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by _wmd 11y ago
I don't know if banks work differently in Poland, but in the UK if I see a fraudulent transaction on any of my cards (debit or credit) it will be refunded, except where I disclosed my PIN.
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by _wmd 11y ago
It worked for Google
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by _wmd 11y ago
Assuming running time is considered a feature of your project, oversized int types on smaller hardware will adversely effect that You can still range check the natural integer types, just use INT_MAX and suchlike
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by _wmd 11y ago
Yep, you don't even need struct literals for it. Quite a few int types are wrapped this way in the Linux kernel
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by _wmd 11y ago
Some of this seems like horrendously bad advice: - Using fixed width integers in for loops seems like a fabulous way to reduce the portability of code - the statements in "C allows static initialization of stack-allocated arrays"
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by _wmd 11y ago
Definite +1 on the italicization of 'quite'.. GitHub's UX advantage over Gitlab is marginal at best, at least as far as their web client is concerned. The desktop experience is pretty nice, but we've otherwise got Source
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by _wmd 11y ago
Yes, RDP is almost certainly a perfect superset of the VNC model -- unless VirtualBox's graphics drivers do tons of magic, chances are high that all its RDP server has to work with is a constantly changing bitmap to send differences fo
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by _wmd 11y ago
I regularly use Microsoft Remote Desktop in full color mode over 3G from the UK against a machine hosted outside Paris, as an example of what's possible given enough effort, RDP is a bastion of pure awesomeness. I have on many occasion
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by _wmd 11y ago
Logging in uses bandwidth
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by _wmd 11y ago
I've owned a Windows Phone for a year, only got around to trying Cortana on Sunday evening entirely by accident. It worked flawlessly for adding 2 calendar entries, at which point I was impressed enough to try and engage it in conversa
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Big O for the working programmer(moshez.wordpress.com)
1 points by _wmd 11y ago|0 comments
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Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium: The Search Engine Manipulation Effect(web.stanford.edu)
2 points by _wmd 11y ago|0 comments
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by _wmd 11y ago
Why build v8 when SpiderMonkey existed? Why build Chrome when Firefox existed? Ad infinitum
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by _wmd 11y ago
> - perl6 is the first mainstream(ish) dynamic language to not suffer from a GIL of some kind. You can do real concurrency and parallelism in perl6. I went digging to try and understand what this meant, and seems it's referring to s
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by _wmd 11y ago
> Setting the rmem sysctl to only 2MiB is not recommended as it could affect the performance of high throughput, high latency connections So what I took away from this article is that they'd set some absurdly high receive buffer, wh
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by _wmd 11y ago
You don't appear to understand how the PGP web of trust works. The current release key is signed by the master key, which in turn has been signed by some keys which are indirectly cross-signed by a huge variety of developers many peopl
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by _wmd 11y ago
Stuff usually gets "net" slapped on the front after some attempt has been made to specify or regularize it, that way the documented/maintained version doesn't share the name with any classic implementation, which helps t
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by _wmd 11y ago
If that's the case you must have a really hard time using the Internet
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by _wmd 11y ago
This is very common among Googlers, and it bugs me because so many buy into it without further question, but in every case here, the reviewer also includes a detailed analysis describing how he came to his conclusion, rather than merely imp
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by _wmd 11y ago
Supported by a single browser and based on a single (and the same) vendor's spec, which needlessly duplicates about half a web browser's functionality using a brand new API, and with no support due for other browsers any time soon
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by _wmd 11y ago
I thought this was interesting because most languages have compression bindings that at least support flush, and I can think of a huge variety of use cases even where a small (32k) window would be sufficient. For example all Python installa
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File patching using data compression with flushing(richg42.blogspot.com)
12 points by _wmd 11y ago|3 comments
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File patching using data compression with flushing(richg42.blogspot.com)
2 points by _wmd 11y ago|0 comments
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by _wmd 11y ago
This is the weirdest and most nonsensical description of the GIL I've ever seen, and assuredly one coming from a Python/JS non-programmer. In both languages the serialization of runtime is a feature explicitly designed to simpli
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by _wmd 11y ago
Probably a combination of lack of need until recently (125MB/sec is more than fine to saturate a classic disk), parts cost and power consumption. I can't think of anything except connecting to a _fast_ SAN that would require a 10G
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by _wmd 11y ago
This was one of my main worries about Go when I evaluated it back in 2010. Most green threads implementations have an explicit determinism model, and it's typically straightforward to reason about and depend on execution order and such
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by _wmd 11y ago
FWIW IOS backdoors were already being researched by 2003, this isn't surprising at all, and I imagine by now the true scope of the problem is a little bigger than a few routers
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by _wmd 11y ago
You should read back over their blog to see how much planning has gone into this so far. This isn't a single-file LAMP app running on a VPS, they're setting up a CA trustworthy enough to have its roots in all the major browsers
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by _wmd 11y ago
Sounds like you had VirtualBox installed
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by _wmd 11y ago
As a decade+ Firefox user I think this is fabulous news, not because it'll be easier for Chrome exts to come to Firefox, but because the old extension 'API' was a heap of junk and made it trivial for third parties to really g

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