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dancodes··on Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable
If your last statement is true, how come there are companies working on software every day and not getting sued constantly?
dancodes··on Show HN: DataSpeeder Instant End-User Web GUI for MySQL
Looks great, there's a very defined use-case and the video is very clear.

Does anyone know of any other similar piece of software, preferably open source, that allows for complete customization? I have another use-case different from the one on this product and I could use some advice.

dancodes··on WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password
As a 3rd party who thought he understood this, but then realized he didn't: thank you for explaining it
dancodes··on Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python
Excellent visualizations!

Could you share the code used to create your last sample chart?

dancodes··on Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)
I found it surprisingly hard to get access to the primitives mentioned in the intro, on a modern pc. How does one draw a pixel on a specific coordinate in a modern OS?
dancodes··on WireGuard for iOS
There's TunSafe [1], a client for Windows. Its source code [2] has been published as well.

[1]: https://tunsafe.com/

[2]: https://github.com/TunSafe/TunSafe

dancodes··on AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
Got the same experience with Scaleway. Suddently unresponsive instances which had to be rebooted manually. That's a no-go!
dancodes··on A simple pomodoro in C
This should be titled "A simple Windows-only pomodoro in C"
dancodes··on AIM will shut down after 20 years
Even though that phrase password is 16 characters long, it has the same entropy as a 9-10 letter long alphanumeric random password (according to KeePass' generator). I agree that it's easier to recall, but it's half as secure as a properly random 16 character one.
dancodes··on The art of over-engineering your side projects
What frameworks/methods are you using to develop a game in Go?
dancodes··on Writing a Faster Sorting Algorithm
Do you know of any resource which details these faster algorithms when given extra requirements?
dancodes··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
You can: Click on the time next to the poster's username and you'll get a permalink to it.

Like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11696803

dancodes··on Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment
if the old version can't handle the new schema, is there anything that can be done when upgrading multiple servers?