islon

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61.
by islon 6y ago
Cristoph is german. Meaning Kate already started drinking four years ago :)
62.
by islon 6y ago
It's such a "massive" problem I've been doing CLojure full time for the past 8 years and only heard about it now.
63.
Stadia plans to bypass App Store with web app iOS launch(gamasutra.com)
2 points by islon 6y ago|0 comments
64.
by islon 6y ago
Every time I read about such things I imagine what kind of things are we doing now that people 50-100 years from now will comment and laugh about.
65.
by islon 6y ago
It is difficult to get a man to keep his moral compass, when his salary depends upon his not keeping it
66.
by islon 6y ago
One could argue that if they really knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be in a blocklist in the first place.
67.
by islon 7y ago
> Motivation > Having to open an additional app to play a game is sometimes too tiring Really? This is the motivation? I can understand just the will to reimplement minecraft for the sake of it, as a challenge, to learn something, etc
68.
by islon 7y ago
The printing press is heavily moderated.
69.
by islon 7y ago
First they came for the big purchases, and I did not speak out because I was not a big spender. Then they came for the food/clothing purchases, and I did not speak out because I had my credit/debit card. Then they came for huge di
70.
by islon 7y ago
But isn't it bad practice to send plain text passwords to the backend? Shouldn't you encrypt them in the client already?
71.
by islon 7y ago
> It's also important because it show that FAANG isn't all it's cracked up to be and so it is a completely legitimate career path to remain in small startups I don't think there's just these 2 options. There&#x27
72.
by islon 7y ago
It's not perfect, but I'd rather trust mozilla than google.
73.
by islon 7y ago
My wifi router has an interface that shows every connected device and I can blacklist them based on their physical address.
74.
by islon 7y ago
> In descending order of importance it's the HTML, the CSS, and the behaviour. I would argue the behavior is more important if the website does anything else other than just show articles. A beautiful site with no behavior is useles
75.
by islon 7y ago
You are not alone! I kept reading the post in disbelief: "OK, he must be joking... he's not joking..."
76.
by islon 7y ago
If someone creates an adBlock/uBlock for phones (s)he will get rich. Imagine having a community-curated whitelist of numbers (plus the ones from your friends/family).
77.
by islon 7y ago
If steam shuts down some cracker/hacker will find a way to disable the drm. Almost every game has a pirated version in some torrent site.
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Flight sim dev's employee arrested for attempting to smuggle jet fighter manuals(polygon.com)
19 points by islon 7y ago|1 comments
79.
by islon 7y ago
While a "AI-powered laundry-folding robot" company files for bankruptcy there's a guy making money selling onions on the internet.
80.
by islon 7y ago
Maybe because the backend is getting dumber and dumber (micro/nano services) while the frontend is getting more complex (SPAs, almost like desktops apps). And I say this as a backend developer who makes these dumb backends that are lit
81.
by islon 8y ago
Are all these kids learning C or assembly? Because if they are learning Javascript, Python, etc. it doesn't matter in which processor their code is running.
82.
by islon 8y ago
I use uMatrix since 2 years or so and it works out of the box for 70/80% of websites. By working I mean they are not completely broken. For the ones that don't work it's normally 1 or 2 clicks in the UI to allow some 3rd pa
83.
by islon 8y ago
All Lisps and schemes?
84.
by islon 8y ago
This being hacker news, I thought there was a revolution in Armenia because people started running Windows applications on their Linux computers.
85.
by islon 8y ago
They are intelligible if you know Java and Clojure 1.10 improved stack traces.
86.
by islon 8y ago
Or Purescript =)
87.
by islon 8y ago
Having opinions != removing choices One can have an opinionated, canonical build system and still allow unorthodox things.
88.
by islon 8y ago
How do you avoid having complicated, nested data structures in your software if your business is complicated?
89.
by islon 8y ago
"All of the other Romance languages use the term in its original meaning." Nope, in (Brazillian) portuguese "mórbido" means morbid, like in english, and never means soft (suave, macio).
90.
by islon 8y ago
In my last work me and a coworker started the 100 days push-up challenge. Soon our whole team joined. After a few weeks many people from other teams also joined and it became a thing in the company.

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