Demiurge

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   by Demiurge 12y ago

   Not a single Stanislaw Lem novel? Why is this so typical of USA sci-fi section? His 'Fiasco' is one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read.
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   by Demiurge 12y ago

   A lot of Androids are getting replaced with iOS this week. Are you aware it is also hybrid of Mach microkernel and POSIX apis?
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   by Demiurge 12y ago

   So, you don't find it bitterly ironic that Symbian was replaced by a hybrid kernel based OS (NT) instead of a monolithic one?
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   by Demiurge 12y ago

   Thanks, that's pretty awesome. However, I was talking about attacks relying on non-constant time memory copy or math function that is used to somehow defeat a server or cryptography.
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   by Demiurge 12y ago

   But there is a whole range of potential issues. Or things compiler developers can do. As any task, they should be sorted, weighted by ease of exploitation and ease of solving. What I suspect, and I'm just curious to see if I am wrong,
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   by Demiurge 12y ago

   Every time I read one of these posts about a clever "attack vector", how something can be gleaned from this special register, or a timing attack, somesuch, I remember about a theory that the sound of a dinosaurs scream can be extr
7. 667.▲
   by Demiurge 12y ago

   I really wish Django default doc site would default to latest production version in urls. I have to keep changing dev to 1.6 and now 1.7
8. 668.▲
   by Demiurge 12y ago

   Or he's supports video processing/FX production. RAW data takes up multiples more than compressed outputs.
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   by Demiurge 12y ago

   what are the pro/cons compared to TMS z/x/y system?
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    Who's going to work on that, and most importantly bless it as official and unite people? I haven't seen anything from Guido on the criticisms of Python 3 and CPython, like this post and other unicode complexity complaints in Pytho
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    A dom object for every character probably makes it forever an uphill battle.
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    Or learned Perl and are too afraid...
13. 673.▲
    by Demiurge 12y ago

    This doesn't really affect geopolitics any more than any other conspirology. No fingers changed direction because of this.
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    I love Python over PHP any day, but how exactly is Python better, if it has os.system() ?
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    I tried it, and actually don't like the narrowness. It's less readable to me. Also, the light version isn't nearly as sharp as Source Code Pro Light. I think I will be sticking to Adobes font as my favorite...
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    It's probably because c++ is arguably even worse (harder, with speed advantage to be fair). I haven't seen anything worse than MFC/boost 300 level underscore filled template stack trace, in any language.
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    Icons need more work! My next theme, for sure.
18. 678.▲
    by Demiurge 12y ago

    I've been trying to figure out how to sort based on row value...
19. 679.▲
    by Demiurge 12y ago

    That makes sense, thanks :)
20. 680.▲
    by Demiurge 12y ago

    Is it worth it if you have a US specific website that doesn't get that many users (~3 sessions at once)? Also, another website I administer has a lot of user uploaded content that's constantly changing. I've not dealt with a
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    >Serve these through a CDN that is optimised for serving static files to ensure high transfer speeds and therefore increased user happiness. I was not aware this was that common or even considered always the best practice. Is this really
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    It's a pity some people downmod for expressing opinion. It's not like you were offensive making a point that too short can be less readable, not more.
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    I use underscore a lot in JS but never felt the need in Python. In the examples given, I'd rather see explicitly what the exceptions being raised are, or the comparisons.
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    I think I understand how it works, I just haven't seen examples that demonstrate why it is useful.
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    Should you really have jp je lh and c at all than? Having so many different functions seems like a problem on its own, and maybe there should just be an array of names and a function iterating over them...
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    I'm probably missing something, but why not just do...? var jp = function(last){ return formatNames2('John', 'Paul', last); }
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    isn't there something fringe like 'theft' or miscellaneous losses?
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    >I'm really glad to see some of the Python committers taking a serious look at the GIL. Python is either posed for great victory (given its rapid rate of adoption in academia) or slow failure (given the rapid rate at which server ap
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    I don't think OpenGL or D3D or 3D programmers deal with 'parallelization' much. There are very common things that have to be done that in reality are mathematically parallel, but are basically one unit in the API, such a text
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    by Demiurge 12y ago

    I don't think it's as much about ease of implementation as it is about the finality of it and formal verification of completeness of any implementation. But of course, those are very much related :)