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by axod 16y ago
(If you have a foo account and a bar rating and jump through other hoops). So not quite 'public'.
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by axod 16y ago
I disagree. There's a pretty clear trend of people actively making more of their private life public. The people 'destroying privacy' are the general population posting the minute details of their life on the internet for all to see. They
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by axod 16y ago
A very small niche worry about things like this. Did everyone suddenly stop using facebook because a few vocal people worried about privacy a month or so back? nope. Most people just don't care one bit. I'm really excited about all the fun
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by axod 16y ago
It may be a 'marriage' as you like to define the word, but that doesn't magically make it so. Shall we use 'marriage' to also cover the union of a man to a horse? man to a table? man to a child? They have civil rights too!
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by axod 16y ago
[Wait several minutes for a large complex unwieldy UI to load]
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by axod 16y ago
If you didn't add Node.js no one would have upvoted it. Node.js is so hot right now.
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by axod 16y ago
Is buzz doing any better?
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by axod 16y ago
If they can get people via online casual gaming, which seems like their new strategy, they have way more chance. People were never going to suddenly start using wave en masse. It doesn't solve a problem that they couldn't solve other ways
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by axod 16y ago
I think arguing that it must be called 'marriage' is petty. Redefining that word and stretching it to encompass more things is just stupid and less useful. Sure, give them the same rights if you like, but just call it a 'civil partnership'.
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by axod 16y ago
If I could upvote this 100 times, I would. Well put.
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by axod 16y ago
How about a dolphin. They're pretty intelligent.
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by axod 16y ago
don't forget bestiality. If a man and a consenting horse wish to get married who are we to deny them that right!
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by axod 16y ago
I'm against gay marriage for non-religious reasons. Civil partnerships fine, have the same rights and freedoms as married couples, just call it a civil partnership instead. But IMHO this isn't hacker news and will pretty quickly get nasty.
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by axod 16y ago
Thanks. You reminded me why I need to block HN access. It becomes poisonous quickly.
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by axod 16y ago
OK, so your belief is that any program, that 'hides' itself on a computer, is a rootkit? Does the 'root' not give you a clue as to the primary requirement of a rootkit? May as well end here I think.
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by axod 16y ago
The Sony "rootkit" wasn't actually a rootkit. It used a similar technique to some rootkits to 'hide' itself from the user/other software, after the user had knowingly installed it. I have no idea about the AT&T 'forward all calls to t
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by axod 16y ago
It may sound inefficient, but I've never seen it being a bottleneck. It needs to be separated out at some point, and the kernel is the best place to do that. maybe if you're trying to serve 50,000 video streams from a single machine or so
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by axod 16y ago
That sort of anti corporation FUD belongs on Reddit IMHO.
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by axod 16y ago
Are you really comparing the trustability of 'AT&T' and 'Sony' with 'some website that rootkitz your phonez'?
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by axod 16y ago
... or it's good "PR" so people get behind the project. It screams "I know what I'm doing!!! I'm even optimizing this!!!". ;)
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by axod 16y ago
Lets say 95% of time is in your code, and 5% is in Mongrel2. Lets say that within Mongrel2, 10% of time is in this poll/epoll stuff. That's 0.5% of your total time being spent here. So even if it's made twice as fast, your app will only spe
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by axod 16y ago
"I need a filesystem" => "Here are my options, which one is better?" => "They're good for different things"... STOP For most things, it doesn't matter. A filesystem is a filesystem. You only need to make decisions like that when you
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by axod 16y ago
FWIW, I've written an async webserver which handles a few thousand concurrent users, and does thousands of HTTP reqs/second. I've never seen poll/epoll as a bottleneck, but I'm using Java NIO which really seems to work extremely well (I don
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by axod 16y ago
Sounds like premature optimization to me. Is this really the bottleneck? Is the extra complexity and logic really going to be a net win?
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by axod 16y ago
I wonder how many install anti-virus apps. You could probably make a fair bit selling anti-virus/firewall/anti-spyware apps for the uneducated. I have a N1 and have never seen the need for a task killer. Quite odd that people would install
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by axod 16y ago
"although we suspect the Gmail ads aren't making that much revenue anyway." If that were true, I'm pretty sure Google would have either 'fixed it' so that they do make revenue, or removed them. Personally, I'd expect those ads on GMail cert
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by axod 16y ago
Are random middle-managers at a big company using GMail though? Wouldn't they be using outlook/exchange?
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by axod 16y ago
Can't see it being a good thing when Google are deciding what company to buy though - would anyone buy adblock? I absolutely hate plugins/companies that just routinely cover up other peoples advertising. It's not a smart move IMHO.
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by axod 16y ago
For entrepreneur 'networking' linkedin types I can see the value. For everyone else, not sure...
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by axod 16y ago
It's an awesome update. Got mine a few weeks ago now. Wifi access point tethering is awesome.

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