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evfanknitram··on F# is the best coding language today
I have been on the 'receiving' end of such persons actions. We had one guy who worked probably 50% of his time on using not F#, but another "nice" thing. It never worked well and he spent an incredible amount of time patching it and fixing issues with it. I threw it out the day after and replaced it with some older boring technology, and the problems just went away.
evfanknitram··on F# is the best coding language today
It also means when there's an outage due to X during christmas or whatever, then you're the only person who can reasonable work on it. Great work.
evfanknitram··on TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday
How is software "speech"? Do you consider all software "speech"? Do you think any form of software should be allowed, no matter what?
evfanknitram··on K-9 Mail removed from Google Play Store due to listing description
Why would it be scummy? Do you think the authors of the email app is trying to trick the local kennel club members into install their open source email client unwillingly?
evfanknitram··on I could do that in a weekend (2016)
Yes, this is what my co-workers refer to as an if-statement.
evfanknitram··on Successfully Merging the Work of 1000 Developers
Is anyone "signing off" on the deploys or is it fully automatic? I can't really imagine it being manual 40 times per day, but just wanted to hear.

How do you handle the scenario that some developer pushes a send_me_all_the_credit_card_details() function to the code base which does something 'evil'? Do you rely on the reviewer "doing their works properly" to handle that?

I'm not saying formal "signing off"-steps in processes handle it, but some companies does them for that reason.

evfanknitram··on Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go
Some of the issues I have had with the new design is pretty amazing. For example, when you open a specific submission it's opened in a "lightbox" which basically contains all the comment. If you click outside of the lightbox it's automatically closed which I guess is OK. So some time ago they made a new release and broke it so that if you clicked on the scrollbar to scroll down in the lightbox to see what people had commented then the lightbox with all the comments closed.

I submitted some complaint in their redesign subreddit but immediately random people replied to say that this was as designed and I should use keyboard to scroll, and not the scrollbar. But then the issue was that when the lightbox was shown it wasn't focused so I first had to use mouse to click in the lightbox to focus it and then use keyboard arrows to scroll.

Such a joke. Amateurs.

evfanknitram··on Panasonic to move Europe headquarters from UK to Amsterdam
If there was another vote to reverse the Brexit-decision and people voted for that in majority, you could stop the madness and accept the results. Things change. Being stubborn is rarely the best option.
evfanknitram··on Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk
> Then, how do you recover?

In case this is not a rethorical question: Using the backup codes or a copy of the barcode you printed.

Regardless of what method you use I assume you want a secure backup method.

> but you can get a new sim

Maybe easily if you are a private person and happen to lose the phone in your home country during opening hours. I tried this method once but the company just forwarded me to the internal helpdesk of the company I work for (this is a good thing, but previously they issued SIM cards to me). Got a sim like a week later.

evfanknitram··on Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban
Maybe some larger tech sites would choose not to publish?
evfanknitram··on Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its Website
Maybe it's just me but my experience is that except for the actual streaming (after you started to watch a movie), the Netflix UI is super bad. It recommends movies which I hate, it shows series which have been on Netflix for years under "New on Netflix", it doesn't provide any usable sorting, the searching is crap and so on. I would put zero faith in a statement by Netflix saying that something is "useless". The actual streaming experience is super good but when it comes to everything else they seem clueless to me.
evfanknitram··on Ask HN: Non-SMTP single server internal mail system?
I probably misunderstand but why not just install an SMTP+IMAP server and add RoundCube/SquirreMail or similar? This should take like 15 minutes to do.

Since you talk about phpBB it sounds like you just want something users can log on to and do it, not necessarily tightly integrated in something else.

I feel like I'm missing something.

evfanknitram··on Dugout Loop
Faster, cheaper (than car) and with less emission right? Seems quite good to me.
evfanknitram··on Amazon Aurora Serverless
Yes. In my view, obvious names makes it easier to remember what something is or does. Understanding what Azure DNS do is easier than finding out and remembering what AWS Route 52 does.
evfanknitram··on Amazon Aurora Serverless
It sounds like you describe something which is irrational.
evfanknitram··on Amazon Aurora Serverless
So Azure SQL Database, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Bot Service does not describe the products? AWS is hilariousy bad at naming. Not all companies are.
evfanknitram··on Coroner letters changed habits of doctors whose patients died of overdoses
I assume blocked in all of EU.
evfanknitram··on Windows 10 Leak Exposes Microsoft's New Monthly Charge
Yes. I'm amazed that the writer or this article didn't realize this.
evfanknitram··on The Spy Who Drove Me
Why didn't you tell him to take the sensitive discussion somewhere else?
evfanknitram··on PowerShell and Markdown
You are crazy if you think that more people would prefer a terminal emulator than a built in web browser in Windows. There's a reason most home users use Windows and not Ubuntu, and it's not spelled terminal.
evfanknitram··on Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death
Regarding the "true difficulty" I don't think you can generalize like that. For example I suspect it depends on where you live, what hours fasting is, temperature and so on.

My friends here have told me that the main problem is to eat enough during the night because after fasting for 18 hours your body get used to it. I assume similar to my issues eating a bkg breakfast in the morning directly after waking up.

evfanknitram··on PowerShell and Markdown
In Windows there's been a lot less emphasis on the terminal since most functionality has only been configurable using the UI. This is changing now.

Your post is a little like complaining over a functional programming language adding OO-features or vice versa and saying they are late to the party.

evfanknitram··on PowerShell and Markdown
Maybe same reason people going to a restaurant are more likely to write a review if they are disappointed? For every "this is lame" there are probably 50 "oh, neat" opinions but fewer of those bother to write comments.

(The above is just a guess. I have zero scientific backing.)

evfanknitram··on Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
I don't know what this means.

How is "single repo" a "design" and how does this design dictate dependency management?

Yes, if you have a single repo then that would be a single source of data for building your stuff. That seems redundant.

evfanknitram··on [dead]
Seems a bit strange to assume they have not been successfully phised since there has been no reports of it.
evfanknitram··on EU fines Asus, Denon-Marantz, Philips and Pioneer $130M for online price fixing
Of course he can. This is not a court room.
evfanknitram··on Peter Thiel: “Hypnotic Mass Phenomena”
Interesting how he thinks that science, religion and tech is more important than politics.
evfanknitram··on Thailand cave rescue relied on talent, luck, and on sticking to the rules
> I'm sure he could be sued for that.

You can be sued for watering your flowers too much.

evfanknitram··on No Man’s Sky developer Sean Murray: ‘It was as bad as things can get’
Then that phrase makes no sense to me. Wouldn't it be the same as saying something like "we can't critize Donald Trump for his criminal actions because doing that just encourages people sending him death threats".
evfanknitram··on No Man’s Sky developer Sean Murray: ‘It was as bad as things can get’
English is not my first language so I don't really understand the last sentence in your post ("egging", specifically).

But what this company did was fraud in my view. He should be fined or put in jail. So should any people who sent them death threats.

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