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by nkassis 15y ago
"- Most bugs/edge cases I encounter in our production apps are things I'd never think to write a test for ..." I feel that way often too but I write test more as a specification for how I want the code to work then as a catch all bugs thing
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by nkassis 15y ago
If it's maketshare I assume the graph is in % and it could mean that there is a lot more servers being added and not a decline in installs of RHEL. I can see that with Amazon EC2 instances and other cloud platform Ubuntu would be really pop
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by nkassis 15y ago
Tim Schafer said it in an interview (with NPR I believe) this isn't replacing traditional publishers (yet followed by evil laugh). I think the two can coexist. This was a great way to revive a game genre with following that is still to smal
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by nkassis 15y ago
"As for the issue of linking, it's a red herring here. This was not some neutral site linking to random, user submitted comment. This was a curated collection. They knew _exactly_ what they were doing." I get that this probably falls into t
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by nkassis 15y ago
How was the money made? Ads? Google has ads and finding a video of any show on there is pretty easy. They are also profiting from infringement. In the end I just don't get why linking is why if what he did is not it's not illegal where he i
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by nkassis 15y ago
Mmm, well I'm assuming that when you are using jslint to check your javascript you are doing so much good (avoiding increasing the amount of crappy javascript in the world) that it doesn't really matter if the javascript you are writing is
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by nkassis 15y ago
Does something like legal insurance exist? I mean for most small start-ups having a lawyer and money to pay him when needed might be hard but I imagine most don't have problems with this all the time and pooling money to pay for lawyers whe
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by nkassis 15y ago
In the spirit of this post, I'm a little wary of posting this yet (it's incomplete and not very robust), but I made a little toy 3D chat program recently using webgl,socket.io,express,node. Code can be found here: https://github.com/nkassi
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by nkassis 15y ago
All I can say is many people love McDonald. I mean, that place wouldn't have succeeded and sold billions of burgers if it was at least partially satisfying it's customers. Sure the food might be horrible for you but I can't say I hate the
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by nkassis 15y ago
Ignore(for now ;p) the looks this was a usability upgrade.
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by nkassis 15y ago
mmm, a fix for that (not perfect) could be to activate the screen when the passenger airbag is on (since most cars now have a sensor in the seat). Sure the driver can still play with the screen but if you have a passenger it shouldn't be of
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by nkassis 15y ago
I posit that some of it is just people lying. I had someone send in a huge perl script he claimed to be his own work yet failed that variable swapping test. Basically our setup was HR gets a bunch of resumes and scans for minimum requiremen
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by nkassis 15y ago
Well it shouldn't be a high occurrence affair. I mean sure if they keep getting rid of people after 3 months I would avoid that company too. But keeping the option and testing the person over 3 months is pretty standard in every job I've ta
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by nkassis 15y ago
I have to disagree with you. This isn't supposed to insult you and it can be prior to the in person interview. I did an interview once and asked them to interchange the value of two variables in any language they wanted. In the end maybe 2
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by nkassis 15y ago
You might be thinking of SFTP which is a very different thing. FTP itself is very insecure and should only ever be used for anonymous downloading.
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by nkassis 15y ago
"It's unlikely he would be convicted today." I don't believe that true. You can see a recent obscenity case here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hardcore
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by nkassis 15y ago
What about the secure boot story http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-manda... That's recent and it is evil. Microsoft never was completely evil they just put the mighty dollar above everything else including software qu
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by nkassis 15y ago
And there wasn't interest with a 25+% install share on the web? Not sure what you are trying to get at with your post? Are you implying that NaCL is vulnerable because of it's nature and now will be an major attack vector? But NaCL in my vi
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by nkassis 15y ago
Check out wikipedia's page I just noticed they have the algorithm spelled out in pseudocode ;p http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year What baffles me is did they really have to rewrite that again somewhere else? Don't they have libraries
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by nkassis 15y ago
I can imagine a situation where a 20 dev shop gets closed because of something like this and they can't make payroll. There are lot of people here basing their company on an App in the app store. I'd be terrified.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I was under the impression that the law prohibited viable seeds but due to a loophole (you can't be certain a seed is viable or not) they couldn't stop people with any seed. I might be remembering this all wrong.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I see it a little differently, I wouldn't feel good about keeping people around doing nothing of worth for the company. I guess they could have thought of other projects for them but that could put stress on other parts of the company. At l
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by nkassis 15y ago
Yeah I've heard this but the trash can wasn't discarded, I could see how a trash bag alone maybe since all of it is going to the trash but an actual trash can with a closed lid? What is the rule around mailbox? Would opening the mailbox doo
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by nkassis 15y ago
I understand what you mean but I'm just making the point that phones were a lot simpler and in my view much less useful. It's obvious that somethings might have been loss since then like how my phone reacts less well to me answering the pho
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by nkassis 15y ago
"It's so funny how phones made 10 years ago were more real-time than those today." Oh come on that's just not true. Phones 10 years ago barely had color displays and 0 apps other than contacts,phone and maybe music and I don't even think j
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by nkassis 15y ago
So that actually raises a question in my mind, does that make all database that don't include something new created by someone (I'm thinking book database, research databases) as non copyrightable? I'm thinking of phone books as an example.
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by nkassis 15y ago
I don't mind the some of the directions they have taken with Unity (I've switched to Gnome 3 at this time, I feel more comfortable it, even with no shutdown/restart option in menu ;p) but the shear lack of ability to customize is really an
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by nkassis 15y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing that, I'm work at a different university in Canada but I'll have to check if this deal is coming here too. That's one ridiculous thing to have signed for sure. I'd like to know if anyone has more back story about thi
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by nkassis 15y ago
That could be cool. I suggest watching a sport like F1 where the human element has been reduced significantly in favor of technology. I mean, they have cars with automatic gear boxes now. As for football, I see it as coaches playing chess w
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by nkassis 15y ago
What about adding an option, "proceed anyway, I understand the risks" ? Currently in 10.7 there is something for downloaded apps the first time it pops up and has an option to continue. Why not continue with that? And yes this will just lea

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