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by hosay123 14y ago
None of those are binding credit agreements, which was OP's complaint
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by hosay123 14y ago
"Because Nigerian princes A through X are irresponsible with your cash, budding lottery winners should regard that as acceptable and give Nigerian prince Y a free pass to do the same?" Of course not, and this drives to the very core of risk
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by hosay123 14y ago
Sigh, really? Ok, you typed your credit card number into a web browser at some point. If your sole reason for doing so was "I absolutely trust the people on the other end of this socket not to do what 99% of all people handling credit card
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by hosay123 14y ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I know exactly which binding credit agreements I'm in and how they're paid, and definitely none of them get paid using another binding credit agreement. :)
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by hosay123 14y ago
So you're unfortunate enough to be a customer who had their CC leaked. So you spend 5 minutes changing your password (you use unique, non-formulaic passwords, right?) and 15 minutes on the phone to CC company to ask for a new card. Then you
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by hosay123 14y ago
I used to believe that spam detection was the critical component that would be difficult to replace, but going back about a year now I don't believe that's true any more. I've even seen Gmail mark its own address confirmation mails as spa
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by hosay123 14y ago
There is at least one web service that produces an average over some period. As to how you pick a good weighting, it probably depends a lot on how fast you intend to flip outgoing goods/incoming currency, or where you store value. Try terms
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by hosay123 14y ago
Please quit with the superficial throwaway comments, that's two content-free crowd-pleasers in under 15 minutes. In answer to your question, pricing goods in a fluctuating currency is a well understood problem, and even with a single Google
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Google Does the Right Thing Opening Several Closed Generic TLD Applications(circleid.com)
4 points by hosay123 14y ago|0 comments
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by hosay123 14y ago
I use it in a private project. For comparison, here's the difference between touch-all-bytes and touch-no-bytes using the Python binding: random lookup 1000000 buffers in 1.82sec (550928/sec) random lookup+hash 1000000 buffers in
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by hosay123 14y ago
I believe the test runs with 100 byte values, and the key is stored on the same page as the value. Therefore in order to perform a lookup the entire page must still be faulted in, and the key must still be compared, so the benchmark is not
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by hosay123 14y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to call this benchmark unfair.. LMDB enables use cases that simply aren't possible with non-zero-copy technologies. For example imagine a database full of large objects, and an HTTP/1.0 server that supports an API ret
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by hosay123 14y ago
Unfortunately you can't back up billable hours, and carrying an entirely separate laptop or disk on the expectation that your main one will fail seems a bit too weird, especially when robust alternatives exist
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by hosay123 14y ago
Right. So I could drop $2-3k on gaining experience from a meaningful sample size, all the while risking more lost business days, or I could just believe all those anecdotes it took me close to half a decade to convince myself to ignore. I'v
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by hosay123 14y ago
My first, only, and last-until-hell-freezes-over SSD went crazy last week, after a series of bizarre kernel panics that now appear to relate entirely to the SSD (machine is fine after a reinstall). Following a final reboot the Macbook's fir
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by hosay123 14y ago
As others have mentioned a debootstrapped install can be much thinner, but even debootstrap will pull in some needless stuff. For example /usr/share/doc, or support for every internationalization even though your server app always runs (or
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by hosay123 14y ago
The core team are already planning how to interact with the eventual community maintained fork. It's not a question of if but when. The only concrete attraction of 3 for me is the Unicode improvement, and even that isn't exactly compelling.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Did you even read my other comment? Enhancing the (10 year old plus) buffer interface with functionality it has never supported does not constitute a bug fix
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by hosay123 14y ago
You should check the changelog, they're still adding functionality by stretching the definition of 'bug fix'.. 2.x development is unlikely to freeze any time soon. I certainly have no intention of moving to 3.x, it would be the most pointle
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by hosay123 14y ago
After years, better integration between the old and new buffer interfaces was finally sneaked in as a bug fix. You can now call `memoryview(some_buffer)` and it'll DTRT. The whole buffers situation is a depressing mess.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Show me a counterexample, that's all I ask. I'd give all the rhetoric in the world for a single damned counterexample of a program format that's lasted since the 80s. That's what's at stake. Instead we have a company that throws specs over
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by hosay123 14y ago
In the context of manipulating symbols on an infinitely long piece of tape, sure, but in the context of the web we don't "have" NaCl and there's sufficiently plausible technical and political resistance that we're probably never going to. A
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by hosay123 14y ago
He makes a solid point regarding polyfills for asm.js: if the specification is so rigorously defined, then the only fallback a current-generation browser has on offer when encountering a "v2 asm.js" is to treat it like regular Javascript. T
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The ARPANET Interface Message Processor (1980) [pdf](warthman.com)
1 points by hosay123 14y ago|0 comments
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by hosay123 14y ago
By your own words Native Client is technically flawed: it's specific to x86 and ARM (and whatever other vaporware platforms they promise "next week" – PNaCl has been due for years already), and removing the VM, it's also insecure. So basica
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by hosay123 14y ago
>> You're so myopically focused on the ideology of tomorrow over providing a great user experience today. > Through ActiveX Technologies, today's static Web pages come alive with a new generation of active content, including ani
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by hosay123 14y ago
Right, so by 2040 we can't distribute an application without rebuilding it for 5 or 6 different architectures, one of which is a bitcode format that doesn't even run at native speeds, despite the name. I really love where this is going. [Ed
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by hosay123 14y ago
We've already moved past ARM and x86: there's a bunch of MIPS Android tablets and phones on the market (just not in the West), and MIPS is extremely popular in home appliances (e.g. most LCD TVs). But this is besides the point. The real que
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by hosay123 14y ago
You show up on every NaCl-related thread claiming it is awesome and asm.js is crap, but that's as far as it goes - you never explain why . You're basically wasting time because what you say is never actionable. Please defend your opinions
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by hosay123 14y ago
It seems all required is publishing a `/.well-known` URL that delegates to another provider, although it's not obvious if such a provider exists yet. Pretty cool it's this straightforward, though.

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