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by jabr 13y ago
In a single day, I routinely use up to four different operating systems and none of them are Windows.
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by jabr 13y ago
I'm mostly a startup type, but I've worked in some fairly corporate environments and I've never used any of those.
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by jabr 13y ago
Oh, I completely agree. The point I was trying to make was simply that increasing funding for medical research on malaria, tuberculosis, etc. was more significant than anything he did (or could do) with Microsoft. But regardless, I agree th
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by jabr 13y ago
> If Gates wanted to leave a mark on the world he'd buy back pieces and parts of the behemoth and set them free for the open market I agree with most of your comment, but that line bothered me. In my opinion, the single worthwhile a
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by jabr 13y ago
I like to use an asymptotic function for fake progress like this: t/(t+n) With n set to a bit under half the average load time, if generally looks about right, too.
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by jabr 13y ago
The browser I'm using at the moment is faster than the one I was using three years ago, despite also having a very large number of new abilities. Further, a significant number of my current OS processes are currently executing programs them
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by jabr 13y ago
The problem with this idea is that a new, "better" VM doesn't offer any substantial benefits over using Javascript-as-a-VM. The limitations of JSaaVM can be can addressed more easily by simply improving on the existing infrastructure. There
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by jabr 13y ago
They can't stall forever on new web standards if they prove useful. I'm not sure WebGL will, but if it does, the "graceful degradation" culture in web development means that IE users will get some sort of slow, limited approximation of the
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by jabr 13y ago
We have an existing, widely deployed VM that is portable and sandboxed, fully described by open standards, and has several competing but fully compatible implementations -- most of which are already very fast -- and people want to throw it
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by jabr 14y ago
In this case, nginx is simply relaying data over an active connection on each. There is an open socket between the client and nginx, and nginx and the backend, for every WebSocket. There is not a port limit issue, however, as nginx can crea
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by jabr 14y ago
WebSockets are persistent connections, not a state-management trick spanning multiple connections/requests. The only time nginx is involved in "routing" the socket is on the initial connection. Once established, nginx is simply relaying dat
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by jabr 14y ago
All this change in nginx does is allow WebSocket connections to be proxied, so your questions don't really make sense. WebSocket's work like TCP sockets, and your backend server still needs to manage the socket directly. For example, Unicor
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by jabr 14y ago
I think you'd have a hard time finding a scientist in the field that doesn't think that the mind is the result of the brain's action, but in origin of life research, "self-replicating molecules" is not the only game in town. The two main ap
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by jabr 14y ago
There are some things in Dart that would be nice to have in Javascript, but I don't see why Google wouldn't just try to work them into future ECMAScript revisions. With the exception of banning eval and run-time modification of prototypes,
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by jabr 14y ago
He wanted to name the book "The Goddamn Particle" initially -- as a reference to its elusiveness -- but the publisher wore him down.
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by jabr 14y ago
While partly true, the secondary issue is that your editor is inferior to the current state of the art (on all platforms). I spend most of my time at a black/white board. Once I've won the chalkboard battle, I've put it into motion with cha
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by jabr 14y ago
The WakeMate product itself was good and actually worked for most people (myself included). This was a legitimate goodwill measure post, so why are most/some of you taking the opportunity to bash these people?
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by jabr 14y ago
Google has already committed to supporting it in Chrome. It's just not in it yet. I don't know if they've made any promises to honor DNT requests, but their browser will be able to send them.
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by jabr 14y ago
I can't speak for jlarocco, but my concern is not directly the import statements, but rather, what those import statements imply. That repo has 1,290 files. Excluding file pathnames containing 'test', there are 601 files. Of those, 430 are
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by jabr 14y ago
I can't speak for jlarocco, but my concern is not directly the import statements, but rather, what those import statements imply. That repo has 1,290 files. Excluding file pathnames containing 'test', there are 601 files. Of those, 430 are
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by jabr 14y ago
I hope Google's response was "First year CS students have to implement more complex functions than rangeCheck on daily quizes within the first week or two."
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by jabr 14y ago
While the basic line of reasoning is valid, it is absurd in the context of the rangeCheck function. There might be a nine line function that takes a day or two to get right, but for even a bad programmer, rangeCheck would take a few minutes
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by jabr 14y ago
There's an implementation in the pull request queue.
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by jabr 15y ago
I haven't used it, but if you're running this on MRI, you might try https://github.com/tario/shikashi
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by jabr 15y ago
Boulder, CO might be an example. My impression is a more outdoor/adventure culture than most.
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by jabr 15y ago
You're missing the point. Raphaël is a simple, unified interface to SVG and VML. You ask for a circle, and it will make one, whether in SVG or VML. But if you have an array of data and want to visualize it, you have to write the code that c
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by jabr 15y ago
Just curious, but do you support IE below 9? If so, how? svgweb?
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by jabr 18y ago
I prefer: for (;;) { int days_in_year = IsLeapYear(year) ? 366 : 365; if (days <= days_in_year) break; days -= days_in_year; year += 1; }
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by jabr 18y ago
Or you can just get a free DV cert from startssl.com and not have to do anything else.
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by jabr 18y ago
It's not really an issue in an academic setting. Pretty much everyone has access already.

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