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kaitnieks | 7 years ago | on: European Parliament approves copyright reform

The big ones will be fine. They are already using filters. It's all the forums and such that have no way to implement the technology that the upcoming directive calls for, and they will have no choice but to block EU. Regarding news sites - usually it's the comments section that's the user created content, so I guess they could simply remove that for EU visitors, or, if that feels like a hassle, just block EU.

kaitnieks | 8 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was a sham

Maybe I'm too cynical about politics, but it appears to me that the point of these hearings is not to solve or investigate anything, it's to generate soundbites that voters or potential future voters would like. It's not even that important what the reply is, as long as the politician asks the hard question and demonstrates his concern, and if it makes the news & press, that's victory for them.

kaitnieks | 8 years ago | on: I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines

For simple, non-critical stuff this is the simplest solution I've come up with - if you don't need real-time aggregated logs (i.e. you only want to archive them) and you have log rotation configured, you can simply use cron with "aws s3 sync" or rsync for the logs folder.

kaitnieks | 9 years ago | on: Sweden brings back military conscription

Well, no, not really. Western countries always get a huge backlash for any military activity in any region. This is where the propaganda and state controlled media opinion would be very useful, at least for the military.

kaitnieks | 9 years ago | on: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

Surface Pro comes close to this - it's very small and easy to carry around, and you could use the Surface docking stations for easier transitions I suppose. The only difference from your dream is that the display doesn't come off, but sometimes it can be an advantage.

What I want is to have docking stations with extra computing power/GPU/RAM/HDD etc built in, so that I can keep the small Surface with its limited battery for the road but have an absurdly powerful desktop PC when I dock it.

kaitnieks | 10 years ago | on: Redis re-implemented in Rust

It's a memory cache to take some load off your DB. The good thing about Redis is the useful data structures it supports: lists, sets, hashes, bitmaps and somewhat more specific sorted sets.

kaitnieks | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?

We're using Delphi with various component packs. It would be very expensive to buy all the components at once but we bought all the tools necessary during the previous years one by one. If you want to make Windows apps and you can ignore developer community's hostility against Pascal, then I would recommend Delphi, but if you plan on making cross-platform solutions then take a look at Qt.

Pirating will happen, that's inevitable. The main thing here is not to make your paying customers victims in the fight against pirates and not to worry too much about your software in torrents. Make sure your keys can't be easily generated; people tend to avoid using modified executables for reasonable fear of viruses but have no problems using pirated keys.

kaitnieks | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?

We are using Delphi. C# is a great language and .NET is fine if you're designing for a specific customer but it's (in our opinion) not a viable option for shareware apps, as it generates decompilable executables that require a large framework to run. Most people have .NET runtime framework installed, others have no problem downloading it but it is still a problem for a percentage of the users.

kaitnieks | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?

We are (at http://www.blumentals.net). Windows apps, in fact, and not for big companies but regular people. I don't know what to tell you, the market is far from dead, maybe it will be dead someday, but right now things are fine. The hardest thing about making mass-distributed Windows apps is getting your good app to the customer through a pile of crappy ones.

kaitnieks | 14 years ago | on: How to overcome resistance to work

When I set to do a task for a few minutes in order to trick myself into working all day, it never works because I already know what I'm doing and why, and the trick fails. I have been struggling with this for a long time, and I, too, have discovered that the method that works best is to suck it up and just start working.

kaitnieks | 14 years ago | on: I refuse to tolerate assholes

Having never done open source before, I'm wondering about something: if an open source project is started, once it becomes popular and attracts community of developers and other contributors I assume the power shifts from the guy who started the project to the community. Does the person who started the project still retains his power to boot out the assholes from his project or not?

kaitnieks | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

In viewlo OUR GOAL page you have several mistakes:

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