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541.
by phreack 9y ago
Ever since they launched screen sharing, I've uninstalled both Skype and Hangouts and relied entirely on it for pair programming sessions. The smoothness of the reproduction is just incredible, and I don't see myself going back so
542.
by phreack 9y ago
They've very recently released a Patreon and it seems to be speeding up development considerably, so it's worth giving a look if you're using Godot. https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
543.
Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)(jroweboy.github.io)
136 points by phreack 9y ago|65 comments
544.
by phreack 9y ago
Before anyone else gets enraged, this was Terry's will being honored. However, there's a debate to be had regarding whether it would have been worthy to release his final works even if incomplete and against his wishes.
545.
by phreack 9y ago
The main problem here is one of trust. If you're going to share your code with a third party like Kite, even without getting into the possible legal issues involved, you have to be damn sure you trust the company. Kite's culture h
546.
by phreack 9y ago
In case anyone is not aware of what reproducibility is and why it's a worthy goal, here's their statement: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About
547.
by phreack 9y ago
What I'd like to know and is lacking from this disclosure is what data they stored and was leaked from users, and the hash algorithm they used.
548.
by phreack 9y ago
He may have died of Cancer, but while being denied proper care, serving an 11 year prison sentence for what amounts to an attempt of speech. And its censorship appears to have mostly worked for its intended audience. Truly a sad conclusion.
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Germany passes law with fines for Internet companies that don’t bar hate speech(arstechnica.com)
9 points by phreack 9y ago|2 comments
550.
by phreack 9y ago
Worst is, the executive should have been fired on the spot as his actions were not only unethical but possibly illegal. Instead he paraded them around for at least a year sharing them, which makes the whole executive tier basically complici
551.
by phreack 9y ago
This is the work of a library used by certain apps, not of Google (although it wouldn't surprise me if Google turned out to be doing the same, discreetly). I think Android should have way clearer notifications that your mic or camera
552.
by phreack 9y ago
It's such an utter shame that Microsoft got to buy out and then abandon RoboVM (presumably because they felt it a threat to their recently acquired Xamarin). The one issue the author considers the most valid, was pretty decently solved
553.
by phreack 10y ago
I would raise a humble Kotlin instead of Java for backend and Android work. It is quite simpler than Java and allows a little bit of functional coding, while also being fully interoperable with it.
554.
by phreack 10y ago
So people have private ways to communicate, and sometimes they break the law by communicating forbidden stuff, hasn't that been a thing for ages? Why the sudden hate on Whatsapp, if there's a rise of law breaking messages, the roo
555.
by phreack 10y ago
Difference is you can choose not to use them.
556.
by phreack 10y ago
Instead of even bothering explaining, I used to just code at home during the night... You can guess what that did to my body in the long run, so even if it's a hassle, letting people who could distract you during same working hours kno
557.
by phreack 10y ago
This is just great, the two things missing from Firebase that we kept hacking around were its very limited database querying abilities, and simple hooks around database events. Now one is part of Firebase and the other is more easily hackab
558.
by phreack 10y ago
The current state of human rights in China, and its utter, utter lack of admonition by world leaders due to their dependence on their economy is to me one of the greatest tragedies of today. I truly don't know what could be done to hel
559.
by phreack 10y ago
I actually believe exactly the opposite, it was chance that you saw this post on HN and had the good faith to update the article, and I believe fostering a nice community on your own sites increases the odds of these kinds of events, and in
560.
by phreack 10y ago
I also have, for a while, and think the article is bull. Every time I have to use XCode I dread it, it has the worst linting, its symbolic icons make no sense to me and I keep forgetting what they mean, finding settings is a pain, and worst
561.
by phreack 10y ago
I can assure you that the general feeling in South America is certainly doubtful, stories are coming in about families being detained and losing connections at the airport merely for having Muslim sounding surnames and similar bullshit, and
562.
by phreack 10y ago
Has it happened before in a similar case?
563.
by phreack 10y ago
Article says it was a last resort option suggested and approved by medical professionals.
564.
by phreack 10y ago
Yes, obviously, this case appears to be entirely justified. OP likely meant it as a warning to any reader who'd think it harmless to do to a kid with regular but stressful tantrums.
565.
by phreack 10y ago
I would love switching away from the royal pain that is OSX and the increasingly worse MacBooks, but alas, I work in iOS development and making a hackintosh is too much of a gray area and fragile. I hate that lock in.
566.
by phreack 10y ago
It's easy to not realize that without major single headline grabbing breakthroughs, progress on ending these injustices is still ongoing. So it's a refreshing reminder to see articles like this one every now and then, specially af
567.
by phreack 10y ago
Technology as a whole isn't pervasive enough across the majority of the population, and they've been burnt so hard by their own currencies that people mistrust any that's not a global standard according to their governmentall
568.
by phreack 10y ago
Basically they were already doing it, and it was becoming a concern that it was illegal, so they retroactively fixed that pesky law, as stopping was never an option.
569.
by phreack 10y ago
Always assume so with Google products.
570.
by phreack 10y ago
As an outsider, it is painfully clear that I should not try to move my business to the US at this point. Europe's looking better than ever now for tech startups.

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