Erwin

62 ms·

601.
by Erwin 15y ago
Apple's initial third-party app system in the iPhone was web-based. While WebOS stuck with the open technologies, the next Apple phone introduced closed-source binary application as the main third party extension platform. If WebOS could ma
602.
by Erwin 15y ago
Sounds like this could be the plot of the next Stross book. In 2020, the ordinary tax base has almost been destroyed. Everyone channels their illegal earnings by generating and reselling Kindle books. The main character of the book is a gov
603.
by Erwin 15y ago
The big difference between Skiena's book and others (Cormen, Knuth) I've seen is inclusion of his own war stories and real life experiences and less emphasis on rigourous proof.
604.
by Erwin 15y ago
Well, that's database dependent -- for Postgres there's no real performance difference: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_the_difference_b... It's CHAR that pads with spaces, not VARCHAR.
605.
by Erwin 15y ago
The building he had a flat in is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_San_Remo -- a rather exclusive place even as NYC goes and he eventually sold it to U2's Bono for $15 million. Maybe being allowed to buy a flat in there and membership of
606.
by Erwin 15y ago
They still are used, but just in a digital form. We interface with some unnamed software that requires you to recode data into 80 columns, 12 possible values per word (encoded as 12 usable bits within 2 8-bit bytes -- and only one bit can b
607.
by Erwin 15y ago
I think this might be more accurate: http://www.infiltec.com/j-h-wrld.htm
608.
by Erwin 15y ago
Alternatively you could get the user to validate ownership of a domain, i.e. if you want to run jobs at http://foo.com/something , tell them to create http://foo.com/cronio.txt with specific contents. Google does something like this: ht
609.
by Erwin 15y ago
Yes, corporate personhood is a useful legal construct so that you can do business with a company, and not just a person within a company. It doesn't mean a corporation is a person who can be killed by bankruptcy or who can marry or vote. If
610.
by Erwin 15y ago
DigiCert claims that you can add/remove alternative names on already purchased certificates right from their account (you don't even need to include them in the CSR just the primary), but I haven't tried it personally. I wonder about what a
611.
by Erwin 15y ago
So the Pirate Bay is now a bastion of freedom that lets users in Syria and North Korea download the latest episode of Glee? (The current most popular torrent there). I'm a little confused about what their greater noble political purpose is.
612.
by Erwin 15y ago
Often the filtering happens through your ISP's domain server rather than at a IP level. The server might have e.g. *.thepiratebay.se forced to return an IP address then showing the blocking page. The workaround is to use a DNS server outsid
613.
by Erwin 15y ago
That calls for an obscure ioctl with an impossible name. Simply use SNDGTDVCLTNC to query the device's latency. Like the actual TIOCSLCKTRMIOS which can be used to lock the termios: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man4/tty
614.
by Erwin 15y ago
I'm curious how security is typically handled in REST setups. Wouldn't you want to have some nonce anyway on requests that modify resources (and thus allowing idempotency even if you POST everything) ? Or are resources typically protected p
615.
by Erwin 15y ago
If a factory was illegally dumping poisonous material into a river, would you require a prolonged case against their executions to succeed before stopping the criminal behaviour? Why would a website which allegedly engages criminal behaviou
616.
by Erwin 15y ago
gcc uses a special library (outside of the C library) called libgcc with some builtin functions (I don't recall what's left there these days -- floating point stuff, 64-bit long long support on non-64 bit platforms?) That library -- per de
617.
by Erwin 15y ago
With no Flash experience I had no trouble building a few Flex apps, and it was the same for a team member that quickly build a performant Flex app using their table widgets (which kills something like jQuery data tables plugin even on Chrom
618.
by Erwin 15y ago
Let's pretend that some terrible remote exploit appears tomorrow, that allows anyone to get out the complete source of every SaaS server side app, which is the most prevalent setup here at HN startups. No harm is done to the server, no pri
619.
by Erwin 15y ago
This doesn't seem to be working for me, when I visit some of Scribd's varied completely legitimate content. Like this 288 page book, found in seconds on Google (does Kernighan still work there?) , which I guess must be in public domain, rig
620.
by Erwin 15y ago
Fun fact: Stanford President Hennessy is the same Hennessy who with Patterson wrote that great computer architecture book: Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Oh, he also co-founded MIPS Although as my first
621.
by Erwin 15y ago
After 10 years in Emacs I've switched to PyCharm (for about 100 EUR). Its autocompletion feature are quite decent (aided by specifying types in docstrings but otherwise it does whole-project type deduction) and I use them frequently. It has
622.
by Erwin 15y ago
sizeof(char) is 1 per definition and also one byte, but not necessarily 8 bits. Apparently some DSPs cannot address an 8-bit quantity -- they're not easy to find but I've found a comp.lang.c posting where Jack Klein mentions a 32-bit Sharp
623.
by Erwin 15y ago
Well, sizeof(int) (and short, and long!) could also be 1, and %p could print out the pointer address as a roman numeral. All legal according to standard. What commonly used platforms have a 64-bit ints? The only one I vaguely recall are rea
624.
by Erwin 15y ago
This is political FUD at its best. The extra fat fee is results of a law passed in March, under the old conservative government. It's just coming into effect now starting October 1st. It's not an act by the the newly elected government. Tha
625.
by Erwin 15y ago
I'm not sure about avoiding PCI compliance so easily. You're embedding their JS library on your page. That page has to be secure, otherwise if someone can inject malicious Javascript they can sniff the CC data as soon as they are entered. Y
626.
by Erwin 15y ago
Even the Canvas/JS is not necessary. Have your website load up a styles1.css file which is really generated by a script and has long expiry; that can then in turn @import a styles2.css embedding some unique ID in the imported URL (alternati
627.
by Erwin 15y ago
Another of their crosswords editors did an interview on reddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/j5v6g/iama_new_york_ti...
628.
by Erwin 15y ago
EU has already similar data retention laws for ISPs, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti... I'm not sure how well they work in practice in individual member countries. I recall some ISP guys complaining about
629.
by Erwin 15y ago
The big value of Ksplice for me is that I'm paying a few $/server/month for a service that writes, tests and distributes those live binary kernel patches when the exploits come out. So it can't be just some volunteer OS work, there also nee
630.
by Erwin 15y ago
Due to some strange kernel driver for an attached storage device requiring multiple reboots and whatnot, kernel updates have always been a pain for me requiring an hour of downtime -- until I found Ksplice. From the text of the email I got

More ›