psandor

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by psandor 3mo ago
“ the priority of sales and profits has resulted in the sacrifice of the main quality measure of their main and only product” What do you mean exactly here What do you think LastPass could have done to prevent this specific issue?
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by psandor 6mo ago
“every single direction change I suggest, codex is all: "that's a great idea, and we should totally go that [very different] direction", try as I might to get it to act like more of a peer.“ That’s not the model, that’s a per
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by psandor 7mo ago
Do you plan supporting the web version of Excel? I’m a heavy Excel user and would love to try this, but I’m on Linux, so I can use only the online version of Excel.
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by psandor 7mo ago
If they had wanted a moat for this part of their offering, they wouldn’t have open-sourced it. This is not their offering, this is a tool to raise interest.
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by psandor 10mo ago
You are right. At the same time, everything you ever posted online has already been scraped by hundreds (maybe thousands) of entities and distributed/sold to countless other entities. The only difference is that OP shared his project h
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by psandor 11mo ago
It was true until GPT-5. That model hugely improved Codex, so it being comparable with CC is a recent thing.
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by psandor 1y ago
Of course there's an XKCD about this: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by psandor 2y ago
and that NASA did not spend millions on this. https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/nasa-did-not-spen...
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by psandor 2y ago
This is completely offtopic, but I would bet it was a government-funded museum. A reasonable institution would have worked with you to find an acceptable compromise, something much easier to implement with a small sacrifice of aesthetics. A
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by psandor 2y ago
"mostly profit someone else who did nothing but write you a check" There is quite a bit of work involved in reaching the point where you write a check for a Series A round. Also, the better VCs spend significant time with their po
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by psandor 2y ago
https://www.learndmarc.com/ is very similar but it's a bit easier to read and interpret.
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by psandor 2y ago
Strange that I had to scroll down this far for this answer. Creating a normal, non-admin user for them will greatly limit the damage they can do as they won't be able to make system-wide changes. I also disabled installing extensions i
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by psandor 3y ago
You should never store unencrypted secrets, like this export file, on an unencrypted disk. Not even temporarily. Instead, create a small encrypted drive on a pendrive or as a file with LUKS or Veracrypt, mount it, and save the file _direct
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by psandor 4y ago
Not sure about GPL, but this is one of the very few (2-4) restrictions of a BSD license: "Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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by psandor 4y ago
An average Store user will definitely benefit from not having to sort through dozens of spyware-laden clones of VLC
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by psandor 4y ago
Prodigy Game: Perfectly suitable for a 5 year old with a parent there helping. They learn math while playing a fun RPG game.
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by psandor 4y ago
This is exactly how most web applications were written 15 years ago. Server side rendering with PHP, ASP, JSP, and then Javascript for the interactive bits.
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by psandor 5y ago
DEC was part of HP at that point, so it was the HP leadership that made the decision to ditch Alpha.
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by psandor 5y ago
Both options have risks, in 90% of the cases, the risk you pointed out is smaller then the risk from the lost opportunity cost (working on something not relevant for the service), insecure implementation, sub-optimal UI, etc.
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by psandor 5y ago
The example he uses isn't the best though. Unless your product is about identity or have other special circumstances, you should absolutely not implement your own login system. It's a lot more complicated than what the article sug