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by dmpk2k 11y ago
You misunderstood what I wrote. The statement that the US has a spotty record with the legality of its covert operations does not logically imply that the US has "sponsored a propaganda outfit that made up fake people who invited event
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
You make a good point regarding Russia, although I think we both know that the US's record regarding covert operations and legality has been spotty.
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
The US has Operation Earnest Voice, and Britain has JTRIG. Whether they're inventing disasters is another matter. It's a sad reality that all major state actors have or will get involved in this, but not surprising. Warfare is cha
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
A tad misleading. It's "based" in the UK, but all the actual antennas are in South Africa and Australia. I'm looking forward to the results from this monster. You can't get much bigger than this without soon leaving
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
But it has nothing to do with Apple. On the contrary. Part of the problem is Apple's backward compatibility, or relative lack thereof. Apple's API stability is pure cowboy. I don't think we should pretend otherwise, just be
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
You have the similar problems if you build your own resizeable arrays in C, unless you resort to an extra level of indirection (e.g. an array of pointers, or pointers to array chunks). std::vector has a series of gotchas, but any generic re
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
One of the problems with structs in C, is that you must explicitly call the destructor function if you have non-memory resources. In C++, a scope's closing } always takes care of that for you. As for the generated code bit, I assume yo
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
I do, and I'm not a masochist. I use it to write small games on my own time. I used to loathe C++, but the C++11/14 dialect makes things much more pleasant. There's still a lot of details you need to worry about, but cruciall
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Amongst other things, Bryan Cantrill is the CTO of Joyent, one of the authors of DTrace, and comments here regularly. If you use node (or DTrace, or ZFS) and read HN, he's pretty hard to miss.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
He probably should, but then, almost everybody using both node and HN knows who he is.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
illumos was already being used in production in 2010. Its development model is very much as the linked article implies -- every commit is expected to be stable, since the tree should always be stable. If you're looking for a general se
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
I agree so much with the above. Been there, done that, run an illumos distro now; it's like night and day. Calling Virtuozzo the best container system is a bad joke. Same applies to OpenVZ.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
At least in the case of KVM, it's a very heavy-weight solution. Hardware virtualisation takes more RAM, and the I/O is substantially lower. I think hardware virtualisation (e.g. KVM) should only be used when the use-case demands i
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Use FreeBSD or illumos. Increasingly Linux is a fine option too. OpenZFS is the mantle. It's the umbrella for ZFS projects across operating systems: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Contributors Dead it is not: http:&#x2
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
This is very one-sided, and I agree with most of the commenters in that thread calling the original poster out. About half the bad/ugly points about ZFS simply aren't true. But there is one crucial feature ZFS has, which wasn&#x27
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
If history had gone differently, we could have had this instead of Java. Inferno was a futuristic jet to Java's stone-age wheel, but it was not to be. A perfect example that superior design and implementation doesn't win out. Othe
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
It's quite simple until you write code that has to deal with AP (as in CAP), and the limitations that come with it. I have, and what a pain that was.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
I think the Dragon 32 really did only have 32KB RAM, but yeah, the full 32KB wasn't typically accessible. Part of it went to video RAM, and part of it went elsewhere, so quite a bit less was available to use by default. However, there
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Likewise here. In my case it was a Dragon 32 in the 486 era.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
I posit that the OS Checklist is fairly long and that no of the other systems you mention have the complete OS package. They do. E.g. SmartOS is a UNIX. It'd be pretty odd if it didn't have an init system . Or storage. Or cron.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Maybe naive, but also impolite. Opening an issue with a passive-aggressive tone isn't likely to be productive.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Reminds me of the Docker/Rocket situation, at least in the monetary sense. Node.js became big, money went to heads, and here we are.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
That doesn't tell me anything. :/ As far as I can tell, you're implying an attacker can determine a password using timing of hash comparisons. How is this any different (just more complicated) than a regular brute force attac
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Plenty of early node people were never keen on Joyent's grab in the first place. Joyent funded Ryan Dahl, Isaac Schlueter and other committers since 2009 or 2010, before the majority of programmers had heard of node.js. And node.js i
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Wholeheartedly seconding this. That book is a low-key gem. I tried many introductory DSP books. That was the only one that stuck.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
At least in games Ruby has a hard time competing with LuaJIT; all that extra headroom is really nice to have, because 16ms isn't much at all. Having said that, GC improvements are a good thing. Some of the RPG Maker folks will be del
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
That's only if the consensus-building is in good faith by productive people. Just because politics is happening, doesn't mean it's good. Sadly, politics is easier than hacking code, and attracts a certain type of person; it m
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Node.js has had a concept of API stability for at least a couple years; you can see it listed in all the docs. If you want something to work nigh indefinitely, stick to Stable or Frozen. Unless something radically changes, node is just as g
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
As far as I can tell, nothing is going on, except the typical OSS drama. Frankly, I don't care who "owns" an OSS project, just as long as the thing works (and node does). I leave dumb politics for people with too much idle ti
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Wouldn't cache line misses dominate? Linear search benefits from prefetch.

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