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by hrjet 12y ago
MS is still pushing monthly updates to XP users, purportedly to scan for malware. How hard would it be for them to push a patch with a fix for this?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Does that work for writes as well? I am not sure if it would work without the OS setting up traps for writes to the pages or explicit flush calls from the app. In the former case, it would be very inefficient, and in the latter, it wouldn&#
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by hrjet 12y ago
I was just thinking about this the other day. Yes, a memory-mapped-file is different, because the API is still that of a file. The memory mapping is just a behind-the-scenes optimisation.
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by hrjet 12y ago
One main reason I am considering BitBucket is that their issue tracking is more elaborate. There are issue priorities and components, which are essential for large projects. These could be shoe-horned into Gitlab using tags, but it requires
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by hrjet 12y ago
Nitpick: relativity can explain magnetism, not cause magnetism.
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by hrjet 12y ago
That piqued my interest. Do you have recommendations for an open-source XMPP+OTR client for Android?
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by hrjet 12y ago
That's a great point, but I think multiple approaches could be possible. For example, manipulating historical data to make the current price point attractive. That would be difficult for the user to verify.
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by hrjet 12y ago
But then, how would you be sure that web sites like camelcamelcamel.com are not price-steering you with false data?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Apart from being able to run legacy software, wouldn't it being open-source be of value? I know several people who use Windows because they need the Windows-only software (new or old). With ReactOS they would be able to use those appli
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by hrjet 12y ago
Do I understand this right: if the length of the original file is specified along with the hash, then such attacks are not trivial?
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by hrjet 12y ago
That's a great idea; never thought of it before. The only worry is that it is not going to work on remote systems out of the box, confusing my muscle memory.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Yam, jam and sweet potatoes are three different things. See for example: http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetp...
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by hrjet 12y ago
> No? This seems like a pretty bizarre question. People eat what they like. While I generally agree, let's not discount the power of marketing, advertising and subliminal messaging.
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by hrjet 12y ago
I am not an Emacs user. A long time Vim user who is always on the fence; evil mode got me interested in Emacs again. Can anyone please shed some light on the browser? Is it implemented in pure Lisp? Is it graphical? Does it support javascri
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by hrjet 12y ago
Why not just disable the default server? (genuine question; I don't know if there are drawbacks to it)
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by hrjet 12y ago
I am not sure what you mean by "embraces null". It sounds like a good thing (from what I know about the languages) but you have clubbed it in a list of cons.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Purely from a reader's perspective, yes, an IDE can probably parse and highlight mutable variables automatically. But from a writer's, modifier's or refactorer's perspective, what counts is the intent. Was a particular l
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by hrjet 12y ago
Wouldn't quieter sonar be in their own interest too? Less opportunity for others to pick up their sonar pings. Which probably means that the low hanging gains have been already picked.
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by hrjet 12y ago
That's great! If I could add one more to the list: Request a review by just tagging a PR with @bronson-io (or a similar text command).
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by hrjet 12y ago
Nice. Would love to have more features: * Bitbucket integration (since it allows checklists for PRs) * Review request for entire projects (not just PRs)
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by hrjet 12y ago
But shouldn't they (String and slice) have some common super type to make this all easy to use ?
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Ask HN: Security errors on HN?
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by hrjet 12y ago
> When it comes to hacking, the attacker always wins. Just playing defense is a losing game. Firstly, why only hacking? What is true for a cyber-attack is true for a physical attack as well. Both sides lose resources in both types of att
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by hrjet 12y ago
Where does the decryption actually happen? Is it in the CPU chip?
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by hrjet 12y ago
This was very interesting to read. > So if you're truly serious about JavaScript VMs or the Dart VM or whatever as a real target platform for your language, you need to design your language and language module for that. Would it be
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by hrjet 12y ago
Thanks for your response. I appreciate all the work going into the Scala ecosystem. > Why do you say you don't know where Scala is going? Apologies for that wording. A more elaborate wording would be: I don't know where Scala
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by hrjet 12y ago
The features look very inviting. When choosing a language for a new project, I am torn between Kotlin, Scala, and now, Ceylon. Scala had its time, and I was a frequent user, but now I am not sure where it is going. It certainly helped bring
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by hrjet 12y ago
Makes a lot of sense: reduces generated code duplication. Just needs one "release" block per scope.
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by hrjet 12y ago
On a related tangent, since you mention modernizing the markup, can we please have markdown support in comments?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Bitcoin popped in my mind too. Though I was thinking that the power generation companies could setup the mining farms, so that they can make money from that excess energy rather than paying others to consume it.

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