jheriko

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by jheriko 10y ago
This is almost difficult to believe. Almost. I always really struggle to imagine these sorts of things happening in a large, organised way. Allowing this sort of thing to go on in your business should be an enormous risk. It amounts to a co
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by jheriko 10y ago
> To make the API less tedious to use, short protocol name, e.g. "ws", SHOULD be preferred to the long name, e.g. "websockets". Well that's a classic dumb mistake. Programming isn't about typing. Why not sav
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by jheriko 10y ago
to me, this accurately describes most user experiences of most open source software. its not just gpg and mail encryption, this sort of experience describes a lot of tools - and not too long ago just installing linux was a considerably wors
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by jheriko 10y ago
probably someone paid a lawyer to draw up, or copy-pasted that contract and then people who don't really care about their job to a serious level, or maybe just don't think very much, are saying it can't be changed - probably
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by jheriko 10y ago
Author is not that passionate about programming clearly ...
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by jheriko 10y ago
what about the long s?
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by jheriko 10y ago
They already shut it down ... afaik this has always been forbidden by App Store guidelines
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by jheriko 10y ago
Firstly, this page is so well built for mobile I couldn't comment... Secondly > This means that you can push updates, features, and bug fixes instantly to your users, bypassing the labor of bundling, submitting, and having your app
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by jheriko 10y ago
isn't it the case that amount of data required to store the result of a lossless DCT is bounded below by the size of the data, and this is why lossless JPG compression does not use such a scheme?
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by jheriko 10y ago
you are right, there is a weird grainy sharpness kind of 'feeling' when chroma is not subsampled... but you get the exact same effect from higher resolutions, e.g. going from SD->HD->2K->4K we see the same thing... and we
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by jheriko 10y ago
er... what? can you explain that a bit i think i must misunderstand? what i think of as undershooting or overshooting is relative to the range... and besides that, what is wrong with clamping? its how computer graphics has always had to dea
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by jheriko 10y ago
its the tone and attitude, not the literal interpretation of the statement nor what has happened. 'once your project is under the GNU aegis its there for life' - its fair enough to make that decision, but the result here is not re
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by jheriko 10y ago
this was an interesting read, but i have an similar, but slightly different observation. google and facebook also have mountains of technical debt and they don't necessarily fix it. in particular some google projects i have had to buil
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by jheriko 10y ago
The attitude that comes across in this message... this is the problem with GNU and that whole sector of the OSS community that seems to follow the 'Stallman' way. "you aren't allowed your freedom because <incomprehens
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by jheriko 10y ago
seems to be easy, but each frame depends on previous frames... so now you need to share lots of data between threads. its not as embarrassingly parallel as it looks from a naive perspective. although i contend that most decoders are very th
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by jheriko 10y ago
it is true, video is a nightmare mess littered with weird functionality nobody needs. (limited range only just disappeared in rec 2100, optionally??? really??? i'm not worried about my electron gun in my CRT from 1975 these days...nor
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by jheriko 10y ago
the point is precisely that it is more complicated than this obvious interpretation. whilst i don't necessarily agree... i do agree that if you want to conform to specs then you can't go thinking this way.
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by jheriko 10y ago
personally the issue i take with this article is that it displays an opinion that is counterproductive to learning (imo). rather than calling out that pointer arithmetic implicitly relies on 'sizeof' in order to be useful, its tre
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by jheriko 10y ago
there is a classic mistake here... the idea that pointer arithmetic does not rely on sizeof. that's the entire mystery opened and closed afaik. sure you can use some obscure notation if you like, but why not just use sizeof?
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by jheriko 10y ago
> those are bugs a good driver author can avoid some hardware can be a nightmare for this stuff though... i still contend that it can be much more complicated than simply recompiling for your target... and even when its not, that is stil
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by jheriko 10y ago
i am continually impressed by the ubuntu install... people who say linux is hard to install need to look at it. it works, imo, better than either the mac or windows installations... even taking care of annoying details like partitioning and
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by jheriko 10y ago
its more complicated than just drivers, apple have over the last few iterations changed the boot mechanism to make it difficult
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by jheriko 10y ago
2014 is an eon ago in apple terms... and even then it required fancy efi boot loaders (since 2010 at least iirc) i'd also add that i doubt its about them supporting new stuff. its the sort of thing i look at and assume that its to make
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by jheriko 10y ago
i'm not sure why anyone would expect to be able to install linux/windows/anything on a mac without problems these days. apple go to lengths to make it painful, and my experience of this is that they have gone to increasingly
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by jheriko 10y ago
Maybe the question should be "Why don't I spend time optimising browsers?" Certainly that's my problem - I don't even try. Enough people with that attitude and browsers never get optimised...
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by jheriko 10y ago
uber. i have nothing against improving these services, but doing it with such blatant disregard to the law. if this was just some guy on the street, or even most businesses the authorities would come down on them like a ton of bricks... but
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by jheriko 10y ago
this isn't a property of functional programming. a long time ago i used to write code in something called 'AVS' for Winamp... it also let you modify code at run-time, but it was certainly not functional. you can actually do t
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by jheriko 10y ago
its the reverse modular exponentiation problem right? e.g. some a is transformed into b by x^a mod y = b where y is a prime and x has special properties relative to it? doing that once each, sharing the resulting b's then using the b f
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by jheriko 10y ago
rolling your own is pretty easy, it is a shame that the C++ standard library is a dire wasteland of bad implementations. you are right that valarray will do heap allocations and making it work on the stack is a real ballache.
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by jheriko 10y ago
i don't understand. i was trying to comment on the idea that something being open source doesn't change that it needs compiling for a particular platform, and that it should be expected to not be straightfowards. especially at the

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