cronin101

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Show HN: I hacked together a gem for profiling functions during prototyping.(github.com)
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by cronin101 13y ago
So brave.
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Like how TCP is a hacked-together impression of reliable transfer over an unreliable medium? Nothing wrong with layering approaches, but the problem is knowing where to place the borders in order to give clarity at every level.
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by cronin101 13y ago
Unlike previous versions, OpenCL 2.0 been shown to only be about 30%[1] slower than CUDA and can approach comparable performance given enough optimisation. Since I am working on code generation of Kernels to perform dynamic tasks, I can't a
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I've been working on a rather large computation library using OpenCL. OpenCL is useful for providing an abstraction over multiple device types. If you are only interested in producing highly-tuned parallel code to execute on NVidia hardware
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> We usually agree that there should be one and only one clear way to accomplish base tasks in a language. You are obviously not a Ruby programmer. ;-)
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by cronin101 14y ago
This isn't really a generic OAuth bug though. This stems from the fact that you can trick the redirection scheme that Facebook uses into thinking that you are the legitimate owner of an application whilst using your own backend-flow URL. Th
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Nice to see the combination of a determined White Hat attacker and the responsive FB development team ready to fix vulnerabilities.
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I really hate this "My language is better than your X" talk. Remember that the reason that you find a language predictable in usage is often because you have experience using it, claiming that it's syntax will be clearer from the start is m
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In the article he states "[for Copying] Conservative GC is unable to determine the difference between pointer and integer values. If an integer value was overwritten the result would be disastrous. It is likely that the result of 1+1 would