justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Let’s sunset C/C++
Becoming widespread? Outside the desktop, the most commonly used operating system is Unix and its "likes" and dominates the internet and mobile devices.
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justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Let’s sunset C/C++
If by "tools" you mean "user" then, yes, you are correct. This author is a tool.
In French, your first line would be, "Oh, hell no!"
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Resize.ly – Images resized, responsive, and retina ready
Hmm. I've been doing this for years on my server. Why is this needed if you know how to code? I don't understand.
On top of that, they want you to pay to use their "cloud service"?
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice
ISIS, and other terrorist groups, encode all their data and use TOR in an effort to hide from efforts to catch them so, yes, encryption is used for that.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice
The info on the phone could indicate who he spoke to last and potentially who he met with when he was killed.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice
Your argument is weak if you think this has happened only once and will rarely happen again.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice
I wonder if the guy who was killed said the same thing.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice
The point is, the murders might be solved if they had access to the phone's data.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work
In the article, it shows NBC News, which is "a sprawling news site covering dozens of topics".
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Deleting your browser history could land you in prison
They turned me into a newt!
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: NSA tried Stuxnet cyber-attack on North Korea five years ago but failed
I can't fathom why you think China, Russia, North Korea, and other countries aren't doing the same and similar things to the US.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which JavaScript frameworks do you use?
This question is asked ad nauseum on any web forum of any type. Can't you just visit those and glean the same answers? You could get new answers on an almost daily or weekly basis from the same sites and those answers change annually.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: To combat falling ratings, TV networks are increasing ads up to 10%
For some reason I can't access the article at the moment but, when I was in radio and TV, years ago, the FCC restricted how many advertising minutes you could run in an hour or per show. I want to say that, in radio, you couldn't go over 13 minutes in any hour but few dared to approach that limit except the kiddie rock-n-roll stations lest they turn away listeners.
iirc, that ruling has been removed.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: To combat falling ratings, TV networks are increasing ads up to 10%
I always said that, in the small businesses I've been involved with, "shit runs downhill". The nicest places to work with have good guy owners. The worst ones have bad guy owners.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Making Netflix.com Faster
You're right. This is not the place to bring this up.
EDIT: OK. I guess this is the right place so, my son's XBox hangs when switching between game playing and watching Netflix. Does anyone know how to fix that?
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Pointer Events Now in Firefox Nightly
Wait! Did they fix that in Windows 10?
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Learn Magic Tricks Online
I'm torn between an artist trying to make an honest dollar on something he knows and revealing the secrets of the craft. For the same reason I never liked the "behind the scenes" of movie making and special effects. It takes the magic out of everything and removes illusion from the imagination much like spoilers do.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: A Computational Approach for Obstruction-Free Photography [pdf]
Well, for me in Chrome, it took 9 seconds, so Chrome has nothing to do with it. In any case, it's a professional paper for professionals to study and download time is not an issue.
But all that is OT anyway.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors
No. A prosecutor must present evidence to a judge that a trial is warranted. If a judge OKs it, then the attorney(s) will have to present that evidence, and possibly more, to a jury. Any prosecutor trying to do this without evidence of any kind wouldn't get anywhere.
Now, I haven't read the article, but you have to careful that such information is present and stated and not ignore. News services all too often, nowadays, leave facts out of stories and, to be honest, I don't view Bloomberg as a source for these types of crime stories.
justwannasing | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?
You risk being wrong this way. Unless you are involved in the site and can testify to that. In any case, the page could be, or should be, cached in some form, either on the server or with the browser.
Which makes me wonder with your second paragraph. gzipping and caching are the easiest and one of several ways to optimize the downloading of a web page. Server side code written in C plays no part in that except if the pages are created on the fly and anything else really does slow down delivery of the page; that is, page creation takes longer than 80ms or so, but a properly coded site won't let that happen if it can be helped.
And after running my own web dev business for 11 years, I didn't have to look at anything to determine any of that.