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by muxator 8y ago
Maybe it will make a big difference once the software is way into its useful life, and it needs to be maintained and evolved.
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by muxator 8y ago
I only can think of simple, basic ways: promote different values and make socially unacceptable to be the one who carves for subsuming the others.
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by muxator 8y ago
> There is a time and place for review, but code on the ground deserves respect. This is one of the reasons for which I think that refactoring a code base, in the original sense by Martin Fowler, where a program is changed without modify
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by muxator 8y ago
How come knowing how to redirect stdin is un-Unixy? Pipes are a good tool, and so are many others. Having a good command of other basic mechanisms of the shell is going to hugely pay off, try to have a brief shot if you want [0]. [0] https
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by muxator 8y ago
Nice idea. I suspect Bach made use of a lot more neurons to write this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEkXet4WX_c&t=7s
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by muxator 8y ago
I learnt event-driven programming, OOP and GUI toolkits architecture studying a "borrowed" Pascal Turbo Vision manual that nobody in my high school was using. Later on I wanted to mess around with VGA mode X and direct memory acce
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A tool for visualization and analysis of profiling data(github.com)
1 points by muxator 8y ago|0 comments
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by muxator 8y ago
> The first historical description of the line only appeared in 1837, in Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution I grew up in a country where probably nobody has ever seen that 1837 book, and almost everyone systematically refuses the ver
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by muxator 8y ago
Thought the same!
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Breaking the Deadlock Between User Experience and Developer Experience(alistapart.com)
1 points by muxator 8y ago|0 comments
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by muxator 8y ago
Without gapps the phone is faster, and drains less battery. If you mainly use a browser (Firefox, hopefully) and some messaging & mapping apps, works great. If you want to use other apps, you'll have to do more testing.
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by muxator 8y ago
I remember tour comment at the time, but cannot find it right now. Do we know if Mozilla is planning anything to fix this?
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Al Gore's Support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn(web.archive.org)
2 points by muxator 8y ago|0 comments
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by muxator 8y ago
In this specific case I would say that the abstraction rises as soon as the number of devices gets >= 2. Isn't the "0, 1, n" rule a thing?
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by muxator 8y ago
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by muxator 8y ago
> At times I feel that some services are really convenient even though they’re evil. For example YouTube. They probably track every mouse movement, but they give me pretty nice content. On Android, Youtube + Firefox + Video Background Pl
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The right to read(gnu.org)
3 points by muxator 8y ago|0 comments
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by muxator 8y ago
Lots of crossroads on that bus. When I was on one, in the exact same situation, it was impossibile not to think about the staggering quantity of humans in this world, each of them separated by language, culture, beliefs, needs, space. Sudde
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by muxator 8y ago
Compulsory link to save google a search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-in_amplifier
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by muxator 8y ago
Great! These are really two accomplishments that deserve to be shared.
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Hack causes pacemakers to deliver life-threatening shocks(arstechnica.com)
1 points by muxator 8y ago|0 comments
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by muxator 8y ago
In that case Ubuntu was a middleman whose interests were completely disaligned with their customers', which probably means they in reality felt obliged to someone else. You tried to voice. Depending on your loyalty, you may think of ex
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by muxator 8y ago
You live in a better place!
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by muxator 8y ago
Alternative for those who run OpenWRT on their modem/router: you can opkg install adblock, and also get an easy web based administrator interface via LuCi.
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by muxator 8y ago
Plus, actually sane command names, and super powerful functionalities (for example, answering to another comment, you always could "hg blame (annotate)" an arbitrary version of a file without having to check it out first)!
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by muxator 8y ago
I just learnt I independently "discovered" Kolmogorov complexity in my graduation thesis, while comparing the information content of a program and of its refactored version. The only obstacle to attaining a Turing award is probabl
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Why Explore Space? (instead of fighting world hunger)(lettersofnote.com)
1 points by muxator 8y ago|0 comments
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by muxator 8y ago
Has AMD fixed Spectre in its processors?
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by muxator 8y ago
> A common one is when someone is run over by a car and pedestrians just step over the body until a family member finds the body. The video goes viral, prompts a week of hand wringing, and then censors step in to talk about Confucianism
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by muxator 8y ago
So, let's say you manage to update your client's processes to the ones that best fit the SW you are selling. Eventually, the time for upgrading will come. Magically the specification for the new system will be: "it has to wor

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