peterhost

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by peterhost 12y ago
Yes. Its such a lame end for "the story of Mojang". Let's see how long it takes for the word "mojang" to be forgotten. Lego is still called Lego, and Pixar still hasn't yielded its name to Disney (they sortof m
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by peterhost 14y ago
Agreed, asshole :) (or was it the other way around ?) Holly Ass, Twitter, by essence is an assholy thing. What can you expect from someone who has "3500 friends" or "50 000 followers" ? Follow the Holy Shoe of Jerusalem :)
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by peterhost 14y ago
We need more user friendly tools regarding online privacy. In this regard (not talking about devs who fully understand and use GPG on a daily basis),... Email is broken. Most people don't even realize their gmail/whatever account is like th
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by peterhost 14y ago
This is the LOL of the day :) I almost dropped my post PC device laughing out quite loud. Twighlight-scale drama. A Keeper.
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by peterhost 14y ago
+1. Totally agree on the "not a good backup solution". But we both (obviously) know the difference between redundancy and backup. My poor mum does not. So in the end, that's a problem, and i'm not bashing dropbox either (paid account and al
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by peterhost 14y ago
Thoughts ? Well, ...We (supposedly) live in a free country. Analogy: When one fucks his/her neighbor's wife/husband (no, just kidding, nobody ever does that IRL), one at least draws the curtains, or goes rent a motel room 500 miles from hom
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by peterhost 14y ago
Very interesting project. Since I watched the "what happened to the cryptodream" video, I have finally begun to understand that we need more tools like yours or say Wickr (closest to secure IM on ios...), tools which my mother who know shit
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by peterhost 14y ago
I share your feeling. We are at a loss what to do as a society, and what's more, we're most likely more at a loss than people were in very structured societies of the past (not that I wish to live back then). My first guess (being diagnosed
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by peterhost 14y ago
Yup. There has to be some sort of control in any system (even a few anarchists agree on that). To further your/my/our point(s), you can read Bruce Schneier's latest "Crypto-Gram Newsletter" ( https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1212.html )
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by peterhost 14y ago
Ok, you're my target cause this comment is so obviously being uttered by someone who hasn't studied history in his/her whole life... Jeez ! (whom i don't believe in btw) Hacker new indeed.... Has anyone's been following dunno, wikileaks or
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by peterhost 14y ago
Just for the record, French laws about "droits d'auteurs" and quotations allow you to quote any text under "droits d'auteur" as long as it remains a quotation (the definition of which is vague, and varies from one case of "jurisprudence" to
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by peterhost 14y ago
Haven't seen it mentionned a lot in comments, but it also happens that drugs are not the culprit. Your brain might be, or more largely your DNA. Drugs and alcohol are just ways (self destructive) to try and cope with the fact of simply bein
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by peterhost 14y ago
"You can't loose what you don't have" Like privacy, like knowing you're being a product, like helping facebook, google and pals map you, your friends, your friend's dog,... Seriously... A smartphone is a tracking device that can make calls.
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by peterhost 14y ago
This is an amazing set of icons. I'll make sure I use them and credit you. Your giving this for free reminds me of the biggest problem Freelance artists/developers have : if one's a dev at heart, it's creating that fuels one's achievements
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by peterhost 14y ago
And this is the top ranking comment ? Proof that hacker new is seriously loosing its shit. (Mayb we should call it startup news ?) Come one, go learn some history. At least the article's writer did know some (a lot)
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by peterhost 14y ago
What really bothers me on this project, is that all accounts of it i've read sofar (i don't have an insider's view, which might make me think different) is that it sounds like "let's experiment with the savages and see if they can come up w
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by peterhost 14y ago
When you think of it, those two stories are the consequence of one huge problem. Globalization, and financial empires don't give a fuck about human beings. This poor mother in China is dying because a whole chain of power/money holders don'
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by peterhost 14y ago
This answer totally made my day. Excellent analogy.
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by peterhost 14y ago
Same here. Bitbucket for opensource things Stash for our firm's repos behind the firewall. And i have been using github for years, paid account, like others. Paid github vs Atlassian Stash ? Stash wins.
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by peterhost 14y ago
Cmon! All the High Education thing is about making Students work for their university for the time they're enroled, in exchange for knowledge, and insider's tips (yeah, i can introduce you to xxxx at ibm,...). I personnally don't know of a
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by peterhost 14y ago
You'll see, turning 40 is even worse ;)
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by peterhost 14y ago
Sure, only when it's your boss being racist, you don't have many other options than shut up or get fired. French white man here, apalled by 70% (yah, i did the math) of that whole thread. I don't care being called a colonialist because that
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by peterhost 14y ago
And i do agree with that. (and Notch's new game too by the way!)
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by peterhost 14y ago
As a matter of fact, doing both, i think you can. But in my opinion, the question is more : does every single people on earth like programming enough to get into it, instead of getting into something they enjoy more ? Reading is easy, using
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by peterhost 14y ago
Yes that exactly, And also for Newton re-inventing the laws of diffraction back in 1672 when humans before that were just staring at rainbows like dumb elephants And also for Thales re-inventing triangles just before the the 58th Olympi
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by peterhost 14y ago
Keep homebrew for standalone tools (recode, sntop, whatever). Then use rpm for ruby, perlbrew for perl, pythonbrew for ... And setup the defaut macosX apache (which has php5.3 and pear and whatever already here) work for your user account.
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by peterhost 15y ago
Come on ! That's exactly what happens everyday. When you pitch some creative work, you know you're throwing it to the winds and hope the pitched guy will see more benefit in hiring you than in copying it. You cannot protect art in general
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by peterhost 15y ago
And say, with your wife and children ? Would you share it with them or make them pay too ? And when you listen to the music, streaming, with friends at a party you throw, do they all have to pay ?
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by peterhost 15y ago
Attention to detail is the basis of all art forms / crafts. In the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away". Perfection takes time, which