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by ekr 12y ago
Actually the fact the the users don't pay for it is not relevant. You're still making a transaction with the user, providing them with a service, in exchange for them putting up with your ads. But in reality the service you say yo
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by ekr 12y ago
This has already been done by some Chinese manufacturers, http://www.szapec.com/default.asp?id=1793 , and the Meegopad ( http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/10/15/meego-t01-hdmi-tv-sti... ). And gi
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by ekr 12y ago
> Though I've never had this particular problem even with "DRM'd" media on Linux The intel video driver on Linux is open-source. I am sure there would be forks disabling this functionality in case it would be implemen
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by ekr 12y ago
I think C (and Unix) was the original context in which the static keyword appeared, and as such, changing its meaning would be a terrible idea. A C programmer has to deal with things a lot more complex than the syntax (which IMHO is much cl
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by ekr 12y ago
>You can read hundred different programming books but none of the theory books will teach you more than just the syntax of the language/ programming paradigm. Huh? That's not true. I wouldn't call a book that teaches you a
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by ekr 12y ago
Does any know what software was used to generate the book? I assume, because of the CC license, the source might be in some github repo, but I was unable to find it. LE: Thanks.
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by ekr 12y ago
First ran into this concept (not exactly the same concept) here http://lesswrong.com/lw/uh/trying_to_try/ I still have a lot of struggle in my life, slowly I'm getting there.
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by ekr 12y ago
The knapsack Problem (the classic 0-1 version) is solvable through Dynamic Programming in O(n^2) time The problem you described is the Multiple Knapsack Problem, which is indeed NP-complete.
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by ekr 12y ago
Literate programming is a method introduced by Donald Knuth ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming ). I've stumbled upon it whilst reading Physically Based Rendering, and then LCC: Retargetable C Compil
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by ekr 12y ago
With lots of 64bit ARM chips coming to the market in the near future, I would wait just a little bit more.
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by ekr 12y ago
For anyone looking for more ASM related information, http://asm.sourceforge.net/resources.html#docs . That's where I've first seen this site.
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OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution – Win95 Ie3 to Win10 IE11 Exploit(exploit-db.com)
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by ekr 12y ago
> there is no way to write algorithms in C# Sorry, but that's just bullshit. I'm a C programmer by trade (I program device drivers), and love Linux/BSD/Unix and despise Microsoft, you can write any algorithm you want
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by ekr 12y ago
Haven't read all of it, but the author assumes the availability of a return stack, which somehow makes this approach not really stack-free. Most modern calling conventions (x86) use a register(eax/rax) for returning values. But hi
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by ekr 12y ago
> I believe that if there is one thing humanity needs to do to get through the next few centuries, is to reject envy and stop taking finite games seriously. That cannot happen as long as you want humanity to exist. Reproduction is the dr
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by ekr 12y ago
As a sidenote: BeeFree is a well-known Win9x malware : http://vxheavens.com/29a/29a-6/29a-6.402 .
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by ekr 12y ago
Arch as well. I like to keep things simple (as in the Unix philosophy).
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by ekr 12y ago
>The API is still pretty rough and could see some improvements. I know this myself, I also played around with OpenGL at some point. There is a lot of boilerplate code that needs to be written before you can start yourself with the real g
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by ekr 12y ago
I'd also be interested in that.
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by ekr 12y ago
I'm not very invested in this field, however, this "processing power" metaphor sound like those ideas "where people only use 10% of their brain". The brain doesn't work like that, it's not a general purpos
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by ekr 12y ago
>"woman who wrote the #2 Computer Science book on Amazon, about coding and technical interview skills" Computer Science has absolutely nothing to do with either coding or interviews, it's a subfield of mathematics.
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by ekr 12y ago
It would have been interesting to see the impact of these improvements on battery usage.
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by ekr 12y ago
"When I look around me I see people making endless purchases of stuff they don’t actually need [...] I don’t understand any of it." Oh really, you don't? Then you should do some reading on signaling[ http://wiki.les
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by ekr 12y ago
No you're not, I've been running Openbox on desktop and XFCE on laptop for a few years now.
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by ekr 12y ago
That's the greedy(and obvious) solution, which is optimal for the fractional version of the problem, not in the case of the 0/1 problem, mentioned in the article. If you want a really challenging problem, look into the multiple kn
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by ekr 12y ago
What you need to do is to read the Less Wrong sequences. ( http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences ) That will help with clearing some things up.
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by ekr 12y ago
That's what forests and mountains are for, you don't need to ride on roads. Get a mountain bike!
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by ekr 12y ago
How does this compare to WinDBG, which already seems fairly mature? Why would I switch to this? (if you ask me, the problem of FOSS doesn't come into play here, since Windows itself is a closed platform). And indeed, a similar GUI-base
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by ekr 12y ago
You think the technique mentioned in the article doesn't leak data? It actually leaks more data than a gaussian blur. Gaussian blur suffers from exactly the same problem, although a different difference function is needed for it.
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by ekr 12y ago
No, it's not an OS by any means, as it doesn't provide a way to abstract computations (processes), doesn't provide support for file systems, etc.

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