kibibu

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   by kibibu 12y ago

   > you should never, ever be debugging a problem on live Until you have to
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   by kibibu 12y ago

   Note: If he'd gone to Hamburg and said "I am a Hamburger" this would have also been totally fine.
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   by kibibu 12y ago

   Did you not read the part in the article about de-anonymizing user ids?
4. 664.▲
   by kibibu 12y ago

   False parallel. What if Microsoft's products or services sexually assaulted people? Yes, there would be an outcry.
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   by kibibu 12y ago

   Not to mention the mental health impact of spending all of your time fixing bugs for a 13 year old browser.
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   by kibibu 12y ago

   I have vague memories of Frames not working under the HTML4 Strict doctype
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   by kibibu 12y ago

   The only reason you get any harmonics is if you drive them to nonlinear distortion though. If you have enough headroom, you can get near-zero transistor distortion and then apply your tube modelling digitally. Audiophiles are often stuck
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   by kibibu 12y ago

   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000635/
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   by kibibu 12y ago

   Last time I contacted my MP it was due to mandatory Internet filter legislation. I got a form letter explaining how good mandatory Internet filtering is.
10. 670.▲
    by kibibu 12y ago

    For one point of data, I found migrating a medium-sized Django web app from MySQL to Postgres was trivially easy in the parts where I'd used an ORM, and annoyingly difficult in the parts where I'd dropped to SQL for performance.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    > if I remember correctly, LibreSSL was not infallible LibreSSL is a fork of OpenSSL - it would not be a huge surprise if there remained OpenSSL bugs in it.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Being a parent is largely about making the decisions that you think are right to the best of your ability. Give your father a break.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Based on the two letters of mine, I have a feeling that it's from a BB forum crawl or similar.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    > 1. Uses the Apache License (Pandoc is GPL). The code for this project is part of a commercial, closed-source project (and needs to continue to remain part of this project) You can release code as GPL and still use it in your own propri
15. 675.▲
    by kibibu 12y ago

    Man, unsalted cashews are delicious! Try getting used to the lack of salt.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Not true - none of those are a single div
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Here's why I will not touch Rails: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-... IMO it deserves bad press for favouring development speed over sensible defaults and safety. Frameworks shoul
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Absolutely agree. If Adobe had open-sourced the Flash client (but not the authoring tools) I like to think we would be in a different space technically. Certainly I hope we wouldn't have spent the last 6 years redesigning Flash by comm
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    > both of these technologies were abominations I'll give you that they were buggy, but Flash enabled a LOT of cool stuff to be delivered on the web that HTML still can't do. Go visit Newgrounds or Kongregate and see what people
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    > For some reason, I'm getting downvotes even though my enthusiasm was genuine I didn't downvote you, but your initial post set off my snark-o-meter.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Having worked in audio and video editing on Pentium-era machines, I don't think modern machines are slow at all .
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Tabs are accessed through the URL popup overlay. I agree that it's difficult to imagine browsing without them, but I manage well enough on phones without them.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    > well understood problems, with source code and documentation Perhaps the comma should be removed.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    I'm pretty sure it was just snark at Javascript/ECMAscript. IMO it's pretty hard to justify calling it a legacy language when there are 4 major JS JIT engines actively competing for performance, and a pretty thriving develope
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    I really wish there weren't two popular projects that were abbreviated to NaCl. For others, this is a port of the "salt" NaCl crypto library, and has nothing to do with Native Client. The dangers of JS crypto in the browser a
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    One way that you can test for fakery with digital images is that CCDs have their own signature noise patterns: See: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.186.... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.ed
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Or Apple/Aldus/Adobe for that matter. "Nerds" got them because at the time computers could only do the things nerds wanted them to.
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Don't discount embarrassment at the state of research-quality code!
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    I know there are clever people working on this, but I can't see how any system based on handing out free money can really work. "Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt leaves as legal tender, we have, of course all become imm
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    by kibibu 12y ago

    Brings it up to feature parity with SourceForge circa 1999 ;)