mojuba

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by mojuba 9y ago
> But finding things you didn't know you wanted to know... ... is exactly the thing that I'm most worried about losing. Especially when I hear about all sorts of "adaptive" crap that learns about what I do and adjus
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by mojuba 9y ago
Roundabouts have an extra mental tax on drivers, something that's often disregarded in this kind of debates. You should be more alert, more aware of your surroundings, decisions are tougher to make (move? or not yet?). This 7-in-1 roun
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by mojuba 9y ago
Should be said in defence of C++, whether its own OO model is good enough for you or not, but object scoping and destructors alone had brought a significant paradigm shift in programming in the 1990s. Although these concepts never really
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by mojuba 9y ago
Considering that "cool kid" founders do engineering themselves and that they typically don't pay salary to themselves, 10k could cover their initial hosting or say hardware prototyping costs.
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by mojuba 9y ago
> the French (rightly) laughed at it as an inferior version of what they already had What they didn't see though was that Internet was a decentralized, truly democratic network unlike Minitel and the likes (e.g. CompuServe, AOL, Bit
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by mojuba 9y ago
If I remember correctly, not just the files themselves but the entire memory available to COM programs at run time was limited to 64k. It's funny how engineers think those times are long gone whereas the demand for very compact systems
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by mojuba 10y ago
But surely Apple can cooperate with one of the car makers? There is no indication that they are or are not working on it with someone else.
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by mojuba 10y ago
There is a documentary about JMJ's trip and his series of concerts in China in 1981, which for some stupid rights ownership reason is no longer available (afaict). One curious fact I learned from this film was that the concert in Shang
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by mojuba 10y ago
For this same reason modern cinematography often resorts to older tech or no tech. Dialling someone's number on the mobile is not as dramatic as doing it on older bulkier phones. Scrolling something on the iPad is not the same as pagin
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by mojuba 10y ago
Should be noted, it is often tempting to describe everything about the change in the commit description rather than comments in the code. Remember, git commits disappear from sight pretty soon and become fossils, whereas there may be someth
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by mojuba 10y ago
> police gear to direct traffic of autonomous vehicles Absolutely, been saying this for years (yes, me too :). We will eventually achieve a lot more autonomy and robotization of driving, but it will require massive infrastructural change
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by mojuba 10y ago
Look at how computing has changed in the past 30 years. From huge ugly boxes with CRT monitors to powerful touch computers in our pockets. How is this not physics? Sure, the principles and the foundations were laid out in the decades prior
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by mojuba 10y ago
Yes, I also thought that a list for each language shows exactly what's wrong with that language. For some it's self/this, Java is import and return, etc. for C++ there's no clear winner, because it is minimalistic by nat
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by mojuba 10y ago
That article is from 23 October 2016. The tax haven talks are relatively new. I first heard about it as being part of the plan just a few days ago, from British media.
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by mojuba 10y ago
Leaving the single market doesn't mean no access at all, it's just tariffs and some bureaucracy. Not that I support all this, but the Govt. seems to be hoping that becoming a tax haven will compensate all that.
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by mojuba 10y ago
And for anyone not familiar with what's likely going on behind the scenes: it's about lowering the corporation tax in the UK. I don't know whether this is a new idea or not, but it would give the UK the leverage it needs in n
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by mojuba 10y ago
The essential difference though is that mobile carriers are less trustworthy than the most trustworthy domain registrars. Plus mobile networks are usually controlled by a single authority in each country, whereas the Internet and its domain
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by mojuba 10y ago
There were reports a few weeks ago that Apple is going to cut production of iPhone 7 because it overestimated demand, at the same time it underestimated demand for iPhone SE and other cheaper models. It may still be huge, or even "bigg
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by mojuba 10y ago
What people need is not necessarily faster systems, but often just quality workhorse computers to replace their previous (broken or worn off) ones. Fingerprint security, better audio and better battery life would have been a good enough inc
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by mojuba 10y ago
There seems to be a lot of negativity around Apple's recent products, both justified and unjustified. What I'm fearing is, that Apple's management will disregard them all as unjustified, i.e. see, CR just rushed to report bad
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by mojuba 10y ago
Depends on what you do, but 13" or less means e.g. you won't be able to do vertical split of windows in Xcode. Which is annoying, because at times you have to have two windows open (such as one source and one IB storyboard or XIB,
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by mojuba 10y ago
I did try it. Apart from metadata there are two other major problems: it generates a lot of unnecessary attributes with their default values, and also the floating point errors I mentioned. The latter can affect the appearance of your graph
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by mojuba 10y ago
I find that the latest Adobe Illustrator does a pretty decent job with SVG's but of course Adobe stuff is a matter of taste (and is overpriced too).
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by mojuba 10y ago
I don't know why you are downvoted for your opinion, but totally agree that Inkscape is pretty low quality and buggy as well. On the Mac specifically the experience is so 1990s and un-macOS (yeah I know, it's an X app) I used it f
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by mojuba 10y ago
Let's start then: 1. Everything said in every "Falsehoods Programmers Believe..." list is true. The Falsehoods sound like ultimate truths only because of the literary genre. They sound like they were written by an expert who
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by mojuba 10y ago
Worth noting that you can always wrap an array in a structure and kick it around in your program happily, as if it's how the language should've been. struct { int a[5]; } arr5 = {{4, 3, 2}}; What's a bit weird though
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by mojuba 10y ago
Yes, but what I meant was M&A is no longer a mechanism of becoming a monopoly at least in the tech world. Interestingly, I can't even think of one big acquisition in tech (excluding cable/utilities) that led to a monopoly as a
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by mojuba 10y ago
It is rather describing the process of becoming a monopoly in the post-industrial economy. Mergers were the main mechanism previously, while now nobody needs M&A anymore: just bet on 20 great looking startups and one of them will become
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by mojuba 10y ago
I always liked how MacOS loads silently without annoying the user even when it does some "hard" stuff like fsck. Generally I think engineers need to fight the temptation to show off the importance and complexity of their software
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by mojuba 10y ago
Hmm. I usually do merges locally as serious stuff should be built and tested before pushing anyway, so probably why never used GitHub's hosted functions.

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