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by pvdebbe 9y ago
It is. Always when we are not talking about Tesla, Apple or self driving vehicles.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
I don't think the cameras have to be network connected. Have the video feed locally only and for insurance claims you have to provide the relevant bit of video that will help determine the culprit. Like the Russians do.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
It can be tied to insurance so it doesn't have to be exactly govt mandated.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
The only good CSV dialect is the dif-named DSV (Delimiter Separated Values) where you select and support just one supported delimiter, and you require escaping of the delim character inside values. It's simple, it works. Quotes are har
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
This is the major obstacle with semver. People aren't terribly psyched to increase the major version whenever incompatibilities happen, because other people have different expectations of major version numbers.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Semantic versioning makes sense for libraries, not so much for user-facing applications.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Isn't it great, though, that we hold FLOSS projects to the same standards as the big-bucks closed software?
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
I thought it's just a pun for honesty
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Wow. In Finland we got those for 100-150 EUR for preordering. No service provider tie-ins.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
I removed Disqus from my static blog when I realized how much it downloads JavaScript to work.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Maybe we should try to keep the discussion honest by distinguishing between ads, tracking ads, and cpu-burning cryptocoin mining.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
The best bang for your duck
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
It's a web app if it works on the WWW and requires JS to work. Otherwise it's a website. That is how I classify them anyway.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
I don't even know what it means for a website to send a notification. Does it mean a flashing tab in firefox?
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Yep, take me back to 1989's internet, please.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Strange folks out there :)
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Oh I see -- it was mentioned in the interview. How about using it in a room with over 100F temperature. Hopefully nobody endures that sort of conditions on a regular basis anymore, use the fallback mechanisms for those situations. Except ca
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Also when I'm in a pitch-black room, will it shoot bright light on my face to do the ID?
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Not just 300 kB of downloadable code, it's 300 kB of executable code. That's huge
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Exactly. IMAP is IMAP is IMAP, anything goes. Only if you crave for great web UIs then things narrow down to Fastmail/Gmail. Although, Gmail has been gone to crap, UI-wise for me. The process of writing plain-text emails has turned so
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
If/when I move a bit farther from my immediate family, I'll consider setting up a WP blog for catchups and family chat. That way you get to share stati and pics, comment on them, discuss, on top of all, you get RSS and other nicet
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Which countries are you talking about? Finland certainly doesn't implement mandatory govt pensions well.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
C is a vastly simpler language with good and well-tried semantics. The simpler language spec may make sense to do OO with suboptimal tools vs C++.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Urls to be shown punycoded at all times. Not pretty but might be necessary. This should gain some momentum before emoji urls go mainstream
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Pets Over Night dot com!
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Open-world Half-Life does sound intriguing.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
wdired was a revelation on what an editor can do with capable and imaginative developers on it.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
This holds true for everyone
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
Let's see. The paragraphs are relatively short and there are pictures alongside the text. Where is this wall of text you speak of? It's a wall when there are no linebreaks, paragraphs.
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by pvdebbe 9y ago
DaaS

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