CHY872

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by CHY872 12y ago
I've heard about but never seen 'accidentally factorial' before. It was at a well known SV company - apparently it was rarely noticeable in prod because the arguments were usually fairly small.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Right advice, wrong reason. Any moderate sized company will be aware that SSL makes it harder for their corporate traffic monitoring to work. They don't want SSL usage to render their monitoring software useless, so they install their
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by CHY872 12y ago
Yes - and what they've achieved is a CPU that's much closer to the ARM state of the art, and has a much more ARM-like power profile, and would generally be easier to replace with ARM a couple of years down the line. This coincides
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by CHY872 12y ago
Responses will likely be correlated to iPhones and AppleIDs in some way, so the spammers won't be able to do much .
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by CHY872 12y ago
I don't think you get to trumpet 'fits in your pocket' if it's 8 inches. I don't doubt that in principle, you could persuade one to fit in your pocket (unless you're female) but I don't think it fits most
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by CHY872 12y ago
Not really. This processor will be far slower than what they've got in the current-gen MacBook Airs. Provided that this is a success then (which it will be) it'll make the barrier for success for an ARM MacBook far lower.
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by CHY872 12y ago
No one actually cared that a laptop needed a fan, though. Apple could have put a fan in this and no one would have seen it as a huge deficiency.
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by CHY872 12y ago
The Lytro example seems very dubious. Their solution has a lot of additional hardware in it - you wouldn't be able to package it into a Project Ara type device without having some kind of backpack anyway. From their point of view, it&#
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by CHY872 12y ago
This seems like an obvious prelude to ARM CPUs in MacBooks.
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by CHY872 12y ago
I don't think that holds much water. Users obviously have some concern for security, but you can't expect them to care as much as the security people. Furthermore, that goodwill only gets you so far - they have their own jobs, whi
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by CHY872 12y ago
Microsoft's desktop software only gained a reputation for insecurity because until relatively recently (early 2000s), the rational move for them was to not secure it. Their software designed for governments etc - that doesn't have
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by CHY872 12y ago
I don't think the Linux kernel is a good example here. The vast majority of people who commit to it are paid to do so by their employers, and if you're just getting started then committing to the kernel is probably a bad idea anyw
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by CHY872 12y ago
ARM does have microcode (though early ones didn't). Basically if you don't have microcode, you kinda tie your instruction set to your physical architecture, which makes it hard to progress. For example, at the time of the Pentium
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by CHY872 12y ago
The reason why jock/macho type cultures should be suppressed in software engineering is because they end up being fairly exclusive cultures which engender and reward levels of masculinity. Many companies (possibly correctly) hire and f
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by CHY872 12y ago
One important point here is that Adria's role was that of developer evangelist - a role that requires good community engagement. It's then not such a stretch to imagine that her ability to do this job well might be compromised in
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by CHY872 12y ago
Pretty sure that it's: When you want to go on a wikipedia article, it requests the file from other peers in the network using the bittorrent protocol. It's a copy of Wikipedia placed on bittorrent, presumably with some semantics f
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by CHY872 12y ago
Yeah, but it's absolutely apples and oranges. Petraeus didn't just break this rule, he broke others too and became a bit of an embarrassment. With your run-of-the-mill service member, it's more a culture of indoctrination - y
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by CHY872 12y ago
I generally don't read Wired articles when they're linked to here or elsewhere. I find the title format of: 'Why XXXXX.' or 'XXXXX. Here's why:' 'How XXXXXX' to be clickbaitey, and when I get to
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by CHY872 12y ago
So it'll be: You can use it for free, but you have to sell it on Steam? Valve will still get their pound of flesh.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Might it be possible to at least store copies on gitlab - say, have a project/user/organisation called gitorious with every gitorious project under it? I can't admit that I know just how much stuff is hosted on gitorious, but
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by CHY872 12y ago
You sure about that? Your system will be full of proprietary firmwares, drivers, etc.
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by CHY872 12y ago
I disagree - I've done bisects on very large codebases, and they take a while (5-10 seconds for a checkout, perhaps). This is all immaterial compared to the time to recompile the code (possibly a minute or two to get everything recompi
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by CHY872 12y ago
but then you lose the ability to git bisect, blame etc, which is the root comment's advantage of doing git. I've worked on a project where the git repository was man gigabytes - because at some point someone decided to put some bi
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by CHY872 12y ago
You don't need or want Bitcoin in that model - the whole point of Bitcoin is that it's decentralised and all transactions are trackable by all parties (but not necessarily destinations). A government would just want essentially ou
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by CHY872 12y ago
You'd have to find the key used, which would be hidden inside of the browser's memory (and possibly hard to get out). Wireshark will do that for you, but it's not ideal. A more usable way is: Set up a proxy on your system tha
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by CHY872 12y ago
There are other tools that work for this, though. For example, Fiddler.
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by CHY872 12y ago
My understanding is that this is a largely academical board, designed for use by universities. They might be successful in such a realm - although I suspect any professor worth their salt will be given dev boards by a hardware company for t
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by CHY872 12y ago
There are two problems. The first problem is political - firstly Apple make it so that you have to use the Webkit rendering engine for any third party browser. The second problem is more technical - iOS has memory protection that means you
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by CHY872 12y ago
I kinda get the author's point here - to run a proof of work based system you need an incentive to actually do the work. Bitcoin has such incentives, and so it will succeed for any tool that people try to run on it. If you try to creat
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by CHY872 12y ago
Erm, so you could possibly do some stuff like this (probably not for Js). It's called profile guided optimisation - you compile, run, take measurements, and the compiler uses those measurements to pick the right optimisations to use. I

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