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by bcoates 11y ago
If you don't speak press-release, this is a cool project to create an in-memory interop format for columnar data, so various tools can share data without a serialize/deserialize step which is very expensive compared to copying or
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by bcoates 11y ago
This is some clever self-parody. The outer wrapper: science-flavored with no actual science. It warms you up with feel-good nonsense designed to flatter the listener for being a responsible rich person and/or smarter than all those foo
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by bcoates 11y ago
http://www.amazon.com/The-Peripheral-William-Gibson/dp/03991...
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by bcoates 11y ago
MUD came out about 5 years after Adventure. It's not really a tech limited genre.
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by bcoates 11y ago
The new hardware systems discussed will result in driver updates for pre-existing hardware to take advantage of/fix bugs with Skylake/Tablets/SoCs. Once Windows 7 is no longer the primary mainstream version, vendors will spen
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by bcoates 11y ago
Not without making it much harder to onboard new users. User growth (Monthly active users) is a business goal Twitter reports to investors so that's a non-starter.
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by bcoates 11y ago
North Korea has done within a rounding error of nothing since the armistice. It's working fine.
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by bcoates 11y ago
That's a serious breaking change to existing windows programs and can safely be put in the "never going to happen" pile.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Scott Meyers' C++ books weren't just a great guide to the language, they were my first exposure to the idea of programming as a craft. Before that there was just appeasing the angry demon in the compiler or having the right result
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by bcoates 11y ago
Because the overwhelming majority of users of C compilers are compiling someone else's code that isn't narrowly targeted to the platform+compiler in question. So they get no benefit at all from specifying undefined behavior, but t
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by bcoates 11y ago
It's not symbolic. Whatever you think of this: http://www.macleans.ca/culture/the-future-belongs-to-islam/ it's legitimate commentary on a present-day matter of public concern, and Canada's censorsh
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by bcoates 11y ago
ESPN already tried this when the writing was on the wall almost a decade ago. ESPN360/ESPN3/WatchESPN/whatever they call it now can only be watched if your ISP pays ESPN royalties for every subscriber on a take it or leave it
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by bcoates 11y ago
I think you're referring to the "midwestern palate", it's more geographic than ethnic in my experience.
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by bcoates 11y ago
But enough about Saudi Arabia, what's your opinion about ISIS?
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by bcoates 11y ago
Once they sold out on DRM my attitude to the whole project was "why bother". If I want a browser made by people who cheerfully assist my enemies I may as well use one that's not mediocre in every other aspect.
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by bcoates 11y ago
I've seen actual near-airgapped systems that communicate by fax as risk reduction. Email-to-fax gateways rendered attachments and such in the DMZ, then dialed into the secure side, the theory being that owning a T1 fax card over the PS
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by bcoates 11y ago
Other way around; z = x + y is a shorthand syntax for z <- copy(x) z += y But you're otherwise right, it's annoying that this shorthand syntax isn't more generally available for user functions.
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by bcoates 11y ago
While I agree that having both pre- and post- versions is confusing overkill, ++ is no more sugar for x += 1 than x+x is sugar for x*2. Increment is the fundamental operation, += is sugar for repeated incrementation, not the other way aroun
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by bcoates 11y ago
Chrome already has an "enterprise" version, moving a less braindead corporate monitoring system then MITM certs into it would probably be a good thing. It would also be a good way for them to start pushing a "two party consen
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by bcoates 11y ago
I love that film, but it's kind of weird that it doesn't mention what's probably the most important invention that makes this type of computer possible: The torque amplifier. All the devices shown suffer power losses between
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by bcoates 11y ago
The police are as much members of society as anyone else, and they require the active cooperation of you and the rest of society to survive. You can be part of the solution by depriving them this support: Do not cooperate with them in their
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by bcoates 11y ago
If you want to actually solve this problem without doing the thing in the slideshow or shooting yourself, when you see if(self.predicate_function()) foo() else bar() and self.predicate_function() is only called once
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by bcoates 11y ago
Don't know much about the rest of the language, but the Perl 6 regexes are a big improvement and I hope they take over as the conventional syntax in the world outside of Perl.
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by bcoates 11y ago
People keep spreading stories about a secret government conspiracy to know everything and use that power for shady means, and in an uncertain world, that's kind of comforting. The actual conspiracy is just a group of incompetents getti
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by bcoates 11y ago
The author's right, though, in that this is the competitive advantage 800lb gorilla aggregators bring to the table. When some clueless manager demands Facebook include some tracker as part of an ad buy, Facebook's answer is "
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by bcoates 11y ago
It's not much of a leap; both depend on trusting potentially attacker-controlled devices. If my sensor drone signs reports it sends back a remotely exploited drone could send back validly signed tampered data.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Given how infamous US intelligence agencies are for being infiltrated by foreign agents, it's almost certainly a strict superset.
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by bcoates 11y ago
More importantly, why doesn't OpenBSD have procfs? Is there something fundamentally wrong with the idea? Is there some more standard alternative that portable software should be using?
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by bcoates 11y ago
'Gender' does not have consistent usage in the English language, aside from the grammar sense of masculine/feminine words. Aside from that, it's sometimes used to describe a performed social role, or more broadly anythin
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by bcoates 11y ago
Apparently I'm out of date -- SUVs and Pickups stopped dominating the death rates in the mid-2000s. Still, the fourfold decrease in fatality rates across the ten model-years the IIHS publishes (coinciding with a substantial increase

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