Viewing profile — gbl08ma

One could argue that this would fall into child labor laws, which exist for a reason.

This sounds like it would break a bunch of email address verification systems, password recovery links and the like. I wonder if indeed it does break them, but since it only affect…

On non-jailbroken iOS devices the only way to install apps is through the App Store or through some convoluted methods which involve having a developer account (which you must pay …

For those wondering, this is 100% an Apple-directed decision. The strings for a canary version of the client, at one point, blamed App Store rules directly: https://github.com/Disc…

All of that is bandwidth and clock speed, not latency

I had heard about this giant JSON from friends in the GTA V modding community. OP's idea of what it is used for is right. My guess is that this JSON was quite smaller when the game…

The new default icon set drives me nuts as well. Fortunately, you can select other icon sets in the settings.

Based on what I saw in past discussions, I'm pretty sure that the takedown was not a run-of-the-mill scraper-based takedown (it makes no sense to be taken down just for linking to …

It doesn't work like that since certain videos use obfuscation methods that random cat videos don't.

MySQL not having a proper type to express time spans seems like a fault to me, and "poor design". Of course you can just use an integer for it, but that is a slippery slope, in the…

I, too, develop for Android and, like you say, we have the "luxury" of being able to do it on both Windows and Linux (and macOS as well, if I wanted). Even .NET development is more…

The way I see it, "desktop-dependent workflows" overlap more and more with those "Windows-dependent workflows". Nowadays, most people don't need more than a web browser, and in tha…

I agree with you on the clipboard thing, but as with every other API that gives access to sensitive information, they could have put it behind a permission prompt. It wouldn't make…

You might be pleased or displeased to know that at Técnico they no longer teach Scheme in the introductory programming course, nowadays it's Python. When I did the AI course, the p…

Immersive but also very battery draining...

I believe that hours going up to 12 instead of going 0 .. 11 is because you can't quite hear a bell strike zero times, no?

I have a bit of a obsession with the Lisbon Metro, even though I don't use it very often. I started by building this: https://github.com/gbl08ma/disturbancesmlx This started as mor…

For a perhaps more well-known example, see the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They sell, obviously, Raspberry Pis - a lot of them. They are a charitable organization, which is a type of …

I own a Surface Pro 3 with the SP4 type cover (i.e. the version before the one that just came out and which is basically the same). I thought I'd miss all the keys from my laptop a…

8.1 is supported, 8 is not. Support for Windows 8 ended on January 12, 2016.

> right now NN, as I understand it, is not so much about the current state of things, but about making sure that future "wikipedias" and "facebooks" get the same chances as the cur…

See guelo's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13767782 ) Just because Wikimedia is not seeking profits or even looking to somehow "stay ahead" with this deal, that doe…