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   by afhof 15y ago

   Can someone instantiate an example of when it would be better to fail more? I feel the author's advice is too abstract for me to appreciate.
2. 152.▲
   by afhof 15y ago

   I was surprised to see that IE9 had better performance than either FF 10 or Chrome 18. Anyone else seeing this?
3. 153.▲
   by afhof 15y ago

   I mean the fact that the binaries on disk can be modified without getting user permission.
4. 154.▲
   by afhof 15y ago

   I can't help but think that requiring a prompt to modify Firefox binaries is a good thing.
5. 155.▲
   by afhof 15y ago

   Does this affect read speed at all? The article only mentions write speed.
6. 156.▲
   by afhof 15y ago

   GPUs are pretty tailored and aren't really good for general purpose computing. Branching and cache coherency are much easier in the CPU compared to the GPU. I doubt that any of the advertised gains would be realized by normal users.
7. 157.▲
   by afhof 15y ago

   I've never understood why they use a stair step function for pricing. Why not just name a continuous function for pricing and simplify the scheme?
8. 158.▲
   by afhof 15y ago

   Perhaps someone with more experience with network protocols can explain the hype about SPDY, since I cannot seem to figure it out. Looking at the features Google is toting, I can't help but feel underwhelmed: - Single Request per Connectio
9. 159.▲
   by afhof 15y ago

   Firefox scores 0% with NoScript installed as well.
10. 160.▲
    Valve Announces Steam Mobile App(store.steampowered.com)

    2 points by afhof 15y ago|0 comments
11. 161.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    Are there any ZDnet that aren't link bait? It seems that every article from there is low on content and high on sensationalism.
12. 162.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    Don't the torrent files contain all the hashes for each piece? Doesn't that mean if a single piece is bad, the entire torrent can't be verified? Torrent files contain a lot of useful data that isn't found in a magnet URI. Is this just be
13. 163.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    Caching is probably a good reason for using the sprite approach. Sprites are probably less dynamic than the HTML being generated, so the client will likely be able to just pull up the sprite from Cache.
14. 164.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    Used this to check my Samsung Intercept and got a positive on CIQ. However, Voodoo says it seems to be inactive.
15. 165.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    I was under the impression that most large projects end up having to write a custom memory allocator, but after a few random probes into the source I didn't see anything that stood out. Did I just miss it, or did they use the built in one?
16. 166.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    While Quick Sort does have the worst case runtime of O(n^2), a proper implementation defeats this behavior almost completely. Rather than randomize the data, it would be better to randomize the algorithm (choose a random pivot). Not only
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    by afhof 15y ago

    If a website is good enough, its not hard to just make a screen scaper and turn it into an RSS feed. This scrapes the HN front page every hour and is a lot easier to check: http://hn.af.rkive.org/feed.php?id=4
18. 168.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    429 looks to me as if it might be addressing aggressive http pipelining, but I was under the impression that most browsers have pipelining turned off.
19. 169.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    I actually still run 3.6 since I like the UI on it better. The speed of the browser means very little to me, I'd rather have the familiar UI. If you liked FF 3.6, why not stick with it?
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    by afhof 15y ago

    Most of the "tips" in this article seem to suggest choosing a bad naming scheme or intentionally misnaming variables / functions. I can't imagine it would be that hard to put the code into an AST and work with that. That would make it eas
21. 171.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    I usually do the same thing with Newegg reviews. I find the low reviews more telling than the high reviews. The tend to list issues like driver problems or it didn't work with Linux or the like.
22. 172.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    Just out of curiosity, how will the user-agent string read?
23. 173.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    I'm curious as to why this game listens to the default Starcraft port of 6112?
24. 174.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    Obviously library dependent, but I think this would make me pull my hair out: #define pthread_mutex_lock(x) #define pthread_mutex_unlock(x)
25. 175.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    Its just an Endian difference
26. 176.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    This title is misleading; instead of `C` it should use `CPython`.
27. 177.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    The point wasn't the weighting, it was that group A can get a better average in every category, while group B has the best overall.
28. 178.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    This article seems to gloss over one of the cipher modes of AES called CTR mode. CTR eliminates the interblock dependency while staying more secure than ECB. CTR mode uses a separate counter (such as 0, 1, 2...) that gets factored into th
29. 179.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    "But before you blindly throw it away you have to understand why it was created in the first place." This is an excellent piece of advice that I wish more people would use. If you find something that you disagree with (a law for instance)
30. 180.▲
    by afhof 15y ago

    I had heard that the load averages were the size of the scheduler's ready queue. If that is correct, wouldn't a load of more than 1.00 on a multi processor machine still be bad, since processes are ready to fire but are waiting for the nex