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by andyjpb 6y ago
Yes. If there's an illegal number X and I give you a number Y with the intention that you obtain X from it by some transform then Y is also illegal because I "tainted" it when I did the original transformation from X. If I ju
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by andyjpb 6y ago
No matter how horrible X may be, it has a lot of value for end users. Almost all of this value is in the ecosystem around X. You can't capture an ecosystem unless you provide that value, plus the activation energy needed to persuade
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by andyjpb 6y ago
> I think what actually killed Wave was an insufficient focus on making the UI really slick. It may have been too early for its time, needing some of the Internet technologies that were invented later. I think this is what Jetrel means w
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by andyjpb 6y ago
If I remember correctly, Groups.io was started (~2010s?) by the founder of Onelist (~mid 1990s) which merged with eGroups (~2000) and was subsequently purchased by Yahoo and became Yahoo Groups. It just goes to show that Yahoo could have in
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Monitor Aspect Ratios: When 13.3 14(fabiensanglard.net)
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by andyjpb 6y ago
I've been using this recently and, because it doesn't ever modify the file system structures, you don't have to worry about unmounting the volume cleanly. It can write to files, but it can't create or resize them. For th
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A new compiler for Guile: making things better by making things worse(wingolog.org)
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Worry about Firefox and web browsers for Linux(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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Please meet some talented people who’ve worked at Mozilla(talentdirectory.mozilla.org)
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by andyjpb 6y ago
On the other hand, manufacturing has the general attitude that "software is free" because the incremental cost in production to make a copy is zero. Once, the production team swapped a component as part of a running change and it
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by andyjpb 6y ago
Cents is a lot of money in manufacturing. When I made consumer electronics our production team would swap parts based on cost. 1c on a million units is $10,000. They only had to save a few cents a year each to easily pay for themselves. The
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Mozilla lays off 250, says pandemic 'significantly impacted revenue'(computerworld.com)
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A public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads–and its revenues went up(wired.com)
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by andyjpb 6y ago
This is a much easier problem as the input is large but streamable and the database is small. However, you would still need to use some of the tokenisation steps that he talks about such as finding word boundaries and stemming. The performa
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by andyjpb 6y ago
This is a great intro to full-text search. These techniques were the basis of some of the early web search engines (pre Google). More of this stuff is explored in Witten Moffat and Bell's book "Managing Gigabytes" which dates
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The problem with scale is that you can’t approach it with optimism(programmingisterrible.com)
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Knowing math helps you write better software(buttondown.email)
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Old Argos Catalogues Online: The Book of Dreams(dev.argosbookofdreams.co.uk)
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by andyjpb 6y ago
I'm not a JS programmer so the intended "simultaneous" waits only vaguely registered as possibly problematic. However, after reading the article it is, at worst, a performance problem. ...and performance should come after the
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Side projects: why having your own code is more beneficial than detrimental(learnjsthehardway.com)
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FPGA vendor Lattice acknowledges value of open source community(ossg.bcs.org)
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by andyjpb 6y ago
This is an interesting analysis. For my part (anecdata), in my /usr/bin (Debian) I have 2,956 files under 9MiB in size, 1 of 13MiB and one of 39MiB. Most of the files are (much) under 1.0MiB. On the other hand, I have a three stat
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My Summer Internships: A Retrospective(pingu98.wordpress.com)
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by andyjpb 6y ago
'Pycopy can execute scripts in textual source form or from precompiled bytecode, in both cases either from an on-device filesystem or "frozen" into the executable.'
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Lattice Moves to Cut Off Free Software FPGA Toolchains(twitter.com)
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Strap in for encryption: why it should be a basic feature(twitter.com)
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by andyjpb 6y ago
What part of Kerberos is currently the scaling limit? One of the problems with WebPKI is that it's just for the web! Things like SSH and eMail can still benefit from a common, managed authorization infrastructure. Kerberos is largely t
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by andyjpb 6y ago
Kerberos is an underrated and underused authorization protocol. (Last time I used it) V5 was reasonably safe to use on the open Internet. It integrates well with MacOS, Linux, BSD and other Unix auth systems and also with SSH. I never reall
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TCP Sucks: A follow up and a proposal(snell-pym.org.uk)
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The Importance of Open Source for Research in High-Performance Computing(ossg.bcs.org)
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