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721.
by gioele 15y ago
> The example of "mental model of assignment" is ridiculous. a=b can mean whatever. It means something totally different to a mathematician than a programmer. > "The piece of paper on the left says dog and the piece of paper on the
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by gioele 15y ago
> primary math education (i.e. young children) isn't personalized very much. This is demonstrably true, at least in the U.S. I would say that it is demonstrably not true in many EU countries. Maybe "non personalisation" is the tendency
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by gioele 15y ago
How will you feel when your competitor will be one of the freely accessible sites while your site is one of those for which your customers will have to pay data access?
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Ask HN: examples of good library documentation? (or bad...)
1 points by gioele 15y ago|1 comments
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Free Wikipedia in Africa and Middle East (first step against net neutrality?)(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by gioele 15y ago|2 comments
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by gioele 15y ago
Two nitpicks: 1. `/robots.txt` is here to stay, but everything else should use the `/.well-known/` prefix so that they do not squat the root URI: < http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785> . From the RFC: > To address this, this mem
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The Moore's Law free lunch is over. Now welcome to the hardware jungle.(herbsutter.com)
142 points by gioele 15y ago|75 comments
728.
by gioele 15y ago
From the article: > It turns out that su on the vast majority of distros is not compiled with PIE, disabling ASLR for the .text section of the binary! I tested on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, likely to be installed on many servers, and 11.04. On t
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by gioele 15y ago
The presented vulnerabilities is so easy to exploit mostly because distros do not compile `su` with PIE and lose the ability to hide memory addresses with ASLR. Just few days ago there has been a discussion about how PIC/PIE is only a perfo
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by gioele 15y ago
The US law, especially all the parts that deal with foreign countries and citizens, are commonly discussed around hacker circles everywhere in the world. It is not uncommon at all for hackers to travel to US, ship goods to US or provide ser
731.
by gioele 15y ago
Text of the post, for those who do not want to access facebook.com. «Group participation: what's wrong with this picture? I ordered some video-editing software from Hitfilm in the UK which also comes with some instructional videos. So a few
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US customs blocking DVDs that depict "insurrection against the US"(facebook.com)
246 points by gioele 15y ago|39 comments
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How to clean your datacenter(processor.com)
1 points by gioele 15y ago|0 comments
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IPv6 proposal: allocate country-wide address blocks (easy censorship)(apnic.net)
2 points by gioele 15y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 15y ago
> the "harmonization" is always done by increasing the copyright restrictions of the freer country In addition, the freer country harmonise increasing its protection to the less free countries' protection + some additional protection,
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by gioele 15y ago
When will we finally get rid of the numerical pad? The now discontinued HP mini keyboard [1] was exactly as I thought all the keyboards would had been past 2005. Exactly the full size layout, just without the unnecessary numerical pad whose
737.
by gioele 15y ago
Doesn't this tell a lot about how much (unit) testing is undergoing in Java-land? If a Ruby VM were to change its behaviour so to cause crashes, dozens of project will start to see red in one or two test cases. From that, it is easy to pin
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by gioele 15y ago
Trite sentences actually devalue what the speaker is saying. How many times have we heard that sentence and thought that the speaker was not sincere at all? Now, when a somebody uses it, all those insincere utterances will come to your mind
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by gioele 15y ago
> All this for the possibility of interposition? Yes, it seems so. The impact is there for this little-known and little-used feature. Instead of optimising for the common-case scenario where the symbols are not overridden, the ABI optim
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The "Accountable Politician App": paying for democracy(plus.google.com)
2 points by gioele 15y ago|0 comments
741.
by gioele 15y ago
The guidelines state that "HN is becoming reddit" is a subject that should be avoided unless you have something really interesting to say. This article has something interesting to say and, I suppose, there has been other similar interestin
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by gioele 15y ago
In your case, to comply with the GPL you must give the sources to those who paid you for your theme. You also cannot stop your costumers from giving those sources away for free if they want. You are not forced to spread the sources around
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by gioele 15y ago
The site shows only this message: «We are so sorry – we are currently not accepting international traffic». I suppose international means outside US.
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Post-scarcity: How much should an ebook cost?(thedominoproject.com)
2 points by gioele 15y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 15y ago
The user-space library alsa-lib contains a quite complete lisp interpreter, not the kernel module.
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A Lua interpreter in the NetBSD kernel(netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net)
93 points by gioele 15y ago|22 comments
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Linux Weekly News is hiring another full-time editor(lwn.net)
1 points by gioele 15y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 15y ago
That text is, sadly, no longer relevant or up to date: so many things have changed in the last two years wrt the text rendering and the font engines.
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Finding the speed of light with marshmallows(physics.umd.edu)
1 points by gioele 15y ago|0 comments
750.
by gioele 15y ago
> Isn't their "higher efficiency" of waste disposal due to the fact they just dump it into the ocean rather than doing it properly? That is the "lower prices" part. The higher efficiency is due to the fact that the other legally-run com

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