Erwin

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by Erwin 17y ago
An interesting question. I don't know of the design decisions or whether the fork idea predated UNIX. But to me, it's just the sheer simplicity. Compare to the basic process creation function on Windows, taking 10 arguments: http://msdn.mi
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by Erwin 17y ago
There are C interpreters around, like "cint" -- http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint -- which is somewhat more stable, having been around since 1995. This C-REPL one seems to have the advantage of using gcc directly while cint is basic
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by Erwin 17y ago
Which is why we should rally behind the original async framework, Medusa: http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/ ;)
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by Erwin 17y ago
Safari is based on the KDE browser's open source rendering engine, however. I don't know how much of it is left but certainly it was a huge boon for them -- and later Google -- to start with a highly standards-compliant and open code base.
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by Erwin 17y ago
The Danish Post has installed such a system for general packages here. If they cannot deliver, they stick it in such a machine (open 24/7) and you can pick it up. But you can also put a special delivery address on your package so it will en
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by Erwin 17y ago
Another blog post by the same author introduces a 3 pixel font taking advantage of the subpixels: http://typophile.com/node/61920 I might get that for xemacs and annoy coworkers with 500-character long lines. "But they don't wrap on my sc
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by Erwin 17y ago
Hah, check out that malloc page for OpenBSD for how you configure malloc globally (to e.g. enable debugging): you create a /etc/malloc.conf which is a symbolic link to a non-existant file the name of which determines options, e.g. "G<
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by Erwin 17y ago
You can go even shorter with help of one of the TLD registrars, e.g. http://dk./ is a working URL -- you may skip that dot in Firefox and use http://dk/ (Opera will assume you're confused and try to use dk.com).
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by Erwin 17y ago
Don't invoke mxmlc every time -- that has to start up Java, and that's what's slow. There's a compile "shell" named fcsh that comes with the Flex toolkit that starts up a JVM once and lets you recompile without having to relload all the lib
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by Erwin 17y ago
Interestingly the whistleblowers who got this get started will get a sizable fee -- I think something like $100 million between the 5 of them. Will that encourage more employees to come forward with evidence of wrongdoing?
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by Erwin 17y ago
Not that I know of. In the past I've allowed my process (which was essentially a HTTP-based app server) to evaluate commands from a secure source, then built a Python interpreter that sends what you type via to HTTP to it -- so you get a ps
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by Erwin 17y ago
Use log_duration in postgresql.conf to log long queries, explain ANALYZE them to find out what they're doing. Sometimes a full table sequential scan is faster than using an index -- e.g. if the index would (according to gathered statistics
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by Erwin 17y ago
Looks like everyone has a different AdB favourite. I think I enjoyed "On Love" most.
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by Erwin 17y ago
1) You should definitely create a passphrase for your private key (you should only be asked to unlock it once due to ssh-agent). Otherwise if someone gets hold of your private key they can login to any machine you have set up an authorized_
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by Erwin 17y ago
This depends on the List-Unsubscribe header: http://www.list-unsubscribe.com/ which can be set to an email address or link. If you're adding remove links to your outgoing emails, you might as well put it in the header as well. Hotmail/liv
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by Erwin 17y ago
Your sshd is probably configured with tcp wrappers (My RHEL4/5 were). If you only log in from a known set of static IPs, you could add in /etc/hosts.deny: sshd: IP1 IP2 .domain.com The .domain.com allows any IP which reverses to .
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by Erwin 17y ago
Oh? In the mail I got, they said the construction would be near their IAD data center which is outside of the Washington Dulles airport (which looking at the map is actually in VA). > Beginning Thursday June 25, 2009, heavy duty excavat
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by Erwin 17y ago
Finland, Norway issue speeding tickets based on a percentage of income, see e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3477285.stm where a €170,000 was issued in 2004. I don't know of any studies of the effects of that. But there's certainl
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by Erwin 17y ago
In Opera: right click anywhere. Select Block Content. Click on any annoying banner ads which tries to find a block pattern. No default filter like AdBlock, but pretty easy and a core element of the browser. I'm an Opera user on Linux becaus
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by Erwin 17y ago
I'll answer some of my own questions on security measures: 1) We encrypt password using bcrypt, so in case of a database theft they are not easy to crack. We require SSL any time any authentication action is required -- cookies are sent wit
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Ask HN: Two-factor authentication and other extended security measures
4 points by Erwin 17y ago|1 comments
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by Erwin 17y ago
Well, the author of this article is Andrei Alexandrescu. If you were a serious user of the C++ language you've probably read his "Modern C++ Design" and other stuff he's written -- so he has as deep knowledge of C++ and its stdlib as you ca
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by Erwin 17y ago
Looks more like Solaris (the new Soderbergh version) + Silent Running.
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by Erwin 17y ago
That's just how floating point math works in every language. Python intro: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html Comprehensive paper going into depth about many other issues: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.
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by Erwin 17y ago
What kind of IOPS/transfer speeds are people getting from Cloudlayer or similar "disk clouds"? This storage with its encryption sounds secure, robust but slow. Would one use NFS or some SAN/iSCSI/networked blocked device and put some kind o
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by Erwin 18y ago
And even that claim was baseless as it was made based on a filename : GNUMakefile is a filename that GNU Make looks for before "Makefile". This allows the same directory to have a Makefile for traditional make and one used for GNU Make.
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by Erwin 18y ago
I'm missing some visual feedback that a new set of movies is loading. Nothing really happens when you click -- according to Firebug it took 13.6 for the next set of movies to appear. I'm not sure on the statistics, but maybe you'd be better
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by Erwin 18y ago
Transcripted voice mail? I wonder how well that will work out (looks good in the screenshots on techchrunch but are those real). Next step would be to do to this for ordinary phone calls as well and integrate them with Gmail, so you'd have
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by Erwin 18y ago
Check out reddit.com -- that's the website with the "wisdom of the crowds", "people having fun" and no editor intervention. And the wise crowds want lolcats and snarky one-line comments.
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by Erwin 18y ago
It's mostly about sending additional headers with the response which your Firebug-plugin plugin interprets and displays in its console. There are similar plugins for other languages, see e.g. http://www.firephp.org/ (that has does a few t

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