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by kobalsky 6y ago
No. Source: I work on a shopping app similar to Amazon's Prime Now but for a different country. Something funny. When you sell on Amazon, they take a 15% cut. Source: Also work on software for Amazon sellers.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Gaming consoles are a different breed since they are usually subsidized by the manufacturer. The PS4 was sold below the bill of materials cost at launch (which is waaaay lower than the manufactured unit cost) and remained relevant for 7 yea
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Cold war CIA wouldn't have dreamt with the power that social networks, streaming sites and tech companies have over electoral processes in other countries. I live in a small city in the ass end of the world, but my local politicians, w
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by kobalsky 6y ago
What I have been doing is a directory per namespace/context. I have a common Makefile that I link there which creates the namespace and does all the basic initialization stuff like inserting deny-all netpol rules, credentials for our d
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by kobalsky 6y ago
>>> and all my friends are raving about intellij... maybe there is something there I liked their software but I got estranged after they switched to their subscription model and their software badgered me so much on every update to
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by kobalsky 6y ago
I think it's good to clarify that rsync's algorithm requires an agent on the remote computer to compute those hashes without sending the file over the network.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
But in the end the name was really cursed and they got captured by saying it. I'm guessing that Dumbledore's dismissal was because if everyone said it, it would dilute its power, but that wouldn't work in this case!
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Google has recently pushed a payload that crashed any app using Google Maps SDK https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/154855417 This one was a good one because the app cache was poisoned so the only solution was to as
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by kobalsky 6y ago
>>> I have always been afraid of software engineering becoming a trade similar to medicine or law or (regular) engineering where significant barriers will be put up before you can enter the industry, but this sort of shit makes me
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by kobalsky 6y ago
> more protective of users' privacy are ISPs going to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP though? because with a roaming ipv6 address you will have a device identifier that you may not be able to change
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by kobalsky 6y ago
>>> If people don't want to see my site with random trash inserted into it, they can choose not to access it through broken and/or compromised networks. Such a pointless read.
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by kobalsky 6y ago
Many AAA games implement their engines in C++ but use something like Lua for game logic.
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by kobalsky 8y ago
I forked an ubuntu image and then used it as a base for all my projects. It doesn't come for free though, you will need to periodically run security updates and then rebuild all images that depend on it.