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by kh_hk 11y ago
Slightly offtopic: the regime in Spain was taken into discussion during the Potsdam conference with the outcome of not intervening after II WW, being the main expressed motive that Spain was neutral on the war (which is true but biased, sin
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by kh_hk 11y ago
Most european countries can't keep up with the currency, that's the real issue. Of course the tax payers are highly entertained with the bigoted argument of which country deserves what. It's too easy to go that route and infl
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by kh_hk 11y ago
Your game dev blog is worth alone a good read. Specially the 5 part series on map generation. Most sources online are pretty obscure, being either just a brief on what algorithms steps involve or a crude demo attached on a forum. If anyone
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by kh_hk 11y ago
I too have been following the development of Cogmind since having a post of mine about dungeon generation using BSP trees being linked on your dev blog. The game looks impressive. Congrats on the release!
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by kh_hk 11y ago
When adding support for small new features or fixing bugs on large codebases the answer is: you don't [1]. You do not need to familiarize yourself with the full codebase at the start. It's too time-consuming and mostly not worth t
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by kh_hk 11y ago
I got to know the Matrix project on the last FOSDEM and it definitely seemed a step on the right direction. I guess then it's all a matter of waiting for it to happen.
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by kh_hk 11y ago
That's why we should be worried. The ease of using Telegram over any other service is clear and that's why most companies and public institutions are moving their old messaging services to Telegram. Without wanting to say that Tel
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by kh_hk 11y ago
The only disadvantages I can see on a federated service are security and the cost of running it. Compared to the benefit of not restricting one-self to a platform, I would say federated is better.
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by kh_hk 11y ago
That is true. What surprises me is how lazy and clueless mobile network operators seem to be despite the power they still hold. They have all the power they need to develop or implement modern messaging protocols. Granted they can't ch
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by kh_hk 11y ago
OT: Awesome, great, APIs are good. Know what's better? Open specifications and federated services. It's called XMPP and if it's not enough, then something better should be developed. Is this the replacement of SMS? Not sure w
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by kh_hk 11y ago
It's clear Google has undertaken a massive task on defining a cohesive image and set of guidelines for the design of their products. In that sense it's probably better to have a flawed plan than no plan at all. However I would not
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Yep, sorry about that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9682654
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by kh_hk 11y ago
I hadn't looked much into Swift either, thought it was meant to be a declarative layer around Obj-C, my bad. I would say though that QML + javascript fills a similar purpose as Swift.
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by kh_hk 11y ago
QML is akin to swift. Let's say, QML is to Qt as Swift is to Obj-C + native GUI libraries. The purpose and syntax of QML and Swift are similar, too. PS: Qt is not only a GUI framework. It's a cross platform C++ framework.
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I wonder what this will mean for Qt and QML.
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My dad worked for some years on a coal mine when he was 16. Mind you, this was on a remote village during the post-war era on Spain. He has countless histories even though he does not share them often; smelly rooms with bunk beds, cold wint
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by kh_hk 11y ago
Funnily enough, I am just on the opposite side. I've a free API that allows people to build clients for mobile apps (some are free, some are one time fee, etc) and the costs of running this free API are starting to worry me.
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by kh_hk 11y ago
The possibility of doing that is already there on Android. Try calling a number that has a public profile (like a restaurant), and you'll see how their avatar appears as a contact. That particular request is perfectly mineable.
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by kh_hk 12y ago
> I shouldn't need to mess around with the terminal on what is supposed to > be a developer's notebook Really? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Still, I might feel your pain. If I have to mess arou
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by kh_hk 12y ago
I for one still miss the 4:3 on the thinkpads. 16:10 sounds good.
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by kh_hk 12y ago
I do agree in most of what's been said. Poor knowledge, an understaffed IT department and no support from Washington sounds like a recipe for disaster, even more if the guy just wanted to get his job done. Do note however that being a
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by kh_hk 12y ago
If you see a diplomat as a passive subject then I do agree. It's in human behavior to bypass complex procedures just to get the task done. But if you can't expect an US diplomat to follow his country regulations and security requi
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by kh_hk 12y ago
Was pointing out we should not rule out any government agency just for the quality of the setup. I find it hard to believe that an activist would be targeted by a private investigator.
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According to the media article linked on the submission, the activist was stopped for a "routine search" of the car for more than one hour on the frontier with France by spanish national police (CNP). One week ago she was stopped
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by kh_hk 12y ago
Hey, that's Google's new market too! They foresee a dystopian future with driverless cars, intelligent ads, perfect synergy and communication between our brains through implants. It's dystopic not because of what it promise
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by kh_hk 12y ago
I always carry around a TL-MR3020 (openwrt) with a wireless adapter on the USB port. You never know when you need to hop a network. It's so small it does not really make a difference on the backpack.
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by kh_hk 12y ago
You will be surprised if you give KF5 a try. I've been playing with it for two days and it feels really light, customizable and comes with sane defaults. You can take all the clutter out of it and just stay with what you want.
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Appeal to developers, that's all. If your brand is not used by developers, nobody is going to start writing apps for your platform just out of the hobby. Plus, it takes time. Just look at iOS (2007) and Android (2008). You can't h
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I love it because it has almost everything that makes a cult movie: bad and punchy dialogs, great soundtrack and an unbalanced cocktail of cool things (including subcultures) the director likes (hackers, rollerblades, cyber). It's as i
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by kh_hk 12y ago
I am starting to see the light on all this tooling madness. It does not matter: languages and their ecosystems are powerful enough for any project to build their own tools. Projects are fond of their tools, so they give them fancy names and

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