mhaberl

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by mhaberl 5y ago
>>> and the rest of the industry would be well advised to take notice and copy what they see >> I don't agree. >> [web form validation example] >> That is just a tradeoff, in aerospace industry you spend more
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by mhaberl 5y ago
Yes, sure, but a "billion dollar company" in this case does not represent the whole industry. You can probabbly find a some specific non-critical case in aerospace industry, but surely based on that example one would not suggest t
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> and the rest of the industry would be well advised to take notice and copy what they see I don't agree. There is a good reason that aerospace industry writes robust code - in invests time (money) to avoid disasters that could caus
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by mhaberl 5y ago
What is "eld"?
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by mhaberl 5y ago
I really like the idea and the art looks good. You have set the release date to Nov, 2022 - when did you start working on it i.e. how much time is needed for a game like this? Also, how much expirience have you had with UE or any other game
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> Create an entire new machine just for Linux? That is a pretty hefty price. I understand what you are saying but it is not such a big deal in practice as it may seem. You migrate if your current machine supports linux (you have to do so
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by mhaberl 5y ago
Is that Gabriel Weinberg that founded DDG?!
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> a randomized controlled trial with volunteers from a 633-person class, collecting data from 428 students in total If I understand this experiment, college students i.e. in average completely inexperienced programmers, where tested. IM
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> I predict that garbage collectors will become popular in Rust eventually. Not having a GC and not freeing memory by hand is one of the features that makes Rust special. What would be the point of this? > I feel like Rust is self-def
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> Lichess is developed and managed mostly by one guy wow! is this realy true?!
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by mhaberl 5y ago
Nothing is free. So people pay with their privacy, some because they are tricked into it, some because they don't care. Point is that invaison of privacy is bad and you should not have even an option to trade it for "free shit&quo
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> should really contain some wording against dark patterns Something like: "Default option must be 'no tracking cookies'"? Software companies would find a way to complicate things. They should just make the tracking f
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by mhaberl 5y ago
Exactly. We should attack the core issue here; tracking is a form of invaison of privacy and should be banned in general.
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> Those last few days, DDoS attacks intensity has grown a lot. not unforced, prolly ransom requests before IPO
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by mhaberl 5y ago
No, calorie restriction by itself will not work. If you lost weight you have burned more calories than you consumed. The other way unfortunately does not work. Sometimes you restrict calorie intake, you feel ill, your body adapts and starts
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by mhaberl 5y ago
Considering that you have 20 years of experience maybe you would find interesting Knuths "The Art of Computer Programming" books (sometimes referred to as TAOCP) although it is a bit "hardcore". IMHO a must-read is SICP
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by mhaberl 5y ago
Then you won't enable it. What is there to dislike?
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> You might notice a message inviting you to enable these new suggestions the next time you install or update Firefox. So its opt-in, what is the issue?
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by mhaberl 5y ago
People post all kinds of stuff on HN. So i guess your question is, why does it get upvoted/commented on so much - because a lot of people like it.
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> when I was offered a drink, I'd say "I don't drink", because here in Australia, I find if you say no to a drink, it's mostly forced on you I just avoid it as much as I can, but for me saying I don’t drink woul
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by mhaberl 5y ago
> Here's an interesting geological fact about New Zealand and Australia: they're both islands! Not really, Australia is an continent not an island. And to be precise, only Europe and Asia are connected by land borders (suez can
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by mhaberl 6y ago
So anything made by tech controlled by a big corp is not promising? We should not use Go, Java, C#, Angular, React, Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, .... ?
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by mhaberl 6y ago
No. They were popular and making money before AS.
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by mhaberl 6y ago
'single most important' is maybe a bit much, but.. Privacy is not the only concern, phones are massively used (about a 50% of population) and we all use them for all kinds of purposes - and that part is also growing. Not to have a
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by mhaberl 6y ago
Should US military ever intervene in internal affairs of other countries? And if so, should the opposite be also ok? For example, at some point China declares that G.B. detention camp is a reason to invade and save some people.
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by mhaberl 6y ago
I had the same experience, used Visual Studio for C++, and years after C#, and Eclipse for Java projects. When JetBrains came along it really shined. I tried VS Code a couple of years ago for a few months for some scripting languages, it re
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by mhaberl 6y ago
Narrow just like the English channel if one side was in England, and the other in Greece :) Even if they were close why would you rename them? Asia and North America are close, Asia and Europe are "close" (connected), Asia and Afr
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by mhaberl 6y ago
Argument against debundling is that runtime update could break your app in some way. Sure, there are apps that get updated regularly, but not of all of them are like that, for example some company could implement some internal tool that doe
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by mhaberl 6y ago
For anyone wondering, you use it by executing vimtutor in terminal (not in vim). Also, you exit by pressing ESC and then typing :q (hit enter)
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by mhaberl 6y ago
> I've seen this movie several times over the last 10 years. When you take into consideration other languages and their ecosystems this was happening from the start. It is just evolution. If this lib gets enough traction and goes i

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