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by gioele 15y ago
To me it seems quite an inaccurate description both of the theory and of the status quo. For example, the SOAP section should be "WS", web service: that is the class of protocols like SOAP. The high-level distinction should be WS vs. RPC vs
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by gioele 15y ago
All the most used Linux distros use a PGP-based check before installing packages. These distros are distributed with a keychain that contains keys for all the approved developers/uploaders. What you have to trust is the fact that the keycha
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by gioele 15y ago
You are missing the point: I know that you could add `<!DOCTYPE html>` to make that document valid and you know as well. But whoever writes the second snippet does not know because we are not there to point it out. And if you point
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by gioele 15y ago
> HTML5 defines pretty strict conformance requirements for authors. What you are referring to wrong as in is _non valid_, what I was referring to was _non working_. Invalid HTML 5 _works_, so does invalid HTML. At no point your browser
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by gioele 15y ago
> An average Joe is supposed to feel great about writing something that renders Indeed HTML is great for that, but the problem is that you never "level up". Once your content renders, you are done. A lot of Joes may be interested in how
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by gioele 15y ago
> So a lot of the parser code is fixing the HTML author mistakes. This is probably my biggest problem with most of the ideology behind HTML 5. You learn from past mistakes and HTML has no way to teach you anything because there is no er
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by gioele 15y ago
Maybe it is me misunderstanding things, but Wayland and X11 are not technologies in contrast with each other. Wayland is a glorified and up-to-date framebuffer and input system, X11 is a library that draws shapes and is responsible for deli
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by gioele 15y ago
> Or think how ridiculous it sounds to think of a "standard" definition of Python or Ruby. There are ongoing efforts to standardize a quite sizable subset of Ruby in Japan for later ratifications in ISO. Ruby is also de facto standardiz
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by gioele 15y ago
> Get rid of the W3C and let Mozilla and the Webkit project define the web moving forward; they've done a great job so far. The standardization of required codecs for the `<video>` element is indeed a wonderful accomplishment by
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Life without a CA(blog.torproject.org)
2 points by gioele 15y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 15y ago
The difference here is that the "disregard and deletion process" is an ad-hoc mechanism put in place by an ordinary act that can be later repelled. In many legislation such a favor rei mechanism is a funding principle and a tenet of law.
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by gioele 15y ago
It is interesting to note how the main point behind the resolution not to pardon Turing is exactly the same point that, in other legislations, is used to pardon people sentenced under no-longer-actual laws. Italian case (also present in
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by gioele 15y ago
This looks a lot as a JSON version of what AtomPub (RFC 5023) does for XML. Collections, resource manipulation... Maybe with a bit of coordination it would be possible to extract the common elements and have them a separate RFC. Link to the
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by gioele 15y ago
> Linus Torvalds is the man who made everything possible. Not to detract from the men, but he used the GNU C Compiler to compile its kernel, as well as the GNU bash shell, the GNU linker and so on... Since its inception, the free softwa
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Major unsolved problems in theoretical computer science(cstheory.stackexchange.com)
7 points by gioele 15y ago|1 comments
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by gioele 15y ago
> This is a poor article since few readers will have any idea what point he is making. The author explicitly states that the text should be taken as an aseptic catalogue of facts: > Below I present an incomplete list of PC games whe
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by gioele 15y ago
I have rarely seen such a well written and well researched report. As readable as a tabloid article and as well researched and solidly referenced as a good academic paper. This is how all articles that deal with facts should be written. (Th
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by gioele 15y ago
Complete series: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/02/get-your-database-u... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3544372 ).
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Versioning databases: the baseline (part 2 of 5 on db versioning)(odetocode.com)
1 points by gioele 15y ago|1 comments
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Get Your Database Under Version Control(codinghorror.com)
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Evolution vs planned design in Linux ext4 filesystem(article.gmane.org)
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by gioele 15y ago
> > there is no rack space to compete for (there is competition for attention, that that is the same for every sellable thing). > So, how much is the front page of Amazon worth or the featured section of the iBooks store, since
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by gioele 15y ago
Plan 9 was and is too good to be ignored. Indeed many of its features are now a must in Linux systems (for example good support for private namespaces) and the p9fs, designed to be virtualizable and distributed, is getting serious traction
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by gioele 15y ago
It is interesting to note how many of the variables in these equations are no longer relevant when you deal with electronic books. * «We have 100 widgets in inventory», you have one file copy, * «a publisher prints 60,000 copies (instead of
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by gioele 15y ago
Isn't is sad that the lingua franca of client side development is a language that constantly surprises you in a bad way instead of one that adheres to the principle of least surprise ? Yes, there are always good reasons for why a piece of
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by gioele 15y ago
The markup is defined in RFC 2629. Actually I think that the CSS is what is appealing, not the source marked up file. If you want, you can convert Markdown into RFC 2629 documents with < https://github.com/cabo/kramdown-rfc2629> .
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by gioele 15y ago
Legal, not ethical question: in US, is it a copyright infringement to hot-link an image that resides on another server and belongs to another site? Let me explain better: the file at ` http://example.com/background.jpeg` is a wonderful ima
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by gioele 15y ago
> I'm not sure I can think of a good reason not to make the switch. IDLE? Tagged, out-of-order replies? You can probably make a SPDY-based protocol that does 99% of IMAP, but HTTP is too limited for current IMAP possibilities.
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Origin of the term “driver” in computer science(english.stackexchange.com)
45 points by gioele 15y ago|6 comments
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by gioele 15y ago
Is there an article that describes the algorithm in more abstract terms? The C++ code is quite readable but I'd say that it contains too many magic numbers. Code is no substitute for a clear description given by the authors of the algorithm

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