maxaf

23 ms·

181.
by maxaf 8y ago
Your downvoters are terrible at detecting satire.
182.
by maxaf 8y ago
If Spotify is becoming for musicians what GitHub became for programmers, I say that’s pretty damn cool.
183.
by maxaf 8y ago
The rants make perfect sense in a world that expects every disagreement to be adjudicated in the court of public opinion.
184.
by maxaf 8y ago
Whether I agree with them or not does not matter. These people are provably, verifiably, objectively wrong. They are unable or unwilling to accept the wrongness of their ways. They resort to uncivilized methods of pursuing their goals. How
185.
by maxaf 8y ago
Good question. I'd prefer to set a fairly high bar for elevating ideologies to the plane of terrorism. One criteria could be based on the willingness of an ideology's followers to exit the bounds of civilized discourse whenever it
186.
by maxaf 8y ago
Anti-vaxxers are like terrorists: they don't really do much per se, but the FUD they spread does immense harm to society. Defunding & deplatforming such groups is a methodology that is practically inescapable for as long as layme
187.
by maxaf 8y ago
Prior art: http://docopt.org/
188.
by maxaf 8y ago
Something about using the words “emulating x86 on iOS” and “daily driver” together doesn’t sit right with me...
189.
by maxaf 8y ago
Yeah, that's fair, but is likely a corner case. How often do you see a finitely sized resource that doesn't get returned with a Content-Length response header? If push came to shove, a browser could simply stop reading & close
190.
by maxaf 8y ago
I like what Slack does for GIFs: there's some (not sure if configurable) size threshold above which the GIF won't auto-expand. This is something browsers could do in general.
191.
by maxaf 8y ago
Video tends to eat deeply into the metered data plans of many Internet users.
192.
by maxaf 8y ago
A couple of jobs ago I have spent plenty of time optimizing a Packer-based AMI pipeline that was similar in spirit to that which you've described. It was all quite frustrating, but then the job got yanked from underneath me, so I never
193.
by maxaf 9y ago
Exactly! That's why we have separate words for "family" and "colleagues".
194.
by maxaf 9y ago
Your point of view is considered scandalous by the local audience, but I'm inclined to agree. I was born in the Soviet Union and grew up in 1990s Russia after history threw a few sucker punches in our direction. I can say from watching
195.
by maxaf 9y ago
Twenty years of writing in public boggles the mind. The sum total of the body of work is humbling and impressive at the same time. Sometimes I imagine myself doing something like this, although the fantasy quickly passes, as I have nothing
196.
by maxaf 9y ago
The use case there is: I need to fool this one site's geo restrictions into thinking that I'm from this particular country, but only for the time it takes me to get what I need from this site. Tor doesn't really serve this ty
197.
by maxaf 9y ago
Firstly, manual memory management is what happens when a C programmer must manually place malloc/free calls within her program. Rust doesn't require any of that; the compiler determines the right times to allocate and free memory,
198.
by maxaf 9y ago
Brought to you by Erowid Blog Post v4.5!
199.
by maxaf 9y ago
I can (and do) use the EC2 instance for other things. It often pulls quadruple duty. The available bandwidth also allows me crank up rtorrent to aggressively seek other peers, such that a typical 45 minute episode takes about 15 minutes to
200.
by maxaf 9y ago
At the minimum, you would need a t2.micro instance with enough disk to store files before you've copied them to wherever you're going to do the watching. I've tried doing this with a t2.nano, but the memory there simply isn&#
201.
by maxaf 9y ago
Before the torrent box went up, we used to get notices from our ISP every few weeks. Amazon just... swallow them somewhere, I guess. I do rebuild the instance occasionally when it gets too crusty, but I use an elastic IP for my own convenie
202.
by maxaf 9y ago
I've been pirating everything I can for as long as I've been watching TV. My wife and I still have a box of CD-R's labeled in marker with our favorite late 90s - early 00s movies on them. Back in the day we've leeched of
203.
by maxaf 9y ago
Looks nice, I will check it out. I wonder if running both will block twice the ads? ;)
204.
by maxaf 9y ago
A cursory check indicates that Blokada doesn't appear to be blocking YT ads. For that something like https://pi-hole.net/ or https://www.privoxy.org/ can work quite well.
205.
by maxaf 9y ago
Yes, the lack of HTTPS is baffling. HTTPS is so pervasive these days that one has got to wonder. On the subject of banning apps: my complete lack of empathy for less technically capable users is probably showing right now, but as long as I&
206.
by maxaf 9y ago
I used to get angry at ads on my laptop, but uBlock Origin took my worries away. That left my Android phone, but recently I've discovered Blokada[0]. The app - which is for obvious reasons not available on the Play Store - appears to r
207.
by maxaf 9y ago
Go's syntax and the patterns it encourages are both tailored to the harsh reality that code is read a lot more than it's written. It turns out that the verbosity of, for example, Go's error handling is actually simpler to und
208.
by maxaf 9y ago
At first I've avoided Go like the plague because it lacks generics. A couple of years ago, I happened to pick up Go for a work project, and managed to ship it despite the lack of generics in Go. I realized that this was some of the mos
209.
by maxaf 9y ago
I agree that the arrogance is misplaced, and will be lost on the HR peon whose job it is to send out HackerRank tests to warm leads. On the other hand, it's rare for coders to be so desperate that they'll jump at absolutely any an
210.
by maxaf 9y ago
My regular policy is to ghost any employer who throws a HackerRank test at me. This is usually a strong indicator that the work environment is incompatible with my values.

More ›