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1951.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
Many apps will refuse to work if you don't allow access to your contacts, so people just give in and allow it. Google is the biggest abuser in this area just grabbing all your contacts and linking them to your Google account once you a
1952.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
I read the article and while the approach seems reasonable, in real life it doesn't always work. My colleague tried a similar method recently and the result was a total disaster. In stage I, collecting the inputs, he gathered everybody
1953.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
No, it's enough to turn off Javascript. Virtually all tracking code is in Javascript.
1954.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
Moreover, basically anyone who has been programming in C++ for more than a decade would have an opinion similar to Thompson, even without knowing the history of the language. Most programmers I know have chose a subset of the language with
1955.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
Rather than resorting to ad hominem, could you point out where exactly Thompson was actually wrong? Moreover, the criticism by Thompson and Torvalds refers to the use of C++ as a systems programming language. The language proved itself very
1956.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
Pizzagate was a crafted phenomenon. Whoever prepared this, they managed to collate pieces of genuine information with fake ones, inaccuracies, planted images and so on. It could be 4chan, but it could be Russians as well. And while the Inte
1957.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
Yeah, what I liked about the 90s you basically got MFC and it was basically it, you could create any desktop app and only waited for incremental upgrades. MFC was supported by Borland and Symantec, so basically whatever you choose you could
1958.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
While I agree with your comment, the decision to rename the telescope would make sense, since it was not named after an actual scientist like Hubble but after a former NASA manager.
1959.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
For the same reasons you listed you won't receive my phone number unless I'm buying a physical product from you and the phone number is required by the shipping company. Whenever I see an online form that requires a phone number,
1960.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
+ for Youtube Vanced. Basically, there is no reason to use Google's YT app these days.
1961.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
Yes, Google is using Gmail specifically for this purpose. Once you use Gmail on an Android device, it installs a Google account with all its consequences like getting the list of all your contacts, tracking you in Google apps and so on. For
1962.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
When reading his reply[0] it's obvious he was right in the original email when he said he saw no solution to this problem. They even tried to start from scratch and the result was still arguably the worst Windows edition ever. [0] htt
1963.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
I think LH refers to what appeared later as Windows Vista. It's kind of nice to see a Microsoft executive had the same opinion of this product as their customers.
1964.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
> Also, Gopher, gopher revival is the "new" teletext :D. I'm surprised nobody mentioned Gemini yet. (Yes, Gemini is the new Gopher now.)
1965.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
Of course it's not worth it, but in many orgs it's required for compliance. It may change in the future as most people realize it's not that useful, just like NIST changed the rule about password updates. On the other hand, i
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Dlib: Modern C++/Python Toolkit for Machine Learning(dlib.net)
109 points by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago|22 comments
1967.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
It's not so much about being open source or not, but rather how easy it is to set up, integrate and maintain. People know this so many companies offer their products as open source plus a nice hosted (usually marketed as "cloud&qu
1968.
by hdjjhhvvhga 10y ago
Does this release have the recent SQL code execution bug patched?