coribuci

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by coribuci 6y ago
> I hope you are joking and I am failing to pick up on it. Because such cases can be made for many human interest stories. Unless the boy was driving a self driving car I really don't see the significance to HN. Well, the car featur
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by coribuci 6y ago
> > Electron > Oh God please no. I don't need or want every application wrapped in a browser engine. Why not ? Dont't you like those funny little creatures called worms ? Remember Visual Basic ?
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by coribuci 6y ago
> UWP is the future of Windows APIs, Win32 is mostly frozen since WIndows XP. Frozen is usually a good thing. > Microsoft is just making UWP similar to what Google is making with AndroidX, detaching the technology from the OS version.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> Is not WinUI the extraction of the UI part of the UWP stack? Yes namespaces break, but concepts and controls are from the same linage. UWP is more than the UI. It has also sandboxing and deployment. The UWP has everything except a GUI.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> This basically fixes all of them by building a common umbrella that all existing UI toolkits (UWP, WPF, WinForms, Win32) can use. So intead of a screwdriver, a wrench or a hex key you have now a hammer.
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by coribuci 6y ago
That's because they dont know how to use the telemetry from calc yet. Wait, they just sold it to an advertising company.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> I wonder if it is illegal under GDPR to include spying apps on phones without telling the user. It is illegal but it is not enforced.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> It's anonymized in the sense that you don't know who it will be sold to and what they will do with it. So "It's anonymized" but It's not anonymized. > In all seriousness, this is a point GDPR struggle
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by coribuci 6y ago
> I wonder how many devices already do this. All Android phones. But they send the data to google and facebook so they must be good.
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by coribuci 6y ago
No.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> To equate "politics" with lying, stealing, and corruption is the sort of cynicism that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Politics _is_ lying, stealing and corruption. > This article is fundamentally based on the fact tha
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by coribuci 6y ago
So instead of lots of malware you just stick to one.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> I would still prefer to have to trust just one authority for my platform than a multitude of random developers. Single point of failure. > > Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce. > Ther
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by coribuci 6y ago
> Chrome can always be replaced just like Internet Explorer was. Is not even the default on most platforms. Firefox is more or less Chrome. Edge same. Vivaldi is also Chrome. > Safari on the other hand... You're not even allowed
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by coribuci 6y ago
> Google spying on people and selling their data is worse from my point of view than anything MS did. Also, Apple has a far greater lock down on their products than MS ever dreamed of. But it is no (so much) worse than what MS does with
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by coribuci 6y ago
> However, at least in Win 98 SE, PostScript drivers finally worked… sort of… > Fun fact: Up to NS4 / IE4, you couldn't print a JavaScript generated HTML output, which was a major restriction in the days, when "the Inte
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by coribuci 6y ago
> Der Arzt/die Ärztin, der Pfleger/die Pflegerin (I think "Krankenschwester" isn't being used formally anymore) Now you are being sexist. Of course Krankenschwester is used but it has a different meaning than Kra
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by coribuci 6y ago
> This article is about cars driving in simulation, not on the real streets. But I do wonder how they can introduce truly "unpredictable" events in the simulations. Like normal SW: Requirement: navigate this road with those si
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by coribuci 6y ago
Companies do not buy quality.They buy "integration". If your slack does not work with Office 365 you're doomed.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> Teams has its issues, but compared to skype its amazing in my opinion. Granted, skype is a pretty low bar to compare with, but still. Yeah, it's amazing that such an aborted thing ever seen the day of life. Skype looks like a wind
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by coribuci 6y ago
depends on the director and the script.
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by coribuci 6y ago
Snow white is dark ??? Disney is brainwash for children.
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by coribuci 6y ago
Keep in mind that this book was written in USA
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by coribuci 6y ago
> Open-source sucks at UX. I think because there's no community behind open-source UX like there is in the inner workings of systems, where people just want to get shit done.. You have to pay UX developers and designers to do their
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by coribuci 6y ago
> but it's not always malicious. this is a general problem with humans. They are "convince" that they do good even when they don't. > sometimes building something new seems obvious. i have to push hard to get peopl
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by coribuci 6y ago
> We evolved feelings, morals, the concept of cruelty in order to care about human life. You can choose to care about whatever you want of course, but careful with your priorities. I would not be so sure about feelings and morals. Cruelt
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by coribuci 6y ago
> Good designers don't work for free. Is there any company employing them ? Because i find the user interfaces from the 80-90 even 00 much more usable that the today's crap. Remember help buton ? Remember buttons ? Why does win
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by coribuci 6y ago
> "the info that identifies your face, iris, or fingerprint never leaves your device." - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468253/windows-10-... . Of course not.
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by coribuci 6y ago
It is the same on chrome or firefox. Empty window only with url bar. You need to type in the url bar to write something. Writing software is hard. Using your brain while writing software is even harder.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> (I have no idea what's happening in Windows 10 land. I have one remaining Windows machine, running Windows 7.) I use a laptop with an external monitor. When the monitor is not connected, Adobe Reader windows have the title bar out

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