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by bodyfour 15y ago
Exactly. It's hard to even really comprehend how deep his influence goes; we're so surrounded by it's hard to even see it sometimes. Consider that every single person reading these words are doing so using technology he created -- after al
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by bodyfour 15y ago
The Unix haters handbook was a great read (although mostly quite dated by now I think) dmr's forward was the best part though.
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Also, if your obituary is simultaneously all 25 top stories on HN.
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by bodyfour 15y ago
If they had successfully turned WebOS into a major player in the phone/tablet market it could have been a business worth tens of billions. It's perfectly possible that they thought "there's a 90% chance that this will fail, but it's still
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by bodyfour 15y ago
The full story is more complicated. The USPS is in an unattractive position of being supposedly independent of the taxpayer's money, yet any major operating issues are at the whim of Congress. Predictably, it goes like this: USPS: "Vo
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I hope you're right. I should have bought directly from Pragmatic but the convenience of Amazon won out. ps: congratulations on the book
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by bodyfour 15y ago
It would be additive -- I'm sure any sale would include a multiyear agreement for Microsoft to leave it as the default search engine in IE. Otherwise what value Bing has today would largely evaporate. That isn't to say that the article isn
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I pre-ordered at Amazon quite awhile ago. Three days ago they changed the estimated arrival date from 10/5-8 to 9/7-12. If the book is actually being released tomorrow then hopefully Amazon will update the date again.. it would be sad if
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by bodyfour 15y ago
6502, not 68k
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Nope, no watermarking. My third download worked and I got an InstallESD.dmg md5 of b5d3753c62bfb69866e94dca9336a44a. Googling for that it seems to match what the torrent sites are serving up for the Gold Master build. It's odd that I had
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Reboot didn't help for me, unfortunately. Still failed out with the same error after a minute or so.
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I found an Apple Support thread where some others are reporting the same issue: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15660833#15660833 I posted my md5's of the internal .dmg's from the download there. They're different from the two un
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by bodyfour 15y ago
"The software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." Not off to a great start here... Anybody else having this problem? [edit: deleted it; downloaded it again from my employers network (comp
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Remember that echo.c evolved long before UNIX has shared libraries. So avoiding stdio completely might mean the size of your binary drops from 50K to 5K. If you're on a PDP-11 with 256KB of RAM (being shared by several users) this would m
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by bodyfour 15y ago
A year or so ago I regretfully moved _to_ GoDaddy because they were one of the only registrars I could find that supported IPv6 glue records (i.e. you run your own nameservers with IPv6 connectivity, so a lookup of example.com also returns
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Same in userland if you're using POSIX signals (and you haven't explicitly configured a separate sigstack) All it takes is the user resizing their xterm and JUST the right moment and the SIGWINCH handler will happily step on your out-of-sco
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by bodyfour 15y ago
I assume you just mean that test-ipv6 gives you the warning: "Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have no access to the IPv6 internet, or is not configured to use it." I get that too (I have IPv4/IPv6 connectivity)
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by bodyfour 15y ago
Or just attempt to load a dual-stack site. A few examples off the top of my head: http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.debian.org/ http://www.ucla.edu/ Each of those has been dual-stack for years now. If you can load them withou
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by bodyfour 16y ago
> -1 is very frequently used as a sentinel value. I actually think these sentinels work quite nicely with unsigned. unsigned element_num; static const unsigned NO_ELEMENT = (unsigned) -1; Yes, you need a cast, but it's just o
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by bodyfour 16y ago
> they are opting in to a subtly different arithmetic that most people are surprised by I think that's a "citation needed" moment there. It's true that any native integer type will strange if you go outside of its defined range. The
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by bodyfour 16y ago
The "always use signed" rule is a source of endless debate in C circles. I personally like almost everything in the Google C++ Style Guide, but this is one place where I think they got it wrong. The problem is that the riskiest place for a
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by bodyfour 16y ago
Or rather "earns them less money then they can make from selling SPARC Enterprise M-series machines to former HP Superdome customers"
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by bodyfour 16y ago
The loss of Intel compiler support is really telling. IA-64 leans very heavily on its compiler to get good performance -- it's almost as much a compiler project as a silicon one.
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by bodyfour 16y ago
Accounting for inflation, I'm sure they were more than $600 2011USD when they became popular. My family was a relatively late adopter of the microwave.. I think we got one around 1984. It was a used model that (IIRC) cost $300 which woul
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by bodyfour 16y ago
Well, first off the 2006 LJ issue predates the implementation of HttpOnly cookies I think. They're a fairly recent invention. HttpOnly doesn't really fix the issue though. It prevents evil js from straight-out stealing the cookie, but it
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by bodyfour 16y ago
One reason to do per-user domains is to prevent cookie leakage caused by user-specified content. A few years ago LiveJournal got bitten by a firefox bug that allowed JS execution inside CSS. Since they allowed each user to style their own
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by bodyfour 16y ago
I reluctantly switched to GoDaddy because none of the TUCOWS-based registrars could handle IPv6 glue records, and I wanted to get my external nameservers running dual-stack. GoDaddy was surprisingly ahead of the curve on IPv6 support. Thei
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by bodyfour 16y ago
> Why would you value a 'blind test' over what an expert recording engineer, such as Barry Diament, thinks? Because one is the scientific method, and the other is just an opinion?
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by bodyfour 16y ago
One thing that I dislike is that it tries to be overly generic, i.e. try { throw 5; } catch (const int& val) { printf("%d\n", val); } try { throw "hello_world"; } catch (const char *&val) { puts(val); } I think it would h
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by bodyfour 16y ago
Do we know enough about the terms of the partnership to know that? MS is certainly capable of screwing over their existing hardware partners (see also: PlaysForSure) My hunch is that Nokia wouldn't have gone for the deal if they're just g

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