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by vfclists 12y ago
Apparently the sheer abuse of power entailed by Microsoft hijacking and disrupting the inbound traffic of a lot of innocent no-ip customers to track the few C&C servers is entirely lost on you. If something like that is to be done it sh
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by vfclists 12y ago
Which ever way you cut it technically speaking Microsoft runs the biggest botnet because they have control all the computers running Windows upgrade, and if they can't shut them down, they might as well fix them. Whether you like it or
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by vfclists 12y ago
They need to fix the bugs that are being exploited by hackers. If major corporate customers are still receiving fixes why can't they be extended to every one else? After all it is the same software everyone is running.
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by vfclists 12y ago
What organizations? Do you have an idea about how many small business and home users are still running Windows XP? As far as they are concerned if it is capable of doing what they bought it for, why should they upgrade? Software doesn'
935.
by vfclists 12y ago
Wholly predictable downvoting by anonymously cowardly Microsoft brown-nosers.
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by vfclists 12y ago
Loads of self-congratulating tripe. Microsoft why don't you simply provide free OS upgrades or fixes for the millions of XP computers out there? They are not going anywhere soon. Next thing we know your lawyers and lobbyists are going
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by vfclists 12y ago
How does it handle authenticated and SSL pages?
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Rediscovering the UX of the legendary HP-35 Scientific Pocket Calculator(medium.com)
14 points by vfclists 12y ago|5 comments
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by vfclists 12y ago
It raises the question of how 'Open Source' Open Source can be if it is tightly controlled by companies who constantly make compatibility breaking 'improvements' and 'architectural changes' that funnel end user
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by vfclists 12y ago
Is there a difference between Chrome and Chromium that will enable Chromium to keep using NPAPI? Is Chrome actually a Chromium with Google customizations, in the sense that Chromium can keep NPAPI whilst Google removes it for its own distri
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by vfclists 12y ago
Apple shills or what?
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by vfclists 12y ago
Pharo is a fork/clean-up of Squeak with a developer oriented focus. Some of the Pharo developers want to distance it from the Smalltalk name/association which they believe may be holding it back. There is/has been a long heat
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by vfclists 12y ago
> Correct. This is a strength and a weakness. I was enamored to Smalltalk early on (back in 95 when I learned it in a course) for this very reason. But then the Internet was happening, the world of computing became a lot more heterogeneo
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by vfclists 12y ago
You got it wrong actually. Smalltalk is not supposed to integrate with everything. It is everything which is supposed to become Smalltalk based, the desktop/working space, the GUI and the IDE, right down to the OS and the kernel. Small
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by vfclists 12y ago
Is there something about a chain of trust people don't understand? A chain of trust doesn't mean a commercial body, as that implies that being commercial makes it more trustworthy. It means any individuals or groups you can tr
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by vfclists 12y ago
He should realize that he is more inclined to be a blogger and a writer rather than professional programmer. He just needs to realize that and go for short term contract or part time gigs which enable to get pursue his Lisp or other teachin
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by vfclists 12y ago
He could do with some help in the near term, but in the long term he should be fine. He needs to socialize more in an environment that will get him a job that allows him to pursue his passion and get out some more. Perhaps some unobtrusive
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by vfclists 12y ago
To be honest I have no idea what homoiconic means. I think it means that everything is the same, ie whether a function in the case of functional languages like Haskell, or an object in languages like Smalltalk.
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by vfclists 12y ago
I mean they sit on a board responsible which is taking years to make Javascript a tractable language, and at this rate it looks like that is never going to happen. Shumway has everything to do with EME not on a technical level, but on a bus
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by vfclists 12y ago
Predictable
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by vfclists 12y ago
No wonder I thought my post had gone missing
952.
by vfclists 12y ago
May I ask when the highly optimized JS JIT is going to arrive? My question is why they are implementing a Flash replacement in Javascript when C or C++ would be better. Adobe's problem with Flash is that it is not open source and its b
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by vfclists 12y ago
I suspect I've rubbed a few redditors the wrong way. Why does should the announcement of acquiescence to DRM have to mention Adobe? They could have announced that they have capitulated first, and they are sorting out the details later.
954.
by vfclists 12y ago
When is PostgreSQL going to get its own modern language which is functional/object-oriented/homoiconic/has-all-new-fangled-goodies built in, with a GUI language thrown in for good measure, so I can do everything in PostgreSQL
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by vfclists 12y ago
Who are exactly are the W3C if not the big three, with Mozilla, Adobe and Yahoo etc tagging along? I can't stand naive comments from those who complain about standards bodies when the standards bodies are the big companies and/or
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by vfclists 12y ago
Is PostgreSQL going to get its own programming language that is functional/object-oriented/homoiconic/has-all-the-new-fangled-goodies that will allow us to do anything and everything, together with GUI language, so we can for
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by vfclists 12y ago
What makes you so sure?
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by vfclists 12y ago
Having all my keystrokes sent to Google is the main reason why I don't use Chrome. Can this app guard against it, ie only send my keystrokes to Google only when I enter a Google URL?
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by vfclists 12y ago
But aren't there just too many frameworks? A new one comes out every other day. Or is it because it so easy to announce them on Hacker News?
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by vfclists 12y ago
Will it get a totally admin based method to upgrade Drupal 6 & 7 sites, ie something that doesn't require migrate scripts?

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