anon1385

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by anon1385 13y ago
Well the existence of CompCert seems to indicate that there is at least some demand for a compiler with a greater emphasis on correctness than speed. It doesn't fix the issue of undefined behaviour of course since that is part of the l
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by anon1385 13y ago
Easier said than done. There are better tools for finding undefined behaviour these days but they are pretty recent and far from perfect. For a taste of how common undefined behaviour is, even in important code bases, (and why everybody sho
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by anon1385 13y ago
>They produce no cost-benefit analysis of G+ YT integration What? Few of us work at Google. We don't have the numbers. And even if we did, we can't predict what the outcome of the backlash and bad PR will be. Maybe it will be l
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by anon1385 13y ago
It says a lot. It's a fundamental mistake of such egregious proportions that it indicates a complete failure of processes. How did the hiring process accept people that don't understand the basics of web security? How did the mana
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by anon1385 13y ago
Do I think gay people post or comment on videos about the experience of being gay in a society that is often homophobic? Yes. Do I think feminists post or comment on videos about feminism or rape? Yes. Do I think transgender people post or
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by anon1385 13y ago
Reducing spam isn't just about having a better algorithm (short of strong AI, and even then two people can reasonably come to a disagreement about whether something is spam or not). It helps a lot to have the co-operation of the users.
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by anon1385 13y ago
>Are you really trying to imply that Google does shitty software? I'm happy to make that argument. We are talking about a site with user comments that allowed unescaped HTML [1]. One of the frustrating things about using Google serv
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YouTube Comment Ranking Is Broken(edwardspoonhands.com)
42 points by anon1385 13y ago|10 comments
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Safe, Efficient, and Portable Rotate in C/C++(blog.regehr.org)
6 points by anon1385 13y ago|0 comments
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Integer Undefined Behaviors in Open Source Crypto Libraries(blog.regehr.org)
2 points by anon1385 13y ago|1 comments
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Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated by Half(realclimate.org)
1 points by anon1385 13y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 13y ago
Additionally, don't make a complaint about the police unless you fully understand what you are getting yourself into. There is a reasonable chance that they will harass you and your family until they can find some reason to arrest you
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by anon1385 13y ago
>the fact that facebook is completely free and optional and no one is forcing you to use it. This is highly simplistic. Moxie gave a good talk a few years back that covered this idea that we have a 'choice' about using new comm
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The Craigslist killers(theguardian.com)
3 points by anon1385 13y ago|1 comments
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by anon1385 13y ago
Unsurprisingly people have been trying to get browsers to support for that for years and years e.g. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002May/0153.h... Of course it wasn't a use case of
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by anon1385 13y ago
>Serious question, what are the points in favour of having IDEs as web apps instead of standalones? The only point in favour is that it runs on crippled operating systems like ChromeOS. Google wants us all running Compiler-As-A-Service,
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by anon1385 13y ago
Mozilla got bloated because the creators wanted users to live their entire computing lives inside a single application. The reasons for wanting that are always the same: it gives the creator the most power. Of course this time around there
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by anon1385 13y ago
>Today, we’re announcing Helpouts—a new way to get and give help over live video. I'm confused, hasn't this existed for months? Here is an earlier HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248771
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by anon1385 13y ago
The most important figure above is that we still have 70% more users to get online. The ‘internet’ can and will continue to grow exponentially, as more children are born and more kids start getting there first smartphone. So in response t
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by anon1385 13y ago
>nobody suggests it's a good idea to have armed security at every school entrance They do unfortunately: http://nation.time.com/2012/12/20/how-to-prevent-more-sandy-... A week after a gunman killed 2
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by anon1385 13y ago
That used to be the case but Google got their lawyers to send a Cease and Desist to CyanogenMod: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-sends-cease-desist-orde...
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by anon1385 13y ago
>In addition, I'm not sure what Saurik, the creator of Cydia, has to do with this discussion at all. He has found various security bugs in Android (most recent example: http://www.saurik.com/id/19 from the othe
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Google Taking Aim at Device Modders in Android 4.4 KitKat(xda-developers.com)
115 points by anon1385 13y ago|66 comments
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Giant mirrors bring first winter sun to Norwegian town of Rjukan(theguardian.com)
1 points by anon1385 13y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 13y ago
I wasn't saying I think they are good or evil. I was saying that kind of black and white thinking seems to be what leads the web community to attack MS for ignoring standards but defend Google for doing the same. >Yes, the spec is r
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by anon1385 13y ago
If we were going to reject technologies because they were horrid there wouldn't be much of the web left. HTML is horrid. CSS is horrid. Javascript is horrid.
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by anon1385 13y ago
>Please everyone, stop acting so holy about "the spec". The HTML spec isn't sacred. This argument is never accepted when it comes from Microsoft. When they refuse to implement a standard it's an 'attack on the we
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by anon1385 13y ago
Is that a meaningful distinction? <img>, <video>, <audio> and <math> are all on this page: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/embedded-content-0....
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by anon1385 13y ago
So why didn't you say that at the time this was being proposed? Now we have yet another part of the standards that people can't actually use because one browser vendor didn't like it for a vague reasons. It undermines the p
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Lewandowsky Invariance(rabett.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by anon1385 13y ago|0 comments

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