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by whyever 11y ago
I think Apple invested a lot of resources in making software battery-friendly. I'm not sure this has happened yet for Firefox or Chrome.
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by whyever 11y ago
Are you abusing tabs as bookmarks?
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by whyever 11y ago
I never understood why they didn't just make it an add-on.
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by whyever 11y ago
I try to use DuckDuckGo by default, but I have to switch to Google very often to get decent results.
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by whyever 11y ago
TextSecure used to be on F-droid, but Moxie wanted them to take it down, because it was not him signing the packages (a disadvantage to Google Play).
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by whyever 11y ago
Is this an advantage or disadvantage?
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by whyever 11y ago
I agree that you have to be very critical of Wikipedia articles. Often they are of poor quality and contain mistakes. But that is true for most sources. My point is that I don't see how Wikipedia is worse than some random website or
398.
by whyever 11y ago
I remember that when Wikipedia was new, people were more willing to trust something that a random guy said on his website or in some book rather than what was written on Wikipedia. I never understood that. Wikipedia at least has more eyebal
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by whyever 11y ago
Self-hosted ads are at a competitive disadvantage, because they are not as targeted as ads that can track you over several websites.
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by whyever 11y ago
I think it is intentional. Rust wants you to be explicit about lifetimes in type definitions.
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by whyever 11y ago
I think Rust has to mature some more. As far as I know, it is currently not possible to implement constant-time functions using stable Rust.
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by whyever 11y ago
Multithreading lets you share memory. Multiprocessing requires you to serialize your data and copy it to the other processes. That can be very expensive. This only matters for performance-critical applications.
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by whyever 11y ago
> It's not that painful to write in large quantities, at least no more so than other static languages. And (given the IDE support), it's significantly easier to refactor code in Java than a dynamic language. Java does not have
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by whyever 11y ago
> Personally, given, I like how Go has things like channels, but I would never adopt a programming language for just one specific feature when I lose out on other features that are valuable to me, for instance, an object model. That real
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by whyever 11y ago
And then you have to deal with null pointers.
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by whyever 11y ago
It does not serve C++ well. Many programmers try to minimize dependencies, because having dependencies is hard to deal with. If you need a specific version for instance, you can't rely on the OS's packaging.
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by whyever 11y ago
I completely agree. ggplot is the only reason why I sometimes use R.
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by whyever 11y ago
Not really if you car about efficiency.
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by whyever 11y ago
Half-Life 3 is not even vaporware. It was never announced, was it?
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by whyever 11y ago
Unfortunately unicode in Python 3 is not necessarily better. See http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/ .
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by whyever 11y ago
It also validates the opinion that anti-virus software is increasing the attack surface, possibly outweighing the benefits.
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by whyever 11y ago
> Browsers, critical OS components, databases, etc. are security critical, while games aren't. This is only true for singleplayer games. For multiplayer games security is critical, because they are exposed to the internet.
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by whyever 11y ago
SVG is also not supported.
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by whyever 11y ago
Didn't congress look for evidence of them preventing terrorism and found nothing?
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by whyever 12y ago
It is a German thing as well: The Telekom sells mobile user data [1] (link in German). [1] http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/datenschutz-vag-i...
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by whyever 12y ago
How can you have a POD struct without pointers if one of your fields is a string?
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by whyever 12y ago
If I recall correctly, Moxie stated that SMS support was a mistake.
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by whyever 12y ago
Care to say why?
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by whyever 12y ago
I'm well aware of what you wrote, and I'm well aware of the section you are citing. Their method of measuring copyright infringement is very sketchy. They can only measure public links, so they miss the majority of the data stored
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by whyever 12y ago
I don't really see why you need those advanced features. In my experience, as soon as I'm requiring non-basic features, I actually shouldn't be using spreadsheets.

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