kostya-kow

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by kostya-kow 13y ago
>Most other "free" web services aren't much better. Most non-free web services are equally happy giving away your data to the government. Apple, MS and all the other companies are no better than Google. And Google is not t
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
Russia government is hypocritical. They criticize US government because of Prism, but at the same time they close and censor newspapers, TV channels, and websites. They also murder and imprison journalists and everyone else who disagrees wi
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
The only safe thing to do would be to compile Firefox or Chromium yourself.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
Because I am running GNU/Linux.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
>no child that wants to be a graphic designer could ever pirate Photoshop More Gimp users? ;) But on a serious note, I completely agree with you. Perfect, law-following society will not have any social progress. Laws are not perfect, and
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
It looks weird without tabbing. But if the code was tabbed, then it would take too much space, since they are using huge tabs. That's why I prefer 3-space tabs. Not too small, not too big.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
How are they superior?
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
I don't think it really improves readability. All the programmers are familiar with && and ||, and using something else will just confuse people. Also, it's not really that hard to #define it yourself, instead of using includes.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
Advertisement always bends facts to one side or the other. Usually ads put extra emphasis on a positive thing, while omitting the negative. Even more often ads don't use facts -- they just play on people's feelings. In any case, the goal of
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
All the things I tried were either too slow or didn't start at all with open-source drivers. With fglrx everything works. But I hate installing/upgrading them, because they either mess something up, or uninstall incompletely.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
I am an Arch user, but I am thinking of switching to Fedora or Ubuntu again. Arch just takes too much configuration and time, and the dual-head is a pain. It also doesn't support fglrx drivers, because the X version they use is too high. It
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
I am mostly an xmonad/Unity user, but why is Enlightenment not on the list?
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
It doesn't really "shrink" the language. It adds a level of abstraction. But the problem is that it doesn't really implement the abstraction very well. The complexity doesn't go away, you still have all std::vector<std::ostream::operato
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
It would be better if MS has gone with Posix Standard instead of causing everyone trouble and making proprietary non-standard OS. Portability takes a lot of work, which could've been used to improve the program, instead of trying to get stu
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
It would've been mutually recursive if Lisp (language) stood for something else which referenced Lisp (contest). But it doesn't, so you probably discovered a new type of recursive acronyms. Hurd is an example of mutually recursive acronym:
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
Linux will soon have btrfs, which is as good as (if not better than) ZFS. Also Dtrace & ZFS originally come from Solaries, so they are not FreeBSD projects. The only reason they do not work on Linux is because of license problems which
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
How stable is btrfs at this point?
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
I don't use Skype (imo.im works much better, and you don't have to install any programs), so I don't know anything about it, but Chrome seems to work.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
All the hardware I purchased in the past several years works with most GNU/Linux distros. There is some minor problems sometimes, but usually they do not force me to purchase hardware specifically for it.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
It is still possible to customize Ubuntu, but you cannot customize Unity itself. It is no longer the goal of canonical. Canonical is trying to make an OS for an average person, who doesn't care about customization. Power users (ie normal GN
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
>I think it is really cute that she did this for her boyfriend. She didn't have to do this, but she either likes him so much, or likes the product so much, that she wanted to help him make it successful. I don't care how cute it is. If
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
This is good news. Flash is a dying technology, and HTML is the way forward. Hopefully this means they will make a HTML5 version with WebGL of their player.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
>Because they broke the web for their users. If you want web to progress forward, then things are going to get broken. WebP is an efficient format, and face-book is doing a good thing by increasing it's adoption speed.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
>The code is open source so it can debug the problem itself. But even if it is MIT/BSD/Apache/etc, it makes more sense for the company to send back the patches to be integrated. Otherwise, it has to maintain an unreleased patch-list and
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
In a sense, GPL is not free. It is free as in "freedom for society," but it is not free in a selfish, individualistic way. It does not give you freedom to not respect other people's freedom. By using GPL, you sacrifice some of your person
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
Making desktop computers mainstream destroyed hacker culture, and made this industry full of incompetent fools that work for big businesses and only care about making money.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
Doing this is wrong for a company of any size, no matter if it's big or small.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
Not on HN, because it is full of Apple fanboys.
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
>Samsung's IP theft issues You mean the time when Apple tried to patent "0-length-swipe" and a shape of a box?
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by kostya-kow 13y ago
I am not an Apple fanboy, but I fully support Apple's decision to remove AppGratis from the store. It is pointless to argue if it was bribery that caused Pellerin to do this, but it is obvious that she is mistaken. >but Apple was OK wit

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