kogir

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811.
by kogir 17y ago
It's not clear why he'd like native code access. Is it that he doesn't think Firefox performance will be acceptable in XNA/Silverlight, or that he doesn't want to port any of the existing code to the CLR?
812.
by kogir 17y ago
Why can't firefox just use the already licensed codec for H264 present on the majority of OSs if it's present? Then they'll have support for Therora and H264 on OS X and Windows, and Theora support on Linux. Costs them nothing and is a win
813.
by kogir 17y ago
Sounds a little like Microsoft's "Dallas": http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsAzure/dallas/
814.
by kogir 17y ago
So I guess personalized engraving is out?
815.
by kogir 17y ago
All the time. Almost every asynchronous call in .NET uses the process threadpool. Also, anything with a UI typically needs to use a least a few worker threads to remain response while doing real work.
816.
by kogir 17y ago
Real C# support for Thrift, consisting of WCF metadata providers and channels.
817.
by kogir 17y ago
No, not really. If WinMo 7 has full silverlight or wpf xaml support, the same code you run on the phone can run on the desktop as well (native or in the browser). Not so with Android. Think more like JavaFX, but on devices that'll actually
818.
by kogir 17y ago
TFS is that bad. Offline access is non-existent. You can't even record a file addition without a connection to the server. I checked it out at Loopt, but for all it offered, I found SVN + Hudson to do everything we needed better.
819.
by kogir 17y ago
Either Microsoft has raised the bar and attackers are going after easier exploits not in the base system, or Adobe has lowered the bar and gained sufficient penetration to be a better target. How do you tell which?
820.
by kogir 17y ago
Yes, but if it's in your house, you at least know it happened and can try and fight it. If google hands over your data you may never know. I think in many cases they'd likely be barred from telling you even if they wanted to. Note: IANAL
821.
by kogir 17y ago
This doesn't do any good because the page that contains the form can be transparently altered to post somewhere else by a man in the middle.
822.
by kogir 17y ago
Actually, since he was effectively doing SELECT * ... it still has to go pull the rows from the table after seeking the index. This likely isn't a huge problem though. To prevent going back to the table in this case, you'd either need the
823.
by kogir 17y ago
Were those single indexes like CREATE INDEX index_1 ON Locations(id) CREATE INDEX index_2 ON Locations(user_id) ...? If you have multiple single column indexes it won't help you here. The mysql query planner probably correctly guesse
824.
by kogir 17y ago
While the write up was good, the author makes assumptions about what's happening seemingly without checking. He didn't post the actual query or the original and final query plans. Partitioning is a rather complex solution to his problem. S
825.
by kogir 17y ago
What's sad is that the chipset in the MacBook Pro he has can do hardware RAID, Apple just doesn't support it in EFI. It's Nvidia's MCP79 (of the nForce 790 SLI)
826.
by kogir 17y ago
We tested git and hg at Loopt: While both were faster than SVN (often much faster), they have huge disk footprints compared to an SVN working copy. In our case, the SVN working copy was ~1GB, and both the git and hg repositories were over
827.
by kogir 17y ago
Charles Schwab takes long password but truncates them at 8 characters without telling you. I discovered this the hard way by trial and error when linking it in Quicken.
828.
by kogir 17y ago
Much ado about what is most likely a misconfigured caching proxy. The only way to not constantly be scared and suprised by the Internet is to understand a little about how it works. Yawn.
829.
by kogir 17y ago
For a racing game, that wouldn't work well at all. You can't change your heart rate with sufficient speed to control a vehicle.
830.
by kogir 17y ago
For $60/mo you can get a Sprint MiFi, and have mobile broadband access anywhere there's coverage. I know, this doesn't work for everyone, but compared to a $57/mo EC2 instance, I think it's a win in many cases.
831.
by kogir 17y ago
All I saw initially was the red input box. I initially skipped completely over the error message, thinking it was an ad. Only after being thoroughly confused for a minute did I notice it.
832.
by kogir 17y ago
This poll will reveal more about what you use spreadsheets for than anything else. Excel is often used as a Mini-OS, running programs and interfacing with databases, the web, etc. I've never seen Numbers used that way.
833.
by kogir 17y ago
As jacquesm rightfully pointed out, I was wrong to ever advocate stealing software. It was and is never the right thing to do, and now that Microsoft actively targets startups it's straight up stupid. Learn more at http://www.microsoftsta
834.
by kogir 17y ago
In terms of physical servers, we're actually 50-50 Windows / Linux. Starting on Windows did not blind us to Kannel, Rails, PostGIS, Apache, Samba, Erlang, etc. We use tons of open source software where it makes sense. Sometimes price isn'
835.
by kogir 17y ago
The majority of Loopt's back-end runs in Windows Server 2003/2008, .Net 3.5 and SQL Server 2008. We have some Ubuntu, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ruby, etc. as well. I really enjoy the tooling, the documentation, and the libraries. There is exactl
836.
by kogir 17y ago
That's like saying that SSH host keys add no additional security. If I add the self-signed cert to my certificate store, if anyone ever tries to present me a fake one, I'll know. Doesn't help with public sites, but does with personal admin
837.
by kogir 17y ago
Sadly, while still relevant, Techcrunch is slowly becoming less intellectually satisfying. There's been more drama than needed as of late in my opinion.
838.
by kogir 17y ago
All we have are two data points, and while there is obviously a skin tone difference between the two samples, that's not the only difference. Without more information we can't even be sure that skin color is the issue. For example, the algo
839.
by kogir 17y ago
I was secretly hoping pg would hack things so that 10^6 was just skipped ;)
840.
by kogir 17y ago
While that's certainly true, is it possible for someone who is overseeing a contractor to recognize the look and feel of every single competitor? As an example, do you think it would have seen the light of day if Twitter, not Plurk, was inv

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