lstamour

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1. 1621.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   Depends. If what you need to build is actually a simple interface between database and front-end over an XML or JSON API, Go's not that much heavier than the alternatives, with the promise of more performance in the future and with les
2. 1622.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   And then I did the math and realised I pay $1735.54 per year for my cable Internet... 300 down / 20 up with a 1 TB cap doesn't come cheap when no competition exists at those speeds. If it were even offered in my area, fibre from t
3. 1623.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   That's likely why Google and Dropbox both offer "Sync"-style functionality, as do iCloud and OneDrive. It's on your disk plus in the cloud.
4. 1624.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   Hmm. All I can offer is that I know of at least one instance where Canadians were able to open bank accounts in the US so long as the bank in question was Canadian-owned. It's not standard-practice so it usually involves being a good c
5. 1625.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   > Google's Protobuf won't survive either, because simple text-based protocols always win I expect Protobuf, Thrift (fbthrift) and Avro to be around for quite some time. Once you know what they're good for, everyone likes b
6. 1626.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   This is also why quite a few programs have bugs when running on Turkish phones if they use locale-default case changes. Always specify a US English locale if you need to send along a certain code in uppercase, or process other inputs in ASC
7. 1627.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   Perhaps it started because as time zones were added, they wanted to reflect that 8am_pacific == midnight_utc, assuming there aren't any offsets for daylight savings in effect...
8. 1628.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   Facebook, blogs and open source enterprise CMS would disagree with you.
9. 1629.▲
   by lstamour 13y ago

   11 (or is it 12?) months in, Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer is still serving a 3-year conviction (on appeal now) for "hacking" the AT&T iPad signup script to get email addresses out of it ... using a web request and rando
10. 1630.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Apple doesn't sanction Xcode plugins and I'm pretty sure Xcode itself isn't sandboxed once you enter your developer password. I'm not sure of the details though. As to the security review or process, perhaps badging -- t
11. 1631.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Hmm. To guard against an attacker with only user privileges, couldn't you simply mark the file as accessible only by root? ;-) That said, I'd say if you have user privileges in my router, I've bigger issues than wifi password
12. 1632.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Ah I see. I suspect my irritation with their use of wifi also came down to their Android app. If you can believe it, it's even worse. That said, it's not necessarily a bad thing for devices to have a hub. The hue lights, for examp
13. 1633.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Why does this article fixate on Google? For the clicks? We all know that most of Windows won't be free until they've a sure-fire way to make profits on top of that. And the answer lies in iOS and Mavericks more than Google. Give a
14. 1634.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    I was going to suggest Chocolate -- it's like Homebrew for PowerShell, but it doesn't always install things where you want it to. And as it turns out, PuTTY might not be maintained as much as it once was -- or that's the rumo
15. 1635.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Yeah, I have a NAT and... I takes my chances. (Wait, don't they defeat those? Hmm.) Actually, they aren't hooked up right now, though I suppose if I were paranoid, I'd keep a second WiFi network disconnected from the net most
16. 1636.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Try C++, join the dark side! In addition to chocolate chip cookies, we promise C++11 move semantics for returned objects/values. The cookies/cake might be a lie. :-)
17. 1637.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    To rephrase: write more code. months later, look back at your early code, see if it still makes any sense to you today ;-) rinse, repeat in different languages, situations or version numbers.
18. 1638.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Read more code. Edit code others have written. Maintain a wide variety of projects. Try to start your own. Failure can be tough and sneaky: I didn't want to fail, so I Googled to see how others did it until I was sure... Then found I c
19. 1639.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Wonderful. Either my WeMos will start working better or ... Since we know about previous security issues for firmware updates on WeMo, and since I had awful customer experiences with belkin.com ... Both WeMo and Linksys products are off my
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    by lstamour 13y ago

    I was going to comment that HSL/HSV can be useful for generating colors that work well, but... the real problem is not luminance as much as the HSL values we commonly use. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_H
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    by lstamour 13y ago

    FYI: CarPlay only works in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Spain, Switzerland, UK and USA. http://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#applecarplay-... Of
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    by lstamour 13y ago

    Wait for WWDC this summer. Or next. Apple will want to improve this to encourage lock-in to their ecosystem. I'd expect this to expand in functionality in tandem with that of their watch. Both could serve as secondary screens for infor
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    by lstamour 13y ago

    I'm the same way. But I found that the Surface was, compared to the iPad, not as nice for tablet-y things like reading PDFs. And when I wanted to get real work done, the screen was smaller than any 13" or 15" laptop. Using it
24. 1644.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Don't forget realtime ;-) I suppose that could be clarified to "realtimes". That said, I never wrote "E-mail" with a hyphen, though I still can't stop myself from capitalizing Internets.
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    by lstamour 13y ago

    My takeaway was that the NSA could have been involved in all the above, we just weren't paying as much attention before ;-) Of course, whether the NSA was involved or not isn't the point of this article. The point is that high sev
26. 1646.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    This one? http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1skuij/new_hightech_...
27. 1647.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    I sense a pattern here. (Read more: scary headline.) I had to laugh at "Apple security flaw could let hackers beat encryption" Funny thing about this article, it makes me not want to trust app developers like Level -- since, by ch
28. 1648.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    Too bad, because I think the phrase was used to contrast the criticism of the government with the alignment of interests later in the article. The ultimate point is murky, but indicates some weaknesses inherent to "independent journali
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    by lstamour 13y ago

    FYI, it's not WebKit but Chromium I'm betting, based on the crash reporting. If you want an idea of performance, Edge Code from Adobe will provide an answer. Oh and there's a welcome repo with an IRC channel listed. Atom.io j
30. 1650.▲
    by lstamour 13y ago

    I just noticed that CVE-2014-1266 aka "goto fail" does not have credits next to it. The assumption then being: it was found internally? Interesting twist... I suspect their code will get more attention in future.