janoc

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by janoc 8y ago
The problem is not so much the security of Javascript itself but the craptacular state of the Javascript/Node ecosystem where pulling in random unchecked dependencies is the norm, for example. So lowering the barrier of entry to alread
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by janoc 8y ago
And how is an SME with 10 million annual turnover (that's not profit, that's revenue before all the expenses are taken out) ever going to build a competing platform to e.g. Google or Facebook? All this does is to put a token nod
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by janoc 8y ago
AMD has already announced they are moving all their CPUs and GPUs to TSMC. The big loser in that case will be Global Foundries.
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by janoc 8y ago
Pretty much anything that actually needs hard realtime is very likely running on a dedicated MCU/FPGA/ASIC. Linux is vastly easier to use for everything else, though. Navigation or communication doesn't need hard realtime
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by janoc 8y ago
That's nonsense. PCI/PCIe FPGA accelerator boards have been around for ages, mostly used by the finance traders and for machine learning/math-intensive computations before cheap GPUs with much simpler programming models (no n
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by janoc 8y ago
These are Indian (and other) call center employees who contract as support for Dell (and others) during the day and then use their access and company data after hours for some extra buck. It has been going on for years, there was even an in
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by janoc 8y ago
I was just going to say that. Seriously, wtf - this is as if the Apple hipsters had now their summer ruined and not at all the entire CPU & GPU supply for pretty much everything was jeopardized ...
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by janoc 8y ago
Yep, that would be the ideal way. OTOH, will never happen because there is no such certification system in place even for new cars (and not only Tesla's). New cars pass the homologation process where a few specimen are subjected to var
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by janoc 8y ago
Absolutely. On the other hand, when you have a guy that welds two halves out of two wrecks together and builds a "new" car out of them or does who knows what with the battery (which is essentially a giant firebomb under the car wa
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by janoc 8y ago
These lenticular autostereoscopic displays have been around for a long time and never quite took off. There have been even 3D TVs (Philips) using this idea. I am not quite sure what is "new" apart of yet again abusing the "ho
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by janoc 8y ago
Could it be that many vendors still ship Python 2 as default for internal reasons (system-related scripts and what not rely on it)? Macs, for example ... So you customer, not knowing any better, used whatever was on the machine already. I
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by janoc 8y ago
Well, that people don't do such things is not really the fault (nor problem) of the developer of that toy library, IMO. Nobody else but you alone can ensure that your project is managed and developed properly.
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by janoc 8y ago
And why isn't the young developer being mentored by someone more senior before introducing a new dependency into a business critical system? Why is what amounts to a clear project management failure the problem of some open source deve
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by janoc 8y ago
Nobody has any illusions about Google being fair but if the first thing people do to "solve" this is to bring out all the hairy conspiracy theories instead of fixing the stupid site, no wonder the ranking still sucks. facepalm O
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by janoc 8y ago
I think the idea behind patents was that you can't patent natural phenomena and things that derive from them. Algorithms are just another way of expressing mathematics and logic so that is what gives the rise to the idea that these thi
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by janoc 8y ago
Sorry, a formula and an algorithm are not at all different. A mathematical formula is just a symbolic expression of an abstract concept, with the procedure (algorithm) how to use it being implicit (= obvious to the person skilled in the a
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by janoc 8y ago
CAD on Mac is pretty much non-existent, as is any professional 3D market - the market share isn't there, the hardware support is terrible, so few major players bother with supporting Macs. All this stuff is either Windows (CAD) or Lin
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by janoc 8y ago
Game engine not so much, Apple has always been an "also ran" when it came to games. Moreover, these days nobody is writing new major game engines - it is just way too expensive and difficult to justify vs. downloading Unity and s
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by janoc 8y ago
How they "don't face consequences" if it is wrong?! Google (along with Facebook) are very much going to be the first in the line for auditing - and I believe the first complaints against them have been filled on the first day
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by janoc 8y ago
Apple has a tiny market share when it comes to 3D applications - OpenGL is mostly the "pro" 3D world, be it CAD, 3D visualization, 3D simulation and similar. None of that runs on Macs, everything is Windows/Linux these days.
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by janoc 8y ago
Then just put that in your privacy policy and you are off the hook. If Google tracks something, whether it is via their fonts, by putting some cookie on your site or whatever, it is their problem (and they actually said so, in that Github
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by janoc 8y ago
Well, then take Qt Designer if you must - automatic layout management to gracefully handle window resize. The amount of crap you have to go through to make that work properly (and even then it won't work right in all cases) using the c
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by janoc 8y ago
If all you do is developing applications that don't need to be maintained for 10 years or longer (as many business applications do), then you are fine. Otherwise you are horribly screwed if you try to buy in into the current HTML-based
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by janoc 8y ago
You are missing the point. These are calculators designed specifically for the high school market, with the special, mandated by law, exam mode and restricted functions. Nobody else really needs one. BTW, the Prime is $50 more expensive tha
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by janoc 8y ago
Well, that's not that easy. If you host abroad you also subject yourself to the laws of that country. The consequences could be pretty messy, especially if you assume that the laws work the same as in your own country. E.g. the America
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by janoc 9y ago
I think it is long past the date when the EU should have started to apply reciprocally onerous standards to the US citizens traveling to Europe. Unless the US travelers start raising fuss at home about their treatment abroad, this BS will c
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by janoc 9y ago
Market never adapts to things that are more expensive short term - like cleaner energy sources. Why would you put yourself at a competitive disadvantage (and thus lose money) if you aren't forced to? Sometimes the regulation is needed
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by janoc 9y ago
Um Eclipse? Netbeans? ArgoUML? (just out of top of my head). Your statement would be true if you have said "anything meaningful client-side on the web with Java". On the web Java was restricted to Java applets and was never re
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by janoc 9y ago
The Google Now only listens for the trigger phrase when idle - which is done all locally, without needing to talk to the servers. It has a battery impact but much less than sending all the voice data continuously to a server somewhere. The
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by janoc 9y ago
Unless that package/binary is signed - which Android ones are.

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