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by gioele 13y ago
Ah, the irony: 1984 was the first book to be removed from Kindles using the remote Amazon kill switch [1], another plain violation of many basic human rights (first of all, the "right to read" [2]). [1] http://www.techd
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by gioele 13y ago
What saddens me is that this kind of censorship (blocking news sites, making them adhere to older stricter regulations for paper news, making site owners responsible for comments, etc) is widespread in Europe as well and people think this i
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by gioele 13y ago
Copyright is still widely misunderstood: > - Not! For commercial use! > - No reselling or any other way of making money with my work > - Don't include these illustrations in final products. It's meant for sketches, storyboards a
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by gioele 13y ago
> * no tabs expanded to spaces. Oh, finally. Tabs for indentation levels, spaces for alignment. How hard can it be?
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by gioele 13y ago
So refuse to have proper user account, make user accounts simple links to OpenID records and have the OpenID provider secure the personal data. The real question is "why websites (businesses) want user accounts and their personal data?". Th
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by gioele 13y ago
Mine was a compliment, not only an analogy. The tech field needs people that are both confident with words, fun and have a deep understanding of the inner details of things. _why was such a writer, let's hope Adit (correct?) is another. Reg
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by gioele 13y ago
Have we got a new _why?
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by gioele 13y ago
> If you have one specialized need (i.e. one specific path for packets to travel), then it is just as valid an approach to trash every other path. You only have one specialized need at the very beginning. Then you start seeing the need
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by gioele 13y ago
> The problem with packets is they go through the Unix kernel. The network stack is complicated and slow. The path of packets to your application needs to be more direct. Don’t let the OS handle the packets. Why don't you focus on simpl
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by gioele 13y ago
> but the performance is always behind a native application But the performance will always behind a native application.
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by gioele 13y ago
There are plenty of "stolen" inventions, you can start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions Talking about and "government supported IP theft", the "They" in "They took the crops and silk production infrastructure, and d
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by gioele 13y ago
> China as a whole is a massive IP stealing machine, and their work is nearly done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_silk «Although silk was well known in Europe and most of Asia, China was able to keep a near monopoly on silk
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by gioele 13y ago
Original quote from the author: «batch your locks. Don’t make critical sections too small. Having the smallest locks is not cool anymore.» http://halobates.de/blog/p/231 In the whitepaper: «The longer lock region has potentially longer bl
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Concurrency: "having the smallest locks is not cool anymore"(intel.com)
1 points by gioele 13y ago|1 comments
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by gioele 13y ago
But you will need a bot to populate and update the WikiData source. :)
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How was TeX output visualised on screen, back in the day?(tex.stackexchange.com)
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by gioele 13y ago
What about this other LWN article "A new approach to user namespaces": https://lwn.net/Articles/491310/ ? > It allows for applications with no capabilities to use multiple uids and to implement privilege separation. I certainly see us
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by gioele 13y ago
(Repost of part of my previous comment, still valid, I think) Wikidata, just like Freebase, is trying to collect structured or semi-structured data instead of unstructured data such as that present in Wikipedia. I am happy about the aim (co
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by gioele 13y ago
Previous HN discussion (50 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775212 Commentary by The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-pr...
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Rephrase: a specialized passphrase recovery tool for GnuPG(roguedaemon.net)
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by gioele 13y ago
FTP is broken. Practically speaking, its use of two ports often causes problems with residential ADSL that are often doubled-NATed (1st NAT at home router, 2nd NAT at the local gateway). FTP is not secure. FTPS is but I haven't seen it used
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by gioele 13y ago
Isn't anybody shocked by the fact that the main release site is an FTP server? > Release 7.6 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous FTP. > ... > You can download GDB from the GNU FTP server in the directory:
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by gioele 14y ago
Lawyer perspective on non-licensing (it' dangerous): http://tieguy.org/blog/2013/01/27/taking-post-open-source-se... Non-lawyer perspective: http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
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by gioele 14y ago
Doesn't this break the XHTML serialization? IIRC, the HTML 5 `<elem attr>foo</elem>` is equivalent to its XHTML representation `<elem attr="attr">foo</elem>`. The implicit value of the attribute is duplicated
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by gioele 14y ago
The poor server already had load issues. The HN crowd has made it almost inaccessible. Maybe somebody experienced in configuring MediaWiki could help them with some performance and scalability tips. Also, somebody could help with making the
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by gioele 14y ago
How about a Samsung series 9? Has anybody on HN tested one of those? Searching around the net shows that there were small hw issues but they have been fixed in latest kernels.
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by gioele 14y ago
HN discussion on cgdb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492376
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by gioele 14y ago
And today I learned about the existence of cGDB (a curses frontend for GDB, http://cgdb.github.com/ ). It seems very nice and I agree with what is said in one slide of the Valve talk: «* gdb: debugging from 1970 * cgdb: debugging from 200
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Cgdb: a lightweight curses (terminal-based) interface to GDB(cgdb.github.com)
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by gioele 14y ago
Can someone explain this benefit: > Establish a simpler, stricter tree-gardening system that does not require 2 full time engineers per day "tree-gardening"?

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