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541.
by panzi 12y ago
How? A program that runs on your computer has access to all your files anyway. How is it anymore of a security problem if it can't just access your files, change configurations, run other programs but can also send X11 events to other
542.
by panzi 12y ago
Which is a good thing. It lets you do automation on GUI tools that otherwise don't support automation (xdotool). It's something I hope Wayland and MIR will support. Of course there should probably be some kind of permissions syste
543.
by panzi 12y ago
That's because neutrons aren't fundamental particles. They are made up of (charged) quarks.
544.
by panzi 12y ago
I literally just wanted to write the same.
545.
by panzi 12y ago
Look what I made you: https://github.com/panzi/pipes
546.
by panzi 12y ago
Vulnerable to what? The the environment variable problem? I was talking about program argument parsing. os.system("ls %s" % foo) != subrocess.call(["ls",foo])
547.
by panzi 12y ago
And it's not limited to C. E.g. I would be in favor to remove os.system from Python (in favor of subprocess.call). The `-syntax (backtick-syntax) in Ruby is particularly evil. It's so convenient because it is so concise, but I gua
548.
by panzi 12y ago
I don't agree. bash is meant to be a sh replacement, compatible with sh. So any correct use of sh has to give the exact same result under bash. bash should only extend sh in a way where the bash script would be an error under sh. bash
549.
by panzi 12y ago
Why does the output say 'foo' and not just foo? That looks suspicious.
550.
by panzi 12y ago
So this talks via IPC to Excel? How does it perform when working with huge data sets? Is the copying back and forth between the two processes a bigger bottleneck than the Python interpreter itself?
551.
by panzi 12y ago
Ah, I see.
552.
by panzi 12y ago
It does? But I thought it is possible to use the LGPL version to develop apps. It is just not possible to distribute them through the app stores because of the app stores, not because of Qt. You don't use the app store to deploy the de
553.
by panzi 12y ago
You could use the LGPL version during development and only switch to the commercial license once you go live.
554.
by panzi 12y ago
Everything the government is 100% out in the open (except for ongoing police investigations - but the moment they are finished they are made public). There are only direct elections and almost all decisions are don via general elections. Th
555.
by panzi 12y ago
Yeah, but the E.U. contracts are out in the open (not secret) and the people had to vote for Germany to become a member of the E.U. At least in Austria we had to vote, I think it was the same in Germany.
556.
by panzi 12y ago
It wasn't a comparison to Hitler, though. He just was mentioned.
557.
by panzi 12y ago
"And pretty soon My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed, When he finds out I published first!"
558.
by panzi 12y ago
And this is exactly why more and more non-US-citizen don't like the US anymore. Seeing the world in two classes "US" and "non-US". Yes, I know, no secret service is better. The question is: Are secret services compa
559.
by panzi 12y ago
Is it really less derogatory? Deferring to another countries government is treason, isn't it?
560.
by panzi 12y ago
Yeah, I wrote something similar a long time ago in Python: https://bitbucket.org/panzi/finddup/src
561.
by panzi 12y ago
The one time when this argument actually works and I use it I'm accused of being as intelligent as the Daily Mail! A criminal only has to investigate one arbitrary innocent. But the innocent (or the police) would have to sieve through
562.
by panzi 12y ago
The mafia wouldn't care about laws. So the mafia would keep secrets but law abiding citizens wouldn't. So there is a fundamental asymmetry.
563.
by panzi 12y ago
I'm sure the mafia would love the end of the witness protection program. And fundamentalists of any religion would like to know who exactly is breaking which one of their arbitrary rules and where they live, when their kids go to schoo
564.
by panzi 12y ago
Lawmakers redefined the meaning of download to "download and permanently store". They don't see "download and only hold in application cache for a limited time" as download.
565.
by panzi 12y ago
I once read you can answer all headlines that are yes/no questions with no. Seems to work here, because if you start hungry in the day you are grumpy (I am). If you are grumpy all day you can't concentrate (I can't).
566.
by panzi 12y ago
Doesn't the Google coding standard use uppercase function names (like Microsoft)? Brrr. Classes are nouns -> uppercase, functions are verbs -> lowercase. Well, alt least if you speak German that is the logical choice.
567.
by panzi 12y ago
How can you polyfill it? Long polling JSON?
568.
by panzi 12y ago
Shame, I would really like to have cross browser support for CSS Masking and Clipping. Masking stuff with a gradient in particular.
569.
by panzi 12y ago
Given that IE 10+ supports web sockets I don't really see the need for server sent events. What can you do with server sent events that you cannot do with web sockets? I guess one could deprecate SSE in favor of WS.
570.
by panzi 12y ago
It's not X, it's ❌. (90° angle of the two lines) I always hate it when someone actually uses an X. Looks ugly.

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