andrewchambers

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1021.
by andrewchambers 12y ago
There is a javascript engine written in Go called otto so you could use that for plugins. That way people can write plugins with many languages if they wish. i.e. clojurescript, typescript ,dart, etc etc
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
Painfully aware. You do understand what an ever increasing attack surface does?
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
If someone has unrestricted access to your PC webcam, they probably have unrestricted access to all of your PC. You already will be keylogged, and risk losing usernames and passwords. This is already probably a lot worse than a few photos o
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
I'm aware, I care because LLVM is being integrated in web browsers as part of the JIT engine, and clang uses LLVM as its backend. So any segfaults related to LLVM (though not this one in particular) make me worried about browser securi
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
I guess I was being to harsh on the memory issues in C++. In practice it is a non issue, because build scripts can run arbitrary code long before a memory corruption in the system compiler. And if you plan on running the code you just compi
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
If that's the case I was being too harsh on clang.
1027.
by andrewchambers 12y ago
Something tells me C++ isn't the best thing to implement a compiler with.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
for some reason I cant send to you :/. says you arent on the network.
1029.
by andrewchambers 12y ago
ill send you some if you don't want to use facebook.
1030.
by andrewchambers 12y ago
Its not mandatory, only if you want to opt into the free 5000 stellar for proving you aren't a bot.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
its a fb account for 5000 stellar, this is just to stop people spamming new accounts. You don't need to get the 5000 stellar.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
memory allocations to sound.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
The NSA will proxy anyone they feel like.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
I agree for tree manipulation - I don't necessarily agree for writing recursive descent parsers. But I admit, I read the Ocaml and haskell compilers source code, and it was pretty nice.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
Go is pretty nice for parser/compiler applications because it is fast and the runtime doesn't take too long to startup.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
I always wanted proof of work to be computation power which is saved up over time, which can be spent as computation bursts on a network, or sold. Perhaps using pnacl binaries to to the computations. Rather than waste CPU power on mindless
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
In my opinion it's just poorly named.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
Dmitry is in my personal programmer hall of fame.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
I was partially referring to LLVM segfaulting sometimes on bad input, but its correct to say even without segfaults in the compiler itself, just generating incorrect code via any other bug could cause the same issues. LLVM is interesting in
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
Unfortunately I think the increased complexity in javascript engines is also a security risk. Fuzzing and other techniques may be able to cause all sorts of crashes and memory corruptions in the jit compilers code or in the generated code.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
Well, Rust uses llvm, so unless rustc is generating really poor intermediate code, its performance will be the same as clang C/C++.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
I have never needed to do this.
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by andrewchambers 12y ago
To be honest, this article is fairly laughable. Swift is vendor locked to the extreme, has a buggy closed source implementation and is no more revolutionary than any other modern language coming out. It's only a thing for apple develop