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by gioele 12y ago
> what's the last protocol that's gained mass developer/user usage? XMPP and SIP. And BTW, Whatsapp is non-federated XMPP. The Twitter protocol is HTTP, its API is documented and clones exist; like Whatsapp it is non-feder
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by gioele 12y ago
The telephone system is based on protocols, not "apps". Where is the protocol description of Talko?
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by gioele 12y ago
cat /var/log/syslog | grep -i 'problem' is also a query on the `/var/log/syslog` "database". What would be really cool is a RDBMS where the single pieces of data in the cells are r
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by gioele 12y ago
How big are the developer tools compared to the rest of Firefox? 5% of the total size? 10%? Can't the more sophisticated tools be split into a separate extension, leaving only some basic things in the distributed package?
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by gioele 12y ago
Indeed the (new) correct term would be "TUI": Text-based user interface: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface .
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by gioele 12y ago
Slightly offtopic: are there PCB design tools that are _text_ based? I would prefer to _program_ a design, rather than _drawing_ it.
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by gioele 12y ago
My suggestion is to make picnic work with `label` elements that are outside the `input` they related to. In other words, the CSS should work for this HTML <input type="checkbox" id="checkable" /> &lt
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by gioele 12y ago
> See also pathogen Indeed, vim-plug seems a very nice plugin manager, but it is in no way "more minimalist" than pathogen. How could one be?
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by gioele 12y ago
The page also shows that sometimes what you think is hard is easy and what you overlook is the really difficult bit: > The problem with SPH in realtime is it’s really really hard. The simple explanation of the algorithm is: “take all the
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by gioele 12y ago
> no polygon can encompass all colors. But I suppose that a polygon could encompass all colors if it was big enough to include also wavelengths of non-visible colors.
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by gioele 12y ago
> I don't think U2 gives an awful lot about music charts (any more). Well, in 2009 U2 complained a lot about the disappointing placement of "No Line On the Horizon" in the selling charts. > "[We didn't] pull o
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by gioele 12y ago
Did anybody reverse engineer the Berg/Little printer protocols? OK, I have found this from 2013, not very detailed though: https://github.com/pipt/little-printer-payload-inspector It think the printer's form
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by gioele 12y ago
This is possible, but rare. If your GPS navigator requires "cloud maps", it will be useless the moment its provider goes out of business or turns off the v1 servers in favour of v2 servers. This as already been discussed in the Ar
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by gioele 12y ago
And it looks like that in the future we will have something like JVM and its classloaders. Just with different names (LLVM? v8? RequireJS? JS AMD?) and a lot more kludges. And without Gosling, Joy and Steele.
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by gioele 12y ago
> > Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed. > And there was much rejoicing. Could you explain why?
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by gioele 12y ago
> GitHub ran into the same problem when they started supporting GitHub pages. I think this passage is the main reason for the GitHub switch: «Because Pages sites may include custom JavaScript and were hosted on github.com subdomains, it
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by gioele 12y ago
> Bluetooth is very finicky. Is there any hope that these new wearable computers will lead to the adoption of something better than Bluetooth? Something based on IEEE 802.15.4, maybe?
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by gioele 12y ago
> No way it would be an investment that would give investors a 10x return. I think this kind of expectations ruin good business ideas. A thing like Dinnr may have worked well if run for years, not just tested out for 18 months. It may ha
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by gioele 12y ago
WRT the AESNI leaking information in the XMM registers, wouldn't starting a fake AES decryption solve the problem? Also, wouldn't a wrapper function that performs the AES decryption and then manually zeroes the registers be a good
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by gioele 12y ago
What you call "Sender Stores" is at the basis of djb's IM2000 that is supposed to replace SMTP and email delivery in general. See http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by gioele 12y ago
Why should "rounded" and "large" be classes? Isn't <div class="button buy">...</div> plus a bit of SASS .buy { @include big; @include rounded; } enoug
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by gioele 12y ago
All I need from Ruby is an extension that allows sections of programs to be completely static typed thanks to explicit type hints. Not for the speed, just for the ability to catch errors at compile time.
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by gioele 12y ago
Reclam Verlag may be the best example of beauty coming out of minimalistic, well designed book covers: http://sprachkreis-deutsch.ch/2013/06/30/reclam-verlag-folgt... http://www.phantasienreisen.de
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by gioele 12y ago
Joey Hess (of git-annex fame, and HN user) lives in quite similar setting. To have an idea of this home habits, have a look at the notes written for caretakers of his home while he is away: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry
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by gioele 12y ago
> If Uber is allowed to work at lower limitations than the Taxi businesses, it will be a distortion of competition. Let's stop talking about "competition". The issue here is "the regulations". Are they too broad?
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by gioele 12y ago
For those interested in the same feature in plain old C, have a look at the DSO Howto, section 2.4.2 "Forever const" and the LD flags SHF_MERGE and SHF_STRING. With a little bit of magic, C compilers and linkers are even allowed t
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by gioele 12y ago
Going from LRU to 2Q looks like going from Mark and sweep garbage collection to the JVM's eden, survivor, tenured, permanent spaces.
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by gioele 12y ago
> On the other hand, I'm scared that respectable projects like Qt (~6M lines of C++, man-millenia of work!) will be considered "obsolete" by the coming generation and another cyle of wheel reinvention will begin, tossing a
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by gioele 12y ago
I hoped the article had a look at which parts of those ISAs were reversible, and thus did not dissipate energy. For those interested, there is a master thesis from the '90 that discussed a prototype reversible ISA + RTL that wasted (in
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by gioele 12y ago
> This particular formulation allows structures to be changed while they are being constructed, but makes them immutable once construction is complete. Equivalent to the following Ruby? a = "abc" a.upcase! a.freez

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