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by ksk 9y ago
> Personally I would never switch to the cesspool named Android. Laggy, malware infested garbage Yeah, those sound sketchy to me too. Perhaps you could switch to the non-laggy non-malwareinfested non-garbage android phones.
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by ksk 9y ago
BTW you undercut your own point because neither Apples not Google's phones are free. And Apple's services - Siri, iCloud, Mail, etc are free.
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by ksk 9y ago
Far from being unusable, even without a valid license key, windows will work for 30 days IIRC. With some versions you can 're arm' the license for a total of 90 days of free use. In any case, the license you're talking about
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by ksk 9y ago
>If we have a good idea and a poor implementation, then the correct response is to fix the implementation, not throw out the whole idea as fundamentally broken. The point is, nobody wants to fix it, because CAs are still making money.
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by ksk 9y ago
Two come to mind immediately. For one, they don't allow you to say 'NO' to their constant update nag prompts. The only options are install update or remind me later. The second is the sneaky update prompt during the unlock sc
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by ksk 9y ago
Those are trivial things that any software team should be able to handle. How many security bugs are we talking about? Is iOS riddled with tends of thousands of bugs per-release-brach? No, it isn't. In any case, I'm not sure why a
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by ksk 9y ago
The updates are not the problem. Apple handcuffing you into staying with their preferred version (even if you hate the new UI, even if it slows down your device) is the problem here.
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by ksk 9y ago
Apple will continuously nag you if you don't update. They use dark patterns (like many others) to trick you into accepting the update . Not to mention that updates also slow down your device over time, as happened with every single iph
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by ksk 9y ago
I sense a little bit of CS ego in the interview. "Let me show you how you're not even qualified to take this interview" is never a winning strategy in any business scenario. Being able to read a person, and giving them an app
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by ksk 9y ago
You are free to hate Microsoft of course, but your point didn't make much sense to me. Nobody except Microsoft is allowed to distribute Windows because thats their right under copyright law. Its the same law that prohibits people from
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by ksk 9y ago
Why is it not reliable? The much famed "ordinary" user is often portrayed a bumbling incompetent user. For any heavy excel user, or rather any excel user thats ever used formulas, this is a common UI operation. Your CSV suggestion
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by ksk 9y ago
But the format is not what distinguishes the process. Its the application software. We already have a separation there. There are .DOC file viewers, or image file viewers, and mp3 file players, in addition to having software that can edit a
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by ksk 9y ago
Well, its the age old pragmatism versus idealism dichotomy. One isn't better than the other, except sometimes.
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by ksk 9y ago
Well that applies to every task, not just to problem solving. "Work hard" doesn't imply "neglect your wife and kids".
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Or, neither? There are alternate benign interpretations which admittedly are very non-dramatic and boring. I've found that people are most often neither malicious nor stupid.
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by ksk 9y ago
> I've never been able to do it, nor have I tried much, as I don't see the difference in my life between controlling my dreams or simply allowing them to happen. Talk to the grand parent. They seem to think its this easy thing
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by ksk 9y ago
That is one explanation. The alternative explanation is that someone found something cool and decided to write a blog post. How many front-page posts have there been on some algorithm or bloom filters or seemingly "advanced cool stuff&
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by ksk 9y ago
What has your experience been with lucid dreaming? What tasks were you testing with and what improvement did you see?
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by ksk 9y ago
>It’s not a sport of pure skill. Depends on what you mean by 'sport'. Only wordrecords being broken may require doping. Competing at elite levels in any sport, including cycling, requires immense talent, perseverence and skil
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by ksk 9y ago
>e.g. the guy who said 'wait six months before proposing anything new' >That isn't healthy either, a and if you work with people like that the healthiest response is to leave and try and find somebody who isn't a j
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by ksk 9y ago
>It is certainly possible to do if you are blessed with the right combination of resources, connections and luck, but the whole "put up or shut up mentality" is merely an invocation of the just world fallacy as applied to start
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by ksk 9y ago
>I'd be interested to know what a good process is. IMHO, A good process would have several tiers, each being more manual, less automated, and more time consuming. The basic tier would be security questions, alternate email, SMS, 2FA
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by ksk 9y ago
Isn't this just about who 'other than google' can access your data? Its sort of like creating an API and allowing only one person to use that API. The API itself is the problem, not the fact that only one person can access it
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by ksk 9y ago
>Whenever you make the recovery process easier, you make it easier for attackers to "recover" victims' accounts. Only if you define easier as 'badly designed process'. > I had an attacker successfully social e
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by ksk 9y ago
I wonder if having multiple ways you can hire would be beneficial here. Behind Door number 1 is a confirmed job offer after 5 hours of grueling technical interviews. Behind Door number 2 is a 30 day probation offer after an hour long soft s
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by ksk 9y ago
Are programmers more dishonest than say artists? I imagine an artist could easily fake their portfolio too (especially if they were a digital artist). Maybe the artist would be found out much easier than a programmer. I think the fact that
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by ksk 9y ago
I'm willing to bet, this will be very useful in a few years time, and the primary use will be 'fixed function' devices (in industries that are very slow to change) that currently require Windows. (ATMs, POS, Announcement Scre
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by ksk 9y ago
https://www.datenna.com/editorial/china-imports-more-integra...
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by ksk 9y ago
They are, but like I mentioned in my other comment, their current tech (AFAIK) was cutting edge (Intel) in the year 2000. They're still quite behind. The government is investing gobs of cash to reduce that gap. All the governments with
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by ksk 9y ago
>doesn't matter much giving the Chinese ample time to source their bits and pieces elsewhere or even to set up domestic production. China has been trying to beg/buy/borrow/steal cutting edge semiconductor tech for age

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