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by bjackman 12y ago
External curious observer (don't do anything Node-related) here. Hadn't heard of io.js before. Interesting. Is this genuinely more popular than Node, or is this one of those cases where the HN crowd is skewed in its favour? Does i
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by bjackman 12y ago
You should also have an app for quickly verifying stamps.
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by bjackman 12y ago
I suspect a physicist would say you're idea rests on an a view of the universe where everything is deterministic and knowable and encodable. You also have to remember that some quantities are going to be continuous, while TMs are discr
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by bjackman 12y ago
This is cool as fuck, I didn't know about kpatch or kGraft. Does anyone know if any other OSs have live kernel patching?
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by bjackman 12y ago
You can read the original paper about Mirage here: http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2013-asplos-mirage.pdf (it's a pretty easy read for something with an abstract). I love this idea so much. There's also OSv whi
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by bjackman 12y ago
Couple of things: - Pages 156 to 164 are missing (I tried to skip straight to the "Ambition" section but couldn't find it). - The first sentence, "It has been a long time since the programming language C is around"
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by bjackman 12y ago
I love being being caught off guard like this by what's possible with the Web platform. Nice work!
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by bjackman 12y ago
By saying they've released "source code" they're claiming to have somehow got hold of extra information (i.e. done some old-fashioned journalism and got hold of C code or whatever, containing comments and symbols and hum
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by bjackman 12y ago
Also "source code"... This is clearly not source code.
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by bjackman 12y ago
I'm surprised to find that this story has hit me pretty hard emotionally. The stuff Cameron and Theresa May are saying these days is really quite extreme. I feel totally abandoned by politics and genuinely, deeply frightened about the
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by bjackman 12y ago
Well it looks like you can rotate them (I mean in the 3rd dimension not present in actual Tetris)
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by bjackman 12y ago
Idea: Gift subscription should have an option to send the first package to you, so that you can wrap it up and physically give it. Then they can add their mailing address.
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by bjackman 12y ago
This page is totally devoid of content. If it wasn't for the comments in here, I would have absolutely no idea what it's advertising; I would have closed it and forgot about it forever. It does seem like a cool idea though.
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by bjackman 12y ago
Actually Intel run EDK2/Tianocore, the open-source "reference implementation" of UEFI. Its core functionality is pretty good quality, but the repo is huge and there's a lot of junk in there. Actual motherboards usually
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by bjackman 12y ago
Hmm... that would come off as pretty suspicious; it would make it very easy to get away with DNA testing other people against their will.
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by bjackman 12y ago
I've never written code with it, but the BSDs use these macros to implement rudimentary generic types in C: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/... . Nice. However, I've
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by bjackman 12y ago
CyanogenMod implements it. It looks like Google actually implemented it themselves too but never shipped it.
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by bjackman 12y ago
I don't think I entirely agree - as notacoward says I think we're approaching a renaissance in certain areas. - Rust and Go are becoming extremely popular extremely quickly. - I think/hope we may soon see some sort of battl
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by bjackman 12y ago
Bug report: I tried to sign up (great landing page BTW - I think you pull off the flashy design) but when I clicked the "authorise" button from GitHub, I got dropped into JSON at http://www.workshape.io/api/0&
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Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?
352 points by bjackman 12y ago|214 comments
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by bjackman 12y ago
If you're interested in this idea, here's a fun short story: http://qntm.org/responsibility Also, Permutation City by Greg Egan is a good read.
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by bjackman 12y ago
Not-genius here: I've actually come across this problem trying to boot Linux on enigmatic hardware. If you look in the Linux code it's actually reasonably simple to work out what it's waiting for. This guy is definitely a gen
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by bjackman 12y ago
Wow! This article was fantastically well-informed and insightful, and beautifully written. It tempts me to make a fallacious remark like "journalists were just better in those days"! Seeing how well this author was able to reaso
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by bjackman 12y ago
Still confused. What did Steam get from Microsoft?
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by bjackman 12y ago
Dude it's a totally new ISA. The assembly might look similar but it's got a totally different register set, instruction set, and memory model. It's definitely a quantum leap.
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by bjackman 12y ago
MatekCopatek's point is that just because you are breaking Apple's bullshit licenses agreement, doesn't mean you are breaking the law.
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by bjackman 12y ago
That's a non-sequitur. Actually, 20Hz is usually cited as the lower bound on human hearing range. That's why it's a commonly referred-to value.
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by bjackman 12y ago
I guess this is a pretty superficial complaint, but this is a 2nd-generation clickbait-site link (posted on io9, reposted on thekidsshouldseethis.com). Why not post the Youtube link directly? This isn't really Hacker News material, any
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by bjackman 12y ago
I gave this a cursory scroll but by the time I got to the bottom I didn't know what the product was. I was also annoyed by the overcooked design so I gave up. Sorry.
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by bjackman 12y ago
I'm probably going to sound painfully naive now... but why is that a security risk? So libbfd reads past the end of a buffer and segfaults.. so what? It's not writing or executing anything untoward, so who cares?

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