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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   I also really enjoyed the pacing and voice. I'm looking forward to the next episodes.
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   But it applies to the foundation Unity is built upon, as well: GTK has 1 person working full-time on it (me). Glib doesn’t even have that. I think evolution is in a similar situation (a complete email client). Also, compet
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   Another cool feature (is this new?): A scientific calculator https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(4)%20-%20sqrt(3)
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   Yes, it's down for paid apps accounts, too.
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   This is just one example of a general flawed concept and certainly beyond the scope of a "bug" that could be fixed within a week or two. I don't think we'll see a unified experience until Windows 9.
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   I got the same impression so far. Take the Metro Windows Update for example. It failed for for me repeatedly without giving any reason until I found the same functionality within the "classic" Control Center where I had to allow the system
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   The whole site is about giving money to people on Github. I'd usually agree that enforcing a certain other secondary login to sign up can be a bad thing, but for a product so tightly coupled with another service like this, I think it's okay
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   I thought he meant the response time of the site when an email is sent. If you synchronously sent the mail within the request-response-cycle without precautionary measures, there will be measurable difference to when no mail is actually sen
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   by ch0wn 14y ago

   > naive implementations of the best practice will also leak that via a side channel Shouldn't the best practice of sending emails include using at least some sort of message queue? You're probably right that most web apps will use a syn
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    This is usually the first command I type after I ssh onto something.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Couldn't agree more. At the company I work for, we tried both Phonegap and Appcelerator Titanium and it both was a total disaster. We're back developing native apps and both the development and user experience is just so much better.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    This is no longer true. There exists the Stanford JavaScript Crypto Library authored by known experts, including Emily Stark, Mike Hamburg and Dan Boneh: http://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/ I also suggest reading the paper that comes along w
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4255842
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    Borrowed Pointers in Rust(smallcultfollowing.com)

    4 points by ch0wn 14y ago|0 comments
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    If I remember correctly this was done by Akamai and not directly by themselves, while this time the nodes are effectively under Microsoft's control.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Does anyone know how they analyze the apps to gather these statistics? I guess it's not trivial as it even works for obfuscated (proguard-ed) APKs and their database of libraries is quite comprehensive. Does this use some byte code fingerpr
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    It really depends on what you perceive as objective. I'm not sure I would call it objective, but I would certainly call it a bad review. Every other sentence contains an Apple reference. While this is to be expected when Siegler writes a
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    This doesn't prevent anyone from tampering with the code while being transmitted.
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    Dart: Milestone 1 Language Changes(dartlang.org)

    5 points by ch0wn 14y ago|0 comments
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    This looks very cool, but you should really get a TLS certificate right now and enable HSTS.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    This is why iReader is my favorite Chrome extension by far: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ppelffpjgkifjfgnba...
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I agree. The speed at Chrome and Firefox are evolving is mind-boggling. There's WebGL, WebRTC, new Audio APIs, transitions, css filters and it feels like every other week there's something new that isn't just implemented but actually pushed
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    Thread locals are addressed in the docs: Yes it is usually not such a bright idea to use thread locals. They cause troubles for servers that are not based on the concept of threads and make large applications harder to maintai
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    It sure it, but that's not part of the discussion. Also, when talking about web development, the language used is rarely the bottle neck.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    There's a fantastic reason: Having fun. Programming should be fun. If you find the language you're working with being ugly and terribly designed, it's hard to believe you're having fun.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    I was actually pleasantly surprised by not reading about the usual "webscale" BS in these two articles. Both authors made it very clear that this is not about being able or unable to build something with a given language, but the quality of
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    What's new there to make it newsworthy?
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    The worst part, in my opinion, was the miserable communication. I had some contact with their support and they kept promising updates to their software over and over again. Of course, this never happened.
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    9 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4160605
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    by ch0wn 14y ago

    It also works just fine in Firefox.