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by brians 10y ago
I've never met this person. But he raises two interesting points: First, that "ex-Apple is hard." Is it? The only ex-Apple people I've met have been founding their own companies, clearly resting on FU money. They don&#
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by brians 10y ago
Strong currents push to classify work. Structures like jetties and piers oppose declassification. Silt builds up at classification boundaries. You should expect to see a bunch of S crap that can't get to the TS tools, TS crap that can&
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by brians 10y ago
What does maintainable mean? I propose a definition: we can add features at a constant rate, but the rate of bugs per line of code drops off over time. Linux certainly doesn't meet that threshold: the rate of bad bugs is pretty consta
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by brians 10y ago
Surely the title should be "causal"?
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by brians 10y ago
Given the tax scheme is published well in advance, they certainly seem to be worth something---else who would take them?
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by brians 10y ago
Pick your mode, separate IV per record, separate record per packet.
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by brians 10y ago
Yes. Sign up for service, configure a page with crafted invalid HTML at your origin, activate all three buggy features, and spam it with requests. If you can find such a page already, just jump to the last step and avoid signing your work.
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by brians 10y ago
Nah. Bug bounties don't work for services like CDNs. Maybe they do elsewhere. But for enterprise services, the noise rate is too high, and the very good bug finders are either salaried, free, or working for the adversary.
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by brians 10y ago
Open calls to genocide are legitimate speech protected by the first amendment. Only speech likely to produce imminent lawless action is banned---so there has to be a target and a plausibly exhorted actor right there.
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by brians 10y ago
Well, sure. An analog ray tracer is called a camera. Scene setup can take a while, though.
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by brians 10y ago
AND nobody's eyeballs got cooked.
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by brians 10y ago
Hm. Size is mere size. Latency will never improve with a "big data" solution over one machine with in-RAM data. Dependency management? You're going to declare it once and impose it everywhere anyway. Scheduling? Again, one ma
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by brians 10y ago
Sort of. The NTS people appear to be ntpsec people: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp... , and talk about how clearing out the crud (including unused modes) provides enough headroom for the w
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by brians 10y ago
Vulkan isn't designed for adversarial input. The web language has to be. That alone is likely to require a ground-up redesign.
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by brians 10y ago
I would love to see this example worked out in any of these---including credit for the phone calls. I think they're all trying, but miss the power of awk's simplicity.
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by brians 10y ago
It's still moving fast and breaking things in ways that---while necessary---aren't reasonable choices for programs like Emacs or TeX. These programs need to run the same way in 20 years, and be runnable the same way in 50.
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by brians 10y ago
NSLs are addressed to, and claim to compel, an individual.
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by brians 10y ago
Latency and n-way multitouch.
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by brians 10y ago
This is 4-8 cents per GB-month, with no transfer fees. Tarsnap is 25 cents per GB-month, plus transfer fees. That's for Tarsnap's encoded data---but that seems roughly comparable to rsync.net's free snapshots. So Tarsnap is
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by brians 10y ago
Bad network connectivity blocks random things too; it seems reasonable to expect any supported application to cope. I absolutely use Little Snitch to block automatic updates of some apps that try to download updates over port 80---I don&#x2
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by brians 10y ago
Last I looked, Apparmor still applied rules based on file names, not on types assigned to the underlying objects. That's a big limit on writing correct policies: every hardlink is like a firewall-spanning device.
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by brians 10y ago
Sheriffs and DMCA notices make it legal.
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by brians 10y ago
Joel's staff hurt the customer. Not delivering your work until paid is one thing. Reverting the site is totally unacceptable. For one thing, it's use of access you were granted to help the customer to hurt the customer. I wouldn&#
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by brians 10y ago
Those typically don't have tuners, but in the age of the cable box that hardly matters.
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by brians 10y ago
Everything discussed in the article is 4-pole, isn't it? L, R, G, Mic? These days, Apple devices are 8-pin 2-lane lightning, and use separate lanes for audio and control. The Apple EarPods appear to be 7 -pole: separate grounds for
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by brians 10y ago
They're burning investor money and have no plausible plan to reach profitability. Their best plan appears to literally be that the singularity might come early in the area of personal urban transit. They could get the benefit of the do
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by brians 10y ago
Why not? If programming were poorly paid scut work, that would be true. But since it's a very highly compensated ticket to the middle class---surely many will do it without love. Look at the games industry: worse pay, worse hours---th
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by brians 10y ago
Principally? Reliance on cloud service origins without TLS support. Amazon still has some from acquisitions, for example.
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by brians 10y ago
Sometimes you want a GPU near a display.
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by brians 10y ago
"Scheduled get failed." Ten years into the iPhone age and I still can see the Treo IMAP client error as plain as day.

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