johannes1234321

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by johannes1234321 3mo ago
> it was an awful version control system even compared to what else was available at the time (CVS and whatnot). For example, it didn't support the concept of "atomic commits". Neither did CVS. That was one of the big sell
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by johannes1234321 3mo ago
The fish stinks from the head. And yes, some departments have some freedom and some good people. But it was in the timeframe where the "browser wars" gained momentum, where Microsoft Network tried to "Microsoftify" the I
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by johannes1234321 3mo ago
> "... Why would there ever be 65,000 computers on this network?" This thinking can be seen in the allocation of network blocks. Mercedes Benz getting 53.0.0.0/8 is just a "we have more addresses than we ever need.&qu
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by johannes1234321 3mo ago
> btw. Segmentation faults are your friends! Indeed. I can't count how often I told people that segmentation faults are among the best kind of errors. One has the complete state and not a log message missing 90% of relevant info. Of
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by johannes1234321 3mo ago
One thing I wonder regarding browser market share is always: How is it collected? I assume Firefox users over proportionally use privacy extensions.Thus they overproportionally won't appear on Google Analytics and similar places, which
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
You have a small amount of idiots everywhere. It requires just one to spam such a system.
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
Software availability isn't really the problem. For most software there was no change at all ("connect to that host" or "listen to any device" and operating system will handle details), most software which needed ad
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
I believe that the initial idea there was to refer to notable landmarks and these company signs are readable from a distance. But yes, they could serve well as ad space.
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
I am all for public code. But mind: the whole point of Pokemon go is to collect data. If they have to publish it as open data their business case goes away. This may be good and we'd still not have the data (but "they" can co
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
There are so many companies these days doing recording for self driving cars and/or street view like applications. Also sites like Flickr collect huge sets of geo tagged photos, as do companies like Meta where tons of geo tagged images
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
It's quite obvious that data is what pays the game. A lot of data about the players )daily routine, commute to work/school, social circles to other players, etc. which allows to derive Job, wealth, etc.), data about surroundings (
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
> Apple has $145 billion in cash. This doesn't mean they want to throw it out of the window in a way which reduces their overall margin.
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
And if they lose the job they lose their insurance, thus their medication. This increases stakes to protest quite a lot, compared to European worker protection and social security.
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by johannes1234321 4mo ago
They are a hardware company at heart, the do software as software is needed. For building a competitive AI they'd have to hire the talent, which is expensive and then do a massive investment, which may still end up far behind the compe
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
The issue with bank transfers today is that the SEPA system is robust and established, but got no web compatible API. But there are two projects (why one, if you can have two!?), one being Wero by different banks, the other being the Digita
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
Well, it is signalling. It's signalling that there are competitors which are trustworthy enough for a government and it signals the overall trend one can observe how European governments detach from US companies. With some lower hangin
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
auto_ptr is an exception. Not the rule. Regular expressions in C++ are an example "everybody" advises against using, but it's still there. vector<bool> will stay forever and so on.
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
Very few blogs require frequent updates. Even with user comments.
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
For distributing having more data centers seems like a prerequisit to me. One can argue about size etc, though.
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
I spend quite some time in the political field and practically each paper letter I saw (aside from professional mass letters) was on the weird side. So I'm not sure the theory holds up.
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
On the time where Europeans fought for their worker rights they had to work, too. Often even not yet having other civil liberties. However a thing that changed is impact: A handful coal workers could interrupt work in significant ways.
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
> In practice, however, few people worry about reasonable amounts web-surfing, being on hacker-news or doing life-activities on their work machines. Oh, here I am on hacker-news when I should be working. This is all nice and good, till t
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
> It's kind of a shame that Konqueror fell to the wayside, but modern browsers are so complicated I cannot fault them for focusing elsewhere. KHTML became webkit (Safari) and then blink (Chrome) so they created the foundation for qu
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
That was circumvented once by CDNs hosting common libraries so that those would stay in browser cache, browser vendors then "broke" that by caching per origin. (So that an evil site can't detect whether a user had been on som
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
> Furthering the idea that not all package managers are the same, there are entire cycles of the moon where I don't open nuget once. Some ecosystems simply don't need to vendor out very often, and these are the ones where you g
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
I think it started with somebody like Yahoo!, who said that they that way could show your profile image or something and thus verify to you that this isn't a scam phishing site. I don't remember the complete argument, though. But
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
With good abstraction the implementation can be swapped without many noticing. However PHP leaks different aspects hear and there, making this harder ...
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
PHP arrays are vectors, hash maps and doubly linked lists in one
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by johannes1234321 5mo ago
I think the very old Google was better in this: They analysed current intent by looking at current search and contents of the current page one looks at. There an ad may solve a specific current need. As soon as past profile overrides this t
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by johannes1234321 6mo ago
There are other audiences, too. One group are the ones who are staying. They lose teammates, they have to restructure work and fear whether there will be another round soon, which may hit them. And then there are customers, investors, ... w

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