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by evmar 15y ago
Because NPAPI (the plugin API) is specified in terms of native OS handles (HWNDs on Windows, X ids on X), even a sandboxed plugin naturally has access to stuff like your keyboard, mouse, and can send keystrokes to your desktop. This sandbo
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by evmar 15y ago
Even on Linux WebKit and Gecko use UTF-16.
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With sadness, I think the broad answer is likely never. For a given piece of hardware Linux support generally improves over time, but new hardware continually comes out so support is continually behind. You need the OS vendor, the kernel
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by evmar 15y ago
You might be amused to browse Chrome's implementation of FTP, which has separate modules for each of the different types of FTP servers you might encounter, as each emits the "ls -l" output in a different way and that is (I guess) the only
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by evmar 15y ago
In a recent project I examined the alternatives and ended up using re2c ( http://re2c.org/ ). re2c's advantage over flex is that it is easy to embed within existing code, as opposed to a generated yylex function that your code must interf
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by evmar 15y ago
The build system can't know beforehand which scripts generate which files (unless you're implying it ought to run everything that looks like it might be a script and observe what outputs it writes). However, once you've compiled a .c file t
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by evmar 15y ago
My impression from working on Chrome (but not near the network bits) is that while SDCH does have the potential for compression you mention, doing so requires tuning beyond what most organizations can do. And more importantly, total downlo
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by evmar 15y ago
From Fedex's website ( http://www.fedex.com/id/tools/video.html ), a copy of such a form: http://images.fedex.com/downloads/shared/shipdocuments/blank... Text from the form matches that in the post. But importantly, note the date on the
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by evmar 15y ago
What's especially interesting to me is that Forbes is the monetizing on this user's content (I got a full-page ad on the first load). This is surely allowed by Quora's ToS but it still makes me uncomfortable. In fact, a vague worry about t
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by evmar 15y ago
My vimrc is cleaner: $ cat ~/.vimrc cat: /home/evanm/.vimrc: No such file or directory I mean, it's cool and all that you love your tools, but I suspect these sorts of blog posts are net harmful when you consider the number of
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by evmar 15y ago
It appears they've set a text shadow on the main body text for some reason.
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by evmar 15y ago
To save you some time, the quote (and paraphrase) in the article is literally all he said in the video clip. (To answer your question directly, I think there are services that provide a proxy within the US.)
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by evmar 15y ago
You can make a browser GET or POST to any arbitrary URL already via JavaScript.
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by evmar 15y ago
A warning: enabling WebGL on a known-bad set of drivers means arbitrary pages can now crash X. We probably need some "click to play" like feature for WebGL, but it's a terrible user experience: you load a page, you get an offer "do you want
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by evmar 15y ago
News protip: when a headline asks a question, the answer is almost certainly "no".
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by evmar 15y ago
Gray on black text. :~( To make the page readable, pull up the dev console and run `document.body.style.color='black'`
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by evmar 15y ago
Here's a hypothesis that is more generous to Google (I don't know the real reason): some Google campaign that pays per download of Chrome is prompting site owners to generate this low-quality content. It seems more plausible to me than Goo
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by evmar 15y ago
It's funny to see how bradfitz's projects other than memcached have fared over time. Didn't realize this one was still used by anyone.
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by evmar 15y ago
Here's a good paper on the subject: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=nothing%20to%20hide%20... (Would link you to it directly but the site appears down; the search results may find a mirror, but watch out for links that are essays ab
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by evmar 15y ago
You likely were saying that rhetorically, but in this particular case, Heroes of Might and Magic 5 was released pretty recently and is more or less the same game.
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by evmar 15y ago
Generally the committees that design these kinds of things are knowledgeable and careful, so think carefully before accusing them. In the above case, I wonder if it's related to #define NULL ...something that is a null pointer constan
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by evmar 15y ago
(I am a Chrome developer.) I glanced at your scroll.css and saw a bunch of rules that attempt to fiddle with the overflow/position attributes. This sort of thing confuses all browsers. Why not just use a normal scrollbar? It's fine to ch
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by evmar 15y ago
Having done similar work for Chrome, I can attest to the fact that large code bases are full of errors. If you're not on Windows, using both gcc's -Wall and -Wextra along with Clang in the same way is a good start. (Here's a post with more
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by evmar 15y ago
Thanks for the GetFileAttributesEx tip -- https://github.com/martine/ninja/commit/93c78361e30e33f950ee...
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by evmar 15y ago
I am sad to say when I read this I worried whether the manufacturers' samples would come back to bite him in the form of some sort of patent lawsuit. I guess it could be considered a benefit that he isn't making money, as it makes him a sm
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by evmar 15y ago
I tried Google+ but the red "someone you don't know has added you in a circle" light was always on when I was doing unrelated things on unrelated Google properties. I recall a product manager saying they were going to fix this months ago,
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by evmar 15y ago
Wow, you are awesome for posting facts! I have often wondered if it was some systemic thing about the centrally-managed setups of Windows at Google that was making the Chrome build suck so much (such as some aggressive antivirus, as people
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by evmar 15y ago
I don't know this poster, but I am pretty familiar with the problem he's encountering, as I am the person most responsible for the Chrome build for Linux. I (and others) have put a lot of effort into making the Linux Chrome build fast. Som
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by evmar 15y ago
Truly. The saddest thing about these posts is that some segment of the HN population thinks they are worth reading.
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by evmar 15y ago
Your concern is valid, but I believe Native Client doesn't expose any more (GL) attack surface than JavaScript-based WebGL does.

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