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by magic_quotes 7y ago
Well, stylistically the first 20 tweets of the Twitter thread read like an introduction to to the story, rather than an actual story (and the rest looks like followup), so that makes for one really confused reading. That's perfectly un
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by magic_quotes 8y ago
> Back then the proprietary Nvidia driver kept much better Pace with their windows offering. Last I checked their proprietary Linux driver was almost a year behind (point release wise) the windows offering. Am I reading this right? Nvidi
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by magic_quotes 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the "Graph" part refers to the Facebook's social graph. They already have (REST'ish RPC) Graph API, so there is a precedent here.
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by magic_quotes 8y ago
CJB2 from DjVuLibre has lossless mode and it's enabled by default.
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by magic_quotes 8y ago
> Every centralized app preserves an ability to eventually spy on you. End-to-end encryption doesn't take it away. Never said anything like that. > If a government wants mass surveillance it either asks/coerces someone from
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by magic_quotes 8y ago
> trusting them to just not spy on you on their servers with client-to-server encryption. Everyone would eventually spy on you on their server. Either by voluntary choice or being forced by some government entity. In this day and age i
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
> There is a huge difference between calling a function "foo()" that makes an RPC call and the relatively equivalent REST call "http.GET('/foo')". Is it really a useful distinction? Let's rename ou
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
The proper REST API should be specified as the set of domain-specific document formats (media-types) and have a custom browser as a client. Turns out, we already have HTML and web-browsers, so there is little point in actually building such
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
Please, Linux is the direct competitor of FreeBSD, not anything Apple-related. This is obvious GPL-vs-BSD trolling attempt and you know that.
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
It's not unusual either, afaik rapidly increasing x in x.y.z was very unfashionable before initial Chrome release. Many java projects (e.g. older Apache Foundation projects: Apache POI, etc) still follow that versioning scheme, it kind
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
> "GraphQL is amazing" articles Considering how bad most of the web technology is, anything reasonably designed is probably going to be overhyped. It's important to realize that graphql is not some kind of magic graph quer
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
> REST APIs and we've known how to do them since 2001. Meh. With the exception of usual html+browser example I've yet to see at least one HATEOAS api.
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
IANAL, etc. This is indeed a very problematic bit. I'm not sure if it is even possible to restate that patent grant in such a way that the termination clause would apply only to software patent assertions and simultaneously keep the
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
> if they infringe on one of my patents Well, the implicit assumption behind FB's bsd+patents license is that you should be ok with anyone "infringing" on your software patents, since software patents are mostly bullshit
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
> optional encryption is better than nothing It's strictly worse than nothing. Opting to use optional end-to-end encryption basically shouts to your local friendly dictatorship, "Hey, look at this person!" Would you like
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
Yeah, I'm actually more worried about Electron devs manpower/ability to catch regressions on the very big and simultaneously fast moving codebase where the upstream project doesn't really care about their use cases. This must
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. Electron (libchromiumcontent) is a patchset on top of Chromium and it can be easily broken by upstream changes.
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by magic_quotes 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029872 http://archive.is/Mjfg0
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
> service is not subject to US law, but the laws of the Russian Federation They are not registered in Russia, afaik. > russian nationalist[1] … [1] https://www.instagram.com/p/-MrPWGr7aL/ That's just Pa
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=paveldurov By the way, it is also worth noting that Nikolai Durov, designer of MTProto, is completely absent from any public discussions of that protocol. Doesn't like talking to
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
FYI, that's a misattributed quote.
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
> embedded is the wrong term Don't use it then. Anyway, since systemd-the-project doesn't have a separate name from systemd-the-init, I don't see any problem with Cieplak's statement.
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
> doesn't have enough maintainers to keep a stable ports tree, so every update can break your setup You mean frozen package versions + backported security fixes as in stable Debian branch? I think Debian is pretty unique in trying t
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
> common aliasing bugs in code which affects GC Care to elaborate?
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
> I've already made this clear, a blank Hello World App requires 20k+ files and 100's runtime dependencies. That's a legitimate complaint but I don't think it has anything to do with micro-modules. You can easily have
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
Can we please stick to the facts? Where exactly does it promote micro-modules? For example, React was repeatedly criticized for not splitting virtual dom implementation into a separate npm package. That's completely opposite side of th
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
No, that's simply not true.
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
> React's also culpable to npm's "micro module" madness I love comments like this. Ever heard of "modularity shaming"? Now it's React's fault apparently.
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
> wdsl * correction: wsdl
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by magic_quotes 10y ago
> browsers are in support of the standards Well, realistically speaking, web components consist of a bunch of different specs and each specification should really be considered on its own merits. Shadow DOM and Custom Elements are mostly

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