Animus7

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by Animus7 15y ago
> This would, in my ideal dream world, also allow the app publisher to make app changes at will without waiting for an appstore review. This is the main reason it won't happen; app store review is one of the key parts of Apple's positio
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by Animus7 15y ago
Makes sense. But this strategy for me begs an important question: why the <bleep> is it even possible to write directly to memory over an fd? I get that "everything is a file", sure, but you've already got ptrace for insane use case
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by Animus7 15y ago
This seems to kind of tread into the territory of DeCSS haikus [1]; if I can speak (tweet) the file, isn't that expression of my rights to free speech? [1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt
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by Animus7 15y ago
I could be wrong, but I thing the idea is that Twitter is immune to censorship, so no matter what sites get taken down, file sharing can live on in 300 baud. Or something. ...Yeah, I don't really get it either.
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by Animus7 15y ago
> Although it's not clear if a removal from Dropbox servers could trigger a deletion into my own Dropbox. Perhaps someone at HN knows? Please advise.. Of course it's technically possible, and Dropbox could probably be compelled by one l
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by Animus7 15y ago
There's nothing right about this, but I honestly can't have much sympathy for people who store their only copies of work files at a site that's notorious for its association with illegal activity.
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by Animus7 15y ago
I don't even think the worst part is the download (which can be cached). The worst part is the fact that you're running your script, interpreted by a weirdly generated unoptimized script, interpreted by a scripting engine which only then
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by Animus7 15y ago
> Instead of trying to create an interpreter from scratch, SpiderMonkey is compiled into LLVM and then emscripten translates the output into JavaScript. Heh, this is pretty much the epitome of hacking: needlessly complicated, ultimately
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by Animus7 15y ago
Sure, if you do this the naive way (map files onto the git repo 1:1). I don't know how this project is doing it, but adding a buffering/sharding layer for large files would alleviate this problem at the cost of worse delta compression (amon
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by Animus7 15y ago
I'm probably atypical in that I came to the world of web engineering from the depths of low-level C++ systems development. But I can honestly say that once you've written a perf- and security- conscious file system driver, pretty much noth
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by Animus7 15y ago
I don't see any actual argument here. "If you're boycotting only some of these companies for supporting SOPA, you must boycott all of them"? Not really... Boycotting GoDaddy made perfect sense: they are an internet company supporting legisl
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by Animus7 15y ago
That's utterly unforgivable. Apparently not only do they consider customer time worthless, but they are actively tracking your usage for direct spam purposes. They're not even trying to hide it, and they're using the customer relationship a
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by Animus7 15y ago
The project that I'm working on has functional abstractions, contexts, and node-fibers flying all over the place. It gets hairy at times but (I claim) it's nonetheless workable precisely because I don't use libraries like Sugarless -- eve
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by Animus7 15y ago
Doesn't this basically summarize Microsoft's entire business strategy these days? Wait until some piece of tech is firmly entrenched, then move to implement your own instance, more often than not with an enterprise angle. More often than no
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by Animus7 15y ago
> This is worse than penny auctions as they are stealing from kids here. They're not stealing from kids. Kids don't have anything worth stealing. They are using psychology to entice kids to spend their parents' money when they're not lo
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by Animus7 15y ago
> HTTP/1.0 500 999 This page is currently unavailable in /home/content/r/a/n/rangeenchara/html/projects/sopatally.php on line 5 I'm no PHP guy, but looks like server's getting a 500 on your REST query. The query itself works nicely from
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by Animus7 15y ago
Compiler writing is easy? No. (I've built compilers for large subsets of C and Java, as well as my own languages) Lord help you if you try to write a perfectly conforming compiler for C++ (has it ever been done?), and the U.S. legal system
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by Animus7 15y ago
Personally I find writing MapReduce jobs (in JavaScript no less) to be unbelievably clean and easy when your stack is Riak + Node. Of course if you've been using SQL for years then this probably sounds difficult in comparison. Except what
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by Animus7 15y ago
I've been doing exactly that in my more recent projects, and it works extremely well for simpler views/shallow DOMS. But it turns into write-only code pretty fast when you have tons of callbacks flying around for highly interactive elements
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by Animus7 15y ago
China's far away. This example hits closer and is therefore much easier to consume. Of course, this isn't a logical argument. But lawmaking isn't fundamentally driven by logic these days anyway.
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by Animus7 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm just as cynical as the next HN'er and there's no doubt that Color still isn't worth a single percent of the millions of funding dollars it gobbled up, but... Twitter defined themselves by trading features and verbosi
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Fuzzy string search(ntz-develop.blogspot.com)
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by Animus7 15y ago
I used to preach the same thing. Then, working at a startup taught me that it's not black and white. Several quotes come to mind, but Voltaire's is my favorite: "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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by Animus7 15y ago
I cannot rightly comprehend what problems one must be having if the solution is a wider bit width and variable assignment sugar.
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by Animus7 15y ago
What's even more terrifying is that for every person savvy enough to at least know when something's not right (new PIN box), there's several more that wouldn't give it a second thought. Although having a more modern browser will help, this
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by Animus7 15y ago
> I ask honestly: why should it be easy to participate? Because the alternative is massive systemic bias. This issue has been discussed to death and I won't argue anything here, but the point is that having a thick coat of process encou
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by Animus7 15y ago
With the countless and varied security holes that Adobe's Flash implementation has had over the years, I don't think having a "secure" RNG counts for much.
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by Animus7 15y ago
Not so much of a "fuckup" as it is a "feature". Not to say that I agree with this practice (I don't), but someone deliberately implemented this, and there's a good business case for it. The privacy implications are unfortunate, but what els
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by Animus7 15y ago
If you look closely, Steve's still there at the bottom of the page.
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by Animus7 15y ago
Our company's been C++0x-heavy since the first bits rolled out in GCC. We're lucky enough not to have any legacy, so we can afford this. The other day I was stuck on a system with only a C++ (03) compiler, and it was a truly crippling exper

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