katastic
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
>When you singup for Facebook, you agree that anything you post might be shared with others on the platform.
Except you CAN'T sign away your rights in many jurisdictions, including this thing called HIPAA. So if Facebook sold people's mentions of health problems to third-parties... is that a violation?
I mean, this is the exact scenario people grilled Windows 10's spyware. But somehow, Facebook doing it, isn't an issue? What's the difference? I'm honestly asking.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is downright silly.
HOSTS files are static. They were never designed for blocking ads or tracking. And for all we know, every connection does a linear search through the HOSTS file so the larger it gets, the more wasted time, because it was never designed to have millions of entries.
Comment · 8 years ago
Is that why they hate Peter Thiel so much and try to smear him in the media?
ala
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/06/peter-thiel-i...
(Kind of strange how they can target a gay guy for getting mad at being outed by a media company. Victim blame much?)
Meanwhile, he apparently called Uber "ethically challenged." So far, he's got 2 and 0 for good quotes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richkarlgaard/2014/12/10/do-jer...
Comment · 8 years ago
"Free" = For use in Unreal Engine only.
Comment · 8 years ago
Kind of like how that one NPM package took down like 14,000 other packages when someone took a DMCA request against an author's OTHER package and he just took them all down in protest--which took down their dependencies and their dependencies and ... "broke the world".
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
The code in question was like 11 lines of code (with curly and spaces!!) for calculating left-hand padding for a syntax highlighting code box.
Comment · 8 years ago
>Has anyone created a service that you auth in through GitHub and it backs up all your repos to S3 or Dropbox or something? I'd pay a few bucks for something like that.
So you'd pay money for a tool that copies your data, but not simply pay the money to access said data?
This doesn't make any sense at all.
Comment · 8 years ago
Think of it more like SQL, where you're describing a model, then a series of steps.
There are many of benchmark projects that include D and don't appear to be struggling under any kind of massive burden. For example:
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
What are your actual reasons for not keeping D... "scala... and Clojure and ..."? The results in the previous link show D as a massive competitor (sometimes 1st place beating C and C++) on both memory and speed. Wouldn't the purpose of benchmarks be... to highlight useful, highly-scoring languages? Isn't that one of the primary reasons people read benchmarks?
(The D implementations are also often smaller in lines of code, as per this benchmark project:
https://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/benchmarks-round-t...
)