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Notices by Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com), page 33

  1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 14:01:38 EST Verius Verius
    in reply to
    • Verius
    Meanwhile Oracle of all companies did something good for a change and reported Google's little data mining expedition to the European Commission. I sense a lot of bureaucratic pain coming Google's way over the next few years.
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 14:01:38 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  2. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 13:59:38 EST Verius Verius
    So lemme get this straight, Google thought it would be a good idea to always collect wifi information from Android phones regardless of whether the user wants it an with only at most the most legalesque and technical hint at it in its ToS/Privacy Policy? They've seem to gone beyond evil into full congress mode ("we don't care, we don't have to care, we're congress").
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 13:59:38 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  3. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 09:39:36 EST Verius Verius
    Looking at the news these days I'd say "Power harasses".
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 09:39:36 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  4. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 08:10:04 EST Verius Verius
    in reply to
    • Annah
    • Lmao
    @maiyannah @gameragodzilla @ayy Well to be fair the unlimited version is only 7000,-. But indeed, the prices for Magic are absurd. At my friendly local game store I sometimes hear about what people pay for them. It's not unheard of for people to pay the same amount of money for a single copy of a card as I pay for a complete playset of 6 months worth of new cards in Netrunner.
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 08:10:04 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  5. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 04:11:22 EST Verius Verius
    Linus having good arguments: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 04:11:22 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  6. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 03:59:52 EST Verius Verius
    http://typicalprogrammer.com/the-joys-of-maintenance-programming

    Some of the other benefits of maintenance programming:

    Losing your sanity over the Lovecraftian horror of spaghetti code so undecipherable even a Pastafarian would call it an affront to his god.

    Tearing out your hair trying to get the code to even run due to undocumented build dependencies.

    Bashing your head against the table to the point of bleeding when you realize that the code talks to the internals of a particular library and that requires a very exact version of the library that's nowhere to be found on the internet anymore.
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 03:59:52 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  7. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 03:48:07 EST Verius Verius
    • Annah
    • Lmao
    @ayy @maiyannah @gameragodzilla Err, LCG's like Android:Netrunner are pretty popular for non-Magic card games and are 100% deterministic with regard to what cards you buy in a pack.
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 03:48:07 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  8. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 03:58:33 EST Verius Verius
    /me wonders what's up with Qvitter not accepting multiple consecutive newlines in a post.
    In conversation Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 03:58:33 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  9. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 03:58:07 EST Verius Verius
    • lnxw48a1
    • Nate Cull
    @natecull @lnxw48a1 Well to be fair the compiler which wasn't fully open source was DMD, which isn't the compiler you want when you do serious development. DMD is mostly quicker to adopt new language features (since the core team works directly on it) and quicker at compilation. For serious performance LDC (LLVM based) is used and that has always been open source. Still, I think everyone is happy that the rather silly license situation around DMD has been resolved.
    In conversation Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 03:58:07 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  10. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 03:04:59 EST Verius Verius
    Holy ****, I think I actually found useful documentation on powershell: https://community.highlandarrow.com/url/299313
    In conversation Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 03:04:59 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  11. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 02:37:55 EST Verius Verius
    • Christmas Personified as a Catgirl
    @purplehippo @moonman WTF is spelling? ("trael")
    In conversation Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 02:37:55 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  12. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 02:31:16 EST Verius Verius
    in reply to
    • lnxw48a1
    • Nate Cull
    @lnxw48a1 @natecull Which was created by a pair of C++ experts.
    In conversation Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 02:31:16 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  13. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 13:08:07 EST Verius Verius
    in reply to
    • lnxw48a1
    • Nobody [Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2)]
    • sulman
    @lnxw37a2 @lnxw48a1 @sulman Well I guess in the minds of many dark skin color = poor and underprivileged = diversity of experience and white skin color = rich and privileged = no diversity of experience. The ironic fact that that kind of reasoning is both really rather racist in addition to being terribly fatalistic (you entire future derives from your genotype) seems to elude people.
    In conversation Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 13:08:07 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  14. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 09:19:20 EST Verius Verius
    • sulman
    @sulman My guess is that she became part of a PR problem rather than a PR solution for some people high up enough in management. Generally jobs like diversity chief are about PR towards a portion of the populace with particular views (in this case SanFran style progressives, which probably make up quite a significant portion of Apple's core fanbase). Very cold and rationally if someone in that position causes relations with the targeted populace to worsen rather than improve management will want to kick them off the position. As a HR veteran I'm sure she understands the politics involved. Luckily, considering what her resume must look like I have no doubt she'll have another good job in no time.
    In conversation Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 09:19:20 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  15. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 05:23:22 EST Verius Verius
    C# extension methods are a great idea but they do suck goat balls (I know the term is donkey balls, but goat balls are bigger) when you're trying to look up the source of something. In order to do that you first have to figure out which assembly contains the method (https://packagesearch.azurewebsites.net/ helps a lot) and then have to find the source tree that contains that method, which isn't always trivial since e.g. asp.net core is spread out over like 10 repos.
    In conversation Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 05:23:22 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  16. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 05:19:36 EST Verius Verius
    Apple's diversity chief is out after making too much sense: https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-just-six-months/
    In conversation Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 05:19:36 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink

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      Apple’s diversity chief out after outcry
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      Apple’s diversity chief is stepping down after only six months on the job — after causing an outcry by saying that being a minority or a woman are not the only criteria for diversity, according to …
  17. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 05:02:13 EST Verius Verius
    • zak storer 🎡
    @zacts Yeah, and that's the problem for me. I'm not a beginner. For me it's more valuable that a shell is generally compatible with scripts I need to run OR has very powerful features than that it's easy to use. For all it's faults Powershell is interesting because it offers a completely different paradigm and is generally available on its main platform (Windows).
    In conversation Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 05:02:13 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  18. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 12:46:18 EST Verius Verius
    • zak storer 🎡
    @zacts I've read about it but it always seems incompatible with common posix sh derivates without offering any compelling benefits so I never looked closer at it.
    In conversation Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 12:46:18 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  19. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 11:58:35 EST Verius Verius
    One thing Powershell does that other shells would do well to emulate is to make it really easy to set up parameter configuration. I don't think it's against the unix philosophy to have a shell have a built-in way of configuring accepted arguments and automatically generate a help message. With such scripts the shell could even offer intelligent auto-completion for parameters.
    In conversation Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 11:58:35 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
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