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by fefe23 8y ago
Note how quickly they feel the need to defend themselves, why they couldn't get the bomb done in time. Considering their situation (prisoners of war in the UK), I find that instinct patently absurd. Over half of the transcript is them
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by fefe23 8y ago
I clicked on that video and at the timestamp in the link the guy says they like FreeBSD because it's not GPL. Not that we have anything against GPL or the Free Software Foundation, but the BSD license is more collaborative. I'm pa
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by fefe23 8y ago
Please don't take this personally. We have a situation here that I have seen a few times and I need help understanding it. We have an article in the New York Times. Some dude on Twitter reacts to it. You link to the dude on Twitter ins
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by fefe23 8y ago
Speak for yourself, please. I do care about video playback battery performance. So much so, in fact, that I bought my current laptop specifically so it would last long when watching videos. Also note that tablets, smartphones, the Macbook A
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by fefe23 8y ago
The article is mostly about exceptions, which is fair I guess. However, by the time you write C code that handles _all_ errors (like exception handling would), you end up with code that does not look as nice as the examples given here. In p
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by fefe23 8y ago
I am aware of legal requirements for hotels. Here's my technical view: That does not mean you have to _have_ the data. Either forward the customer to a government system where they enter the data, then it's the government's f
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by fefe23 8y ago
This article proposes buzzword-level security theater. IDS! Rotate certificates and credentials! Have pentests!! What it fails to mention is: Do not collect data you do not need. You do not need my email. Forcing me to give it to you is bad
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by fefe23 8y ago
I see this pattern regularly and I always wonder: why would you deny yourself the opportunity to improve? If you have a patch, and others know how to make it better, why would you forgo that chance to learn something? What good can possibly
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by fefe23 8y ago
Brief question, only tangentially related: Is it me or is "opinionated" software popping up all over the place? It looks to me like the author considers it a selling point, too. Can someone explain to me why I would want an "
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by fefe23 8y ago
In the Illuminatus books there is a story that may help illuminate this. Some dude posts signs in a store that say "DO NOT SPIT ON THE FLOOR. --MGT". The staff assumes it's from management, so they leave the signs up. The cus
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by fefe23 8y ago
Is there any actual data on how "being an asshole" is bad for the product? Because, frankly, Linux is one of the most successful projects in history. I think if Linus telling repeat offenders to stuff it was bad for the project, w
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by fefe23 8y ago
You had me at "cloud providers". If you store the data on some cloud provider, then you are just as bad as what your prospective customers are doing. I don't want any of my sensitive data stored on "some cloud provider&q
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by fefe23 8y ago
I have two questions. First, if the product is unopened, how will Bethesda know the warranty does not apply? I have bought a number of products that came with a registration card that I was supposed to send in so I could get the warranty. I
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by fefe23 8y ago
I think we have a case of Stockholm Syndrome here. He claims on one hand that Javascript is great and then cites the awesome tooling like Typescript. Well, a great language would not need Typescript, now would it? I think the most obviously
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by fefe23 9y ago
You lost me at "you need to create an account". Creating an account is a big step for me, I don't open accounts on a whim. I need to be committed to something to be willing to open account with them. Your site wants me to ope
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by fefe23 9y ago
Why do the Mozilla people keep doing this sort of thing? Aren't they supposed to be making a good browser? I remember them telling me they are now going back to their core competences. I think it was after Firefox OS failed. Not trying
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by fefe23 9y ago
SIMD optimization is actually not as easy as it sounds. You can use SIMD to greatly speed up looking for ", for example, but with JSON that is not enough, because there could be an embedded " in the string, escaped as \" And
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by fefe23 9y ago
I really liked that read, good writing style and the author was coming from the same place that I'm usually coming from (can we redo this ourselves and shave off some bloat in the process). However, as it stands now, it looks more like
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by fefe23 9y ago
If you say "foo + 3", and foo is a uint8_t, then 3 is technically an int, so the addition will do an integer promotion. If you say "foo + bar" and both are uint8_t, then both will be promoted to integer. That's how
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by fefe23 9y ago
Why oh why do fans of agile programming and dynamic languages always hide behind snarky epiphets from other people? This imbalance is, in my mind, the greatest reason why people still prefer C and Java over Clojure and other hipster languag
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by fefe23 10y ago
I can't take AMP seriously as long as it forces web sites to include resources from Google. That basically turns all AMP web pages into something that Google can track. Google can track enough of the web already, thankyouverymuch. If y
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by fefe23 10y ago
Technically stat neither returns nor fills in the inode, because the actual structure of the inode can vary by filesystem, and the inode will contain more fields than struct stat. In a recruiting situation, if the recruiter is going all &qu
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by fefe23 10y ago
That's all well and good, but where can I get the code? Where can I play with this? How can Apple be shipping it (?) when LLVM is an open source project and it's not in the SVN head yet? Is there a special branch you need to use?
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by fefe23 10y ago
This is a good example of a completely useless web page. What is a DAO? Why should I care? Who is running this? Is this a for-profit enterprise? A non-profit? An NGO? A performance art collective? > The DAO’s Mission: To blaze a new path
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by fefe23 10y ago
The title is slightly misleading. Inline assembly code in asm statements has no effect on the stack. If you have your own .S files, and those do not contain the magic handshake, then the stack will stay executable, and this is indeed a prog
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by fefe23 11y ago
I applaud the effort but it does not address the elephant in the room: openssl engines are synchronous. If you use openssl in an event-loop style server (coincidentally, OP's own web server h2o appears to be event-loop based), this mea