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by moe 9y ago
The iPod Touch never made sense to me. It is the same form factor as a phone. So why would anyone carry it instead of, or in addition to, their actual phone?
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by moe 9y ago
Very bad business decision, they are killing their own product right there. In the future everyone googling for a password manager will run into these blog posts where reputable security researches explain why 1Password is a bad choice. It&
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by moe 9y ago
UNIX philosophy[1] is not about popularity but about choice. We get to choose between Emacs/Vim, Perl/Python, Syslog-ng/RSyslog, ntpd/openntpd and so on. This has resulted in multiple mature implementations for every cor
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by moe 9y ago
Systemd is the disaster that happens when we ignore the lessons of UNIX. UNIX is all about small, composable tools. Do one job and do it well. One of these tools didn't stand up to the test of time (SysV init) and needed to be replace
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by moe 9y ago
This is dead on. Half of all parsing work consists of splitting things into records, by lines, delimiters or whitespace. That's where the great escaping headache begins. In a better shell the following command would Just Work™: > fi
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by moe 9y ago
Except for a small problem: None of that will happen. Nobody will switch from Chrome, Safari or Firefox to the "Brave Browser" in order to have ads injected into their browsing session. The concept is so fundamentally ridiculous t
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by moe 9y ago
Spot on. This is a marketing gimmick, not a security feature. Just as with fingerprint readers[1] the target audience is people who otherwise wouldn't lock their phone at all. [1] https://arstechnica.com/apple/2013
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by moe 9y ago
My question is what's the point of clocks at all? I would highly recommend to read the link by irfansharif. It's probably the best primer ever written on the subject.
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by moe 10y ago
But what sort of parameters are adjusted? This is HN. A link to an example would be appreciated. Edit: To clarify, I work with audio codecs too, and can't really think of parameters (other than the compression level?) that would make m
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by moe 10y ago
> They will also (should you request it) record > the calls and store them in S3... The world's largest collection of customer service phonecalls might make an interesting training corpus for ML/AI projects.
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by moe 10y ago
> Compare with the StackOverflow jobs survey Why compare a survey (things that developers say) with hard pull request data (things that developers have actually done )?
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by moe 10y ago
> if they were any smaller you couldn't handle their buttons, They will connect to our brains. > or fit a camera lens, or speakers, > or a large enough screen in there. Not needed when they are connected to our brains.
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by moe 10y ago
> It seems like Ruby is a bit of a small community to target Ruby is the 4th most popular language on Github: https://octoverse.github.com/ That's what you call "a bit of a small community"?
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by moe 10y ago
> 4TB HDD Yes. It's what Amazon Glacier runs on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Glacier#Storage The Backblaze blog is also a great place to learn about a large storage deployment: https://www.
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by moe 10y ago
Many "large enterprises" have also selected Windows as their server OS and Oracle for their database... After decades of replacing RHEL where possible (and plenty agony where it wasn't possible) I can not help but chuckle a
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by moe 10y ago
:)
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by moe 11y ago
Sorry but you make no sense. If the explanation for +1 is in the post you are upvoting, then the explanation for -1 is just as well in the post you are downvoting.
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by moe 11y ago
> I'm not sure why you keep repeating this point. Because your distinction is wrong. A drive-by -1 is in no way different from a drive-by +1. Both are equally useful. Both indicate how many people agree or disagree. Neither explains
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by moe 11y ago
Well, the body of this case law (and all other laws) is what I refer to as "single source of truth". Yes, "single source" is very much an euphemism. In practice it's far from a single source, but rather a poorly syn
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by moe 11y ago
Well, let's not forget we're talking about lawyers here, who already work with a versioned single source of truth (The Law). All I'm asking is that we upgrade their tooling and process. Your outlook for the abstraction potent
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by moe 11y ago
I don't really see that as a problem, that's how all popular protocols evolve. If all exchanges have invented a liquidity-field, then there's a good chance the next version of FIX will standardize it, no? Imho the legal syste
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by moe 11y ago
English isn't really a better exchange format for licenses than legalese. Arguably it's even worse due to the lossy conversion. What we really need is a common legal markup language[1]. Sadly, the few efforts that I've heard
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by moe 11y ago
You're quoting a troll as reference Christopher Barry is most certainly not a troll. As shown in the LKML and Debian debates, the systemd infestation was firmly opposed by nearly everyone outside the 'vested interest' RedHa
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by moe 11y ago
Well, it makes the whole adoption story even more irritating. Literally everyone with a clue in the matter seems to hate systemd with passion[1]. A long-term Debian Maintainer quit over the issue[2]. Linus himself (as you quoted) seems mor
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by moe 11y ago
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_... http://systemd-free.org/
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by moe 11y ago
But if the scenario is an attacker who can inject HTML tags, why wouldn't they simply run their script directly via <script>do_evil();</script>?
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by moe 11y ago
In the 1960s, the idea that some sort of anti-gravity would be possible in the future wasn't so silly. I don't think anti-gravity is a silly idea. We're only starting to learn about the quantum world, and who knows what we
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by moe 11y ago
Unchecked exceptions are for programmer errors. They are an important part of the language since humans (who write the programs) are error prone. I should clarify: The wart is that programmers can introduce their own unchecked Exceptions.
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by moe 11y ago
No, I mean Checked Exceptions. Unchecked Exceptions are the devil and should be abolished. The inclusion of Un checked Exceptions is one of the biggest warts on the Java language.
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by moe 11y ago
Your link describes (and encourages) exactly the laborious emulation of Checked Exceptions that I was talking about in my above comment. It doesn't make the guard clauses disappear. It merely forces the programmer to manually aggregate

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