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by mmjaa 9y ago
Dropbox has been, for me, a most disappointing outcome of the whole Internet'ization of computers. I truly believe that Dropbox is a lousy solution to a problem created by ignorance on the part of the OS vendors. There is absolutely n
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Caring about peoples privacy, and technological negligence that results in that privacy being impinged upon, are in fact the same issue.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
There's still a chance - Lua is used on a lot of high-capacity backends, and with WebAssembly making its way out into the wild, we can definitely see a future with Lua in the browser.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>These two terminal multiplexers are really an end-run around unfulfilled wants in the way that the console subsystem should work by default. I beg to differ. These aren't an end-run around anything, but rather a continuation of a
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I've used the ESP8266 for a few things, and honestly its just such a lovely little device with great support, I don't know why it doesn't just get used everywhere. Except it does. :)
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Buffer overflows are sometimes useful. Don't burn the trees down, just because you don't want anyone else to have wood. Some of us will craft furniture, not smog.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
This story has the danger of cyber-fatigue'ing the general public, but it has the potential to forward a number of positive aspects in the war against warfare-criminality-because-secrecy, on either side of the argument: Pro "Pease
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>Really this news should be taken with a grain of salt. Something I think is valuable in this leak is the fact that the general public will be better educated that in fact their printers are capable of tracking every single thing they pr
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I dunno how we can quantify "Americans being benefited" in light of what these leaks are revealing in the global context, but I sure don't like it, living as I do, under either a velvet glove, or an iron one, depending on whi
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by mmjaa 9y ago
It doesn't all have to be javascript, HTML and DOM, you know. That's why this is an important step. Wanna use TurboPascal to write apps, and target the entire known universe of Web browsers? Go right ahead. You can do that now.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Yes, or maybe no. It doesn't really matter, because this is just one of many battles being waged in the current cyber-war gripping our lives. I mean, we have to just see it in the larger context: there is very definitely a war going o
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by mmjaa 9y ago
California law requires companies not expose their employees to such things...
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Interesting exercise, look for 'regression' on this page: https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev .. indicator that indeed, editors are hard apps to develop, imho, (perhaps coz:automated testing?) ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Doesn't matter: still in California.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
One of the reasons I think that we hackers like to stay out of politics is we feel that politics itself, as a subject, is broken - and we can fix it by computerising everything. This may or may not be true. In the meantime, computer progra
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Sapote makes people drowsy and sleepy. I'm not sure this is the right place for that kind of fruit.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I got as far as trying to build and run it, but bugged out, thusly: $ ./one-page-j warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe. Segmentation fault: 11 Ah well, its still cute to try to read and understand ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Facebook is the AOL of the 21st Century. There will always be these closed gardens, walled-off. (Could've been CompuServe.) The point is, the open web is the open web. This also needs to be common. Eventually, kiddos grow up and es
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Okay now you're just being contrary. Everyone knows that subatomic particles are all, like, "YOU! YOU! YOU!" ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The assumption of stupidity, is itself stupid. What if they decided to go with Rule30 instead of GoL, precisely because they knew there'd be geeks out here that would be arguing about these things, infinitely, while a majority of peopl
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Nothing wrong with doing any of it, as long as its a dependency you can manage while also maintaining productivity... but such is the life of a Javascript developer.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
It was definitely possible, and some of us remember the joys of spooling data from tape before we could use it. :) And if I recall, this was a built-in of the tape-drive itself, which could be used on multiple different systems, and so the
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I'm one of those old-timers who still has 'sync;sync;sync' in muscle memory, and I also remember why we did it way back in the day - in my case, I learned it during days of development on MIPS Risc/OS, and what three r
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Neat links, thanks for the references. Would be very interested in knowing more about your thesis when its something you're able to share .. One wonders what Daphne would have thought of tools such as yours, and as well of course thin
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by mmjaa 9y ago
A similar project, uses SDL, is open source, and came from antirez (of redis fame), LOAD81: http://github.com/antirez/load81.git
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Still has to be INDEPENDENTLY confirmed. (But yes. Just call it "poison dust", not neonicotinoid-derivatives..)
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>The IDE should do that for you. Fail. IDE dependence is an anti-pattern and a programmer-smell.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>I have yet to find any vim/emacs tool that can do this so easily and effortlessly. You want cscope integration. Nothing compares to this in terms of ease of navigation - and I say that as a dedicated ST3 user. How to integrate
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by mmjaa 9y ago
American supremacy depends on American hubris. Without one you can't have the other.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
This has nothing to do with developer assessment - its only for finding out, during the daily review, what branches have had the most activity and what is ready for the daily review.

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