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by hrjet 13y ago
ionice[1] is even better for this use-case. [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/ionice.1.html
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by hrjet 13y ago
It wouldn't be a good way to obfuscate at all! The step before the eval would be completely decipherable. Also, not cheap!
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by hrjet 13y ago
Regardless of how the author has presented his arguments, why don't _we_ focus on the actual arguments? This is getting rather too meta. Also, what's the use of an open-source OS that is used by millions if it is shrouded in esote
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by hrjet 13y ago
One counter argument I can think of: The rougue RDRAND would become active only in a CPU which the back-door has been exploited. It wouldn't be active off-the-shelf.
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by hrjet 13y ago
That used to be true earlier, but the compile times in Scala are pretty good these days. Also I hear that a faster compiler is expected with the 2.11 release. Incremental compilation in Eclipse is already real-time. But in general, IMO, com
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by hrjet 13y ago
:) I invented the Hadamard transform once. Only later realized it had been invented couple of decades earlier.
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by hrjet 13y ago
But isn't that how type inference works in most statically typed languages? For example, in Scala: val x = if (some_condition) Employer else Employee If Employer and Employee both derive from Person, then x will be of type Person. The
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by hrjet 13y ago
I liked the approach mentioned here: http://beyondschools2.blogspot.in/2013/05/know-think-do.html In a nutshell, the idea is to teach basic principles within the structure of a school and then let the pupil explor
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by hrjet 13y ago
What I worry about is a hacker feigning to be another user and claiming that they can't access their google account anymore because of a botched update. I guess Google support might get too many reset requests to show due diligence in
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by hrjet 13y ago
It would be okay as an optimisation in a very hot spot in your code, after a lot of benchmarking. I would frown upon using that as a general practice.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Could this be used for other text-based documents? I am thinking of accounting systems such as ledger-cli which let you keep your accounts in plain text files.
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by hrjet 13y ago
... especially true for one dealing with an "immutable" programming language :)
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by hrjet 13y ago
Coincidentally I was experimenting with LaTeX for writing my resume today, so this caught my eye. In the screenshots, I see the same problem that I was facing with an [offline tool][1]: There are too many hyphens all over the place! For exa
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by hrjet 13y ago
Completely agree with the implications in this article. My experience in building a Firebase app was that it was easy to design the app's first cut, as long as security / privacy was not taken care of. As soon as security / p
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by hrjet 13y ago
This is a brilliant idea. If postgresql could have a single file, embedded mode, then it could replace sqlite. The advantages of such a design would be: 1. All the optimisations and transaction guarantees of a full-featured DB 2. All the co
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by hrjet 13y ago
Chalk that one as an example of irony. (The other front page article today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6274914 )
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by hrjet 13y ago
I started reading the article (hadn't seen it earlier). The article seems very long-winded and stops short of facts sometimes. For example: "Solar cells contain heavy metals, and their manufacturing releases greenhouse gases such
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by hrjet 13y ago
Looking back, I guess I read too much between the lines. Apologies.
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When Android was gaining ground 2 years back, the iOS folks used to draw similar conclusions. "But look at the market share of iOS" which was 80% back then. Today it's the reverse, Android is 80% while iOS is about 13% (IIRC)
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by hrjet 13y ago
Wow! I just discovered this on the Scala mailing list and... Mind Blown! Wondering why this hasn't been upvoted more!
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by hrjet 13y ago
My point is that people asking for a monetary reward might indirectly be asking for recognition, not the money per se. Thinking otherwise might be idiotic too, but that's besides the point.
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by hrjet 13y ago
If you think good hackers report security bugs for $500, I am tempted to call you a total idiot too (though I will not). Consider what motivates people more deeply.
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by hrjet 13y ago
The payment would ofcourse be for discovering the bug.
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by hrjet 13y ago
The speed / memory gains seem to be because of optimising away the dynamic type overhead. So Clojure yes but Scala, no.
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Experiences with TypeScript(tech.kinja.com)
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by hrjet 13y ago
So is the entire JDK.
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Being hurt is a subjective thing. Imagine YouTube tomorrow decides to encode videos with a new codec, one which a particular processor can't decode easily? Will the users which own that processor feel "hurt" / get "
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by hrjet 13y ago
Hardware support matters to end users in terms of portability of app data. If I use an app which is not ported to other platforms, I can't use my data in a new hardware, until the platform itself is ported. If the data has an open form
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That might be a good idea, assuming they do listen to user feedback.
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by hrjet 13y ago
I was writing a biggish weekend project. It was mostly client-side logic with a FireBase backend. I developed the first prototype in pure JS and there were some bugs (due to me being new to this FireBase model, and some hastily developed co

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