liendolucas

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by liendolucas 6y ago
We are slowly loosing ownership (and in many cases we've already lost) of the tech that we think we own (mobile devices, laptops, gadgets, etc). And the thing is that is hard to make people aware about this issue, especially elder peop
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by liendolucas 6y ago
More and more I see new apps being released and having a subscription model. Pay X for the tool plus Y every year to get updates. Paying 99$ and then 49$ each year is (at least for me) too much money and a no go. If after a year bugs are di
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by liendolucas 6y ago
Expert C Programming (Deep C Secrets) by Peter Van Der Linden is a fantastic book.
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by liendolucas 6y ago
I remember when I was a kid and going to my dad's office. They had Wolfenstein 3D installed and that would keep me occupied for the rest of the day. I remember my dad coming one occasion and exactly telling me that to make any progress
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by liendolucas 6y ago
I couldn't find "The Desire Machine" by the Strugatsky brothers which is a prelude to "Roadside Picnic". For those who watched "The Stalker" by Tarkovsky this is a must read.
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by liendolucas 6y ago
I think the article's title should be: "For educational purposes roll your own framework". This is something that can greatly add value to a developer (preferably afterwards she/he has been exposed to many different lang
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by liendolucas 6y ago
And also sometimes there is absolutely no need to buy new hardware! I find appalling that we need to upgrade our machines just because software gets more and more resource hungry. My parents as well use old hardware to browse, edit document
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by liendolucas 6y ago
Of course there's still place for native applications: movie players (VLC), audio players (Winamp), animation software (like Blender) come now to my mind, and if you look around you find more and more. The web has shifted long time ago
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by liendolucas 6y ago
The authors of "What is Mathematics" are Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. This one is good as well: "Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning" by Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov and Lavrent'ev (Dover publications).
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by liendolucas 7y ago
> have a sort of "ceiling" in regards to their capabilities, intellectual or otherwise. I refuse to believe that. It depends how much motivation, discipline and perseverance you have. The human mind is capable of anything! If t
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by liendolucas 7y ago
Many years ago I've read some chapters from Itzik Ben-Gan's "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Querying." It's an excellent book to anyone who wants to know how things work under the hood. While the title is in
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by liendolucas 7y ago
> I have the QC35 and besides the noise cancelling they are crap. This is the main reason why I have never bought a Bose product before (and probably never will). I've heard this assertion way too many times about Bose headphones, t
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by liendolucas 7y ago
What about Password Gorilla? I've been using it for years now (I think a decade) and has been one of my favourite tools. It's multiplatform and opensource: https://gorilla.dp100.com/downloads/
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by liendolucas 7y ago
> Also, Google’s $6000 payout seems extremely disappointing Agree. Considering that they would probably make this money under a microsecond they could pay a generous reward. The impact is large though the bug is present in a single line
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by liendolucas 7y ago
> "will this information still be relevant 10 years from now?" This is so true. It basically applies to every single learning resource that is out there, especially good books that withstand over time. I always found certificat
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by liendolucas 7y ago
It's terrible. There are out there such good games completely screwed by DRMs. I long miss the old days were a CD was enough to play a game and do whatever you wanted to do with it (give it to a friend, resell it, reinstall the game in
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by liendolucas 7y ago
I haven't used Pinboard but you're damn right about this. Is like the supermarket, one day you find chocolates in one isle next week chocolates are in a completely different isle only that messing around with the UI infuriates use