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Re:Windows 10 0day exploit goes wild, and so do Microsoft marketers
on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:35AM (#13580351)
Disclosure: I work at MS but not on the kernel or anything related to this security bug. Opinions are my own.
I've seen one-line bug fixes introduce many other bugs.
Adding a null check is always suspicious. Is the system in an invalid state? Should it fail fast instead of swallowing the error?
Maybe the code wasn't touched in several years. Maybe the person that wrote it no longer works there. Maybe the code in question doesn't have good test coverage or documentation. There are so many variables to consider when assessing risk of code changes.
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:54AM (#13560136)
Because of the productivity benefits of using public tools instead of internal ones. Devs are more familiar with them, more documentation and examples, morale benefit because skills are transferable to other jobs, etc.
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:21AM (#13559927)
It works fine. We have really good code search tools.
The numbers include test code, utilities, two entire web browsers, UI frameworks, etc.
Re:The woes of Windows 10
on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:30PM (#13553691)
Apple uses grayscale font rendering too, not even pixel aligned. It looks nice because all of their devices are high DPI.
Re:The woes of Windows 10
on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:03PM (#13553419)
I think you're right, looks like it was only fixed for Edge.
Discussion of technical challenge is here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=...
Re:The woes of Windows 10
on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:57PM (#13553358)
Font rendering was improved in the Anniversary update. It should use ClearType in most cases on landscape monitors with 100% DPI.
Re:The woes of Windows 10
on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:53PM (#13553308)
http://www.windowscentral.com/new-design-language-windows-10...
Design language is getting an update.
Re:The .NET Language Strategy
on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:30AM (#13551772)
Opens instantly for me.
Re:The .NET Language Strategy
on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:29AM (#13548351)
Many of the built-in Windows 10 apps are written in C#.
Re:Welcome, ACLU
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:49AM (#13532328)
I don't understand why it's even controversial to call this a Muslim ban. It's a ban on people from Muslim majority countries, except for religious minorities in those countries.
Re:Welcome, ACLU
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:43AM (#13532230)
This is not the only issue people are protesting.
Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:38AM (#13532153)
Debating with sophomores is about as fruitful as debating with holocaust deniers.
Re:Welcome, ACLU
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:27AM (#13531959)
So your argument is that if you didn't do what was right before, you shouldn't do what's right now?
Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:18AM (#13531834)
By any reasonable human being's standard.
Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:52AM (#13530483)
The electoral college was created in part to prevent unqualified candidates from becoming president. It failed spectacularly.
Re:Toxic fluorinated compounds found in drinking water of 33 states
on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:02PM (#13525461)
And by cutting 2/3 of the EPA workforce
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/30/...
And by removing two regulations for every new regulation :(
Re:Hollywood as We Know It Is Over
on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:05PM (#13522879)
> When they are available it is usually 5$ for a "rental". Is that a joke? I used to pay that at Blockbuster, and they had a physical location and employees!
We're never going to get anywhere until people understand that cost+ pricing is not a thing.
Re:Study Finds Uber Doesn’t Put Taxi Drivers Out of Work But Does Driv...
on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:05PM (#13518346)
They should require larger vehicles. Cramming three people into the back of a compact sucks.
Re:White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media and...
on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:59AM (#13514672)
Is there an official blacklist of disapproved websites? If so, isn't that a form of censorship?
Re:White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media and...
on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:57AM (#13514660)
Classic alt-er redirection. It doesn't matter if Obama started it, what matters is what we're going to do to stop it.
Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring ...
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:03PM (#13510099)
Nazism should be swiftly kicked in the ass whenever it rears itself.
This is naked white supremacism. For as much bullshit as we've heard about political correctness, why not just come out and say this is straight up religious and racial discrimination?
Re:Time to Take a Stand
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:31PM (#13509499)
Basic human rights are not up for debate. Women and children fleeing a war should not be turned away. In the US, we believe everyone deserves life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Re:Time to Take a Stand
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:29PM (#13509490)
Empirically, it wasn't 50/50, not even among the percentage of the population that actually voted.
Re:Time to Take a Stand
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:26PM (#13509467)
Irrelevant troll.
Re:Time to Take a Stand
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:26PM (#13509459)
So what? Don't be outraged because we weren't outraged enough before?
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:02AM (#13506900)
So he believes in racial segregation but is not racist?
Re:Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:29AM (#13506689)
Spot on. In his ABC interview, he cited San Bernardino and 9/11 as reasons for this ban. The attackers in San Bernardino were a US citizen and Pakastani and the 9/11 attackers were from Saudi Arabia. Neither covered by this ban.
Re:Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:21AM (#13506647)
Not me.
You're right though, the biggest problem is all the people cheering this on. I read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and this seems to be escalating even faster.
Re:Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:06AM (#13506586)
This is absolutely ridiculous. Nationalism needs to be nipped at the bud before it spirals out of control.
These orders should not be followed. Nuremberg defense doesn't hold up.
Re:Calling Windows 10 APIs from a WinForms or WPF application
on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:11PM (#13503599)
You can use Windows Runtime Library (WRL) instead of C++/Cx.