maximus1983

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by maximus1983 7y ago
> Brexit, without the whole concept of targeted ads and the data collection that goes with it would have not been possible. However nobody mentioned all the people that didn't bother voting because they were at Glastonbury which was
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by maximus1983 7y ago
It hurts the non-scummy businesses as well. So the regulation causes problems for people that haven't done anything wrong. A lets be clear here. People aren't dying, it mostly ads and shitty data collection. I think it might be be
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by maximus1983 7y ago
Adtech will die once people start paying for things on the internet. When that will be who knows.
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by maximus1983 7y ago
Alex Jones is a meme. Everyone knows he is a nutcase. As for danger, the mainstream media is just as bad. In the UK we are having people Milkshaked, including veterans. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9144116/ex-para
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by maximus1983 7y ago
"I happen to know quite a lot about GDPR because I dealt with it at a client I was previously working with," There we go. You already done the time investment at someone else's expense. So thanks for proving my point. My comm
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by maximus1983 7y ago
The problem is any regulation is that it increases the startup costs for smaller businesses. So as more regulation comes in it will just end up cementing the large players in place as they can absorb the costs of any regulation, while small
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by maximus1983 7y ago
The whole fake news / conspiracy stuff gets me. I find conspiracy theories to be almost like some sort of sci-fi / fantasy lore. I love watching stuff like Ancient Aliens, I know it is complete nonsense but it is fun laughing at a
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by maximus1983 7y ago
You miss the point. The system is going to collapse anyway and long term thinking is needed
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by maximus1983 7y ago
And then the immigrants stay and get old and there is increased strain on the strained social systems. Most immigration systems in Europe assumed that the immigrants would go home once they have made some money. At some point it is goin
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by maximus1983 7y ago
I stole them from Code Project :D
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by maximus1983 7y ago
Totally disagree and I am rather dismayed by people conflating their bad experiences with people over-engineering with these principles. They are like anything else a good they are good rules of thumb when scaffolding your projects. Underst
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by maximus1983 7y ago
I don't like car analogies. A software engineer is like a plumber you link up lots of small components, weld them together and then the data flows through the application (at least that is the idea).
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by maximus1983 7y ago
> White collar crime is still crime. Oh comon. We know that most of the fanatics would like to see Gates in Chains. > Anyway, I think we've seen the whole repertoire by now, whataboutism, name calling, strawmen, I'm out of h
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by maximus1983 7y ago
Yeah. There are quite a few ways to do it. You can even get TCP/IP stack and a Web browser running (though things are very slow and many sites do not work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svTDHiBePyM
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by maximus1983 7y ago
I've done the same with my Amiga 600 / 1200 with a PCMCIA Ethernet Card and Miami. http://www.retro-commodore.eu/network-installation-on-the-am...
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by maximus1983 7y ago
The author uses the more complicated definitions of the SOLID principles. These are much simpler to remember: * Single responsibility principle - A class should have only a single responsibility, that is, only changes to one part of the sof
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by maximus1983 7y ago
TBH this is the pareto principle at work. Sure you can get a car roughly driving around the city autonomously (there are basic self driving cars back in the 1950s that drove on a wire track) but getting it perfect is where the vast majority
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by maximus1983 7y ago
> So, to summarize: vendor lock-in is a thing and the best way to get there is to create closed stuff that open source then has no chance to properly deal with. You can use this to strong-arm all kinds of entities to deal with you on you
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by maximus1983 7y ago
> What's next? Chauvanism is the reason we believe that men can lift heavier weights than women? I know you are joking to make a point but there are actually people that believe that.
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by maximus1983 7y ago
So you link a biased source against Microsoft to prove that Microsoft were conspiring with the council. They're reason to exist is to make Microsoft look bad.
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by maximus1983 7y ago
Yes different file formats are big deal. I've run into problems with just Doc files if they have forms embedded. I've had to deal with quite a lot from different councils in the UK. A lot of gov / HR departments etc have embe
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by maximus1983 7y ago
That is a flat out lie. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/munich_committee_sa... > Hübner said the city has struggled with LiMux adoption. "Users were unhappy and software essential for the pub
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by maximus1983 7y ago
It will be either one of these or a combination of these. * Windows has been approved by management to be the only OS allowed on the computer network * The software for showing the static images / videos and whatever manages it will ha
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by maximus1983 7y ago
There are studies that say that EVs are worse than Diesels as well. http://brusselstimes.com/business/technology/15050/electric-...
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by maximus1983 7y ago
I used to live near a train track. When I first moved there it bothered me quite a lot. When I moved out it was more like "what trains"?
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by maximus1983 7y ago
There is noway I am going to buy a new vehicle. I already have a car that is economical and reliable. EVs are great if you have the money for one but I am not putting my hand in my pocket when I have like a house to pay off first.
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by maximus1983 7y ago
This sounds like I was like about 10 years ago. Wrapped up in a company. I don't do "work friends" anymore.
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by maximus1983 7y ago
The font size would have been fine in the 2000s. The site is made of tables and it is obviously quite old.
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by maximus1983 7y ago
> "Thinking hard" is about trying to isolate the problem. RMS famously said that you should try to only debug the code that is broken rather than trying to debug the code that isn't broken (this is especially true in big s
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by maximus1983 7y ago
> I use print statements, but seriously, what's the difference? You use watch points in the debugger. Same thing. Once I have tests I find it easier to run them and look at the output of my prints as opposed to stepping through the

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