idlewan

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by idlewan 12y ago
Java servers get around 900K requests/s [...] while Rails squeezes out 6K Yes, but that's for the /json test, which serves a static object that the framework converts to json. I'm not sure it is really represen
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by idlewan 12y ago
If you present lots of tables, some colour coding (green for high performing, red for slow, and some ranges in-between) might make it easier to parse visually.
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by idlewan 12y ago
To me, this library tastes more like too much salt.
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by idlewan 12y ago
I like the concept of the web jumping to the next device/interface. After the desktop, after mobile, there might be VR in a few years. The pattern will surely repeat itself, with faster experiences for native, compiled applications, bu
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by idlewan 12y ago
pure gesture input just doesn't work (as repeatedly demonstrated with Wii, Kinect, and Leap Motion) That's just untrue. I'm not saying that, from a gameplay-oriented perspective, gestures are better/more adapted
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by idlewan 12y ago
In the meantime, I've noticed that it 'really quits' more often when using ctrl-q to exit firefox instead of closing the window.
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by idlewan 12y ago
Herm... I just want to point out the elephant in the room: A new proprietary plugin is coming (which might reduce the need for Flash, but still), the EME CDM (content decryption module). I'm afraid you'll never have "just Fla
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The psychology of Soylent and the prison of first-world food choices(arstechnica.com)
9 points by idlewan 12y ago|0 comments
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by idlewan 12y ago
That's the exact path I've taken in another language (Nimrod). Mongrel2 is a really good way to have all the nitty-gritty of http handled while you worry exclusively about two ZeroMQ sockets (from and to Mongrel2). It makes it a w
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by idlewan 12y ago
You don't see many people hating DRMs? Anyway, the point you were answering to specifically mentioned "make it hard to read text on a web page". "music, ebook, software" aren't web pages, it's not the same
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by idlewan 12y ago
This is definitely wordy, but the right way to summarize it is not "they do it for the lulz". They do it to stick it to The Man.
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by idlewan 12y ago
You can allow everything by default too with HTTPSB (it still will use blocklists and protect you), so that you won't have to enable stuff for a website to work.
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by idlewan 12y ago
For every use-case you'll encounter, there is so many answers. There is no "when you want to do X, use language Y" guide, because it would be pretty stupid. Every good programming language can be used for nearly all your prog
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by idlewan 12y ago
I'm betting this is not an easy task. It however would be really awesome for HTTPSB (which I just installed on chromium and fallen in love instantly with) to be ported to firefox. Seeing all the privacy-related features treated, by dom
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by idlewan 12y ago
Please do write about it. I used noscript for a while in blocking everything mode, then requestpolicy for better filtering, but got tired of having to allow stuff for most of my browsing (now I'm on adblock privacy + ghostery + privacy
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by idlewan 12y ago
The website is wrong, because you are not currently helping people in censored regions with FlashProxy. The proxy cannot work when the enclosing page uses https. See FlashProxy's FAQ: https://trac.torproject.org/project
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by idlewan 12y ago
If you're interested in Nimrod's performance, it's really good: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/26459/how-high-c...
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by idlewan 12y ago
..., not having unsigned types, as in Java, ... Unsinged integer exist in Nimrod, you just have to import unsigned when you use them.
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by idlewan 12y ago
- No curly braces around anything. - Whitespace seems to be important, just like python. That might be a 'bug' for you, but that's a feature for most. At least for Python, Yaml, Coffeescript, Jade, Stylus and Nim
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by idlewan 12y ago
I'm not sure how projects would get started without BDFL. When the project gets enough uptake, more and more people pitch in, but at the beginning? Anyone has an example of a popular good BDFL-free project that was this way from the st
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Open Source's Cult Of Personality Is Dying – Thankfully(readwrite.com)
2 points by idlewan 12y ago|1 comments
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by idlewan 12y ago
"They have the world's best engineers at their disposal" That's what they like telling the world. They probably employ a lot of smart people, because they can afford better work conditions and salaries. However, they don
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by idlewan 12y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the author of Nawak, so I'm pretty excited about this. The Nimrod programming language is finally featured for the db tests (at least on i7. Not sure what happened with ec2 and peak, as neither jester nor nawak see
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by idlewan 12y ago
Ah, I guess we posted at the same time.
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Web Framework Benchmarks round 9(techempower.com)
16 points by idlewan 12y ago|3 comments
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by idlewan 12y ago
That doesn't mean they are allowed to forget using the right words. "Mechanical keyboard" is a very specific term for keyboards, it means that the switches used are of the 'CherryMX' type or similar. Scissor-switche
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by idlewan 12y ago
I'd expect all developers using make to know about this and never have this problem thanks to one simple thing: sticking with sensible names (no spaces, no brackets, no stars and other special characters in the name - hello underscores
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by idlewan 12y ago
I always go with firefox for printing a page, chromium always fucks up the kerning so much more. I did notice that it was a lot worse on small font size, as the article did too, and it's really annoying: font are supposed to be scalabl
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by idlewan 12y ago
It all depends on your habits. If you're satisfied with pure CSS and Javascript, the only thing you really need is a build tool for concatenation, minification and gzip. And livereload. And probably normalize.css. -> I use uglifyjs
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by idlewan 12y ago
I don't understand this: with open-source, it doesn't matter that your CSS compiler has been abandoned: as long as you are satisfied with the current feature set, the code isn't going to disappear. Stylus is only about 3.5 ye

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