krylon

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901.
by krylon 8y ago
Given that Microsoft used IE to push Netscape out of business, Microsoft adopting Chromium over their own rendering engine that they themselves had written to replace IE's old engine, the irony is so delicious I will feed off it for th
902.
by krylon 8y ago
Chakra is "just" the Javascript engine, the HTML render engine used by Edge is not open source.
903.
by krylon 8y ago
Can't you just run vanilla Chromium without the Google stuff on macOS? Honest question, I don't think I ever looked, and now I am back on GNU/Linux. On Windows, there is no build of vanilla Chromium, as far as I could find ou
904.
by krylon 8y ago
It is an interesting time to be alive, that is for sure.
905.
by krylon 8y ago
I never thought about it, but now that you mention it, it is a great name for an IT news site. ;-)
906.
by krylon 8y ago
Within my lifetime, we went from CPUs that were simple enough we can now simulate them at the logic-gate level in ____ing Javascript to CPUs complex and powerful enough to emulate yesterday's mainstream CPUs at the ____ing logic-gate l
907.
by krylon 8y ago
The premise was, if someone had told me ten years ago , which is 2008. You are correct, of course, none of that stuff existed in 2000. 2000 was just the year I started using GNU/Linux. ;-)
908.
by krylon 8y ago
At work, we run SQL Server, because we use several third-party applications that use it. And once it's there and paid for, if we need another database, it is easier to just dump it on the server that is already there, rather than run a
909.
by krylon 8y ago
> Vim feels so much snappier. I am in kind of ranty mood, so forgive me if I take this opportunity to do a brain dump on you. Just to be clear, while I have my preference, I very much respect the fact other people will have different pre
910.
by krylon 8y ago
As a long-term emacs user, I obviously disagree, but it is a good joke. ;-)
911.
by krylon 8y ago
It is sad, yes, considering what OpenSolaris could have become. But at least Oracle was not able to completely destroy the community that had grown around it. This probably sounds silly, but I find it sad, personally, because Solaris is pro
912.
by krylon 8y ago
Good question. I have been using GNU/Linux and BSD on my personal machines since 2000, so the first part would not have blown my mind that much. For my needs (and Google's), quality operating systems were a commodity back then. Th
913.
by krylon 8y ago
There's that. But IllumOS is still around and has various derivatives that are under active development. Last time I heard anything about Oracle Solaris, they fired more than a thousands developers at once, and some people commented th
914.
by krylon 8y ago
I vaguely remember Mark Russinovich giving a talk or something a couple of years ago (when they open sourced .Net Core, I think, but don't quote me), and somebody asked when they would open source Windows, and his reply roughly that th
915.
by krylon 8y ago
My work laptop still runs Windows 7, so I have no experience with Edge; but Firefox feels a lot faster than Internet Explorer 11, even though it hogs memory like crazy.
916.
by krylon 8y ago
Do people still use that? On any browser I use, I change the settings so when I restart it, it will open whatever tabs I had last opened. I almost never get to see the browser's homepage.
917.
by krylon 8y ago
> I wish MS could choose the Mozilla engine instead... At least they could send some money Mozilla's way to ensure there is an independent competitor around.
918.
by krylon 8y ago
My mother's husband had lots of interesting stories to tell that involved scammers and con artists; it seems people very quickly let go of all skepticism when faced with the prospect of making lots of easy money. I also remember that k
919.
by krylon 8y ago
The sight of the Competition Pro triggered some instant nostalgia. There were lots of cheap knockoffs around when I had an Amiga, but the original was much more reliable.
920.
by krylon 8y ago
I remember the first time I got one of these "Nigerian scam" mails. In retrospect it is funny that what made me suspicious was not the offer to make millions in return for an upfront price of a few thousand bucks; it was the fact
921.
by krylon 8y ago
A number of years back, I was trying to learn about network programming and SQL and decided to try and build a a kind of randomized port scanner that would generate IP addresses randomly, then scan semi-random ports on those that were pinga
922.
by krylon 8y ago
But then Khomeini came along, the Shah was overthrown, and today, Iran supports the Syrian government, rebels in Yemen, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Plus, the US and Israeli governments have been a making a lot of noise about possible Iranian plan
923.
by krylon 8y ago
I find this extremely strange. I cannot even come up with a good metaphor to explain to non-technical people how untrustworthy this makes most AV software look to me. I mean, we all make mistakes, but the kind of bugs that have been found i
924.
by krylon 8y ago
Given the long-term consequences of overthrowing the Iranian government, I cannot help but wonder if people involved in US foreign politics secretly wish that the operation had failed. It might have saved the world a lot of trouble later on
925.
by krylon 8y ago
I first started using GNU/Linux (with sysvinit) in 2000. I still remember a) finding runlevels incredibly confusing, b) finding the entire concept stupid when I finally understood them, and c) the sense of relief I felt when I discover
926.
by krylon 8y ago
Well, you know what they say: There are two hard problems in programming, cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors[1]. ;-) But there still is a difference between trying to come up with good names and failing on the one hand
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by krylon 8y ago
I spent about € 1100-1200 on my current desktop, it has a Ryzen 1700, 32 GB RAM and 750 GB SSD storage, plus a GeForce GTX960. Let me just make a quick check: With a six-core CPU (my Ryzen has 8, although per-core performance is lower), 32
928.
by krylon 8y ago
In late 2013, I decided I really wanted a new computer. And after looking at my bank account, I decided that a good way to treat myself without going totally overboard financially would be be the 2012 Mac Mini with the quad-core i7. I lik
929.
by krylon 8y ago
> Rename variables EXACTLY what they are. I have this coworker who has this terrible habit of giving the most meaningless names imaginable. Local variables are often just named "tmp". Or maybe tmpNum if it is a number. We are w
930.
by krylon 8y ago
> I suspect the scandal has made companies aware that this is a bad idea. I kind of wonder how many people were like, "pre-install adware on PCs? Why didn't I think of that?!?"

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