pitkali

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by pitkali 7y ago
I opened an account this week and it was a videochat (they call it IDNow). However, while you need a German address, no registration is necessary (which I'm only having done on Monday). I didn't even have any German phone number y
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by pitkali 7y ago
> - a lot of companies don't manufacture the product themself But the brand is responsible for the quality as perceived by the customer. They retain any good brand image by properly managing supply/subcontractor chain with qual
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by pitkali 7y ago
> The average developer cannot pick up an entirely new language in a few days. Maybe I'm incompetent, but it takes me a few months before I start to feel comfortable with a new language and its ecosystem, and a year or two before I
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by pitkali 7y ago
I don't think it's fair to include F# in that list, what with its emphasis on explicitness. After all, it's not like functional programming requires writing obscure code any more than complex object hierarchies pushing events
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by pitkali 7y ago
"It's nice while a hate speech ban matches everything you agree with, but too easy to pivot into something worse." This kind of argument always strikes me as a rather poor defense that basically reads: we cannot find a perfec
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by pitkali 7y ago
Browser development is non-trivial, but browsers themselves are a commodity. There is no money in browser itself as an app, or at the very least not enough to support development.
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by pitkali 8y ago
So now it's okay because it's done to an actor that you consider deserving of such treatment? People said such behaviour is wrong, so they changed their act. Why wouldn't you hold others accountable to the same standard? What
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by pitkali 8y ago
Pretty sure he means that just seeing symptoms of Embrace is not enough to sound the alarm that it's going to be extended and extinguished. After all, what's the point of building software, if it's never embraced, aka, used?
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by pitkali 9y ago
Why? Status quo is not the only alternative to equality of outcome.
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by pitkali 10y ago
I don't think it's intentional subversion. AFAIR, having command line wrappers in /usr/bin pointing to command line tools or xcode tool chain predates SIP. If anything, protecting developer tools was either neglected, or
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by pitkali 10y ago
The sentiment against OS X might not show that strong, but it is clearly there. She doesn't even mention that what protects /usr/bin is System Integrity Protection, or that it can be disabled. The very idea that people mi
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by pitkali 14y ago
I'm sorry, but on platforms I need to support this is not available.
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by pitkali 14y ago
Pop quiz: what are possible results of running sizeof(char)? It's just another thing to note ;)
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by pitkali 14y ago
I like the consistency of using parenthesis always. Just like some people insist of putting them in logical statements even if they do not affect the order of evaluation in that particular case.
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by pitkali 14y ago
I think the OP misread the article he's referring to. The point is not to avoid setting goals, but that if you want to actually get good at anything, you should first learn to create habits, and then just start doing it. Once you're already