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by dcohenp 13y ago
Neither is fopen, for that matter. Of course, many library functions end up doing syscalls underneath, which may be the source of the OP's confusion (e.g. malloc may do brk or mmap; fopen usually does open; etc.)
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by dcohenp 13y ago
I didn't quite read a lot of skepticism about it being "eventually profitable". Rather there was more hand-waving about "not being a $100M - $1B" business, which is something else altogether. (Sort of depressing IMH
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by dcohenp 13y ago
This was addressed by one of the founders here [1]. Basically, his argument was that their cost structure was not fixed, and if they could have gone on for a bit longer then they would have been able to turn it into a marginal profit. If tr
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by dcohenp 13y ago
Honestly, when I read the NSA one I started laughing, but then it kind of sent a shiver down my spine. Brrr.
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"Desktop-class"(speirs.org)
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by dcohenp 13y ago
Great news. The blog post discusses C++ specifically, but I wonder what (if anything) this means for C, which has traditionally been a pain in the ass in Windows due to Microsoft's refusal to support C99 (though that may be changing [1
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by dcohenp 13y ago
> they download and execute external JavaScript Yes, but they may do so only by embedding Apple's own sandboxed WebKit component. So the downloading, execution, and results are tightly controlled.
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by dcohenp 13y ago
I'm an avid user, and my main complaint is, precisely, the UI. Sure, some of the main functions (e.g. traffic report) can be done fairly easily with one hand, but almost everything else is terrible: - Choosing a navigation destination