princekolt

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by princekolt 9y ago
"Out of proportions" for now. Nothing stops them from changing this later, updating the small print saying "oh we changed that" and blaming you for not checking for changes to their EULA regularly.
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by princekolt 9y ago
"How Wi-Fi Works" --> 503 Service Unavailable Seems about right.
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by princekolt 9y ago
The disruption of the Model 3 (or any Tesla car so far) has never been about being cheap, but just more appealing than the crappy electric cars from before while being, on average, marginally cheaper when you consider the costs of fuel+main
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by princekolt 9y ago
How is a diet of ramen and corndog much better than that? That is, I'm supposing the founders take the damn thing.
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by princekolt 9y ago
I don't see how being born into a family of a certain political opinion and being indoctrinated for years can be comparable to choosing a phone brand. I think you are analyzing this question from a very US-centric perspective and faili
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by princekolt 9y ago
It's not me saying it. The Pentagon itself made such claims even before 9/11. https://www.cato.org/publications/foreign-policy-briefing/do... Do you really think an entire population will just accept a f
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by princekolt 9y ago
This is an honest fear to have, but it hides the real causes many of the recent "bad actors" did what they did. Most of the recent terrorist acts can be traced to different organizations that only exist because of military/ec
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by princekolt 9y ago
One of the few existing projects that used a similar concept have.. > a ratio of payload to dead-weight of about 1:1, which is up to three times better than conventional alternatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At
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by princekolt 9y ago
They don't have to. People have been compiling to arm for years now on macOS. Apple just needs to make the standard + Foundation + Cocoa touch libraries visible and linkable on iOS and then you'll have everything you need to run a
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by princekolt 9y ago
Because of companies like Amazon. Most specialized shops in many countries have died because they can't compete with Amazon's leverage and scale, and it will only get worse.
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by princekolt 9y ago
The game is not cheap.
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by princekolt 9y ago
I have never interviewed/hired anyone, but the more I work as a developer the more I feel challenged to do it and invent techniques to detect liars. One thing with science on the side of truth is that the simplest questions (such as &q
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by princekolt 9y ago
That's more or less how Tor works.
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by princekolt 9y ago
But why do providers get a free pass when they do a major mistake (à la GitLab losing tons of not-backed-up data), but customers are required to accept whatever the provider throws at them? It seems pretty unfair to me.
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by princekolt 9y ago
Nowadays with some banks having virtual cards that you can create/kill at any moment, this sounds like a great idea.
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by princekolt 9y ago
Funny thing is that Excel came out for the Mac first in 1985, and was so popular that they made a version for Windows 2 years later.
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by princekolt 9y ago
Indeed the attack surface is the same, but now there is an extra incentive to crack the signing process, because you will be able to run an open version of the OS. Cracking the signing process now is useless because the OS image is still th
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by princekolt 9y ago
This is assuming that whole thing is free of bugs, which is never going to be the case. Just like the fastest code is the code that is never executed, the safest code is the code that is never written in the first place.
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by princekolt 9y ago
It is a very american thing. In most european cities public transport works very well and people don't really mind walking 10-20 minutes if needed.
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by princekolt 9y ago
I like your point. Were I the guy I'd have tried to push an agreement that they'd publish the source of their games once they had been discontinued for over 20 years or something like that.
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by princekolt 10y ago
> The cherry on top of this disastrous situation was that throughout the entire process I only heard good things from my manager. In total I had 3 1-on-1's with him, and even though we discussed the situation and what was wrong mult
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by princekolt 10y ago
Not supporting a platform is completely fine. Purposefully hindering performance when it is proven that the software runs well on said platform is one of the shittiest moves a company could make. I wonder to which other products they do the
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by princekolt 10y ago
Not only that, but even though you might not become a world-famous pianist, trying to learn the instrument might lead you to different places, such as building or tuning pianos, for example. In other words, there are so many more tasks and