tekklloneer

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by tekklloneer 8y ago
Early this on, the process of building physically accurate "fake humans" was not really possible. Bear tests were probably more an early proof of viability than anything else. The bears survived, proving that humans wouldn't
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
As someone with long term health conditions, it hangs in the back of your mind. I'm fortunate enough not to have to call mine "chronic", and I may (probably will) be blessed by the results of research from over a decade... Bu
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
No, it's a bug. A home/consumer router isn't targeted at power users, and should not require the average user to understand what they're doing. I also think it's unreasonable to expect people to patch bugs in consum
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Or, you're using snapchat, or instagram, or signal.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
I disagree - I've used a $300 stock android phone for just over a year now, and I haven't really run into any "cruft" issues. But, poor android performance is a very valid problem with android.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Yes, $250K counts as rich. You can "get by" on combined income of $150K extremely easily. Maybe you don't buy a new bmw every year or live in an untrendy neighborhood. Oh, no.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Signature based anti-virus is a must have on any widely deployed platform that doesn't have default code-sign requirements. So, basically, Windows and FOSS Desktop. But, it's become so drastically commoditized that there's no
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
I disagree. He's been transparent with his goals, and people (besides a loud but relatively small amount of hard dissenters) don't seem to object. And by that, I mean: they use facebook.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Sudoroom and noisebridge are still alive. The fact of the matter is that for all of the innovation you hear about there, it's really just romanticizing the margin thinning of existing products. Nothing wrong with that, but it's ea
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
If someone was missing, then there wasn't enough people.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Part of the problem is this: who'd fork it? Who'd put in the effort? Sure, they alienated key members, but the people doing the bulk of the work were at the core, including Leah. So, it's not so simple as forking and coming b
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
It's possible the FSF doesn't want them back without terms they find onerous, like full dissolution of the team and just handing over the brand.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
I know a handful of people doing this right now, and they're pulling above average developer salaries. However, they're also traveling a ton and building kick-ass resumés as well.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
There's a ton of them. Many of them are smaller players consisting of core developers providing feature additions for money, or support contracts, or selling an "enterprise" wrapper/hosted. scala, mail servers come to mi
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
The fact that you're able to spend time leisurely on sites like HN implicitly groups you into a higher income bracket. If you couldn't afford a personal computer, your comment might be a little less snarky when the library was you
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
You could form a corp but legions of shareware developers since the beginning of time (80s) have used licenses that absolve them of responsibilities. A few things: you'll need a communication and update mechanism, such as sparkle. Then
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
tldr ill get in trouble if i use kite at work :(
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Yeah, I'd love to try it. However, I'm at work and that's where I would be trying it - and I can't. Aside from intellectual policy problems, in large codebases mistakes happen, including api keys being committed and push
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
I straight up cannot use Kite. The "code-to-cloud" functionality means that I cannot use it at work. I would love to use it, but it's a non-starter.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
If using every product requires reading a dozen pages (at the very least), then how do you expect to use literally any mobile phone you can buy in a store?
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Yeah, that's why I used consent. Consent is a messy topic that requires a best effort and careful deliberation. I definitely agree that EULAs like that are in a dangerous gray area.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Part of justice is enforcing a contract between two people who can and do consent. Would it not be an injustice if one person abused that system and hurt another?
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
Those tools weren't successful by Apple-sized metrics.
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by tekklloneer 9y ago
I get the desire for recurring revenue, but I really want to buy and try once; pledging easy cancellation near your call to action would really massage a lot of the complaints in here.
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by tekklloneer 10y ago
Not at all. Unless you tag it with a person you know vulnerable to seizures, and then on top of that, brag about it.
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by tekklloneer 10y ago
Most people are paying them money for a version of windows that works with the hardware they are buying. You won't be able to find an OEM selling win 7 on a ryzen box, for example. If you buy a separate license, you should be aware of
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by tekklloneer 10y ago
For something as core as chipset drivers, microsoft does heavy testing. They also do testing of combinations on various combinations of hardware. "It should have worked" doesn't go far when an OEM is complaining that their us
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by tekklloneer 10y ago
You really don't seem to remember or have been alive before a lot of these regulations were put into effect. Ever look at a food nutrition label? That one was fought tooth and nail.
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by tekklloneer 10y ago
Microsoft does extensive testing, not just on the "instruction set", but also the chipsets and surrounding ecosystems of the processor. It's annoying, and probably well within their ability to, but also not inexpensive.
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by tekklloneer 10y ago
It's been excellent so far.

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