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by gwu78 13y ago
But at what stage do you adopt this focus? From Day 1? The point of the anecdote about Apple is that they began their startup by doing something unscalable. Not only was building computers by hand unscalable, but the financial risk they
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by gwu78 13y ago
Yes, really. Nothing I know of beats the speed of k for this column-oriented type of task. Kernighan himself tested it against awk many years ago and if I recall it was generally faster even in that set of tests. Where can I see your expe
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by gwu78 13y ago
"Imagine you have a 4.2GB CSV file." " All you need... is the sum of all values in one particular column." In that case, if speed was paramount, I'd use Kona or kdb. Unquestionably, k is the best tool for that par
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by gwu78 13y ago
Thanks. So what does it mean if you are "hellbanned" but the comments are neither offensive nor inappropriate? Is hellbanning automated, or is it the work of human judgment? Perhaps it is a technical issue that results in [dead]
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by gwu78 13y ago
It's actually in FreeBSD's base, but it's part of the ftp(1) program. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/tnftp/dist/src/progressbar.c http://ftp.netbsd.org/pu
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by gwu78 13y ago
JavaScript assumes a "web browser". What happens when we're not using a "web browser"? A few days ago, I was actually downvoted for even suggesting that a user could disable JavaScript and that this might reduce he
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by gwu78 13y ago
BSD has a progress meter utility. It's called progress(1). progress -zf /data/*.log.gz grep -c 'hello world' progress -f /data/*.log.gz zgrep -c 'hello world' The second form will sh
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by gwu78 13y ago
Is OpenVPN, both the clients and the server, fully open source? Can we look at each and every line of code?
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by gwu78 13y ago
Years ago, I once tried to rescue a disk with this and the CD would not boot the computer... apparently because it needed to access a hard disk to boot. Perhaps I am not well schooled in the arts of systemrescuecd, but that just made me la
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by gwu78 13y ago
I wouldn't. Maybe they offered him a better deal. I'd be surprised if he evaluated the job opportunity by reviewing the Python script they used to launch the service.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Who defines the "problem space"? Dropbox, or computer users? I would never claim to have 100% confidence in my ability to speak for users, but I think you underestimate the readiness users might have for other solutions to online
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by gwu78 13y ago
I like this essay a lot. In the early days of Apple, the founders placed minimum orders for parts on 30-day credit, then built the computers in 10 days and sold them before the payment for the parts came due. There wasn't any sexy sof
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by gwu78 13y ago
mtorromeo's analogy is flawed. With sshd, the user has to enable it (change startup settings or launch it manually) to become "less secure". By contrast, with rng-tools, she must change settings to become _more secure_. Ever
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by gwu78 13y ago
Kudos to the author for pointing out that the SSL PKI infrastructure is a terrible model in _practice_. In _theory_, it may be otherwise, but that does nothing for the user. Usage of the internet will always require trust. But the idea of
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by gwu78 13y ago
Time to lift the veil on Dropbox. Maybe it's just librsync, Amazon S3 commands, and some Python duct tape. Built from open source? Maybe the biggest coding challenge for the founder was getting their icon to display well on Apple OS
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by gwu78 13y ago
Why not use a system of (unified) comments interspersed in the code to demarcate various elements? A sort of index. The idea is that programming languages allow too much flexibility in form and syntax for any indexing system to accomodate
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by gwu78 13y ago
So if the user has Javascript disabled, what happens then? It seems so many exploits rely on Javascript. Would a user ever be willing to sacrafice a little "user experience" (accomplished with Javascript) for protection against ea
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by gwu78 13y ago
Given how contentious the environment surrounding audio codecs have been over the years, Opus (and Silk, too) just seems too good to be true. Am I missing a devil in the details? Otherwise, I'm excited at the possibilities this provid
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by gwu78 13y ago
"It is small enough to succeed on embedded systems and Androids.' Right. (In fact, it can succeed anywhere. And it does.) But my point is that it's not _presented to the user_ in a form that makes reducing it to embeddable
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by gwu78 13y ago
"become a better fit" How? Why? I might better understand your perspective if you could elaborate on the details. Why do we have to write resource hogging software _now_ for mobile if the devices are not yet ready to "brute
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by gwu78 13y ago
I like that old adage. I actually had never heard it. I think BSD's success with i386 has brought the stark pragmatism of the "server" to the PC. The dream of BSDI. The reliability, robustness and the uniformity. Maybe BS
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by gwu78 13y ago
Thanks for this. I'm relieved to know I'm not thinking the "wrong" way. :) But, honestly, I could not articulate the problem as you have. I wish I had your knowledge. The idea of a "jump" really captures it
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by gwu78 13y ago
Just my humble opinion but for loops seem unnecessary in high level languages (the kind with GC). Vectors make more sense to me on this level (APL, J, etc.). I consider for loops as better fit for low level languages that don't autom
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by gwu78 13y ago
This is also called an "infinite loop"? djb uses this a lot.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Agreed. But we should be careful to distinguish technologies aimed at home users versus those aimed at the enterprise. Unlike the consumers they serve, US corporations are allowed and encouraged to secure their communications and the stor
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by gwu78 13y ago
Any pointers to read more about this? FWIW, I'm familiar with BSD bootloaders. I can follow the Linux boot process, but haven't invested much time in mastering it.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Let's say the user just wants the hardware and form factor. Can the user dd over ChromeOS and use their own bootloader and open source OS? Are these netbooks "remote controlled" by Google at such a low level that the user c
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by gwu78 13y ago
Reading this, from a purely common sense viewpoint, Facebook sounds like an extremely vulnerable and potentially insecure platform. This "throw caution to the wind" philosophy is interesting considering the information Facebook i
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by gwu78 13y ago
This is only my opinion but... If you are a moderately advanced user, then you can start using such methods right now. While no method is "perfect", they do exist. Because you're advanced, you do not need to wait for Apple,
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by gwu78 13y ago
Has anyone in mobile OS and mobile apps ever questioned the assumptions that Java must be used and/or a scripting language must be used, e.g., Javascript? What if we had a mobile OS and a mobile app that was 100% Java free and only ran

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