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by c256 8y ago
The article explicitly says that they had been using lighttpd, started switching to nginx because lighttpd appeared to go dead, and were now switching back because lighttpd had resuscitated while they were worried about F5 taking over nginx
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by c256 8y ago
They were Yahoo and HotMail, and they both had significantly worse spam filtering than gmail. They also had relatively poor security, reflected in bugs that made it common for even relatively careful users to have their accounts hijacked (a
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by c256 8y ago
Let me give it a try, from an abstract/Emacs point of view: Emacs is good for Lisp development, but both “raw” Emacs itself and most of the packaged customization versions (Spacemacs, etc) are fairly ‘opinionated’ about Lisp, and that
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by c256 8y ago
I think you’re being too harsh here. The author didn’t come close to claiming that MtG drafting was solved; instead the claim is that they were able to train a fairly straightforward model to perform relatively well — within the metric of “
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by c256 8y ago
For Emacs (and its web browsers, email clients, etc) this comes up in a concept of “confusables” strings that could easily be mistaken for other strings, usually as a result of Unicode tricks (multiple similar code points from different scr
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by c256 8y ago
I’ve heard that a number of sources contest the “tried to leave the scene” claim; do you have any other references that might clear it up either way?
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by c256 8y ago
I think what the OP meant was “cases in point: Alef & Limbo”. (These were languages that were introduced with Plan 9 and its successor Inferno, that didn’t catch on.)
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by c256 8y ago
Can someone up on current Android tell me how things like this are still common? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19380012 Personal interest: I’ve been using Linux since the early 90s, and was psyched to see what t
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by c256 8y ago
This feels almost obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1200/
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by c256 8y ago
This suggests that a specialized app (such as a set-top box, smart TV, or game console) could push more code through the pre-JIT process to further close the performance gap. (This is interesting to me, because I haven’t seen much interest
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by c256 8y ago
Wait. As near as I can tell from the outside, there aren’t any good Android tablet options, and the problems are baked into the OS at a fairly deep level — deep enough that OEMs can’t really address them, and Google hasn’t shown any recent
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by c256 8y ago
Web browsers already implement a ‘near miss that’s probably intentionally confusing” check on domains, and the code is readily extracted and shared (I know about it because someone extracted it and added it to Emacs a couple years ago). Thi
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by c256 8y ago
> I believe Word still has an built-in grammar/spell checker that works just fine without all your documents being sent to Microsoft ...unless you use their cloud storage system, which Word tries to get you to do. The last time I re
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by c256 8y ago
Firstly: nifty idea, and neat prototype of said idea. :thumbs up: Second: If my cloud browser has all of my credentials, do I care that my cloud browser is the process that’s pwned instead of my local browser? I think I don’t, so the main b
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by c256 8y ago
Not at all. Constructed players already (for a very long time) use the collective data of other players — this has lots of names, it is commonly called “net-decking”. It turns out, that the best players and the best deck builders have a lo
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by c256 8y ago
Agreed, and well said. > right now it might be the time for Wirth 17 pages long solutions .. but McIlroy one liner will come back. In case someone is interested in &ollowing up this reference, it’s Knuth’s 17 page long solution.
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by c256 8y ago
I was also quite happy with the form factor of the Sidekick, and would love to see another one. It’s almost too bad that those people went on to build Android.
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by c256 8y ago
At MIT, the month of January is a reserved time separate from the normal terms called IAP - Independent Activities Period. During IAP, there are many seminars, panels, talks, and short courses (and some long courses taught in an intensive f
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by c256 8y ago
Yes, because retro-gaming is a thing.
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by c256 8y ago
I don’t know if you realize it, but your complaint is “hardware vendors change things too frequently”. Kernel hackers don’t make up the need to do extra work for hardware support just for kicks. Yes, the hits everyone: Windows loses suppor
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by c256 8y ago
JavaScript isn’t run, so some dynamic web sites are supported and others (common today) aren’t.
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by c256 8y ago
Not trying to be cute or anything, but... Given the subduction zone, isn’t this like deciding which kind of non-skid pads to put on the deck chairs of the Titanic?
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by c256 8y ago
This is true, but mostly because the only destination of non-passenger rail in the area is the Boeing facilities (and the associated airport).
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by c256 8y ago
Don’t underestimate the business interests of the people who have built up infrastructure on the east side of the water. There are several deep pockets who do not want their customer base to have easier access to markets in Seattle proper
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by c256 8y ago
In the podcast interview (“The Daily”, also from the nyt), the contact inside the NYT says pretty clearly that they didn’t rewrite anything, to avoid detection or otherwise. I believe the quote was something like “if they write something t
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by c256 9y ago
You should look up Windows 10 S, then look up ‘locked bootloader’, and then maybe check out Google’s moves toward locking out sideloading on Android. I’m not saying the sky is falling, but there are certainly several signs of interest in th
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by c256 9y ago
In many ways, WSL is the Cygwin concept implemented inside the system layer. Where Cygwin reimplements things in Win32-compatible-ish code and then calls that code, WSL translates the calls directly into compatible Windows code. In theory,
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by c256 9y ago
Both. WSL works by translating Linux calls into appropriate Windows calls under the hood. The Windows file system is already comparatively slow, and the interfaces aren’t especially similar, which means that you end up using a not-fast tran
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by c256 9y ago
Doesn’t that depend on wether you’re using a GNU tr or a BSD variant? I feel like the brackets were necessary back in the day.
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by c256 9y ago
The argument for breaking up these companies is not based on punishing them for wrongs. Instead, it’s based on the idea that they have so much manifest power that their natural order of business inherently has the effect of “abuse of monopo

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