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Programming Used to Be Free

purplesyringa.moe
82 points·by yeputons·3개월 전·73 comments

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yeputons
·3일 전·discuss
It works reliably and without surprises. Messages are not lost. No weird errors.

Features: easy to switch devices, including PC. File transfers. Video sharing. Audio-to-text conversion out of the box.
yeputons
·29일 전·discuss
I got mine when I was 12, IIRC. Not a credit, of course, it was a debit card, but not all countries bother to differentiate between the two, it was just a “bank card”. And I believe it had a credit card BIN because all local banks did that to get more in processing fees.
yeputons
·지난달·discuss
I would read «КНЦ» as «КОНЕЦ», literally “an end” or “the end” (Russian does not have anything resembling articles). Who needs vowels, anyway.

Also, «ВСЕ» feels like «ВСЁ» in this context, I’d translate that as “that’s all”.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
It is, because it disables checks in the whole code base. With Corroded, you still have to manually corrode it in selected places.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
> Multiple threads read and write simultaneously with no synchronization. I call it 'vibes threading'.

So, C++.

I like the term "vibe threading" to describe the the default state of affairs in some (most?) languages. We can extend it to "vibe contracts" as well.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
Huh, great to know, thank you. For some reason, I thought the game gets de-listed completely and no downloads are possible anymore.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
Happens regularly. And if you don't have a visa for the new destination, well, too bad.

E.g. on December 20 a WizzAir flight 4768 was diverted to Thessaloniki (Greece) instead of its destination Skopje (North Macedonia): https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/WZZ4768/history/2025... . Those with Schengen visas (or appropriate passports) got a bus to Skopje. The rest allegedly waited for three hours and then got returned to Cyprus (EU, but not Schengen), but to a different airport (Paphos instead of Larnaca). So if someone had a car left on Larnaca's parking, too bad.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
> They use scamming approaches more misleading than airline's and in cases straight up lie.

Would you mind sharing some examples? My only complaints with DB are cancellations and delays. Well, the ticketing might be a bit confusing the first time you realize "ticket" and "seat reservation" are two completely independent entities. Similarly, rules for which train you're allowed to take might be a bit confusing. But I wouldn't call it scamming.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
Local trains in Moscow and Saint Petersburg ("elektrichka" with all local stops) may get delayed by a few minutes sometimes, true. But e.g. several trains being delayed by ten minutes because of an ice rain is newsworthy. At least that was the case on several directions I knew about.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
Correct, but GOG provides games without _any_ DRM, both in the installer and in the game itself.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
> I can’t recall a time I’ve encountered an issue that was the fault of Valve versus a developer or publisher.

Does it really matter if it's developer/publisher removing the game from Steam, not Valve? The end result is the same: one can't play.
yeputons
·6개월 전·discuss
One does not have a debit/credit card at all (e.g. they're young, or don't have enough documents, or are an immigrant from a sanctioned country).

Alternatively, the card is rejected because "fraud prevention", see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424584

Or the game is not available in my "account's region", which is chosen arbitrarily based on God knows what.
yeputons
·7개월 전·discuss
Might be an estimation of logs storage/bandwidth.
yeputons
·7개월 전·discuss
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 - a person gave permission for IBM to "use JSLint for evil".
yeputons
·9개월 전·discuss
> We focus on system design, architectural decisions, and reasoning through trade-offs.

Are we still talking about hiring juniors? I hope I misunderstood and it's not about "design messaging app" type of questions. Otherwise we're firmly back in the Leetcode land.
yeputons
·9개월 전·discuss
> cloning the github repo we used for our interview

Unless it's a very well-known big tech, I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable running any externally provided code during the interview. For all I know, it's RCE with potential to steal cookies and/or crypto.
yeputons
·10개월 전·discuss
> Sure, there are some protections like “you can’t record the screen without the user granting explicit permission”,

Are there? Any app on Windows screenshot and access camera, microphone, whatever. Aren't permissions for Windows Store-style apps only?