0xABADC0DA

11 ms·

31.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
The real problem with ActiveX wasn't the technology, it was the API. Code relied on a large, complicated, ever-changing API which was practically impossible for others to duplicate. Win32 was for the most part documented, but even a decad
32.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
This issue isn't resolved yet: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=47 So Google Go programs won't run on any RHEL or Fedora with SELinux enabled. Requiring users to disable SELinux in order to run programs is just insane... even
33.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Which is why "defer" and the "go" should operate on blocks or statements, not expressions. For instance: defer { result++; } Instead of: defer func() { result++; }(); Also that you need such an ugly syntax jus
34.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
I don't know how to get a decent link from Amazon but "FiiO D3 Digital to Analog Audio Converter" works pretty well. $30. There's a bug in some AppleTV where it has to be connected to a TV on boot or there's random noise from the digital a
35.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Best hexword ---^ - Easy to remember and type - Not leet speak - Reminds you to keep ego in check
36.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
I'm not sure how Apple hasn't been rewarded for their efforts. What more, exactly, do they need ... We've had years of Apple sitting on an epic pile of money What you are doing is looking at the success story and saying 'they already made
37.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Apple Legal is at odds with Apple Engineering, trying to litigate away the competition instead of innovating past them I don't even... what do you expect Apple Legal to innovate? "Accept EULA to unlock?" They aren't at odds with enginee
38.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
I don't follow that argument. Say the EUFI boot used the last key you booted with... Windows PCs would boot just the same, securely using the Microsoft key. But when you pressed Esc or F1 or whatever for a boot menu, instead of choosing wh
39.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
For instance today if you install Fedora and select encryption for the drives, /boot is still not encrypted (what would decrypt /?). Your data is secure from offline analysis, but anybody can walk up and replace /boot to record your passwo
40.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
UVA is a crown jewel of Virginia's old boy network. The first woman president, well-liked and not an old boy, is fired by the business college for no legitimate reason. This couldn't be any more blatant.
41.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
http://www.baconsrebellion.com/Issues05/10-03/Haskins.php "The university has a troubling history when it comes to matter race..." "UVa's racial problem is larger than simply a few isolated incidents of bigotry. ... There is still a disce
42.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Can you just rename it Audora.js? Quick bing search didn't turn it up. It contains "aud" from audio, plus "aurora" is kind of wussy sounding anyway with no hard consonants.
43.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
I guess you aren't aware that Google Go has their own compilers based on Plan 9 C compiler called "6g" or "8g" (depends on what architecture). These compilers produce much less efficient code than gcc does. Yes, gcc now also compiles the l
44.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Somebody should write a Google Go to C transpiler. Mostly Google Go features are limitations or different styles in order to 'improve' C, so it should produce fairly readable C code. Then you could use any compiler, linking type, combine
45.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
What changes would I like to see? I'd like to see you work with Microsoft (and others) to improve the protocol. Microsoft with S+M has made real improvements. Ask them. They know their stuff. For me though, I think Microsoft held back on
46.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Are you saying that because you heard other people say so, or because you actually believe it yourself? https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/spdy-for-mobile Scroll down halfway to the waterfall charts. Out of 35 requests, 31 were
47.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
So speaking for Google, if IETF results in changes from Speed + Mobility then Google will commit to implement it? From what I can see the Spdy draft 3 doesn't include any improvements from Speed + Mobility so I don't see the relvance of you
48.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Score one for mediocrity. Microsoft's Speed + Mobility version of Spdy has some good improvements, but I guess Google will just declare their version to be the standard. Also Spdy only had 23% faster page load times than non-pipelined HTTP
49.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Microsoft's Speed+Mobility proposal is actually much better than Spdy: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-montenegro-httpbis-speed-mo... They took Spdy and dropped priorities, settings and other ill-conceived parts from it and made compress
50.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Checked exceptions are great, but unchecked exceptions are a huge disaster only mitigated by failsafe features such as RAII or garbage collection with finalizers. Sometimes like in highly dynamic languages the failsafes are enough that it'
51.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
One thing often overlooked in language design is the filename. It's 2012, why are languages still stuck with IBM-era filename extentions when they could use unicode?! For instance: Rust: filename.ℛ Java: filename.☕ Glee: filename.☺ Isn't
52.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
'' Because Mongo's APIs are unique (not a standard, no third-party implementations), would this mean that your software is derived from MongoDB? Yes it would, simply because without MongoDB it couldn't function. '' According to the recent E
53.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
Google search often breaks for me when behind a proxy, maybe for similar reasons (sending different content based on the user agent). I don't know if proxies have separately cached documents based on the user-agent or not, but I regularly
54.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
How so? Any jury, technical or not, should find 1A for Oracle. "Has Oracle proven that Google has infringed the overall structure, sequence and organization of copyrighted works?" As far as I can tell nobody disputes that Google lifted the
55.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
> But that is precisely what copyrighting APIs will achieve, a monopoly on computer languages, because without the APIs, as one witness told the court in Oracle v. Google, Java is blind and deaf. It can't be used for much, if anything.
56.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/spdy-for-mobile - doesn't include DNS lookup times - doesn't include packet loss - doesn't compare to pipelining First two mean the claimed speedup isn't measuring the whole real time. Third i
57.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
> I sure as hell could appreciate a new HTTP-standard, which was brought to the field by having professionals (maybe even IETF!) work together and reason about things publically This is a good point, for instance the developers of Spdy
58.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
The 50% longer answer is 'yes': Google - "giving itself all permissions it could possibly need" including creating derivative works of any kind. Dropbox - "solely to provide the Services" Skydrive - "solely to the extent necessary to provid
59.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
APIs such as Java's are original, creative works of authorship that no two people would create the same way. But they shouldn't be copyrightable because 'history would be different'... great argument there, genius.
60.
by 0xABADC0DA 14y ago
I know that you can't copy the OED as a whole, or in significant parts. You have to purchase it. Similarly, you could copy and use parts of the Java API in your programs but not the whole API. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know if Google's

More ›