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by hosay123 14y ago
Thanks, pretty sure the remainder of the version numbers are messed up too.. pulled out of my old and foggy memory. :)
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by hosay123 14y ago
Android's performance problems are more to do with architecture than anything else: - Prior to 4.x the "highly optimized JVM" was "highly interpreted". - Access to the display is gated via userspace (SurfaceFlinger) which must be invoked to
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by hosay123 14y ago
Damnit Mozilla, I want a web based mobile platform to succeed so badly and you're the company for it, but you keep killing your own fire with these repeated false starts. A 600 word blog post to announce the availability of a holding page
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by hosay123 14y ago
There is also a maximum of one officially supported fork per file (i.e. in a single format), and even a single stored byte will occupy a full block. On HFS+ attributes are written as individual records directly to a per-filesystem b-tree, s
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by hosay123 14y ago
While a fan of your original comment, I think the logic got a little flaky here. Claiming any language is 'close to the metal' is to make implicit reference to particular implementations of said language. In recent years there has been an e
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by hosay123 14y ago
Good point, although it's still within the remit of a cheap SSD, e.g. the Crucial M4 can push 40k+ IOPs. My remark was more geared towards silly but awesome sounding statistics than anything else, it really undermines otherwise decent conte
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by hosay123 14y ago
> we’re now pushing over 10,000 likes per second at peak These kinds of stats always sound so impressive, but let's imagine: - 8 byte timestamp - 8 byte user ID - 8 byte post ID - 128 bytes DBMS overhead - 128 byte
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by hosay123 14y ago
In my experience there's only 3 major C++ styles: BusinessObjects *(Java-ish Qt), std::cavedwelling<stl_guru, guru_cavedwelling_tag<const _Type<T &> >::const_value_type, and void _rather_be_writing_c(); Often code yo
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by hosay123 14y ago
It is unfair to label this poor quality, the author clearly describes a problem with moving a security tool like SSH into the browser. Despite Chrome being speedily updated when known security problems are discovered, the attack surface c
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by hosay123 14y ago
On a contract in 2011 while expressing frustration at a p.o.s. assignment I told the requesting manager "this stuff is such bullshit I've even considered outsourcing it". His response was one of praise, and suggesting that if I'd done so he
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by hosay123 14y ago
There was quite a lot of dissent about 29c3 primarily because it moved. I think that is also the reason the schedule suffered, so hopefully it's just temporary. Here's Harald Welte discussing why he didn't participate this year: http://laf
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by hosay123 14y ago
aka the previous stable version. 2.7 and 2.9 are dev branches, as will 2.11 be. 2.8 was only released in May last year, which is a little over halfway through the Ubuntu release cycle. It's probably safe to expect it in April's release.
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by hosay123 14y ago
How is this any more insidious than already trusting the company to remotely update code on the device? Or (in the case of Google) on your desktop. As for the marginal gains you get from a direct SSL connection, at this stage it's been long
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by hosay123 14y ago
A Linux box and an IPv6 tunnel provider that allows BGP peering. There's a tonne of software implementations (e.g. Zebra)
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The routing security battles intensify(internetgovernance.org)
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by hosay123 14y ago
If all you want is USB, there are (seemingly hundreds of) Allwinner sticks available via Aliexpress, e.g. http://goo.gl/th1bO as low as $34, which is supported via the linux-sunxi port. Boards generally cost more, I've less information on
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by hosay123 14y ago
Pricing for similar hardware has literally crashed in the time it's taken Pi production levels to ramp up. There are now multiple ARM vendors with open source BSPs supporting hardware that's much more powerful and with comparable pricing.
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by hosay123 14y ago
For sharpening your axe ##C is amazing, but beginners are regularly mocked and burned at the stake there. > "How do I allocate a string?" > "But what is a string?" > "You know that thing with letters in it. Seriously how do I al
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by hosay123 14y ago
Just to contrast this a little, what you paint here is a panacea, while the reality is that even just this year 10 million accounts in the UK were out of order for a period of months due to a reliability problem: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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by hosay123 14y ago
In the context of Wikileaks, Visa and Amazon were explicitly middlemen. As long as Visa and Amazon were paid, it was in their best interest <snip> No doubt you already see where I'm going with this.
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by hosay123 14y ago
The inverse of this is exactly why I'd cut them slack: there's no way for them to do business without partnering with the competition, in this case being solely dependent on them. Edit: it's exactly like trying to reinvent Twitter by consum
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by hosay123 14y ago
Ordinarily I might consider this worth a loss in reputation, but given the uniquely one-sided battle that is trying to cause any disruption in the banking industry, I'd be willing to cut these guys some slack. In this area the enemy has big
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by hosay123 14y ago
Localizing packet processing significantly improves cache performance, in addition to avoiding copies and context switches. Receiving data from a socket almost always necessitates it being copied from a SKB to userspace memory, and prior to
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by hosay123 14y ago
For anyone interested in high throughput/low latency networking, netmap ( http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ ) looks really exciting in combination with a userspace TCP stack (e.g. unetstack). Pity I have no applications that could u
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by hosay123 14y ago
> something must be broken if the customer is getting billed due to the environment beyond their control. This is what happens when you debate random tangential topics online while hung over.. so basically I had no point to make, and yo
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by hosay123 14y ago
In Saunalahti's case they differentiate by offering different connection speeds, all at flat rate. I'm not really sure if what I suggested is implemented anywhere, just playing devil's advocate. :) One possible solution might be to combine
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by hosay123 14y ago
Not sure how you arrived at flat rate being the only alternative. It's almost trivial to count ingress only for host flows to which the customer's device responds positively (say, by replying using anything except ICMP or a TCP error)
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by hosay123 14y ago
It's an incredibly effective antispam technique. Metafilter does something similar, charging a $5 lifetime fee at signup. Existing accounts were not charged when it was introduced.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Arguing for NAT in order to compensate for a broken billing model is a terrible idea. :) Saunalahti in Finland also have publicly routed 3G. I wish this were far more common, it feels very 22nd century to effortlessly ssh to the phone in
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Srinivasa Ramanujan(en.wikipedia.org)
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