It's funny that people like you are editing comments to completely change the meaning , invalidating previous replies. Oh wait, that's not funny. That's sad .
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Because chances are that it doesn't work , for various reasons, some of which are outside the browser vendors control.
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by galacticpony 10y ago
That doesn't work. The shitty web app is going to intercept the "go back" event as "destroy all user data, as intended" and you're fucked. If this never happened to you, good for you , you lucky bastard. Now g
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Use the mouse to click on the back button, then.
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Overloading backspace with "go back" was a stupid decision. Undoing it was way overdue. "Android has back key and home key that users hit accidentally all the times." The back and home buttons are not overloaded with o
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Yes, cfront could be considered a transpiler, but the term wasn't coined back then. IRs, ASTs and bytecodes are not programming languages. If you insist otherwise because "some might consider it that way", you have no busines
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Maybe I'm a bit too old-fashioned, but you should always assume that any program you run will delete your home directory with a probability > 0. If you're not prepared for that situation at all times, you are using computers wr
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by galacticpony 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
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by galacticpony 10y ago
"pip install ___" Everything else is pretty much obsolete. The problem is in how it doesn't really work reliably, especially with C extensions, which are much more common in Python-Land than with anything Javascript/Node
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Simple solution: Ban self-driving trucks. I'm surprised that in the land of (apparently ) limitless legal liabilities, so many people are bullish on self-driving cars, let alone self-driving trucks. You should be highly concerned that
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by galacticpony 10y ago
I would argue the same way from experience. Functional programming languages tend to provide an abstraction that you could have easily built yourself by focusing on the constraints that are relevant to you - not those constraints some lan
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by galacticpony 10y ago
This is a superficial view of readability, focusing on terseness and perceived syntactical elegance. "True" readability is achieved through a consistent structuring of your program, which has to conform to the expectations of the
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Not to mention that there are much better libraries for data-parallel programming available for C/C++, plus there are languages designed for data-parallelism (OpenCL, ISPC) and they're not functional either. Untold amounts of en
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by galacticpony 10y ago
I believe you're mistaking "easy" with "convenient".
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by galacticpony 10y ago
The problem with the cartels is the other way around: They are illegally importing guns which been sold legally in the US into South America, where they outgun local police forces. That's why lax US gun legislation isn't just a na
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by galacticpony 10y ago
You haven't answered the question. What would you actually do? What could you do? Which procedures could you apply that are not already being applied? You cannot stop cartels from dealing drugs, despite massive efforts, what could
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by galacticpony 10y ago
This implies that gun ownership can be reliably tracked, which is not the case today, though certainly possible in theory. You basically want to increase legal liabilities (which already exist) to an extreme, but you will then have trouble
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by galacticpony 10y ago
The overwhelming majority of guns on the black market have been sold legally at one point. Obviously, legal gun sales are much easier to limit than illegal ones. How would you tackle illegal sales? The same statistic probably applies to c