james412

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by james412 6y ago
Do you have any idea how much utter garbage Google forces vendors to ship with a phone simply to have access to a web browser and the Play store? Or perhaps you're one of the lucky few who haven't been woken at 4am to an urgent no
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by james412 6y ago
Who is to say Google were actually responsible for delisting the app? Epic possibly could have done it as another leg of this campaign
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by james412 6y ago
The idea of competent volunteers contributing is wonderful as a hypothetical, but if such things existed in reasonable numbers then this funding issue would likely be moot in the first place. The reality is that the PyPy folk (all single-di
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by james412 6y ago
I wonder how things may have played out had Brendan Eich still been at the reins (Serious comment, not some challenge to test how quickly Godwin's law can be invoked)
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by james412 6y ago
I was able to download and build the Gtk3 version of this in under 5 minutes. For compactness alone, gets my seal of approval. I'm posting this comment from NetSurf, HN works fine.
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by james412 6y ago
> Possibly 400-500 views Hah, the front page of HN will generally drive upwards of 10k uniques to a page.
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by james412 6y ago
Replace "Facebook" with "the Internet" and this whole statement still reads correctly
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by james412 6y ago
Lapses on that scale are not an engineering issue, they're likely a culture issue. Atlassian are a successful business that sell to engineering businesses, but that doesn't mean their leadership know or care about engineering. I&#
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by james412 6y ago
You'd honestly work for the folk responsible for the BitBucket redesign, or the 6 billion lines of dynamic JS loaded for every Jira page? I'd sooner work the curb while living in a coal bunker
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by james412 6y ago
The definition of "unauthorized access" is intentionally very broad, and ultimately depends on the kind of lawyer you can afford. Publicly taking a piss in the face of Intel and Daimler in exchange for a little lame publicity seem
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by james412 6y ago
This kid has been posting these for fame (it's the same guy that posted the Daimler leak). I guess it's all fun and games until he finds himself in prison
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by james412 6y ago
You can't trust the BBC whatsoever since they started trying to compete with commercial media a few years ago. "BREAKING: Iran is evil! UP NEXT: beach babes who like to grow moustaches" Total shitshow
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by james412 6y ago
Very cool!
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by james412 6y ago
> Operating systems are in a sad state, as virtual address spaces already offer exactly that in hardware at full speed Ever since reading about Microsoft Singularity all that time ago, I reached the opposite conclusion: software is in su
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by james412 6y ago
Anyone know what kind of depth measurement they are making? It looks like some kind of radio widget
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by james412 6y ago
> I am having a hard time imagining how a compromise of a workstation could result in the entire company -- their own apps, their call center -- going down for days Can't guess at specifics, but if it's a Windows network, I wo
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by james412 6y ago
An isolate is a v8 "virtual machine" running in-process with many other such machines, virtualization is provided by a userspace program A process is a "virtual machine" running on-host with many other such machines, vir
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by james412 6y ago
Your complaint was about use of public money: > they are currently building a church to the tune of 100 million euros. > 70% or more of that came from public funding, essentially tax payer money rerouted to build this monstrosity, som
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by james412 6y ago
Meh.. I find it difficult to care too much on a site whose population regularly fawn over a billionaire who stands to make billions more, largely due to booking sale of taxpayer-funded carbon credits to his company's most recent quarte
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by james412 6y ago
What are we supposed to be looking at here?
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by james412 6y ago
> They WANT us to be dependent on them I think this is an important point about CloudFlare that can't be made often enough. It's been some years since I first noticed, and it seems as true today as it was then: wedging themselv
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by james412 6y ago
Since the GitHub repo is a top search result on Google, care to mention a filename? All I see are lots of "removed for partner depot" comments which are the kind of thing that shows up when code has been stripped down for public&#
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by james412 6y ago
> python2 and python3 in one process This would have had me running screaming from the building
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by james412 6y ago
I know it's a crazy and inconvenient idea, but you may be surprised by what happens when you talk to sales folk like this. I've knocked list price rates down by 80% by simply explaining to another human what I need
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by james412 6y ago
I think your wires may be a little crossed. This is unlikely to have ever been true for magnetic drives, but there is a quite significant grain of truth (no pun intended) to it for SSD. Consumer SSDs may indeed return an early indication th
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by james412 6y ago
The horror
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by james412 6y ago
Reddit attracted a much larger share of the normie vote than Digg ever did. Back when they were competitors, you could expect the average user was part of the fairly homogenous group of tech workers. They were better organized, more politic
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by james412 6y ago
If open() throws an exception, perhaps after the FD is already open (Python does non-trivial IO to a file immediately after open), or read() throws an exception, the file object is at the mercy of any try/except higher in the stack, an
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by james412 6y ago
Horrendous advice on many levels - reference counting is an implementation detail, it is not part of the spec - that's because real implementations exist where refcounting does not exist (ironpython, pypy, jython) - even if it were par
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by james412 6y ago
This took me back to one morning early in my career, where I arrived at work following an Easter weekend still heavily under the influence of ecstasy. I hid under my desk from the boss, with Prodigy playing from Winamp into my headphones. T

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