If you don't understand the difference between guaranteed freedom (GPL etc.) and free to do what you want with it but possibly take away others' freedom (BSD, MIT, etc.) then you shouldn't even get involved in these discussions.
This "C++ is for professionals" garbage is like trying to convince people to do all their cooking with a flame thrower and a fork; obviously anyone wanting their kitchen to have properly designed tools is an amateur.
Totally OT at this point, but Linus does a pretty good job at only truly blowing his stack at people *who should know better*. NVidia and Poettering come to mind. There's no reason to blow your stack at an idiot. Just call them an idiot and move on.
Psst. Your clients are the most important thing you have. Lots of people have made great games that don't sell. Treat your staff well, but don't let them abuse your clients.
First of all, calling every critique you don't like mansplaining is sexist and ridiculous. Secondly, you don't harass your clients. Period. You ignore them or you respond politely to them, but you don't attack them. Third, lots of us receive unsolicited advice. I get told how to write software by my clients every day. None of them knows a lick of programming. I'm a man though, so I don't get to call it mansplaining. I just tell them they hired me to do the work so they should trust my judgement. Do I think she should've been fired? Probably not for a first offence. Do I think its because she's a woman? No.
When a crime happened in Ottawa that the police wanted potential witnesses for, they turned to cell phone users as well, but in a slightly less invasive manner: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...
TL;DR, they got the cell phone numbers of people near the scene at the time and texted them asking if they had information on the crime.
I imagine it wouldn't be hard to have cell phone providers offer this service to police *without* disclosing the numbers.
"We want to text everyone who was in proximity of X,Y on YYYY:MM:DD at HH:MM this message: 'foobar'... here's our warrant, thanks."
Call me paranoid, but I don't even like running these in my home directory -- that's where all *my* files are. I prefer to have a different user for doing this stuff whenever possible.
Actually the pixel height of the decoration is dynamic because window managers can redefine it. The estimate was good enough. And 2% is quite within the margin of error for most visual issues.
I joined and left that group's mailing list after I realized they weren't interested in designing interfaces for every user, but only for their imaginary average users.
I like the idea in theory, I don't like the implementation. I want my window manipulation decorations drawn by the window manager so that they're uniform, not the application which can decide to be haphazard about it. I agree that the space is semi-wasted, but that isn't fixed by removing the decorations from the WM (besides, I can just have my window manager draw them anyway, and then I'd have two).
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If you don't understand the difference between guaranteed freedom (GPL etc.) and free to do what you want with it but possibly take away others' freedom (BSD, MIT, etc.) then you shouldn't even get involved in these discussions.
You could just go use Signal right now.
Because with a locked disk-encrypted system, that's no longer true without this attack. Hasn't been for a long time.
This "C++ is for professionals" garbage is like trying to convince people to do all their cooking with a flame thrower and a fork; obviously anyone wanting their kitchen to have properly designed tools is an amateur.
Tell me that again after doing it in Python.
with open(thisfile, 'r') as fd
for line in fd:
parse(line)
Totally OT at this point, but Linus does a pretty good job at only truly blowing his stack at people *who should know better*.
NVidia and Poettering come to mind. There's no reason to blow your stack at an idiot. Just call them an idiot and move on.
Psst. Your clients are the most important thing you have. Lots of people have made great games that don't sell.
Treat your staff well, but don't let them abuse your clients.
First of all, calling every critique you don't like mansplaining is sexist and ridiculous.
Secondly, you don't harass your clients. Period. You ignore them or you respond politely to them, but you don't attack them.
Third, lots of us receive unsolicited advice. I get told how to write software by my clients every day. None of them knows a lick of programming. I'm a man though, so I don't get to call it mansplaining. I just tell them they hired me to do the work so they should trust my judgement.
Do I think she should've been fired? Probably not for a first offence. Do I think its because she's a woman? No.
If only the police were all above board and never just grabbed the first possible person they could pin a crime on to keep their stats up.
Innocent people should worry too. Helping police is one thing, having the police delve into your data without consent is another.
When a crime happened in Ottawa that the police wanted potential witnesses for, they turned to cell phone users as well, but in a slightly less invasive manner:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...
TL;DR, they got the cell phone numbers of people near the scene at the time and texted them asking if they had information on the crime.
I imagine it wouldn't be hard to have cell phone providers offer this service to police *without* disclosing the numbers.
"We want to text everyone who was in proximity of X,Y on YYYY:MM:DD at HH:MM this message: 'foobar' ... here's our warrant, thanks."
Even worse when covered in road salt
Call me paranoid, but I don't even like running these in my home directory -- that's where all *my* files are. I prefer to have a different user for doing this stuff whenever possible.
Right, because expecting that is reasonable.
setfacl -m u:joe_dragon:rwx filename
setfacl -m u:joe_nobody:rx filename
No the FBI is not accountable to the president.
Let me help: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/...
Only if you know what you're doing and don't think you're the CEO of the country with the power to fire anyone you want who disobeys you.
Actually the pixel height of the decoration is dynamic because window managers can redefine it. The estimate was good enough.
And 2% is quite within the margin of error for most visual issues.
I turn on window manager decorations in Chrome. I refuse to use it without.
The entire team at Gnome has a serious hard-on for Apple-style design. You won't win.
Brought to you by the same people who thought Windows 8 was a great idea.
I joined and left that group's mailing list after I realized they weren't interested in designing interfaces for every user, but only for their imaginary average users.
All of this.
I agree; I don't understand how 20 or so pixels makes a difference on a 1200 vertical line monitor one way or another.
I like the idea in theory, I don't like the implementation. I want my window manipulation decorations drawn by the window manager so that they're uniform, not the application which can decide to be haphazard about it. I agree that the space is semi-wasted, but that isn't fixed by removing the decorations from the WM (besides, I can just have my window manager draw them anyway, and then I'd have two).
I missed that one somehow, that was fantastic. Almost to the level of his famous nvidia rant.