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by jbri 16y ago
If it's repetitive, it can be automated (to varying degrees).
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by jbri 16y ago
Because you'll fault in the guard zone on one of those memory accesses, and then your app will get killed. EDIT: No, you don't need to check after a stack memory access either. The farthest you can get out of the sandbox is an access-then
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by jbri 16y ago
The validator also needs to prevent modifications to the program's own code, otherwise it could, say, remove the breakpoint instruction from the start of a data bundle.
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by jbri 16y ago
Fast code doesn't touch memory that often - if you're doing enough loads/stores that the extra instruction is significant, you're probably bounded by memory latency instead of processor speed anyway. And the most common "frequent" accesses
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by jbri 16y ago
I particular liked the guy who just ignored the previous line and drew "-V-"
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by jbri 16y ago
The question is, would we expect authors of libraries to indemnify other developers against liability if the fault is in the library itself?
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by jbri 16y ago
The only dependencies are the C standard libraries (this is even mentioned in the blog post). So unless there's some terrible hackery going on (and skimming the source files, it doesn't look like there is), these are going to be more portab
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by jbri 16y ago
Interesting that New Zealand does have some unlimited-traffic option, given that (AFAIK) all our global traffic flows through Australia anyway.
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by jbri 16y ago
I guess that means all our plans here in New Zealand are technically "unlimited"... You know, the ones that give you X GB of traffic, after which you're throttled back to dial-up speeds.
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by jbri 16y ago
Google doesn't represent that content as their own, instead they link to the original source. I don't think anyone would be complaining if searching on Bing just redirected to google.com/?q=whatever_you_searched_for
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by jbri 16y ago
You make something innovative, truck along carving out your niche for a few years, then a big company rips off your system and uses its massive marketing budget to crush you. Does not getting to massive-multinational stage in a few years me
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by jbri 16y ago
In case you missed it, innovation is expensive . If a copycat service can immediately clone the innovator's work and provide the exact same service, then they are likely to outcompete them, because they have much smaller costs. To sugges
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by jbri 16y ago
Do you seriously think that a copycat service beating out and killing off the actual source of innovation is somehow a good thing?
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by jbri 16y ago
In other words ... the autopromotion happens to people who provide quality contributions rather than those who add to the noise? And you don't see how that's significantly better?
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by jbri 16y ago
Yes, let's support brutal dictatorships on the off-chance that a revolution might result in an even more brutal dictatorship.
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by jbri 16y ago
This same argument applies to two cans and a piece of string.
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by jbri 16y ago
I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying as much space as the stuff I'm actively working on.
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by jbri 16y ago
Does "being the Quora of something" mean that you get hyped up a lot but ultimately are beaten out by a more focused (albeit less hyped) competitor?
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by jbri 16y ago
Is it an array that models your problem efficiently, or is it "an n-dimensional data structure with O(1) lookups by index", of which an array is merely one implementation?
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by jbri 16y ago
If all you've done is copy-paste stuff from the internet everywhere, then you haven't actually written any code . Regardless, that's not the point. Including GPL code doesn't magically obligate you to release the rest of your source code f
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by jbri 16y ago
You don't "inadvertently" spread GPL'd code all throughout your codebase, unless you're one of those people who just copy-paste code from the internet everywhere.
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by jbri 16y ago
Or what, the Grammar Police will lock you up? It's a perfectly understandable turn of phrase, and trying to insist that it's "not in my English" is pretty silly. What's up with "turn of phrase" anyway? What are you turning?
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by jbri 16y ago
Except that by removing the "considered" word, you also removed the shoutout back to the goto article.
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by jbri 16y ago
The only "defense" I can see working is having only one set of USB ports be permissible for human interface devices - if a legitimate HID is plugged into a different port, the OS just pops up a notification about an input device connected t
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by jbri 16y ago
A quantum channel provides protection against eavesdropping for random data, but does not provide security for specific data. A shared quantum channel can be used to easily produce a shared one-time key that only the two parties involved kn
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by jbri 16y ago
Reading the actual page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Associates_Int._Inc._v... ), the "workaround" is a clean-room reimplementation. Unless you were referring to something else?
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by jbri 16y ago
I hear that "transistor" thing is pretty much a waste of time too. A scientific curiosity at best. It's not necessarily about the destination, the stuff we find on the journey is valuable in its own right.
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by jbri 16y ago
You don't need patents to protect a specific implementation - code is copyrightable, and stealing your particular code (or even creating a derivative work like your "semantic-preserving changes" comment suggests) is illegal even without pat
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by jbri 16y ago
Interestingly, if Akamai had decided to terminate their peering agreement with Comcast and route their traffic through Level 3 instead, the situation from Comcast's end would be basically the same. Would that still be justification to cry f
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by jbri 16y ago
I don't understand. Do you think is supposed to be an IDE replacement or something?

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