gbl08ma

6 ms·

1.
by gbl08ma 5y ago
One could argue that this would fall into child labor laws, which exist for a reason.
2.
by gbl08ma 5y ago
This sounds like it would break a bunch of email address verification systems, password recovery links and the like. I wonder if indeed it does break them, but since it only affects smaller websites nobody seems to care.
3.
by gbl08ma 5y ago
On non-jailbroken iOS devices the only way to install apps is through the App Store or through some convoluted methods which involve having a developer account (which you must pay yearly for), and I believe the % of jailbroken iOS devices i
4.
by gbl08ma 5y ago
For those wondering, this is 100% an Apple-directed decision. The strings for a canary version of the client, at one point, blamed App Store rules directly: https://github.com/Discord-Datamining/Discord-Datamining/
5.
by gbl08ma 5y ago
All of that is bandwidth and clock speed, not latency
6.
by gbl08ma 6y ago
I had heard about this giant JSON from friends in the GTA V modding community. OP's idea of what it is used for is right. My guess is that this JSON was quite smaller when the game released and has been increasing in size as they add m
7.
by gbl08ma 6y ago
The new default icon set drives me nuts as well. Fortunately, you can select other icon sets in the settings.
8.
by gbl08ma 6y ago
Based on what I saw in past discussions, I'm pretty sure that the takedown was not a run-of-the-mill scraper-based takedown (it makes no sense to be taken down just for linking to videos which, at best, is what any scrapers would have
9.
by gbl08ma 6y ago
It doesn't work like that since certain videos use obfuscation methods that random cat videos don't.
10.
by gbl08ma 6y ago
MySQL not having a proper type to express time spans seems like a fault to me, and "poor design". Of course you can just use an integer for it, but that is a slippery slope, in the end you'll find that you can use strings or
11.
Time for a WTF MySQL Moment(gbl08ma.com)
327 points by gbl08ma 6y ago|114 comments
12.
by gbl08ma 7y ago
I, too, develop for Android and, like you say, we have the "luxury" of being able to do it on both Windows and Linux (and macOS as well, if I wanted). Even .NET development is more cross-platform than ever, with .NET Core. One of
13.
by gbl08ma 7y ago
The way I see it, "desktop-dependent workflows" overlap more and more with those "Windows-dependent workflows". Nowadays, most people don't need more than a web browser, and in that sense they do just fine with a ta
14.
by gbl08ma 7y ago
I agree with you on the clipboard thing, but as with every other API that gives access to sensitive information, they could have put it behind a permission prompt. It wouldn't make the situation worse than it is now, and wouldn't
15.
Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber(gbl08ma.com)
282 points by gbl08ma 7y ago|115 comments
16.
by gbl08ma 8y ago
You might be pleased or displeased to know that at Técnico they no longer teach Scheme in the introductory programming course, nowadays it's Python. When I did the AI course, the project was still to be developed in Lisp, but more rece
17.
by gbl08ma 9y ago
Immersive but also very battery draining...
18.
by gbl08ma 9y ago
I believe that hours going up to 12 instead of going 0 .. 11 is because you can't quite hear a bell strike zero times, no?
19.
by gbl08ma 9y ago
I have a bit of a obsession with the Lisbon Metro, even though I don't use it very often. I started by building this: https://github.com/gbl08ma/disturbancesmlx This started as more of a statistics page for the se
20.
by gbl08ma 9y ago
For a perhaps more well-known example, see the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They sell, obviously, Raspberry Pis - a lot of them. They are a charitable organization, which is a type of NPO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasp
21.
NTLM Hash Leaks: Microsoft's Ancient Design Flaw – Dylan Katz(dylankatz.com)
2 points by gbl08ma 9y ago|0 comments
22.
by gbl08ma 9y ago
I own a Surface Pro 3 with the SP4 type cover (i.e. the version before the one that just came out and which is basically the same). I thought I'd miss all the keys from my laptop and desktop keyboards. Turns out, there are lots of hidd
23.
by gbl08ma 9y ago
8.1 is supported, 8 is not. Support for Windows 8 ended on January 12, 2016.
24.
by gbl08ma 10y ago
> right now NN, as I understand it, is not so much about the current state of things, but about making sure that future "wikipedias" and "facebooks" get the same chances as the current ones. Right now there are no via
25.
by gbl08ma 10y ago
See guelo's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13767782 ) Just because Wikimedia is not seeking profits or even looking to somehow "stay ahead" with this deal, that doesn't mean it isn't
26.
by gbl08ma 10y ago
You kid, but as much as I like Wikimedia (and as much as I would like to access Wikipedia free of mobile data charges), I think this objectively makes it harder for projects in the same field to compete, even if just a tiny bit. I like to t
27.
by gbl08ma 10y ago
I use WSL inside Cmder/Conemu. It's probably not as good as a "true" Linux terminal, but I found it to be better than using the Windows console (which to be honest, became much better in Windows 10, but still not enough)
28.
by gbl08ma 10y ago
Yes, I scrolled until the end only to find out its only available in app form. I wanted to play around with it, but this made me give up. I'm not going to install an app (worse: I'll have to free some space on my phone to do it) j
29.
by gbl08ma 10y ago
I know that when the color heads on my printers are obstructed, black text will often come washed out (as if you printed in economy mode, or worse). I have looked at black text, printed with my newer Epson, with a magnifying glass, and I ca
30.
by gbl08ma 10y ago
Most printers do - at least that's what I found out after I realized both of my Epson printers wouldn't print in black without color cartridges. Color cartridges are still used when printing in black and white, because the black i

More ›