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by sovande 8y ago
Styrbord is not germanic, but old norse and literary means the rudder (i.e. steering board), which, as you said, was located on the right side of the ship. Viking ships could therefore only dock on the left-side, hence port for the port sid
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by sovande 8y ago
> What kind of apps did people use back in the day when desktops weren't hidden all the time? Emacs to the left and one xterm window in the bottom right corner.
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by sovande 8y ago
If you want to go down this road, doing mobile cross-platform native, Xamarin seems much more compelling. It is supported by a very good IDE and has proper licensing for distribution on the app stores. https://visualstudio.micros
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by sovande 8y ago
Because you have to license your iOS App as GPL if you want to use this framework. GPL is not compatible with the AppStore terms. They say they plan to dual license with a (free) commercial license in the future...
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How deceptive design lets Google track users 24/7 [pdf](nrkbeta.no)
24 points by sovande 8y ago|0 comments
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by sovande 8y ago
Swift has easy access to pthread mutex and you can do that. serialQueue.async { // Critical section } is GCD's way of doing the same with the added benefit that the calling code does not have to wait. Problems in the parent c
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by sovande 8y ago
Yes, sorry. I managed to click on the wrong link in the HN iOS app.
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by sovande 8y ago
That’s a very Cartesian world view on biology, luckily abandoned a long time ago. Animals where merely automatons and scientists dissecting dogs alive could gleefully ignore their cries as nothing more than automatic response stimuli. Today
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by sovande 8y ago
Using probability is a good start I think. As I understand it, CERN should be able to find new particles below about 2–3 TeV in energy. It hasn't and physicists say it’s a reasonable assumption that there might not be anything new to f
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by sovande 8y ago
I thought particle physics were coming to an end? After CERN found the Higgs boson then nothing. The ROI of a more powerful accelerator is abysmal. It is impossible to know how large a new collider needs to be and if anything interesting wi
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by sovande 8y ago
Your post is like a reverse shit sandwich. There is some meat between the crap. In the context of meetings, though which this article was about, I think PG is right on the money. Though it is hardly breaking news.
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by sovande 9y ago
I do not fully agree with the premise that C programmers don't know what's best for them and need to be educated to switch to C++. I do agree that C++(14++) isolated is a better programming language in many ways compared to C. The
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by sovande 9y ago
Radar, smack there in the left-menu, is Stripe's Fraud "prevention" system. You can register and mark fraudulent purchases to improve the machine learning system behind Radar (sure). You can setup rules such as "Block if
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by sovande 9y ago
Oh shiny, but does it blend? I mean, Stripe has a great API, great design and this, but is Stripe a good payment solution? No, it is not, especially for sellers. Fraud and charge backs are worse than with PayPal. Despite its many shortcomin
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by sovande 9y ago
CS jobs in the west are victims of Globalisation. We simply cannot compete with Asia and Eastern Europe with regards to wages. Hence outsourcing which has been ongoing for decades. We _can_ compete on quality and solutions, but these are hi
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by sovande 9y ago
Most users will accept issues with their free program if the alternative is to pay. I'm pretty sure the message pane you have there is a WebKit controller so it is debatable how native this would be.
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by sovande 10y ago
The closest successor to Firefly, Dark Matter (minus the cowboy thing) only just made it to season 2 but is now renewed for season 3 by reducing production costs and selling older seasons to Netflix. The new way people are watching TV is on
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by sovande 10y ago
That is naive. Yes, trivial out of bounds memory errors can be prevented, but no language can prevent (accidental) resource leakage which opens up for other vulnerabilities. Besides, most modern languages are written in C/C++ anyway so
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by sovande 10y ago
For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcfFJ6pNEZk Keep in mind, this is 48 hours and he had created a "few" games before this.
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by sovande 10y ago
If you create a screencast I assume you give it your best. Look at the typing skills demonstrated in the screencast accompanying this project, https://asciinema.org/a/90r2i9bq8po03nazhqtsifksb Judging from the screenca
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by sovande 10y ago
For posterity, yes you do have this "neural network" thing. It does not really work now AFAIK, but I do hope you will succeed as we definitely need a viable alternative to PayPal. Though I'm sceptical to this approach. In mac
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by sovande 10y ago
> Fortunately companies like stripe.com The sad truth is that Stripe is behaving exactly like PayPal. What's worse is that Stripe's fraud protection is non-existing. In other words, Stripe is actually worse than PayPal, as you
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by sovande 10y ago
Well, they have "innovated" on security in a very detrimental way for us developers. SIP, for example, plus rheumatic sandbox rules has made coding on OS X very unpleasant and limited. It is like Apple don't want us to develo
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by sovande 10y ago
I'll invoke the Black Swan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_%28Taleb_book%2... ) since it hasn't been done yet in this thread.
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by sovande 10y ago
Not being able to protect an API as a whole is bad. What is an API if not a blue-print and a structural representation of the underlying Software. Wasn't it Fred Brooks who said something like, "show me your data structures and I
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by sovande 10y ago
Yeah, so that update didn't go well, 01/06/16 20:18:56,610 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.googlecode.iterm2.61472[2542]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 2: No such file or directory: /App
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by sovande 10y ago
> Zero-configuration ... also eliminates tuning. Not quite, SQLite can be tuned using pragma's, https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html which covers most of your tuning needs.
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Show HN: MONIT OS X Notification Center Widget(mmonit.com)
9 points by sovande 11y ago|4 comments
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by sovande 11y ago
> If you have enough users to have "too many issues to handle," then you're big enough that you need an official governance and contribution structure I'm sure e.g. Ruby on Rails and Bootstrap would like some pointers
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by sovande 11y ago
99.99% of open source project does not and cannot match these expectations and it is so out of touch with reality just to assume so. Most successful open source project (apart from the well known 0.1%) are run by 1-2 maintainers and contrib

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