VieElm

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by VieElm 11y ago
This is article is contradicting itself although it may not be so obvious. I imagine dwelling on regrets can be classified as a bullshit activity. It certainly does for me. I am sure you can infer the rest of my argument. Just do the best
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by VieElm 11y ago
If you're in the United States you should call the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children[1]. They already work with internet service providers to help identify unencrypted images depicting abuse transported over their ne
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by VieElm 11y ago
Now watch this question pop up on technical interviews everywhere for days because people read about it here.
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by VieElm 11y ago
> The fab (silicon manufacturing company) gives only a 5 year guarantee for the smartphone/tablet chips (with presumably some allowance). I'm not sure that bodes well for smart watches selling at 4+ figures.
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by VieElm 11y ago
> Historically, Germany has always been a militaristic country who have repeatedly tried to take over the world France invaded all of Europe starting in 1803, and pretty much all of the other European powers invaded all the continents of
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by VieElm 11y ago
I think the problem with "forgiving" the debt is that 1. someone is going to pay for that debt, the debt that is owed to someone is on their balance sheet as (rapidly declining) value they possess. That is the debt doesn't ma
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by VieElm 11y ago
The Marshall plan was preceded by the Morgenthau plan which would have destroyed Germany's ability to ever create war again, reducing Germany to subsistence level farming. The Allied occupiers actually began destroying the German infra
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by VieElm 11y ago
Pie charts are already a terrible visualization, this is way worse. You're supposed to compare the area of these half circle shaped rotated slices easily? Should have just used a bar chart, in fact why wouldn't you use a bar char
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by VieElm 11y ago
Honest question, wouldn't you just write a lexer with yacc/bison for a DSL? How does a full programming language act as a base for a DSL, which is usually more limited than a programming language?
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by VieElm 11y ago
Well it's lack of security makes it probably not an OS you'd want run untrusted code on. Like if you made a browser for it I'm not sure it would be easy to sandbox it to protect your computer from serious harm. Any program ca
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by VieElm 11y ago
There was recent news on the detrimental effects of general anesthesia has on the very young and old. Apparently it can be neurotoxic but healthy adults don't seem to have long lasting problems.
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by VieElm 11y ago
I don't understand the criticism, what are they supposed to say instead? When an attacked company says "we take security seriously" it's probably a statement made by someone in the company who really does care about it a
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by VieElm 11y ago
When Digg died it was a combination of unpopular policy and a completely broken v4 upgrade that broke the site for weeks.
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by VieElm 11y ago
> Can you ignore safari and pretend it doesn't exist, and lose those customers? No. No you can't. Actually we can, and where I work we do. Never has anyone complained about it. SO everything is just fine. So I don't need t
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by VieElm 11y ago
> then the developers will simply follow the users. That didn't happen with IE6. I think the web as platform is bigger than Apple as big as it may be. It's amazing to me that you're OK with a single company holding back th
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by VieElm 11y ago
Nothing you've said here really addresses the problem discussed and really you're looking at this from the perspective of the consumer and not the developer. > Safari is nowhere near that bad [as IE was in the past] Doesn'
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by VieElm 11y ago
Microsoft is obligated to its stakeholders (investors and employees) to capture all the value it can for the products it creates. They're not building software out of goodwill. You do have the choice to not buy Office if you don't
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by VieElm 11y ago
> Probably younger people with good eyes won't be able to understand the reasoning behind it ;-) Serious question, have you tried reading glasses? You don't have to just deal with bad eyes as you age, you can wear reading glass
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by VieElm 11y ago
Right why link to the TC article instead of the blog post? I don't understand it.
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by VieElm 11y ago
The 50 character limit on the first line of a commit message really bugs me. I try to stay within 50 characters but sometimes I don't care. I can't always fit what I want in 50 chars and adding a second line can be too much. This
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by VieElm 11y ago
I don't enjoy doing anything with other people, but it's a necessity given that we need jobs to survive. I could be happy just hacking on something in a basement and never talking to a soul if I could. I can wear a smile if you ne
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by VieElm 11y ago
> Good programmers really enjoy talking about the details of the technology and how they solved challenging problems. I don't really enjoy talking about anything and usually do so as a necessity. I guess I don't fit in with the
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by VieElm 11y ago
If EtherPad had been GPL I have my doubts Hackpad would have ever been forked from it or if Hackpad would have even been a thing.
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by VieElm 11y ago
Microsoft is separating applications and Windows. Is that a new thing? Does this mean Outlook and Office are no longer part of the same internal organizational structures when they used to be? I think if this is true and a new development t
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by VieElm 11y ago
Yes you get column numbers and that really helps as well, but as mentioned new lines don't really hurt that much and I'd rather have some new lines than none. In response to others about using source maps, I'm talking about
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by VieElm 11y ago
On a side note, you should preserve some new lines in your minified js as it makes dealing with production JavaScript errors much easier, assuming you have some kind of onerror hook that sends you js errors. The new lines don't add muc
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by VieElm 11y ago
I use PyCharm every day and IntelliJ and I have never had this problem. Maybe it's a resource issue with your hardware though and your version of Java. I use the new versions that bundle OpenJDK on a newer Macbook Pro.
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by VieElm 11y ago
IntelliJ forks handle pasting large volumes of text much better than vim or sublime text in my opinion. IntelliJ will be able to maintain performant syntax highlighting because it builds an ast and does not use regular expressions.
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by VieElm 11y ago
Seriously if ads were just like unobtrusive text ads I would be ok with it. I have never minded advertisements in dead tree news papers and magazines (they also don't track users). Online ads are toxic.
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by VieElm 11y ago
I don't see how PayPal can track anything other than what I've spent money on. My bank can track that too. There's no control over this. I'm not sure there are any viable alternatives to Amazon or PayPal for what they do

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