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by shock 6y ago
> That’s getting closer to what would have been an informative response. It could use further expansion but that could allow someone reading it to weigh how much that would remove a limiting factor in their experience. Consider that you&
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by shock 6y ago
I don't see a reason for users to be aware of Maven, similarly when you get a C, Go, app, you are not aware of the build tool that was used to create it.
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by shock 6y ago
What is the less simple part?
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by shock 6y ago
> We want to build a long term business that is totally based on trust Trust on today's Internet? With regards to personal data? Facebook kinda poisoned the well for you there, /methinks.
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by shock 6y ago
"Open source" and "Easy of use" do not represent opposite sides of a spectrum.
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by shock 6y ago
As an example, this app (Apache Helix) implements MBeans, which means that you can connect to the running application to observe its state and manage it. You can do this with the standard JMX toolchain, without having to implement anything
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by shock 6y ago
I was responding to: > java is very easy to troubleshoot compared to c, go, and rust >> Can you expand on this? Why do you think that? So the comparison is C, Go, and Rust. Yes, I'm familiar with all 3 of them and Java is easi
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by shock 6y ago
You have a problem with whatever you don't understand. These days, you also have a problem if you don't understand the germ theory of disease :)
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by shock 6y ago
How so?
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by shock 6y ago
Well, it's a trade-off. If someone compiled the C++ app for your architecture, sure – if not, you need to figure out how to compile it and depending on the compiler and set of headers you have installed, it's not always easy. When
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by shock 6y ago
> it was a complete mess I'm not doubting that at all. Was it VB6's fault or MSSQL's?
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by shock 6y ago
> All the worst and most time-consuming troubleshooting experiences of my life have involved dealing with a legacy VB6 app with a truly terrible MSSQL database structure Do you feel any powerful emotion when you think about that experien
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by shock 6y ago
My point was not to this project in particular, but general. I have seen this reaction towards Java often. Java is not familiar, for many people Java is inscrutable. I think this is because of the existence of the JVM and the need for the u
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by shock 6y ago
Someone not having an emotional reaction would not use expressions like "All the worst and most time-consuming troubleshooting experiences of my life have involved Java" and "the JVM decided to vomit all over my screen".
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by shock 6y ago
Extremely good tooling/ecosystem. See VisualVM, JMX...
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by shock 6y ago
It would be useful to you to recognize that you are letting an emotional reaction stopping you from using useful technology. I understand that Java makes you uncomfortable, but it is a powerful and stable language and you're missing ou
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by shock 6y ago
I find it hilarious that an article about handling objections was posted by a username of "neinasaservice".
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by shock 6y ago
I wish ZimWiki would be Markdown based instead of Wiki markup based.
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by shock 6y ago
Cold acts as a preservative for viruses. In labs which do experiments with viruses, they keep viruses in freezers for a looong time.
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by shock 6y ago
> I wish more of the conversation around WFH focused on how everyone is different, one size fits all rarely works and then > if you do want to "get ahead" you'll need to put in face time. Period. You've just prescr
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by shock 6y ago
It's not one, but several: Canvas Defender, Font Fingerprint Defender, AudioContext Fingerprint Defender.
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by shock 6y ago
I agree with the sibling comment, what you are describing sounds like you are running out of RAM. This happens to me with Firefox on a PC with 64GB of RAM and the cursor gets janky and I have to wait until some poor process gets killed and
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by shock 6y ago
> Some websites basically crash the computer What does "crash the computer" mean? Do you get the MacOS equivalent of a BSOD?
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by shock 6y ago
There are extensions for Firefox that do this. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24851721 .
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by shock 6y ago
The goal should not be to not be fingerprinted since that is a data point in itself, rather the goal should be to appear as a different browser after a short amount of time. There are extensions for Firefox that generate a new "fingerp
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by shock 6y ago
> If you want to isolate Facebook and click a link to Spotify it will open Spotify in the Facebook container :( If you are talking about the Temporary containers extension, that's not the case. The extension is not the most easy to
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by shock 6y ago
No, one's life would not be boring because of that. There's a difference between things being known to sience and _you_ knowing those things. Even now, you can live your full lifespan without getting bored just learning in depth w
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by shock 6y ago
There's an app on F-Droid that lets you initiate WhatsApp chats with just the phone number, without giving WhatsApp access to Contacts.
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by shock 6y ago
OpenContacts in F-Droid.
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by shock 6y ago
> My biggest problem currently is that I'm dirt poor. You wrote in 2009 that "Rewarding people for having serious problems tends to grow those problems". Based on what I read written by you, you are a pretty smart person,

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