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by kovac 3y ago
I think user-friendliness of non-mainstream software is an acquired taste. While we are drawn to Linux and other off-road software for varying reasons, I doubt it's because we were looking out for a user-friendly OS. So, I personally d
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by kovac 3y ago
What's the name of the book?
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by kovac 3y ago
Totally. There's something therapeutic about being able to exercise our engineering brain cells. Main stream software development simply doesn't do that for me anymore. Hardware/embedded work is the only way I can get this fe
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by kovac 3y ago
It's this kind of comment that makes me worried for the future of computing.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for books on reverse engineering?
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by kovac 3y ago
AUR is part of the official repository of Manjaro? That doesn't seem like a good idea.
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by kovac 3y ago
> The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user. Isn't the user experience subjective though? For example, to solve the problem of sending an email, all one needs is a set of commands on a terminal. I love th
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by kovac 3y ago
What is SAL?
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by kovac 3y ago
I'm not sure if I understand the claimed benefit of jmap being an open standard. Isn't imap already an open standard? If so, if Gmail adopted jmap and added proprietary APIs to it, wouldn't we end up where we are now?
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by kovac 3y ago
Same here! May I ask which field of programming you went into? And how you feel about being a programmer? I often wonder how it might have been if I just had stayed with math. Especially, after years of doing regular programming for the Web
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by kovac 3y ago
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
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by kovac 3y ago
Have you played the video game Detroit: Become Human? If not, I recommend it. When I was Connor and had to choose between my orders and instincts, such questions didn't feel ivory-towery anymore.
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by kovac 3y ago
Hi notcensored02, thanks for the comment, and I get where you are coming from. But, I don't think it was ever free to host your own services since we have to pay to buy computers to use as servers, electricity, internet connection and
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by kovac 3y ago
Hello, I looked at Kagi and found it too expensive. I'm a paying user for many software I use: vpn, email, git to list a few. And i am willing to pay a reasonable price for a search service. To put it in to perspective, my vpn costs le
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by kovac 3y ago
Thanks for the information. Yes, this is why I stopped using qutebrowser too.
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by kovac 3y ago
This looks really good, will be trying it out. Looks like they wrote their own rendering code as well? Or are they using some other rendering engine?
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by kovac 3y ago
That's a horrible way to communicate something to your users, FOSS or not. A simple email in a mailing list that says they are dropping support for Xorg would have been sufficient.
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by kovac 3y ago
To me real intelligence is the ability to reason coherently. Humans, even when they are wrong, work in a way coherent with their prinicples/beliefs/axioms. Consider Sheldon from Big Bang Theory who does a very convincing job as a
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by kovac 3y ago
If this is true, this is a really simple problem to solve. Organize cross-team show and tells. Past couple organisations I worked for did this successfully.
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by kovac 4y ago
I came from HLL like C# and I've come to love C for the same reasons. The only language I can fit in my head in its entirety and no one telling me this is the "right way" to write code, don't use this or that feature, et
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by kovac 4y ago
Could you explain why this line should be discouraged? I'm a beginner in C, so I really don't know. That's why I'm asking.
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by kovac 4y ago
I can't speak for all categories of books, but here's an actual author's opinion on the matter for text books: http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-fre...
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by kovac 4y ago
Not sure if C# can beat Go in real-life applications but C# has advanced features that can contribute to performance: - JIT and runtime optimizations - AOT compilation if you want it (probably contends Go's native compiled code?) - Acc
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by kovac 4y ago
Isn't camelCase CamelCase and CamelCase PascalCase. On a more serious note, I feel like a reasonable middle ground is to agree to use one-word identifiers only.
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by kovac 4y ago
All the best in your endeavours. Hope you will find what you're looking for.
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by kovac 4y ago
Assuming that you have no other option but to use a computer, there's some good advice here[1] for securing a Linux system. Then you can run regular scans using security tools like the ones listed here[2]. [1]: https://wiki.
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by kovac 4y ago
Are you saying that Google search is representative of most of the Web applications/rest APIs developed today?
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by kovac 4y ago
Not just you. Software development, especially web, is a very pretentious industry. I believe that itll be one of the first programming jobs that'll fall to AI if it happens someday (no, systen architecture is not some special, difficu
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by kovac 4y ago
> Can you make Firefox's form inputs use Vim keybindings? Do you mean something like this: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim ?
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by kovac 4y ago
I was initially quite enthusiastic about microservices as I saw Unix philosophy ingrained in it. Especially that each service would be lightweight and small. Instead, what I see is each service tending towards more complexity and code mass

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