MikeHolman

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by MikeHolman 9y ago
You can do this with an out of process JIT. Basically the JIT process has the code mapped as read/write and maps it into the runtime process as read/execute. Then you can use OS capabilities to prevent the runtime process from cre
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by MikeHolman 9y ago
Online versions still pale in comparison to the desktop client. I'm sure people in accounting would be upset by a forced transition from desktop Excel.
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by MikeHolman 9y ago
It's really not your fault. But collectively we should care more about this and hold vendors accountable for continued security of devices they sold us. AFAIK Microsoft and Red Hat are the only ones who do a good job of patching securi
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by MikeHolman 9y ago
C and C++ are definitely not as secure as a language with automatic memory management. OOB reads/writes, type confusion, and UAF are all very real problems in C and C++. Static analysis helps, but it can't catch everything. I work
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by MikeHolman 9y ago
>Facebook may very well end up in the majority's good graces with this move. Really? They are doing the minimum possible to prevent an exodus from their stack after a public outcry.
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by MikeHolman 9y ago
I'd be incredibly surprised if they overflowed 9 quadrillion tweets. That's like a million tweets per person on earth.
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by MikeHolman 9y ago
Generally, it's the responsibility of whoever made the changes to resolve conflicts (basically, git blame conflicting lines and the people who changed them get notified to resolve conflicts in that file). Distributing the work like thi
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
They have consistently acted outside rule of law, helping to commit many egregious acts of human rights abuse. So, yeah, I'm not too pleased with them.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
The only way I can imagine this is faster than Node is on run-once code, where you are comparing against interpreter or baseline JIT.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Register allocation isn't super important in JS. Type inference is most important, and it is impossible to do that AOT for JS. With PGO I bet you could do decently for some specific scenarios, but you will necessarily fall off a cliff
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
I live in a city (Seattle) and walk to the grocery store. I usually only buy one bag of groceries at a time. The grocery store is less than a 5 minute walk, so I don't need to make big trips and can make small trips often.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
I don't know much about EMET. How would they mitigate this? After all, it's obviously valid for a VM to call CreateThread.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Hidden files, sure. But system files? I can't see any reason to ever display them.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
I'm an American and I work in tech with a bunch of people on H1-Bs, and I think your proposition is ridiculous. The people I work with are really good. We interview a ton of Americans as well, but there just aren't enough strong c
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Most people aren't living in abject poverty for the first time in the history of mankind. Sure, it's not all roses, but we're moving in the right direction.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Running JIT code is only one aspect of the runtime. Parser, interpreter (if applicable), and GC benefit. C++ helper functions that get called from JIT code also benefit.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
If the NSA were trying to protect American businesses against attacks, they would responsibly disclose vulnerabilities they discover. But for me most part they hoard them.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Yes, telemetry from my smartphone is even more invasive to my privacy, having my location at all times, as well as being the single location with all my communications.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
I've been having a bit of an existential crisis about this recently. Is sustainability even possible anymore? We are obviously living beyond the capacity of the earth to cope right now. But is it even possible to sustain this many peop
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
I didn't know marijuana was a cure for blindness or psychosis (if anything I thought it was an aggravator of the latter).
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
You can deduct business expenses for illegal activities, except for specific categories (for example, bribing public officials is not a valid deduction). So you might actually be able to deduct that, if you could justify returning the prope
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Regardless of actual amount of effort Microsoft is putting here, just putting their feet in the water and showing interest is a very smart move. Marijuana is poised to become a multibillion dollar industry, and Microsoft (being based in WA)
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
360 joints per month? That's an absolutely insane amount of marijuana. Even if marijuana isn't inherently unhealthy, I have to imagine it can't be healthy to put that much smoke into your lungs.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
But leaking campaign finance details? I feel like that is a good way to piss off your donors.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Skype for Business is just rebranded Lync. AFAIK there aren't any new features that were integrated across from Skype. Hell, it's still lync.exe.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
It seems to me that Uber and Lyft have not bent much. From my (maybe ignorant) perspective it looks like their entire practice is to completely ignore all the laws about taxi regulations until a city threatens to kick them out, by which poi
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Ah, so you're the guy who always beats me to the holman username!
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
IE (and Edge) has some custom build of Flash installed without needing separate download, which I believe is why the parent commenter excluded it.
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Were you using a js runtime without a JIT? Were your python algorithms better? Otherwise a 200x speedup sounds completely unbelievable. That would basically indicate a bug in the js runtime causing degenerate performance under your scenario
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by MikeHolman 10y ago
Both flat tax and sales tax disproportionately tax the poor. The very rich spend less money relative to how much they make, which puts higher burden on the poor than with our progressive tax. Flat fax is bad, because 40% of the guy making 2

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