vesak

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by vesak 8y ago
Congratulations for being the last straw. I'm getting out of this site for good.
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by vesak 8y ago
Nice alternative to Spotify is Apple Music. They recently opened up their API ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi ) which has been used to create a nice web interface by https://musi.sh&#
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by vesak 8y ago
>A strict type > would be very weird because besides returning TRUE and FALSE it'd need to throw a TypeError, I guess? Yes, which would make it behave exactly like probably every language with strong runtime typechecks. Very wei
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by vesak 8y ago
What's the equivalent of === for < and > in PHP?
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by vesak 8y ago
Yet another reason not to use Spotify. Their IPO was a huge red flag, of course.
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by vesak 8y ago
At this point, the 7 won't probably get updates nearly as long as the XR will.
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by vesak 8y ago
Note that Dendrite is doing a bit more fancy architecture. https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/blob/master/DESIGN.md -- there's a bunch of readers and writers, with Kafka in-between to mediate fl
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by vesak 8y ago
>who needs $10,000/month to live Those who have a monthly mortgage payment of $9000. Substract $500 (or more if the government doesn't help you with their costs) for each child in your household.
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by vesak 8y ago
You've done great work as a whole, as you probably know. Try not let the lowlifes get to you.
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by vesak 8y ago
Yes! And I’d like to add that a lack of such criticism just feels wrong. Like I’m researching into a cult instead of a tool.
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by vesak 8y ago
Haha, ok. I'm even lower on that scale: not even a hobbyist game programmer. I thought they actually just use structs and whatever data structure works.
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by vesak 8y ago
Game programmers use entity systems, not OO... or do they?
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by vesak 8y ago
Here’s a few guesses: 1. It’s not 100x (or even 2x) faster or significantly more stable than Apple Music 2. It’s always easier to make a nice app when starting from scratch versus trying to fix existing older software to be nice 3. Apple di
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by vesak 8y ago
Why take it personally? We complain about the language and to some extent the original creators of the language -- not its users. Complaining (at its best) makes things happen. I worked with PHP in '98 (ported a perl thing into this co
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by vesak 8y ago
Of course they can. Check out Ansible. It's quite comparable to these systems, even if less pure and lacking some of the features.
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by vesak 8y ago
I didn't find SICP good or bad, but utterly boring. In fact, so boring that I couldn't bring myself to finish even half of it in 3 separate tries. Perhaps I should've read it as my first programming book, but that time's
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by vesak 8y ago
Well, if a person is producing below a living wage, then it's difficult to pay that person a living wage.
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by vesak 8y ago
Man, this is so weird. I used Linux from 1996ish to 2017 and then just moved almost everything to Apple. I don’t remember the exact reason, but probably it had something to do with Wayland taking forever to stabilize, and the community star
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by vesak 8y ago
Nah, the headphone jack can move to the history books already. They oughta replace it with something standard, though, like USB-C. Bluetooth isn't an acceptable total replacement as long as batteries add bulk and need to be recharged.
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by vesak 8y ago
Well, as many futurologists say... a self-driving car (or drive-assisting) doesn't have to be perfect. It merely needs to be better than a human driver. Data seems to suggest that that hurdle isn't that high. Then again, I do shar
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by vesak 8y ago
> I don't have time to research whether or not they are going to abuse my privacy or have some horrendous TOS. Do you think that web apps are better in that regard?
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by vesak 8y ago
A big dilemma for them. They need money, but they cannot demand it from their users, nor will they get enough (I guess?) by asking. Not sure what they should do. Perhaps dismantle the corporation, stick with the non-profit. I know I would p
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by vesak 8y ago
> and safe. Oh no! You were so close!
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by vesak 8y ago
Stellar seems like a good platform for this. I'm investigating myself about implementing this, and it would be awesome.
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by vesak 8y ago
Bypassing paywalls is easily in top ten most evil things you can do as a consumer in a modern information society. We should pay for the things we consume, with money. But only with money. Then again, if the thing behind the paywall expec
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by vesak 8y ago
>But it's great that they're trying to work on this problem. I don't know how the Rust team thinks, but I believe that minimizing binary sizes is not a very big priority for them. The cost of a gigabyte these days is, ~0.0
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by vesak 8y ago
And some rough numbers, rustc-1.30.1 vs rustc-1.32.0-2018-11-21, building a hello world with --release... Mac OS: - 1.30.1 before strip: 573K, after strip: 380K - 1.32.0 before strip: 267K, after strip: 178K Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: - 1.30.1 befor
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by vesak 8y ago
> No dynamic libraries While I understand that some people prefer this, I prefer static linking to dynamic linking. So much in fact that I refuse to use environments that only do dynamic linking in any of my projects. Yes, I have to make
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by vesak 8y ago
Well, there's another important question: What percentage of all services need high availability? Stetson-Harrison method shows that it's less than 5%.
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by vesak 8y ago
But what you need to do to bad bosses is fire them, or leave them. That's hardly what a school teaches you to do in case you end up with a bad teacher.

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