nikanj

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   by nikanj 3y ago

   > The Loom software is super buggy though Perfect fit for Atlassian’s portfolio then
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   by nikanj 3y ago

   But the patents are often not on the technical implementation nitty-gritty, but on the very general idea of "Two speakers that play the same song in sync". The latter ("concept patents") just stifle innovation.
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   by nikanj 3y ago

   $20k/mo in salary is huge, $20k/mo in revenue is a very small business. This thread seems to happily mix the two
4. 604.▲
   by nikanj 3y ago

   Tweak the color scale to be all blue/orange
5. 605.▲
   by nikanj 3y ago

   Your coworkers would prefer you splitting the thing into two microservices communicating over a REST api, aka the 200x slower version.
6. 606.▲
   by nikanj 3y ago

   ’Murica
7. 607.▲
   by nikanj 3y ago

   They rewrapped an existing concept in a startup-esque vibe and thus got a massive multiplier on their valuation.
8. 608.▲
   by nikanj 3y ago

   You are unable to force them to pay $100 million but have cleverly written contract clauses that cause them to owe you $125 million now. Which they're also not paying.
9. 609.▲
   by nikanj 3y ago

   Meanwhile this is such an everyday thing in film/tv. Product placements are 1) everywhere 2) really blatant.
10. 610.▲
    by nikanj 3y ago

    I just wish we told/heared more stories about antivirus being useful. As it stands, anti-malware sounds like the worst malware on the planet.
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    Antennagate was 100% bogus, they changed nothing in the phone's design and the complaints died down. The same thing with the bendgate, that one had people going to Apple stores to bend display iPhones
12. 612.▲
    by nikanj 3y ago

    Grifters moved on to AI, leaving only the actually viable parts of crypto around. So yeah cryptos are 100% dead.
13. 613.▲
    by nikanj 3y ago

    Are you telling me "Why do npm builds poop out 20% of the time" is not an interesting problem?
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    Are you familiar with Hacktoberfest? Every October you get an absolute torrent of crappy PRs from people who saw a youtube video on "How to get a free T-shirt". See https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    There really is, but people do give it a cursory read. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhanded_C_Contest
16. 616.▲
    by nikanj 3y ago

    Once again submitting the bug report to HN gets you much better results than sending it to Apple
17. 617.▲
    by nikanj 3y ago

    Fixed in the October bulletin* *For the small fraction of Android phones that are new enough to get updates
18. 618.▲
    by nikanj 3y ago

    For the first 2-3 years, both Microsoft and Sony sold every single unit they could produce. Not sure if that generation of consoles is valid market data.
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    At least a few times every week I have to pop open a cygwin window to run "find / -iname xxxxxxxxx" Finding a local file with an already known name is nigh-impossible with the current Windows search.
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    My hot take: Code quality is not measured by formatting issues, but by error resilience and number of actual bugs. Much of modern linting and commit hooking is dedicated to checking whitespace placement, variable naming and function lengths
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    The best kernel hacker is not the best manager for people - which the CEO very much is.
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    Code execution leads to code execution. CVE score 9.98 confirmed by Mitre
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    If I enter your house through the front door and unlatch the patio door from the inside, I can then enter the house through the patio door
24. 624.▲
    by nikanj 3y ago

    The first paragraph is defending burning down the house every year or two, because that way you can change the curtains without pushback
25. 625.▲
    by nikanj 3y ago

    Jackson had this problem a few months back, where someone reported a critical CVE against the project and broke builds all around the planet https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/3972 Basically
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    Malformed xml sneaks through the kitchen window and poisons you in your sleep. Someone puts naively escaped umlauts (ä -> ä ) into the surname field and your entire xml parser borks with unknown entity errors
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    The same way we all do: A shitty modem that gives an ipv6 address to all devices, but only applies firewall rules to ipv4 addresses
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    But only network engineers pick the protocols used. You’re making life harder for the very people who should be your primary audience. PS: As a developer, I often read logs and go ”oh yeah, that’s just our satellite office IP”. 192.168.1.11
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    X refuses to show me posts, does anyone have a mirror?
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    by nikanj 3y ago

    And Sherlock Holmes is in public domain, but only if he has no feelings https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21302942/netflix-enola-ho...