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by eslaught 12y ago
Well, LuaJIT had already supported some of 5.2, just not all of it [1]. So I guess the issue is, how long can LuaJIT hold out on being 5.1 compatible while pulling in features from 5.2+ while not fragmenting the language? My (admittedly lim
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by eslaught 12y ago
So, with the Lua interpreter / LuaJIT divide, what's going to happen now? If LuaJIT continues to stick firmly to 5.1 compatibility it seems like they can't really avoid forking the language, which would be unfortunate.
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by eslaught 12y ago
Previously, all Lua numbers were doubles. You could fit a 32-bit int into a double without trouble, and maybe the interpreter would even have an optimization for that internally, but at least conceptually, Lua never distinguished between fl
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by eslaught 12y ago
This analogy to OS X is completely unreasonable. OS X software and hardware is co-designed to work together, by a single manufacturer/developer. In fact, you could even say that OS X is specifically designed not to work on any hardwa
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by eslaught 12y ago
Is there a Cargo build on Homebrew?
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by eslaught 12y ago
So here's what I don't get: This is just standard, off-the-shelf encryption, right? Like the kind I've been using on my desktop since forever? How is this such a big deal? I realize that from a PR perspective, Apple would lik
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by eslaught 12y ago
From the paper: "To examine the effects of pure saccharin on glucose intolerance, we followed a cohort of 10-week-old C57Bl/6 mice fed on HFD and supplemented with 0.1 mg ml 21 of pure saccharin added to their drinking water (Exte
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by eslaught 12y ago
Sure, nothing stops a website (or app) from going to Google to ask for your contacts. This is the classic "invite your contacts" strategy that Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. have employed since the beginning. But granting that access is
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by eslaught 12y ago
You're right that Chrome OS doesn't store any of that at the moment. But this is the sort of integration that would be fairly easy for Google to add. Chrome already has some minimal integration with Google web services, especially
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by eslaught 12y ago
And yet, to be truly compatible with Android, they will have to poke holes in the sandbox to allows access to contacts, social data, etc. So while I have no problem believing that the sandbox will be equally resilient against buffer overflo
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by eslaught 12y ago
Regarding your first point, see: http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2011/08/advertising-and-fut...
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by eslaught 12y ago
Admittedly, I don't know how they've actually implemented this, but I would imagine that it would be possible for them to render the app on a 320pt "virtual screen", then take that and stretch it appropriately for the ac
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by eslaught 12y ago
From the keynote, when they demoed the un-updated CNN app, it looks like they're just scaling the app (no black bars) and depending on the resolution of the screen to avoid the blur being obvious.
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by eslaught 12y ago
Still, the level of protection for common law trademark is not the same as when registered. From http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/BasicFacts.pdf 1. "Common law rights exist only for the specific area wh
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by eslaught 12y ago
This must have been done out of politeness and not out of legal reasons. I don't think Gruber has any legal foothold with respect to the name here. The license you quote is essentially based on copyright. But copyright deals with creat
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by eslaught 12y ago
The critical question is "how broken is SHA1?" Linus essentially bets on it being not broken, or at least, the same degree of broken as the alternatives. At the time that was a reasonable argument. But the numbers quoted in the ar
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by eslaught 12y ago
Does this mean anything for Git and other VCSs, which uses SHA1 for identifying commits and other blobs? For non-malicious content, you won't care, but if collision attacks are actually feasible, then Git's security guarantees (&q
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by eslaught 12y ago
I'm a little surprised at the level of negativity in the majority of the comments here. I understand our cultural need for criticism here, but the critics here have touched almost everything (and note that the most insubstantial of cla
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Pandoc 1.13 released(johnmacfarlane.net)
3 points by eslaught 12y ago|0 comments
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by eslaught 12y ago
So the original guide seems not to have been updated since 2009 [1], and even then only in minor ways. Are these criticisms still valid of C++, even without the C++11 standard? Clearly the language issues won't have gotten any better (
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by eslaught 12y ago
For the 85 year old grandpa, absolutely. I have an uncle (around 85) who went through multiple computers (edit: all Windows), and kept getting virus and other malware; he kept falling for sites that would advertise to "clean" his
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by eslaught 12y ago
Parallelism, as opposed to concurrency, is purely a performance consideration. With concurrency, you can actually write programs you couldn't write before. That is never the case with parallelism. The only reason to write parallel code
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by eslaught 12y ago
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
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Show HN: AWS Infrastructure for Stanford Course in Parallel Programming(elliottslaughter.com)
48 points by eslaught 12y ago|6 comments
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by eslaught 12y ago
It does happen, as is the point of your post. You even left out one of the bigger attacks, 9/11, which deeply impacted the US. You can argue about why, but you can't dispute the fact that they do in fact happen. The main differenc
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by eslaught 12y ago
Your post seems to ignore the very real possibility that criminals will prepare their cars by customizing the programming prior to the crime. Does your car have a remote disable switch? Hack the car and turn it off. If you have arbitrary ph
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by eslaught 12y ago
On the other hand, if you have ever been arrested, even if not accused of anything, and you want to apply for citizenship or a green card in the US, then the burden is placed on you to get proof that you have never been accused of anything
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by eslaught 12y ago
Java (and probably also C#) already has mature STM implementations. Here is one, but there are certainly others: https://sites.google.com/site/deucestm/ As noted in the other comments, you don't need STM for
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by eslaught 12y ago
Do you think you could start a class action lawsuit on this basis? If companies aren't going to bother to stand up to this, and individuals don't have the money to do so, then short of actually fixing the law, class action suits s
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by eslaught 12y ago
Aha! Good to be proven wrong there.

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