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by moreira 4y ago
The key thing to remember in any "x is dead" meme is that all it means is "this isn't the new and shiny anymore". Ruby is as good as it ever was, it's just not shiny anymore. And god, I remember the shiny. I re
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by moreira 4y ago
I feel like that’s where you separate the pre-cloud and post-cloud devs. It’s not hard to imagine a dev being brought up 5 years ago into a React world, with JS in the backend and something like Vercel or Netlify to deploy their app. Someon
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by moreira 4y ago
> No one living in the real world can afford to love their enemies. I’m reminded of a passage in Great Expectations that helped me understand exactly just what this means: > "so you're the blacksmith, are you? Then I'm
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by moreira 4y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while, and it seems to apply to a lot of things; serving a HTTP request on cheap EC2 instances won't come close to doing it on a dedicated server with great single-thread performance. So even th
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by moreira 4y ago
This sort of thing exists! I use something like that with my DSLR for a webcam. It’s great, there’s no real battery involved, it’s just a power cable with the end shaped like a battery.
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by moreira 4y ago
> It is interesting to contemplate a world where one social network like facebook didn't end up dominating the entire space, but instead we had a bunch of social networks each dominating their own geographical region. And each such
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by moreira 4y ago
Definitely not Fetch. I don't believe anyone can argue that Fetch is more complicated. I think this really seems to stem from a "I'm only used to jQuery, anything else is a big mental effort to learn and I'd rather stick
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by moreira 4y ago
I was actually wondering "hey, isn't that the old Fog Creek"? And went on their website, and yeah, not even a mention of FogBugz. It's been kind of wild to see how FogBugz went from their main, almost exclusive priority,
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by moreira 4y ago
No, but if they have a policy of collecting and saving any papers that people have on them, then they’re responsible for that collection. Which is what’s happening here - they’re collecting data that the user isn’t even submitting.
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by moreira 4y ago
I'm sure you're aware, but if not, Fastmail trains a spam filter based on your email[0], and after you train it, it -does- get better. It just takes time. I haven't had my address for as long as you (only 15 years or so), but
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by moreira 4y ago
It's a good way for people to revisit the current status quo and avoiding cargo cult. Frameworks are useful, but there's definitely an element of cargo cutting going on in the JS ecosystem whereby no matter what the requirements,
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by moreira 4y ago
> errors are spread across the server, the language runtime and even within that there's different types of error systems with error reporting, exceptions, error values and so on. To the best of my knowledge, errors are not spread a
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by moreira 4y ago
It's his domain, he is free to change his mind for whatever reason. He's not obligated to sell it for any amount of money, and he's definitely not done anything that he should be sued over. He's free to be as greedy as h
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by moreira 4y ago
> “I didn’t really want to sell it. I’ve had the same email address for 28 years – it’s like family,” he said. This would be the biggest concern for me. Would you trust yourself to update the email address with every single account/
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by moreira 4y ago
> I use it mainly for transferring photos from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro M1. This caught me by surprise; I'm not sure if you're aware, but you can open up Image Capture (built-in Mac app) to import photos from your iPhone. Ob
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by moreira 4y ago
> Take those away and I'd just go back to buying used Windows laptops on Ebay, putting Linux on them, and being sad. Same. It's also interesting to think of this in terms of the real $ value of the OS. If I had to choose betwee
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by moreira 5y ago
> I’ve been blinded to possibility by my own experience. I think about that a lot when it comes to design especially. The ideas that come to me are constrained by own experience and knowledge of what's simple or complicated to imple
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by moreira 5y ago
I think there might be a vast gap between what what the article is talking about, and what you're suggesting. Somebody self-hosting their project management app on a LAMP server on some random web hosting company is one thing. What you
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by moreira 5y ago
> obfuscated as SVG paths and therefore not extractable Off-topic but I’ve found that it’s a lot better to just use a spam filter than to constantly try and hide my address. I’ve signed up to countless services that have gotten hacked an
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by moreira 5y ago
It is, but you're much less likely to find your account suspended by your domain name provider. People lose Google accounts and Amazon accounts and all kinds of other accounts because there's so much going on with them and somethi
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by moreira 5y ago
> lost access to paid services that I had set up with social login I signed up to Quora with my Facebook account, back in the day. Deleted Facebook in 2013 and lost access to my Quora account, with no possible way to recover it. I haven&
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by moreira 5y ago
Yes, but only in the sense that it's encryption between you and the server you're talking to. That's not what people are referring to when they talk about end-to-end encryption, though. What people are talking about there is
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by moreira 5y ago
This style of naming is common on everything Apple, all their APIs and SDKs and most things in Objective-C/Swift are verbose like this, it’s on purpose. I personally quite like it, but it can be jarring for people coming from other lan
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by moreira 5y ago
This is it - if you want humour, there are already a million places where you can get that. Reddit’s already a thing; go to the relevant subreddits there. But if you want serious and mostly respectful discussions (people losing their cool a
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by moreira 5y ago
Vulnerabilities are going to come up, absolutely. Unless you believe that the older version is somehow 100% bug free and vulnerability free just by virtue of it being old. Being old doesn’t grant it any magic powers. What’s old now is what
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by moreira 5y ago
> If you don't know what you're doing, you can nuke your budget super quick. And even if you do, which I think you’ll agree Troy Hunt does.
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by moreira 5y ago
Saying you haven't encountered malware seems like a weak argument; a tech-savvy person (which you are, since you're here) will know not to download dodgy stuff and not to click dodgy links on emails or porn websites. A less techni
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by moreira 5y ago
It sounds like you have an existing preconceived notion and anyone giving you any answers isn’t going to make you say “oh you’re right, I hadn’t thought of that”. The parent gave you valid, legitimate reasons why people do it, and you’re sa
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by moreira 5y ago
HOTA (horn of the abyss). Adds a new town as well. Look it up. The HOTA mod plus the HD mod both combine to give you a modern experience for bigger resolutions (lots of UI improvements and stuff, without affecting gameplay).
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by moreira 5y ago
The game is actually still going strong - there’s a mod that adds a modern multiplayer lobby, with ranked competitive games, lots of new random map generators, and there are some big Twitch streamers for it; Lexiav is the biggest for Englis

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