dilandau

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by dilandau 6y ago
>sql alternative #1427904 that absolutely nobody will ever use Love it or hate it, sql is a standard and there is a ton of knowledge (stackoverflow answers, books, tutorials) and tooling (query builders, orms). This is either hopelessly
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by dilandau 6y ago
Doesn't understand the difference between free-lance software engineer and indentured gypsy cab driver. ...not going to make it.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Rightful king of the top comment. I got a phone that is just usb-c. Carrying around the adapter sucks, and Bluetooth is an even bigger pain in the ass.
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by dilandau 6y ago
It's easier to pull out a soapbox and make ridiculous speeches like these, than to actually make a gui application. If you're making something for free or for fun, then let curiosity guide you. Bureaucrats like yourself can commen
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by dilandau 6y ago
Great point. You could say that the "lies" are propaganda, as much as the advertisement that they are the vehicle for. Inundated with this much propaganda, which points to the impotence of the individual, no wonder we're seei
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by dilandau 6y ago
Ah yes, the "computer as glorified typewriter" blog post. Needless to say, I think these appeal to people because: Encourage consumption (of old/novelty hardware) Promise of "productivity" (the holy grail for hn com
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by dilandau 6y ago
Love to see the Perl team discussing these issues in such a thoughtful way. Over the years I have learned to value stability and backwards compatibility, through hard lessons (which were often quite expensive to my employer). But no one val
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by dilandau 6y ago
When 1 company is responsible for the most cancerous, complicated, baroque, developer-hostile libraries? I think it's fine to ask these questions. Would you create a new open-source desktop application using gtk4? Would you want to pac
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by dilandau 6y ago
I still use tcl/tk and it's still the best choice for apps of modest requirements, in my opinion. It's stable (unlike gtk), and truly free (unlike qt, which is also a c++ behemoth). It's utterly simple and elegant.
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by dilandau 6y ago
This is the comment I wish I had made. The transition from 2 to 3 was terrible for end users, distros, and app developers. I wonder if redhat is trying to embrace/extend/extinguish because it's impossible for me to see gtk (a
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by dilandau 6y ago
StatusIcon and AppIndicator is extremely annoying. Clientside decorations, ridiculous headerbar, button+hamburger menus, etc, etc. They are trying their absolute hardest to copy Mac os, and making sure everyone's stuff breaks in the me
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by dilandau 6y ago
GTK is openly hostile to 3rd party developers and theme makers, ever since gtk became synonymous with gnome (around 3.0). This is going to be a nightmare for open-source developers and distros, which will likely be forced to support both fo
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by dilandau 6y ago
Lain is certified midwit tier. It appeals to the r/iamverysmart types.
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by dilandau 6y ago
If you want to 10x, I suggest an anime username as well.
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by dilandau 6y ago
For fucks sake if you are trying to make money, why are you doing open source? Or, to put it another way, if you are doing open source, why are you so hung up on getting paid for it?
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by dilandau 6y ago
You left out the worst of them: Twitter. Slot-machine of the internet. rage, outrage, xenophobia, name-calling, name-dropping, celebrity, manufactured 140 chars at a time. It's a culture killer.
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by dilandau 6y ago
I think it's a factor of these systems being cheap. Cheap software, cheap cameras, cheap storage, cheap compute. It's a shame we don't have a better use for all that stuff.
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by dilandau 6y ago
(triggered) I mean, I carry my phone around in my pocket, so I kinda expect at least big Google is watching me. And probably the cell network. And probably the government, passively. But RITE AID? What the hell, a fucking pharmacy? I mean:
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by dilandau 6y ago
What companies are behind the development of these camera+software solutions? I reckon it's just a couple?
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by dilandau 6y ago
Strawman. And a weak one at that. Fuck off with conflating the minimum amount of competency needed to secure the data you needlessly collect with that kind of naivete.
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by dilandau 6y ago
No fucking shit, came here to say: If you literally put a massive file on the public internet, what the actual fuck are you complaining about? The quality here is such shit. Let's snipe at amzn, everyone hates them because they're
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by dilandau 6y ago
Yeah, because some asshole business team decided that why should anyone sell a decent product anymore, when you can squeeze your customers for their personal information, and have a recurring/ongoing revenue stream? It's like thes
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by dilandau 6y ago
What about developers just being competent before deploying a database on the public internet? At least google "securing X" before just pumping data in.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Victims are not the DB admins. Victims are the people whose private data, or data they expect to be private, is exposed due to developer incompetence.
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by dilandau 6y ago
Personal theory: UFOs are not aliens "like people" but are somehow related to information/energy/consciousness.
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by dilandau 6y ago
To one who understands complex systems theory, this is completely unsurprising. All the emergent phenomena (fake reviews, pandering to Instagram, faux-chic, aspirational minimalism) in turn create more reaction, more phenomena. If we ask ou
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by dilandau 6y ago
Was PG always so precious, or have I just aged out of appreciating these sublimated attempts at bolstering ones sense of self?
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by dilandau 6y ago
Another outrage dump where prime members and AWS customers vent their spleen on the teat that nourishes their lives. It's a frail rebellion. A piece of performance art. Experimental theatre
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by dilandau 6y ago
In which pg spills a few hundred words humblebragging about his maverick status. I think the thing to measure is defiance rather than conformity, by the way. Much more interesting.
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by dilandau 6y ago
It's cringey as hell, but from a "making my career" perspective, it's clearly valuable to many in charge of hiring.

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