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by ghrifter 11y ago
Next up will be getting rid of "sponsored content". At least they dont eat bandwidth or server you malware. I mean they should just be images wrapped in a href to link to a "sponsored" article, instead of some javascript
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I think its probably a hit job to smear Putin once again, especially because of rising conflicts in Azeribaijan and Armenia. "Big Leak of Data" but doesnt actually make the data public. I mean, seriously???
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by ghrifter 11y ago
> a coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay You mean /pol/ just spamming the 'repeat after me' command to get the bot to parrot anything they wanted?
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Didnt the guy that made the "Twitch Plays Pokemon" do this? He probably made an absolute killing. That or amazon did for sure (owns Twitch)
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by ghrifter 11y ago
In case the site isnt working properly for the stream - heres the twitch channel/link - https://www.twitch.tv/bwatanabe
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I make roughly $20 an hour (about 16 after taxes :( )at the moment as a junior full stack intern working part time (I live and work in US). Sometimes I wonder if I should move on to find some other job, even if its remote... On the other ha
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by ghrifter 11y ago
> Whats funny to me, is that I stopped liking imgur when when added the community/context stuff. I liked it when it was small and simple. It's gotten so bloated that it's become a pain to use. Yep, its a pain on mobile, is
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I watch a bit of YouTube, but I only use YouTube-dl to doownload videos I really like - like abridgements or YTPs - stuff that can easily be copyright notice'd down
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I disagree, if anything Republicans WANT the backdoors and encryption to be removed because of "terrorism". Even though they usually communicate via SMS or other super low tech ways (at least during the Paris attacks). It's l
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by ghrifter 11y ago
> videos through youtube-dl these days how do you find the video you want without using youtube? do you just use the youtube search interface then download the video by copying the url (w/o even clicking on the link to start the vid
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Current senior in Comp Sci here - I'd say a good portion of my classmates just want a cozy job doing programming for some enterprise company. They know CS degree pays well, like an engineering degree. For myself, I also just want a coo
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by ghrifter 11y ago
> IDEA is a high-quality, well-supported professional-feeling product. In comparison, eclipse looks, smells, and acts like a kludgy, bloated, long-lived open source project. Proprietary, closed source development vs. Open Source software
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Yep this is what I'm realizing after a few years of programming. I can pick up a language easily, however learning it's APIs is almost as hard as learning the syntax for the language itself. Like how do I open a file? Ok cool. How
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Perhapd they have no idea. Ie they are pretending. So they use fancy terms and language amd jargon to show off like they know, but they dont I have a coworker like this. Coworker: "Im going to instantiate an instance of this Class and
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Are single quotes the preferred way of making strings nowadays then? It seems to be pretty common among new JS frameworks/libraries source code that I see nowadays. var asdf = "asdf"; vs var asdf = 'asdf&#
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Wow. Many thanks! Such a dumb UI decision.
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I just think that for some programs or interfaces, like YouTube, it is fine for a while. Works great. But then they hire a new UX person, or the incumbent UX person gets bored - so they keep refactoring the interface to put out an image of
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I have iOS 9.2 and updated Music to the latest version. There is no "view all songs". But perhaps you found some way? Like I just want to see all songs, not playlists, not genres, everything. I'd love to find out :)
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Two apps I use the most on my iPhone are Podcasts and Music. On my PC (windows) I use iTunes often. Both the iPhone apps and the modern version of iTunes are an utter, over-designed mess. It felt like the core programming functionality was
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Meet other hot HTML5/CSS3 emails in your neighborhood! On a serious note I was confused too. I guess it's the swiping left/right to read/answer that resembles Tinder
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Most "tech savvy" people support him and how he made us aware of the NSA bs, but a lot of normal people who just watch the news view him as a "traitor" to 'Murica (America). Sadly, people think "I have nothing
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by ghrifter 11y ago
The branding of the surface has been pretty successful with the removable keyboard and especially the pen. The pen makes it really easy to take notes on lecture slides so you do not have to have mess/organize/maintain physical pap
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I support two YouTubers on Patreon - mainly because they dont get a ton of views but their quality is on point. As a YouTube maker, AdSense money is an absolute pittance (1000 views+ for $1 or less). Patreon is a great way to support these
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Another big part of the Patreons I see are for YouTubers. If YouTube's donate/support YouTuber option was better, it could hurt Patreon a bit.
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by ghrifter 11y ago
What are the alternatives to photoshop? Gimp? Luckily I still have photoshop cs5.5
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I'm interested in some financial programming. Does everyone use Haskell or other functional languages? Where can I learn some basics?
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by ghrifter 11y ago
Aside from that, its a neat way to consume art or nature/sport/hobby photography without the fluff of facebook
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by ghrifter 11y ago
And having friends and family that know you are tech savvy so they always come to you with their tech woes. "But you love doing it! You love this tech stuff!" Sorry. Not if I have a solution of the top of my head. 30$ of help plea
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by ghrifter 11y ago
I've heard a few bad things about "Learn C the Hard Way", but I have heard good things about K&R so I'm gonna see if that book is at my library (it absolutely should be). Another idea I had was maybe to just program
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Ask HN: Where to go to learn Modern C?
13 points by ghrifter 11y ago|8 comments

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