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meelooo

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    Comment #12683653

    clicked the link and got "Error establishing a database connection". Not sure I can trust the source ;-).

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    Comment #9783916

    Money can help get through the time you need to get back on your knees. I've had the misfortune of having my cofounder die after 18 month and two investments rounds and some money …

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    Comment #8579580

    He had a scooter accident. My feeling is that he probably had the accident because he was really pushing himself too much: he was barely sleeping 3h per night and in the end his li…

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    Comment #8578723

    exactly!

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    Comment #8578722

    The first time I picked the wrong co-founders (friends and all were engineers). The second time I picked the wrong project. The third time my co-founder died. The fourth time I wan…

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    Comment #8578672

    I tried and "failed" a couple of times in the last 14 years. Having a family pushed me to decide to settle down for some time. I started working as a software engineer at Apple a w…

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    Comment #8520149

    IIRC the lens profile format adobe uses for Camera Raw and Light Room is human readable and editable so you may be able to use it directly.

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    Comment #8379945

    no, I rely on the fact that any version of an "eval" function should just no exist and that any text based protocol encourages the existence of such functions that can execute what…

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    Comment #8378549

    no, the problem is that you can treat any kind of text data as an executable. You can try to fix this by adding mountains of complexities and excuses but would still be true: as so…

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    Comment #8376590

    You are describing the problem exactly: it all too tempting to pass text around from user input to command line arguments without any way to validate the text data and assume it's …

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    Comment #8376577

    It's not about making protocols less understandable by humain, it's about recognising that we are programming computers, not humans and that it's time we accept that there should c…

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    Comment #8376505

    It's an "internet tech" bug. Every developper should know how hard it is to parse textual data vs well defined binary in a secure and fool proof way. Yet every damn internet piece …

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    Comment #8189898

    Yes, and that's why one can wonder why they once again chose JSON for part of this new "web standard". Text based data formats should die.

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    Comment #8183662

    I've been using the name for 13 years or so but a number of other libs started using the acronym unfortunately (New UI, Natural UI, etc.). I should have been more vocal and public …

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    Comment #8181875

    Kivy looks very nice but NUI is a very different beast (I'm the author). The main difference being that even though NUI is a complete multi-plateform framework that uses OpenGL for…

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