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by Rantenki 13y ago
Sadly, that might lead to the entire development team getting executed.
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by Rantenki 13y ago
While hardened font parsers that were safer to deploy against arbitrarily supplied fonts would be nice, there are already issues with turning over control of your supplied fonts to a third party: - http://www.cve.mitre.org/c
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by Rantenki 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) It has built-in language support for explicit concurrency, offering tasks, synchronous message passing, protected objects, and non-determinism It's also desi
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by Rantenki 13y ago
All models are out of stock, and unlikely to be replenished as a new Nexus 5 (whatever that's going to be) will likely drop some time in October. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nexus-5-Key-Lime-Pie-Snapdr...
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by Rantenki 13y ago
As it is an open source project, and they obviously have some internal communications issues at VLC, it is likely that you would get a different response and opinion about this depending on who at VLC you talked to. They don't have a t
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by Rantenki 13y ago
Right, and I am saying that VLC is not only a Desktop app, it has extensive remote capabilities as well: http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch04.html and http://www.videolan.org/do
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by Rantenki 13y ago
Just because you assume that VLC is going to be used as a desktop application and that exploitation would require opening a file by hand, doesn't mean that matches every use case. VLC has broadcasting, relaying, stream processing capab
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by Rantenki 13y ago
Seems the link has changed: http://theweek.com/article/index/245311/sources-nsa-sucks-in...
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by Rantenki 13y ago
Do we know that the user waited a long time? My reading was that he paid before deadline, things went a bit weird, he called support, got a receipt, but then everything blew up. It sounds like the state of his account was mangled in there s
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by Rantenki 14y ago
Everybody that reads hackernews is loading it at the same time?
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by Rantenki 14y ago
Although if you have 250GB+ of stuff in your repo, it might indicate more than just source files are getting checked in. An artifact management system might make sense. http://archiva.apache.org/ is one example. As an aside, I have had tr
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by Rantenki 14y ago
The likelihood of these occurring in parallel is probably higher than you would expect. Backup systems are difficult to test fully since you can only do it via a full failover. Without running 100% of your systems via the backup distributio
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by Rantenki 15y ago
Relevant comic (yes, comic, and it captures the simulation thing succinctly and in an amusing way): http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2535
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by Rantenki 15y ago
Definitely has the potential to be popular among the lolcats crowd (or anybody that likes computers _and_ scrapbooking). What is the revenue stream?
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by Rantenki 15y ago
Yes, yes it does affect them. Much like losing a drive in a raid5 array, the time to rebuild (re-upload a new backup) is a critical period of time where you don't have any redundancy. Any failure during this period means losing all your dat
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by Rantenki 15y ago
And you may want to look at using Siege instead ;)
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by Rantenki 15y ago
Depends on your margins. Companies like Enigma (used them, happy, not affiliated in any way) can do turnkey manufacturing and take away the supply chain/procurement headaches. OTOH, if you can handle procurement and manufacturing internally
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by Rantenki 15y ago
It isn't a big deal when you are solving a LEGO problem and think you have a NASA problem. The big deal is when you are trying to solve a NASA problem, and you think it is a LEGO problem. The first leads to an inflated sense of self worth,
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by Rantenki 15y ago
Since you generally have to trust most of them, and at least some of them will fail (or have already), but you don't know which, then obvious answer is: None of them. Sorry :\
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by Rantenki 15y ago
Some startups have free drinks too, which generally means there is NO difference from Vegas.
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by Rantenki 15y ago
This is not a bug. This is a feature.
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by Rantenki 15y ago
Keep in mind that those connections are all going to be stuck in TCP slow start (gradually improving) for the duration of their communications, meaning that the smaller version gets loaded in 2*RTT, as it will probably fit, in it's entirety
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by Rantenki 15y ago
Offence: Engineer is offended by customer and flushes the customers livelihood (website) Cure: Management should be offended by engineers and flush THEIR livelihood (job) Seems symmetrical, but perhaps over-simplifying the problem? Of cours
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by Rantenki 15y ago
<insidejoke>MOSS_DOS!</insidejoke>
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by Rantenki 16y ago
That's just silly. 2.x, especially 2.6 and newer are still a fantastic choice. 3.x cleans up some ugliness, but isn't so superior that being stuck with 2.x would make ditching the language a viable choice. You need to strike a balance betwe
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Also note: 2.4 most of the time, despite the horrible waitForDeferred in Twisted (a side effect of a limited yield in 2.4), because RHEL 5.x variants still own the enterprise :(
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Actually, I am just plain less likely to read it, but I agree with your premise.
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Which would totally explain this new social circle google page http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/search/social
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by Rantenki 16y ago
No, it's not; the issue is that the domains prefetch REGARDLESS of whether the links are ever clicked on. The browser is pre-fetching in case the user DOES click on the link. This really verges on being a browser bug, esp. since in firefox'
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by Rantenki 16y ago
This implies that providers are either severely limiting their caches, or expiring in a shorter than posted TTL. Even though pinkbike looks like it has thousands of users, one would expect the front pages to be largely identical for most us

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