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by byuu 11y ago
The rendering backend and Javascript portion, absolutely. The total lines of code for all of Firefox (Gecko, Spidermonkey, etc) rivals the Linux kernel. But I fail to see why we can't have a full-featured browser front-end that uses We
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by byuu 11y ago
They all said they didn't resign because of Eich. Sure, they could have been lying. But I'd rather not get into divining intentions and back room discussions none of us were privy to. I'm all for freedom of speech and quite o
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by byuu 11y ago
> Mozilla's revenue in 2014 was $323 million It's amazing that there's such a massive amount of money even for having ~10% market share and declining. Given how many people are clamoring for something like what Firefox us
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by byuu 11y ago
Eich chose to step down due to community pressure; the board never tried to push him out. Mozilla was hemorrhaging users due to completely ignoring their concerns for years before that bigot left.
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by byuu 11y ago
> I guess Linux has SystemD and the BSDs have NextBSD to be fearful of. Pretty much. But the FreeBSD developers have a history of being much more conservative on these types of changes. But then again, Debian used to as well. So you ne
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by byuu 11y ago
Just a word of warning, Jordan Hubbard and Kip Macy work for iXsystems and are pushing for both PC-BSD and FreeNAS to move to NextBSD, which is basically bringing half of OS X into FreeBSD. (Probably inspired by Jordan's days of workin
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by byuu 11y ago
> I sometimes wonder if being put under is really all that much better For me, it was fantastic. My wisdom teeth had to be pulled just as they started to surface, because letting them grow out all the way would have just wrecked years of
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by byuu 11y ago
Sorry if I come off a bit crass. What you have is still a major improvement over people dumping all of projects like zlib and libpng in just to load in files. It's just that code complexity is probably my biggest pet peeve in programmi
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by byuu 11y ago
How is this library a "mini" gzip decoder if it comes with functions to do things like write PNG files ?? It's a nice effort, and sharing is appreciated, but that is most definitely not mini. It only seems that way because a
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by byuu 11y ago
The best way to motivate an emulator developer is to make something and then boast about how it doesn't run in an emulator :)
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by byuu 11y ago
I'm not the right person to design the entire system, obviously. But as a starting point, I'd consider using a PGP signing key on responses from a server. Your keys would be hosted on an HTTPS server somewhere. Let's say http
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by byuu 11y ago
Just as a random example: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3p6r2v/i_wrote... I've constantly had similar experiences. I tried to write the GUI portion of my programs with Python and PyG
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by byuu 11y ago
> the library is written in a language with manual memory management and unsafe memory access. C's simplicity is certainly a blessing and a curse. Right now, I'm of the opinion that C++ is the best we've got, even if not p
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by byuu 11y ago
I know this opinion won't be popular, and I know encryption is a very complex topic, but ... TLS is simply vastly too complicated. How many of us here could write a TLS library even if we wanted to? So you end up with code so complex
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by byuu 11y ago
> Or people without large families choose bigger houses rather than perfectly acceptable ones that two generations ago couples with 7 kids would fit in. I think about this myself. I have a house that's probably three times the size
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by byuu 11y ago
A very cool idea with impressive results, but sadly, side-scrollers will only have left/right sprites, and top-down games will only have front/back/left/right. Whereas the Mario example in the article also has top/b
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by byuu 11y ago
I understand the article was from 2004, when PCs were about 2-4x slower. But to me, a microkernel isn't about performance. It's a complement to monolithic kernels. When I am writing source code, or typing up an important document,
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by byuu 11y ago
I've had to use them up until just recently. To run reverse engineering tests on an SNES console, I've had to use an old copier device. It's a box that plugs into the cartridge port and will load games off of floppy disks. (a
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by byuu 11y ago
> Except its entirely unclear that $5/month is sustainable, much less $1/mo. Right now, how many people are going to subscribe to a site? You have to trust them with your real info and credit card details, and maintain your log
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by byuu 11y ago
> I think ArsTechnica is also an example of where publishing needs to go because they don't show ads to subscribers. I think subscriptions are the way to go, but these sites really need to work on their pricing. Ars wants $5 a month
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by byuu 11y ago
Xfce already depends on it? :( I was under the impression they had FreeBSD users on their dev team, and kept it alive, just with some limited features (like automounting not really working) and only relying on a few Linuxisms like Consoleki
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by byuu 11y ago
I would actually be somewhat okay with running the graphical stack as root inside a jail, if it meant bypassing all of the systemd emulation. > Frankly it feels like Linux is turning into some kind of marketing mess I feel it's just
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by byuu 11y ago
As long as it's optional for Gnome only as they say, that's fine. I just hope other DEs like Xfce don't simply rely on this being available like with Consolekit, HAL, D-bus, etc that I now have to run on FreeBSD as well. I&#x
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by byuu 11y ago
> You can be lonely with billions of dollars, and you certainly have the right to complain about it. Oh, certainly. That's possible, and one is allowed to complain. It's just that it's in bad taste to frame it that way. It
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by byuu 11y ago
Exactly. I can't feel bad for people complaining about having too much money, when it's such a simple problem to solve if you really mean it. And there are so many people who really need that money, too. Even at my meager $70k i
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by byuu 11y ago
> They're integrating it into FreeNAS and I think PC-BSD will follow suit. And this is why I won't use any of the "FreeBSD made easy!" distros: FreeNAS, PC-BSD, pfSense, etc. Better to learn how to configure the offic
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by byuu 11y ago
On-call rotation is listed in the job description. We have at-will employment here, so a contract change is basically, "accept the change or go someplace else to work." Which works against us in a down economy in a position that s
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by byuu 11y ago
I have a four-week rotation on-call where I work. Pretty much the same workload as discussed in the article with it. Calls and text messages at 3am, can't be more than 15 minutes away from an internet connection (remote desktop softwar
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by byuu 11y ago
The worst part was that the jokes weren't even funny. It sounded more forced than a '90s sitcom laugh track. "As you can see, I got a G-" <HAHAHAHAH>, "that's like ... a good grade" <HAHAHAHAHAHAH
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by byuu 11y ago
The idea that a translation string can execute Python code via ${expression} is really quite scary. Imagine a user downloading a third-party localization file that ends up being malicious. Overall, I see there being two major styles for bui

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