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by kartickv 10y ago
One concrete privacy improvement is to identify subsets of existing functionality that are widely used and can be mapped to a separate permission, or no permission. Then, most extension writers can request that specific permission. An examp
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by kartickv 10y ago
I used to subscribe to The Economist, yes. I discontinued because of missing issues, atrocious support, like not taking my calls, etc. In general, I don't mind paying for high-quality content. In fact, this morning I did a Google searc
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by kartickv 10y ago
You seem to have read enough FT to reach that conclusion. In my case, since FT didn't let me read enough articles free, I didn't realise its value (assuming it is valuable), so I don't pay for it. Catch-22. The Economist and
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by kartickv 10y ago
I understand your point that it has to be all-or-nothing, but if you were asked to redesign the UX to make autopilot (as it currently stands) safer, how would you change it?
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by kartickv 10y ago
This is great news. Sites hosted in India load much quicker than ones hosted abroad.
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by kartickv 10y ago
It also invites retaliation, like "freetard", which drags the level of the debate down to school kids taunting each other on the playground.
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by kartickv 10y ago
I have been struggling to identify why I dismiss Stallman and think of him as a idiot, and your post calls it out: the bullying. The assumption that if you don't 100% agree with him, you are an idiot. And the complete lack of empathy.
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by kartickv 10y ago
That's an insightful point. I also find the crude name-calling to detract from rather than support the message. I remember once reading one of his posts on a topic where I was in strong agreement with his point of view before I began r
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by kartickv 10y ago
Copy protection doesn't protect the customer, nor does digital rights management help manage their rights. They are not benefits for the customer, only negatives. When my bank charges me a fee, they call it a fee, not a bonus, though i
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by kartickv 10y ago
I'd prefer them in the software so that they work with external storage like USB hard discs.
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by kartickv 10y ago
somelib.so what? And what's a "checksum"? Error messages need to be comprehensible to the average user.
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by kartickv 10y ago
The Palmer statement makes sense. Regarding the rest of what you wrote, would you be fine if Oculus stopped funding games and so there are less games made? Because the alternative of Oculus funding games and not getting anything in return m
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by kartickv 10y ago
I disliked the DRM as well, and applauded when they removed it, but on second thoughts, I don't find it unfair to expect something in return when Oculus is funding a game. Developers are free to refuse Oculus's money and make a cr
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by kartickv 10y ago
I agree. A fifty-something vote is more like "neutral" or "undecided" than "leave" or "remain". Perhaps 60% would be the clear threshold to count as a clear, unambiguous decision from the voters to le
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by kartickv 10y ago
It will help British industry, while hurting savers, so maybe it's more a transfer of wealth than an overall benefit or loss?
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by kartickv 10y ago
That gets us to 99% of what I had in mind, by preventing bugs like this one, but the remaining 1% is: why, then, generate an error when someone invokes a function while specifying a different case? If there's only one function, does th
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by kartickv 10y ago
In those situations, it would have been much more readable to have classFoo vs foo, foo() vs nonThreadSafeFoo(), etc. The bigger point is that while you can come up with creative ways to take advantage of case-sensitivity, it's not tha
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by kartickv 10y ago
That's a false analogy. Saying it's the programmer's fault is another circular argument. It is, only in languages that make it the programmer's fault, but I would say that it's actually the language designers'
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by kartickv 10y ago
Thanks. I didn't know that term.
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by kartickv 10y ago
You're again missing the point that that would be heavier and so perhaps not as good for developers that choose to use macOS. The question is not whether "the simulator is basically an x86 iOS". The point is that requiring ma
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by kartickv 10y ago
Which is irrelevant, since languages are a medium of human expression, not a way to store bits on the disk.
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by kartickv 10y ago
FWIW I didn't interpret this as a personal attack, but as a critical contribution to this discussion: We can't have financial software built by 22-year old dropouts. A new social network? Sure. A game? Sure. A todo list app? Sure.
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by kartickv 10y ago
I'm not the OP, but I think they should be case-insensitive, if only to prevent errors like this. If you think otherwise, in what situation would it make sense to have two functions with names differing only in case? No upside, only a
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by kartickv 10y ago
That's not good enough for software that's meant to be money. Besides, OpenSSL has the excuse of being old. Why would you design a new system to be crufty from day one?
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by kartickv 10y ago
That's a circular argument. They are different only because the language says they are different, while the post you've responded to says (correctly) that that's bad language design.
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by kartickv 10y ago
I don't know why you've been downvoted, but anyone who disagrees with you needs to explain in what situation it would make sense to have two different functions or files with names differing only in case. I upvoted you.
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by kartickv 10y ago
A trick is to set yourself multiple tasks that are not exciting, so that you do at least one. If I tell myself, "I will edit all the photos I have been taking for almost a decade", I may not get around to it. So, I tell myself, &q
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by kartickv 10y ago
A better idea to stop when you encounter a bug that you know or expect will be easy to fix. That way, you start with a sense of achievement first thing in the morning, which is exactly what you're looking for. Fixing a syntax error doe
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Why Aren’t There Simple Programming Languages?(kartickv.tumblr.com)
3 points by kartickv 10y ago|16 comments
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by kartickv 10y ago
Or people whose iPhones are in another room when they are trying to buy something. It's a step back to need a specific device.

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