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1. 1591.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   This would be hard to implement effectively. HTTP sucks for downloading massive files.
2. 1592.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   sleight of hand
3. 1593.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   The user might get the wrong impression that he's being supported when he's not, and go ahead and buy some service that's not going to get support. At least a big warning is justified.
4. 1594.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   I'm sorry to tickle your confirmation bias, but that's absolute nonsense. You can waste a lot of time learning the wrong things or learning the wrong way. I remember learning assembly, Basic, Pascal, Modula, C... in the late 80s and early 9
5. 1595.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   I'd also like to know more about that. "Your data on hackerne.ws and news.ycombinator.com" sounds very generic and I'm not knowledgeable on Chrome extensions. Does that include POST requests? how about cookies and passwords?
6. 1596.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   Everyone uses the old, already spam-ridden hotmail account for that.
7. 1597.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   They reserve the right to sue and they carefully patented every aspect they could. I see a lot of merit in the language itself, but the legal problems Google is having vs Oracle and Java they could also have them with Microsoft and C#/dotNE
8. 1598.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   That's interesting, because in CompSci screen coordinates (and vector coordinates when programming graphics) are usually rooted at the top-left, so we have a more "consistent" natural perception of it - those of us using mainly left-to-righ
9. 1599.▲
   by muyuu 15y ago

   There are valid concerns about the implementations of .NET and the possible ramifications that could come if Microsoft decided to enforce their patents surrounding them. Having an open standard can be moot if effective implementations of it
10. 1600.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    The current situation is a joke. No small player can get above the radar at basically anything software or else they risk being sued out of business. Big players calculate their movements because they all have a big portfolio and they reach
11. 1601.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    The irony is that they're able to stop all their security updates, even self-destroy with their home-calling mechanisms. I'd love it if Motorola went all-in about it.
12. 1602.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    I was also thinking about the irony of having Forbes, a dinosaur of the old press, talking about the impossibility of adapting to new paradigms.
13. 1603.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    ?? Not if you know what you're doing. Not any more than using utf8 exclusively all the time and for all purposes.
14. 1604.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    All the damn time I'm using several languages. Then UTF (and EUC's) are the way to go. It's not like you have to use the same encoding all the time.
15. 1605.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    The author compares UTF-8 to UTF-16, while there are a myriad better encodings than both for different Asian languages. For instance: EUC-JP in Japan, BIG5 in Taiwan, GB in China, etc. Different EUC encodings are variable-length and are a l
16. 1606.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97 After just 5 or 6 different colours or so, which happens very soon, it becomes hard to distinguish them without context. But this is not a big pr
17. 1607.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    I think it's mainly because of the availability and popularity of very easy software to slap together something in your own computer. The influx of new people playing with sound loops and their close networks, basically.
18. 1608.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    This is not the default behaviour. Popping it out will send you to the main page, having two full email tabs and no good clue about which is which. It's worse than Yahoo's way, or the basic html interface in gmail.
19. 1609.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    Has effing tabs so you can have a "compose" tab open and reach your email for info to copy-paste in your message. Something as basic as this is missing in gmail's default interface. Having to save and go back to drafts is cumbersome, as are
20. 1610.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    I run 2 high-end ATI/AMD cards (scientific compuptations in openCL). It continues to be hell. Surely, their drivers work fine in some configurations, but sometimes you cannot afford to change your setup to accomodate their buggy drivers.
21. 1611.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    This is why I went to Mint then back to Debian. Still, having to deal with terribly buggy ATI/AMD proprietary drivers, because I need openCL. If you can avoid ATI you shall be fine in Debian land.
22. 1612.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    I get ostracised IRL for saying things like that, and downvoted to oblivion in the net. I'm glad to see your comment is doing ok. Good sign? I remember the 90s when most people wouldn't even buy online because they were asked stuff like cre
23. 1613.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    I use this regularly now, but I'm still dead set on moving back to having email in my workstation. Now, Google seem ruthless in their hunt for your information and this alone should be enough to make a decision. But it's a bigger problem th
24. 1614.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    What I don't understand well yet is the way Meteor works. I'm waiting until they (and firebase) make their final version available, although I've played a bit with them. If it does bundle itself then it could have implications. Maybe LGPL w
25. 1615.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    It's not a library. Most users of Meteor won't even ship any code at all, they will expose sites/APIs. There's also a difference between interacting of output code and libraries.
26. 1616.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    Why would you want to ship Meteor as a library? Even if you do ship it, if you don't link to it (which I don't even think you will reasonably can) you wouldn't violate GPL.
27. 1617.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    > Sun Microsystems? + Apple They contribute back only whatever they see fit, and that's in perfect accordance with the licence.
28. 1618.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    GPL was perfectly fine for a product like Meteor. Unless you plan to modify Meteor, ship your version and not share your changes, there are very few things you can do to violate the GPL by using Meteor. Meteor is neither a library nor boile
29. 1619.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    I'd add to the listed reasons that you cannot collect the "paro" subsidy from outside of Spain, and they seem to be serious about enforcing this now. Right now, and for the first time since Franco times, Spain will be a net emigrant country
30. 1620.▲
    by muyuu 15y ago

    Spot on. Spanish society isn't up in arms precisely because of the black economy, rendering unemployment indicators really ineffective. I was in Spain in the early 2000s, and there was a huge Real Estate bubble. People came in droves into t