kaitnieks

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by kaitnieks 17y ago
I live in eastern Europe and there is one thing that might be relevant. The flat tax here is actually progressive tax in disguise. We have something that could be called non-taxable minimal amount (sorry, I'm not an economist) which is let'
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
Ok, I found this analysis by Symantec which makes the whole thing less naive than I originally thought: http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/blogs/trojan-found-usb-ba...
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
My guess is that whoever made the installer had his computer infected. Not all companies have strict rules about what can be on the computer (or developers choose to not follow them and find ways around their enforcements) and this can be o
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
This kind of AI composer would be just perfect for games, especially indy games. Most indy game developers can't afford good original soundtracks and if there was a service that provided them for cheap... That's an idea for a stratup.
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
We certainly don't need to fear that dolphins could try to dominate or exterminate us. So why bother treating them in any special way? The reason for morale and ethics is to maintain society and minimize risk of revenge. In case of dolphins
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
The technology does not change as fast as it claims to. There are new languages, frameworks and even concepts all the time, but most of them are the old things with a twist and most of them do not even catch on. So if you don't want to be l
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
This sounds like a good idea to me. If I was .NET developer who had no reason to make my application run on Linux but also no reason not to, I would definitely try out this add-in.
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
For me the biggest problem with .NET is the fact that it doesn't generate true binaries and the deployment problems (framework needs to be installed). The advantage of Delphi is that it compiles everything into a single exe file that just w
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
what was this submission in question?
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
It comes with a border, it's blue, it has a title "Google Sidewiki" and it displays your name. I would say it can't be confused with the components of the website itself, although with Web 2.0 sometimes sites get built in a way that compone
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
It's funny - when I read that list of names, even though I knew a few, I thought of my younger brother. I'm quite sure he wouldn't have even heard of any of them, yet he's developing for some company all kinds of systems - from web, to Java
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
I see it more like a personal internet forum. Forums are great tools but you can never get all your friends and family to use the same one. Maybe wave can fix that.
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
I asked them about this in some unconference. They were very smug about it, they said that hardware developers will want to implement the whole thing as completely and as compliantly with other Android phones as possible and the message was
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
I opened a normal Word document, created a screenshot and tried to OCR it. The quality was terrible and the result was completely unusable. Only a rare word was recognized correctly. The document was in Latvian, but the site claims it does
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
Since there's probably a heavy compression used and the modifications happen all over the wikipedia, I don't think there is a way. The only thing they could probably do is to split the articles in several categories and allow to update them
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
I agree. Even when I had just started Pascal after early childhood years of ZX-Spectrum basic, even when I wrote a game that consisted of one huge block of code and the only reason I had to split it in 2 procedures called Dog1 and Dog2 is b
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
The compilers might be more helpful, too, by displaying hints or even warnings when the clever code is used. This would not forbid it but would encourage for universally cleaner code.
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
Besides if you do need something like SOAP but without the unnecessary overcomplications you always have XML-RPC ( http://www.xmlrpc.com/ ) which I use a lot.
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
Yes, this. I'm a happy windows user (probably a minority here) except for this bloody feature. And the fact that every time windows updates are downloaded I have to review them to make sure they don't contain some kind of genuine validation
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
At first I thought he might be serious, but the practical examples made it seem more like a joke, since the subtlety was somewhat lost there. Like this part: Once a product is released, focus on fixing bugs, not adding new features. All ov
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
I'll talk about the setup and configuration part. I mean this has been talked about to death but people still don't get it. And lately I'm starting to fear that maybe some people like it. This is especially visible when trying out various n
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
These things can be fixed by automatic check for updates and preferably seamless automatic update, but the problem is that people who normally like open source don't like automatic updates. People don't like when they're asked too much ques
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
The question about "male hookers" is fair but the reason is probably more physiological than anything else. I mean most males simply can't sleep with unattractive women (and I hope I don't have to explain the reasons for that - maybe there
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
C++ and Delphi are almost the last of few ones left to generate proper Windows exe files. DotNET is great for business applications but when you think about creating mass products, you have to keep returning to C++ and friends.
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
I'm not fond of scrolling (or ctrl+clicking) up and down to see what every little subroutine does to understand the code I have to fix. Only if it's my own code, I can be somewhat sure the tiny function does indeed SetOrderDate, but maybe i
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
Looking at this makes me both nostalgic about asm and thankful that I don't have to write any enterprise applications in it.
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
Execution is important, no doubts there. And I agree that for mass products it is more important than vision. However, I think that if the product is targeted for a single customer or a small niche group then vision is way more important -
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
This is complete opposite of what I saw in Germany in Wolfsburg where VW plants are located. We were practically the only ones not driving VW there with exception of few Audis. I think in car industry there are more benefits for using your
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
You're probably talking about USA and while the prices are higher here as well, that's only because of taxes which are bigger for diesel. By how much more does diesel cost in USA compared to petrol?
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by kaitnieks 17y ago
In what respects are they less convenient exactly?

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