gddr

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by gddr 4y ago
Someone needs to make a distributed one that can't be regulated. If they're going to use cryptocurrency to fund drugs and crime we might as well use it for the good stuff too.
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by gddr 4y ago
You basically just explained good software engineering. Code that does one, well-defined, necessary thing and does it well. If you want to "do a thing", a DoThing() function is the optimal way to represent it. You can't get a
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by gddr 14y ago
Which sounds like the only logical solution.
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by gddr 14y ago
Isn't that something you could investigate and prove? Look up 1000 randomly-generated domains from different IPs, check later if any of them are registered, done.
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by gddr 14y ago
Indeed, blocking Facebook Connect or disabling Javascript makes the page show empty (on all browsers).
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by gddr 14y ago
Luckily I'm on a 30Mbps connection now ;-)
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by gddr 14y ago
I hate Steam's DRM. People keep trying to convince people that it does not actually require an Internet connection and all that. Try using it for 6 months with a 0.2 Mbps connection that gets randomly cut every 5-10 seconds. It can literall
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by gddr 14y ago
Just accept the future man. "Pyramid From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A pyramid (from Greek: πυραμίς pyramis[1]) is a structure whose shape is roughly that of a pyramid in the geometric sense; that is, its outer surfaces are triangul
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by gddr 14y ago
I read somewhere about how Windows introduced in early versions the ability to make buttons look "3D" (update: here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/28/19958... ), and for the next few years every program made its butto
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by gddr 14y ago
RGBA can be unintuitive. Opera implemented transitions by interpolating them (I think it's solved now), which turns out not to work very well: http://bugs.hawn.be/opera/transitions/color/
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by gddr 14y ago
As a long-time Yahoo mail user, I'd say basically any email service is better than Yahoo Mail, at least if we're talking about their webmail interfaces. (Protip: http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch )
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by gddr 14y ago
You know you can buy tablets with Windows 7 today right? It does not have a touch-optimized interface but you can run any program on it, and you might even be able to dual-boot Android.
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by gddr 14y ago
I just wondered if it would be possible for a company to sign something saying that they will not accept any settlement (larger than $0) with the other company (and that if they do they'll have to give an obscenely large amount of money to
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by gddr 14y ago
Opera seems to have it too, but I don't use it much. It also has had "labels" (as opposed to folders) and message indexing for quite some time, I believe this was one of its main selling points.
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by gddr 14y ago
Theres's A LOT of emotional weight attached to these kind of issues. People tend to pick one side and feel identified with them (ingroups) and get angry at people at the other side. Politics basically. It's funny/depressing to go at certai
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by gddr 14y ago
For example, if you want to play a game with someone who's on the other side of the world (or the galaxy) without that annoying lag imposed by relativity, you can simply have them send you a full scan of their brain, and then you can simula
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by gddr 14y ago
I think computing power would be a much bigger issue than bandwidth. You'd need to run many instances of the game for each user, and continuously kill and fork them. And frankly, a $500 computer today can already display quite good graphics
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by gddr 14y ago
It's funny, because in my (shitty) country, we have a "communications industry regulator" that basically does only this: sue people who give free internet. Well I get 30Mbps for less than 40€/month, so I can't complain I guess...
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by gddr 14y ago
You said it. I have this feeling people tend to forget developers are users too. The "don't make me think" rule still applies even if their job is thinking. So if you really want people to use your system (API, library, IDE, programming lan
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by gddr 14y ago
In 15 years we are all gonna surf the web in a "virtual browser" that will be coded in HTML + Javascript running inside another browser. Ha ha, that's silly, I'm just joking. Or am I?
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by gddr 14y ago
That was interesting. I've often wondered if it would be possible to ditch the current keyboard layouts and start from zero. If I had to do that, my initial approach would probably be letters + a certain number of modifier keys. Each one wo
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by gddr 14y ago
Fun fact: Opera has had "widgets", which are basically the same thing as this, since version 9 (2006). They could run without having the main browser open, and when I looked inside their folders, I was surprised to see that, indeed, each on
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by gddr 14y ago
I used mailcatch.com, but I always ran into problems like sites that block temporary accounts. So I decided to make a Google account for all my, ahem, "NSFW needs". Which would also give me the ability to like/dislike videos on YouTube, and