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by wvh 6y ago
It probably mostly died down because the battle really was elsewhere than in Europe. The EU does try to regulate American tech companies though; how successfully, that's up for debate.
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by wvh 6y ago
I think the complexity of RAID might even itself be the reason of data loss in quite a few cases. Of course in a corporate environment with whole racks full of disks it makes sense, but at home I just rather synchronise single disks. Make&#
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by wvh 6y ago
Why not cooperate with the Qt people? I've experimented with some minor Hello World stuff in Qt several times over the years, but it's the C++ that tends to put me off. Some official bindings or deeper integration might draw peopl
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by wvh 6y ago
Many years back I had the opportunity to visit one of those data centres at the heart of Europe's financial operations. In case of fire, you had a minute or so to get out, because then the place is pumped full of argon. I guess that&#x
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by wvh 6y ago
I assume you're German? I'm in Northern Europe and most products I order online come through German retailers: music equipment, clothes, outdoor stuff, bike parts, ... I guess Germany has a large enough economy to support larger r
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by wvh 7y ago
I assume organisations that need such complex layout also have a budget to pull together immersive HTML pages, infographic design or comprehensive reports. For instance the WHO has some pretty complex and visually pleasing reports; they se
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by wvh 7y ago
I mostly agree – which probably betrays my age – though when the load exceeds one server, you're going to have to orchestrate no matter what: deployment, load balancing, fail-over, system updates. While I'm critical of Kubernetes&
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by wvh 7y ago
Some high-end products keep their price better though. You can probably sell that $3000 guitar or guitar amp for close to what you paid for it. Extreme example is a house; luckily you can move away and get most of your money (or more!) back
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by wvh 7y ago
Big companies and organisations often have tightly controlled fixed budgets, and in my experience it's hard to get variable-rate services approved. In fact, even for a personal-use account, I'd rather have a fixed amount than risk
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by wvh 7y ago
I've noticed that when creating a large, dynamic, multi-tab form, the labels and help texts can get in the way of actually viewing the actual entered information in the form. It's actually pretty tricky to come up with technical s
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by wvh 7y ago
JSON is a lot friendlier up front though, and hopefully you don't need to go all-in. But the rabbit hole can get pretty deep with both JSON and XML validation, meta-schemas and -DTDs. Depending on what you're trying to do, some of
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by wvh 7y ago
Ah... the eternal problem of how to solve pushing down authorisation into the database layer without wrapping all "simple" queries with logic along the lines of "only if owner imatchess id...". I understand SQL is a gene
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by wvh 7y ago
Microsoft killed Meego and Nokia, taking part of Finland with it. What I don't understand is why the board of Nokia went for it. Granted, I've been in the open-source world for a long time so my opinions might not be those of the
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by wvh 7y ago
I once tried to plan such a train trip – I travel semi-regularly between Scandinavia and Central Europe – and while I wouldn't mind to take a two day trip as a bit of an adventure, the price was prohibitively expensive. This is a nice
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by wvh 7y ago
Grocery stores here have had those e-ink price tags for a few years already, so I guess at least those are not expensive in bulk. Not sure if the same economy of scale applies to the larger screens or if there are still technological diffic
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by wvh 7y ago
One reason would be to make sure somebody's still around. I'd make tiny updates to let dependents know that I'm still watching the code base. Where I work, code is (sadly enough) dead pretty much when workers' contracts
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by wvh 7y ago
> ... and last but not least it definitely adds joy and excitement . Akin to the person with the boombox on public transport. I could imagine wanting to highlight some keywords myself – for myself – but now my screen has turned into a co
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by wvh 7y ago
But is it the drug or the shared experience itself?
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by wvh 7y ago
If the person who did the testing reads this, thank you for sharing that information. I think it's important to know which providers are good hosting options for smaller companies and personal projects without providing a bad, unreliab
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by wvh 7y ago
There are surprisingly many ways to do JSON in Go. There's reflection with the stdlib as well as keeping parts of it as "raw" byte slices; code generation with packages like ffjson and easyjson; practically hand-built with go
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by wvh 7y ago
I use a Sailfish phone, and Meego before that. I suppose a lot of geeks are exactly the sort of people that actually want to use all possible functionality of and software for their phone, "power users", and are most handicapped b
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by wvh 7y ago
I run my own mail server for receiving, but send through a commercial provider (Fastmail). I also use user-sub@domain style email addresses. If I have occasionally have to send email from those addresses, I edit the From line in the Fastmai
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by wvh 7y ago
Meego, Jolla, Puzzlephone, Firefox phone, Ubuntu phone, Librem, etc... Is there really that little demand that it's a nearly impossible task to get any "alternative" phone going?
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by wvh 7y ago
It's a valuable lesson to be learnt during one's career, especially if one tends to come up with very unique and esoteric solutions, or is heavily into all things novel. Your beautiful system isn't an island, and it's go
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by wvh 7y ago
A lot of corporations will gladly destroy the environment, the fabric of society and human happiness just to turn a profit. The government will try to regulate business but often ignorantly and inefficiently. As usually, the answer lies som
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by wvh 7y ago
We're far from a cruel species lacking empathy. We need to eat, we're omnivores and it's more like our "production methods" have not yet caught up with our magnitude. We act like any other similar animal would do, e
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by wvh 7y ago
Because lots of companies have been hosting infrastructure elsewhere, with real managed servers or complete racks as unit. Now you supposedly don't have to know or care anymore that there actually are real servers and real infrastructu
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by wvh 7y ago
The problem I see is that the OPS code has outgrown your actual application code. This application code you own, and can be open software. But the deeper you go into the cloud/serverless landscape, the less of your actual product you o
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by wvh 7y ago
But... Doesn't every MicroSDXC card support up to the maximum available addressing limit? If it supports a 64GB card, it should also support a 512GB card, though the manufacturer probably doesn't want to guarantee anything that do
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by wvh 7y ago
This is an example of how censorship can boomerang back into the face of those it tries or claims to protect. I think policing words and topics will have a negative impact in the long run for most situations. Simple AI (or even human censor

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