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Comment on: Fuck you.
The PinePhone is fine, it just lacks an OS. To be fair, it's still a lot more mature than OpenMoko was.
3 25 Feb 2021 11:11 u/xyzzy in g/technology
Comment on: Fuck you.
> Nothing is "De-Googled" if you are using an Android hardware device. Volla pretty much is, if you'd still call it an Android. > There is a built-in chip that sends data to Google even if you install a new rom. That's BS until proven. phone manufacturers don't add stuff which won't generate revenue. Also sending data would use battery, they optimize against that too. Sure, many cheap Android devices phone home, but not to Google, but to the manufacturer; and they get a few cents for it.
2 25 Feb 2021 11:09 u/xyzzy in g/technology
Comment on: Is poal.co just a fork of voat's code?
No it isn't. It doesn't even use the same stack. Poal is a fork of Throat, which runs Phuks. Voat code: https://github.com/voat/ Base for Poal code: https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat
1 28 Dec 2020 09:59 u/xyzzy in g/technology
Comment on: Circuits: What is your best way to make a "hard drive", or a part of the system that saves state after power is off?

EEPROM?

Also this is probably the wrong sub for this question, try /v/electronics if there are still readers.

4 15 Sep 2017 14:58 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: How do you usually read programming books?

I prefer them as ebook, since I usually don't read them cover to cover, but by control-f.

I generally don't like copy paste of code.

0 19 May 2017 13:48 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: Could you reduce file size by treating it as a number and dividing by two?

Not without using information. You would save a bit, but you'd have to store it if you wanted to get the original back.

3 20 Apr 2017 15:04 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: Brand new and feeling kind of ridiculous right now. Could someone help?

You can use notepad++ for CSS as well. I can't tell you how since I've never used it, but it shouldn't be hard to figure it out; it probably even self detects.

1 06 Mar 2017 15:07 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: Brand new and feeling kind of ridiculous right now. Could someone help?

HTML & CSS isn't programming, it's markup.

For a beginner I highly recommend a good text editor with syntax highlighting (like notepad++ for example). This way you'll actually learn what you're doing and not just click around until you get what you want without knowing what's going on behind the scenes. An editor and a browser is all you need, the browser not only for testing your site, but also for the reference and a search engine.

3 06 Mar 2017 14:50 u/xyzzy in v/programming
How to write an object oriented program that doesn't suck
4 0 comments 17 Nov 2016 15:55 u/xyzzy (..) in v/programming
Comment on: xkcd: Old Days

Real programmers use butterflies

5 04 Nov 2016 14:04 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: [Humor] How to save the princess using 8 programming languages

Here and here to the previous discussions.

0 07 Oct 2016 12:17 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: C or C++: Which is the language you prefer?

I'll go with C. But it's not a big difference.

7 08 Sep 2016 12:53 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: C or C++: Which is the language you prefer?

Depends on the task. Programming languages are tools and for best results use the best tool for the task.

4 08 Sep 2016 12:45 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Which countries have the best programmers in the world
1 0 comments 06 Sep 2016 08:22 u/xyzzy (..) in v/programming
400,000 GitHub repositories, 1 billion files, 14 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs?
2 0 comments 31 Aug 2016 08:32 u/xyzzy (..) in v/programming
Comment on: 5 ways we solve web development outsourcing communication problems

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Please don't spam. Buy an ad if you want to advertize.

1 22 Jul 2016 14:11 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: At what time would a sane person bitshift a signed integer?

Some programmers like it to multiply and divide, but I call that bad style because it's less readable.

But when you have to fumble with bits and raw binary data it has its uses where it is more readable.

0 01 Jul 2016 13:07 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: At what time would a sane person bitshift a signed integer?

When doing low level stuff where single bits are important. Like micro-controller programming or dealing with a stupid bus.

For anything high level it's less readable and no performance gain since the compiler does it anyway.

3 01 Jul 2016 08:24 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: How do i start my Software Developer path.

The best way to learn is by doing. Create a small project and code something you're interested in. This might be a dynamic website, or something on an Arduino or a calculator.

4 19 Feb 2016 16:45 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: Is this a good sub for programming help?

/v/ProgrammingHelp might be the sub you look for. But it is practically unused.

1 16 Dec 2015 14:03 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: Is it possible to make my own private cloud server?

Check out ownCloud and Syncthing.

10 22 Jul 2015 16:58 u/xyzzy in v/programming
Comment on: Powershell anything else ?

You don't need to be a master on the command line to start programming. But it helps a lot when you are able to do basic operations like browsing the file system, creating directories, copying and moving files, etc.. They are explained in the Appendix.

Other than that you need to be able to hanlde your text editor. Using an editor with syntax highlighting and line numbering helps a lot in finding bugs.

2 30 Mar 2015 17:59 u/xyzzy in v/programming
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