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by kartickv 8y ago
Interesting. Regarding developers not caring about security, that's why I suggested it should be the default, with an option to turn it off for performance or other reasons, rather than the other way around.
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by kartickv 8y ago
Did Cyclone let you turn off bounds-checking in performance-critical code, as I suggested?
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by kartickv 8y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh... Imagine the outrage if Google stored user data in a datacenter run by a company controlled by the Chinese government. Apple pulled an amazing PR coup in c
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by kartickv 8y ago
In fact, I'd like my C compiler to use bounds-checked arrays by default, with an option to disable it in performance-critical code. Safe by default, performant only when needed. That's the only way to build secure software. Since
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by kartickv 8y ago
Since MS is no stranger to regularly building new frameworks, they should build one that is natively supported in Windows, with no compromises relative to other APIs like WPF or Win32, while also supporting macOS, iOS and Android as targets
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by kartickv 8y ago
While it seems ironic and uncoordinated at first glance, perhaps UWP is right for OneNote since it has far fewer features than Word or Excel, and less legacy, being a newer app?
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by kartickv 8y ago
Does Office in touch mode work as well as on the iPad Pro, say? Do I have to go around telling each app that supports touch mode to go to touch mode, or is there a way I can configure it centrally?
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by kartickv 8y ago
If I'm starting development on a Windows 10 app tomorrow, with no legacy codebase, and I'm going to target only Windows 10, which framework would you suggest? I want it to be the best of both worlds: when running on a Surface or o
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by kartickv 8y ago
Good point. I never understood why the developers of every language don't make it trivial to build a .exe or .app file that users can double-click to run. Seems like the Python team is penalising developers for using Python :) It can i
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by kartickv 8y ago
I'd like type annotations to be used to optimise performance. After all, if it has been statically verified that a particular variable is always an instance of class X, why not use that to optimise code? This is an argument for type an
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by kartickv 8y ago
Don't many contracts rely on something to be verified in the real world? If I sign a contract with you to deliver 100kg of rice, and you claim I delivered wheat instead, how can an algo decide that?
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by kartickv 8y ago
I see. When I said GPU, I meant a normal GPU, not a special tensor GPU. BTW, what makes tensors / matrices hard for GPUs to handle?
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by kartickv 8y ago
You make a perceptive point about the metaphor being wrong. Code reviewers should be more like advisors and less like gatekeepers. I've had to go through too many reviews where I end up having to bend backward to please the reviewer. G
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by kartickv 8y ago
Agreed. Not just a Mac but any PC should be able to adjust the aperture using software. Let it be slow. Better than not being able to do it at all.
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by kartickv 8y ago
So it's just a GPU optimised for half-floats and/or integers? I remember reading that it's optimised for matrix calculations. Is that true? If so, what is it about matrix calculations that makes a GPU not the most optimised f
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by kartickv 8y ago
You're right that writing a complete language like Java or Python is not a small task, but that's because these languages have redundant ways of doing the same thing. If you simplify them be eliminating redundancy while retaining
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by kartickv 8y ago
I see where you're coming from, but you're missing the point that startups are all about finding product-market fit with the least money, time and people. Guess what's worse than an app that doesn't support your particul
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by kartickv 8y ago
Entirely reasonable question, but I wasn't talking about making custom layouts for each device. I'm also talking about a single UI design that is responsive to different screen sizes. But instead of supporting all iPhones, if we i
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by kartickv 8y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but as a developer, I'm happy that we can now do UX design for 4.7-inch phones, and prevent installation of our app on smaller phones. You do that in an indirect manner, by requiring NFC, thus eliminating 4-in
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by kartickv 8y ago
That's a good point, and an argument for why the iPhone X should've had the same screen size as the iPhone 8, just with smaller bezels. Besides, the slightly bigger body of the X (ignoring screen size) makes it slightly less comfo
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by kartickv 8y ago
Yes, the 4.7-inch screen is optimal for me, too. Apple should've kept this screen size and made the bezels as small as possible. This applies to the SE, too -- keep the screen size and makes the bezels smaller. In a way, the iPhone XS
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by kartickv 8y ago
Reminders aren't in Gmail, are they? I don't like having to check two inboxes, multiple times a day. Do you know why Google didn't add reminders to Gmail? You also seem to believe that more features are always better, but par
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by kartickv 8y ago
Good point. Another way is to release new products as "Experimental". When you try to use one for the first time, you'll get a big red warning saying this product may be discontinued any time. Any product that Google is commi
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by kartickv 8y ago
That's 1% of Gmail's 1 billion installs, again according to Play, to compare apples with apples. That's as clear a sign as you can expect that users don't want Inbox, notwithstanding a noisy minority like us.
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by kartickv 8y ago
Yes, but you need to weigh that risk against the risk of not having 2FA. Taking a step back, and responding to the other comment in response to mine as well, I was just speculating. I don't work in abuse, and I'm inclined to trust
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by kartickv 8y ago
Maybe giving them your phone number gives Google another signal to catch hackers in another country trying to taking over your Google account. Or a malware server could be prevented from taking over tons of Google accounts? I don't wan
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by kartickv 8y ago
"I'll work for whoever is willing to pay me the most" is valid from your point of view. But I as a founder don't want people who're in it just for the money, so eliminating such people is exactly why I think I'
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by kartickv 8y ago
The US has good protections against government searches and data requests for US citizens, but probably zero for the rest of us. So, as an Indian, I don't really see how having my data stored in India is much worse than having it store
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by kartickv 8y ago
What is LTO, and why doesn't it need rewinding?
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