hrjet

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by hrjet 13y ago
No, I remember reading that JetBrains offered to help Google develop the IDEA plugin. With Eclipse it would have been a solo effort. I have written Eclipse plugins (one with a graph editor as well) and didn't find it all that complicat
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by hrjet 13y ago
I wanted to switch back after about 9 months with IntelliJ. But anyway, why would you care how many people want to switch back! To each his own...
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by hrjet 13y ago
I don't get the Eclipse hate at all. I have used both Eclipse and IntelliJ and I much prefer Eclipse's overall interface. It was also much faster than IntelliJ on a very large Scala project that I was working on. Despite that, I t
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by hrjet 13y ago
"This is stupid. You severe ties with the NSA but what about the FBI, CIA, DEA, DISA, DIA, the list goes on." Well, I wouldn't call it stupid. Perhaps I would call it "incomplete". Or "hey, that's a start!
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by hrjet 13y ago
In that case, such a service could/should be automated?
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by hrjet 13y ago
Software could evolve too, given sufficient time. A hard-disk corruption here, a transmission error there... Moreover, a virus could be deliberately designed to mutate, so as to evade anti-virus software. In fact, isn't this already be
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by hrjet 13y ago
From a practical perspective, SVG would be easier to create, while being just as small and fast. This seems to be just a demo of the capability of CSS.
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by hrjet 13y ago
20 typhoons a year is a lot of typhoons! How did this land (through the course of history) ever become habitable? Or have the typhoons been increasing in frequency in the recent past?
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by hrjet 13y ago
The autocomplete timings are one part of it. I am more concerned about other parts which are not publicly documented and seem to contain possibly identifiable information. I will be very happy if my suspicions are proven unfounded. Aside, t
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Chrome sends a suspicious tracking parameter on every Google search(superuser.com)
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by hrjet 13y ago
I grew up reading Richard Feynman, and was particularly impressed by his dislike for tipping (both giving and receiving), because it matched my thoughts on it. He was from the US, and I don't think he was being an ass-hole.
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by hrjet 13y ago
SF didn't have a good sustenance plan. If they had a way to charge users directly (instead of bombarding them with ads), they could have continued to provide good service to open-source projects. As a user, it is a good idea to researc
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by hrjet 13y ago
"Most of the languages I can think of that only allocate you zeroed memory also include risks on the order of garbage collection being triggered in the middle of your algorithm depending on what your secret data is, so that makes them
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by hrjet 13y ago
Hmm.. would it make sense to replace all calls of xmalloc with xcalloc as a preventive measure?
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by hrjet 13y ago
Consider another perspective. When a new land is made habitable, how do you allocate it? If Mars or Antartica were to become habitable tomorrow, which parties would be able to purchase how much land and from whom? I think early explorers wi
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by hrjet 13y ago
What you are supposed to see there is not "value" but "profit and potential". If a utility company which provides basic necessities were to make a lot of profit, wouldn't it be sort of a bad outcome for humanity? Is
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by hrjet 13y ago
But if it works that bad on IE9, how is it going to work on IE8?
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by hrjet 13y ago
Wasn't aware of that; thanks!
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by hrjet 13y ago
Typescript is a superset of Javascript. So any vanilla JS code base can be easily ported to Typescript.
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by hrjet 13y ago
My hunch is that Google's spam detection is not necessarily better than open-source solutions. It's just that they may have a larger corpus of data to train the system on. If I host my own email server, my spam filter will only ha
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by hrjet 13y ago
The best solution to that would be to ask them. Dear friend, what is a good time to call you? Between X to Y UTC? Sure that works by me too. With a common time reference, you wouldn't need to map between time-zones.
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by hrjet 13y ago
It is possible that it appears complicated because it is not common to use UTC. But let's try to imagine the scenario further... So Spanish people typically siesta between 1100 to 1300 UTC. Imagine, my home country is UK. I work betwee
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by hrjet 13y ago
I agree with you as a fellow hacker. But I don't think this can be called a solution for end-users, who would just like things to work out of the box. And as an app developer, one needs to consider the problems of the end-user. That is
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by hrjet 13y ago
But unless you eliminate all closed-source components (hardware and software) you are still liable to spyware. There was news a few days back of irons from a certain company having spyware! Imagine what could be put in the firmware of a mob
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by hrjet 13y ago
Any software that supports timezones, already supports the UTC. You just have to tell it to use a 0 tz offset. I suspect, it is more of a wetware problem.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Well, how can you be sure that all around the world, people go home at 7pm in all seasons, and in all latitudes? Heck, if you happened to call someone in France in the afternoon you might disturb them from their siesta!
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by hrjet 13y ago
No, time-zones alone can't give you an estimate of sleep-times (even ignoring individual sleep patterns for the moment). Time-zones are related to the longitude of the location You also need to account for the latitude, and the time of
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by hrjet 13y ago
Not really. Two places with the same timezone may have completely different day and night schedules. The northen hemisphere is flooded with sunlight during Northen summer, while the souther hemisphere gets very little sunlight during this t
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by hrjet 13y ago
When I first heard of DST I couldn't believe that there are entire countries out there that follow this practice. It seems like it came straight out of a Terry Pratchett novel.
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by hrjet 13y ago
That's good to know. Does anyone know good open-source launchers for Android?

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