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by danford 12y ago
Welp tptacek has never seen anything like this so it must be made up! Obviously tptacek is smarter than the entire NSA. You heard it on HN folks! Nothing to worry about.
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by danford 12y ago
Did you ever think that maybe the majority of the Linux community knows better than you?
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by danford 12y ago
I think it's just a vocal minority. It's hard to say that "closed source" even has a community, so of course it's easy to point out assholes in the open source community. I find (about half the time) submitting an i
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by danford 12y ago
It won't be tolerable until we weed out anyone who might say anything that anyone finds slightly offensive. No jokes allowed. You think laws made to help people get up from the bottom tier should apply to everyone on the bottom tier an
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by danford 12y ago
Have these programs been responsible for actually stopping any large scale terrorist attacks?
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by danford 12y ago
Is Fedora 21 Alpha my best choice for trying this out?
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by danford 12y ago
>The galaxy note is made out of plastic, it wouldn't bend, it would break, if subjected to the same forces. This video says different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0
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by danford 12y ago
But will the galaxy S4 bend in your pocket and still be bent when you take it out?
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by danford 12y ago
>This is a problem with any object of similar proportions and rigidity when sufficient pressure is applied. Well they need to change their design then. It's a design flaw.
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by danford 12y ago
>SquareTrade found that the iPhone 6 holds up impressively well in drops, spills and slips But surprisingly they didn't test bends.
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by danford 12y ago
Horrible idea. If you tried to unify them you would have one bloated piece of crap or a desktop 90% of people hate. I like having the choice between a few good DEs. What I don't understand is why Apple or Microsoft have yet to create a
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by danford 12y ago
Well I know I can't be the only person who had to look this up: >Teetotalism refers to either the practice of, or the promotion of, complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages. I mean, I kind of inferred, but this is my fi
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by danford 12y ago
Except it's not open source. If it's not open source then you have no idea what's going on beyond what Apple tells you. Ask your self: Would Snowden use this phone? Your answer to this question is the same as the answer to th
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by danford 12y ago
Could you expand or provide a link?
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by danford 12y ago
But how much did the iphone 4 cost? If you pay $800 over 8 years thats $100 dollars a year. This thing only costs $100 every two years.
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by danford 12y ago
Isn't it likely that two years from now the price for a new phone will have dropped? So it could go from ~$100USD to maybe ~$70USD. Even if you upgraded something like an iPhone every 5 years it would cost more though. I could buy thes
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by danford 12y ago
>At the last conference I attended, ~9/10 engineers were running macbooks They're both tired tropes. There is a pretty reasonable mix of hardware and software run by 'engineers' and no where near 90% are macs. edit:
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by danford 12y ago
Genuinely curious as somewhat of a novice, can any one give an example of how javascript is insecure in a way that is difficult to fix?
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by danford 12y ago
Don't know why you're getting down voted either. My old ipod touch is basically a brick. The battery doesn't last more than an hour, I can't update the OS anymore, 90% of apps aren't for my older version of iOS, and
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by danford 12y ago
Well it's hard to say that JS had this much attention in 1995. Let's give swift 20 years and see where it takes us?
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by danford 12y ago
Don't know why you're getting down voted, sure Swift has some neat features, but if any other company released something like this that was closed source, no one would really care.
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by danford 12y ago
I would have to disagree. It all depends on how you learn JS. I really liked the book JavaScript: The Definitive Guide 6th Ed. which at many points talked about the differences between JS and C. As someone who learned JS as a first langua
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by danford 12y ago
It's not technically legal in any country because of a UN treaty. I think part of the reason it hasn't 'taken off' in countries where laws aren't enforced/it's decriminalized/etc is because you can&#x
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by danford 12y ago
Amen Brother. I imagine a world where closed source software is looked down on in disgrace as unsafe and nonsensical. Soon we're going to see more and more successful closed source software companies switch to an open source model. One
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by danford 12y ago
What about the firefox built-in pdf reader or google docs?
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by danford 12y ago
It's like people don't think the same stuff is happening behind closed doors at other large tech companies. Forget to turn off a mic at a political conference? You get worse stuff than this.
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by danford 12y ago
How much training does it actually take to learn the GNOME 3 interface though? I use to train people at a call center how to use an old terminal based DOS application to fill out orders for sausage in 3 8-hour days. But gnome 3 is a lot mor
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by danford 12y ago
Gnome 3 works pretty well on my desktop. But I use the keyboard for navigation a lot.
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by danford 12y ago
Do windows programmers not know how to use a terminal?
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by danford 12y ago
WorldWideWayne thanks for opening my eyes. You sure are smart. :^) edit: I just had to post this from your comment history, I think we could both use a chuckle: "I'm the other VIC-20 vote so far and I don't know where my fami

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