katbyte

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1. 1711.▲
   by katbyte 14y ago

   And even before phoenix/firebird and IE6 there was the mozilla browser for years.
2. 1712.▲
   by katbyte 14y ago

   Was IE6 really all that much of an improvement over the mozilla browser (Not Netscape, precursor to phoenix -> firebird -> firefox ) at the time? I can't remember a time were I found IE to be actually better, or even comparable unti
3. 1713.▲
   by katbyte 14y ago

   Are you sure? It was some time ago but I remember Mozilla being a better browser overall and far more secure. Maybe I am just remembering wrong, or I'm a few years off but I don't remember IE ever being comparable in quality to Mozilla, now
4. 1714.▲
   by katbyte 14y ago

   Or we might be in a better place if superior graphical OS's (like OS/2) had been allowed to flourish instead of being killed off though business tactics rather then by having a better product. The same could be said for IE6. They again pus
5. 1715.▲
   by katbyte 14y ago

   I think its a poor way of saying that if you have rather bad posture and work out to build muscle etc, with that bad posture your not necessarily fixing your posture, and may just make it harder to fix in the long run as your muscles build
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   by katbyte 14y ago

   Not sure about what the parent poster's town was sued for but a quick Google shows this: http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/07/telco-wont-inst... that resulted in http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/10/want-50mbps-inter...
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   by katbyte 14y ago

   Without comments how do you produce documentation for your code? I put XML comments on every function, object, property etc giving them at the very least a short summary. These are then compiled into documentation xml that integrates with t
8. 1718.▲
   by katbyte 14y ago

   his 1st point was not about commenting what code does but why it is done the way it is. I don't see how you can extract all the required information (including web links or rational) explain the rational behind a implementation into a funct
9. 1719.▲
   by katbyte 14y ago

   > I strongly suggest all developers to ignore this blog post, and to comment as best as you can. Bad or to many comments are better then no comments. Its not exactly hard to remove them, their absence will never break the build unlike n
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    by katbyte 14y ago

    I've worked on code like that, and i'm sorry but i would rather read a 50 (or even couple 100 if appropriate) line function implementing specific functionality that is well written and documented with comments then have that critical inform
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    by katbyte 14y ago

    In both those examples information about why the variable needs to be set to that specific value is lost. At some point the variable needs to be set and the more information on why it needs to be set to a particular value the better. You ca
12. 1722.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    well I don't particularly like it, but i manage. the ribbon i think is far less of a drastic UI change then metro. The ribbon was just changing the text menus to a persistent large tool bar with tabs. Metro is like bolting a touch interface
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    by katbyte 14y ago

    >Tell that to the thousands of people who got sued several years ago, or the Pirate Bay guys who are either in prison or facing prison sentences. compared to the 10s, 100s of millions who still share, download and copy copyrighted med
14. 1724.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    that helps when travelling in a car but if backpacking or on a plane, bus, train, or in less developed cities plugs can be rather difficult to find.
15. 1725.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    wps: http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf I've personally seen this used to crack a WPA2 network in < 2 hours. However this isn't a problem with WPA, and disabling WPS renders this attack vector useless. Thou as
16. 1726.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    It is also possible to crack WPA-2 networks, quickly and easily if WPS is enabled (mere hours), longer (or more costly) if it is not. I think it would be trivial to argue in court that if you have wifi its a reasonable argument that your wi
17. 1727.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    There are strong/long passwords that are easy to remember: %Thisspasswordd1s1nhonor..ofmy246catSS!! http://xkcd.com/936/ having a 20-30 character long password is fairly easy, it may not be 100% random, but (correct me if i'm wrong) a pas
18. 1728.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    hmm then wouldn't it make sense to create a new stack-exchange site just for programming discussion and these type of questions that don't qualify for stack-overflow and move them there? stack-discussions or something? That way there would
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    by katbyte 14y ago

    uh, correct me if i'm wrong but isn't that her job to do that and typically those jobs pay extremely well? And on the flip side, if there was a large bonus for reducing debt by that much by year end, would that incentivize this person to do
20. 1730.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    Is there any way to easily and securely encrypt Facebook chats? a quick google finds: http://abine.com/facebook.php
21. 1731.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    Would not having a 3rd party handle the logistics cut into their profit margins? I would assume because they do it in house and at such a large scale they save money vs hiring a 3rd party that would want their own cut raising logistic costs
22. 1732.▲
    by katbyte 14y ago

    I would say the scales youtube and google search operate at show that they could easily handle google+ at facebook's scale.