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by latitude 16y ago
talloc is based on my library called halloc [1], which stands for hierarchical allocator . The idea is that every malloc'ed block can be assigned a parent block. Freeing the parent block also frees all its children in a recursive fashion,
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by latitude 16y ago
One way to degrade gracefully without actually doing much work is to detect the lack of JS and put up a note - http://dribbble.com/shots/114735-Caring-for-those-with-disab... . At least it tells a no-script visitor that the page designer i
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by latitude 16y ago
I am using similar idea in one of my Windows apps -- it has a one-time notification that prompts the user to join a mailing list or subscribe to the Twitter feed [1]. After much experimenting I have converged to the following criteria:
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by latitude 16y ago
1475 uniques from HN in 8 hours, about 80 downloads. Receeding now.
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by latitude 16y ago
That is the exact change I was thinking of making. Thanks for the nudge.
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by latitude 16y ago
Yep, or akin to Bvlgari... which is what helped turning Backupus Vulgaris into Bvckup. But in the end I had to keep a safe distance from #uckup for obvious reasons.
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by latitude 16y ago
800 uniques so far, about 50 downloads. I'll post updated counts in a bit for everyone's amusement.
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by latitude 16y ago
> Every single person who hears about it on TV or radio That's not "practically speaking". If I ever to get a TV coverage, that'd be of TWiT or similar, and I'm sure Leo can manage to pronounce it and follow-up with the URL on the scree
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by latitude 16y ago
Examples don't mean to help, they were meant to illustrate the point that followed. The ease of pronunciation and the ability to spell the name from its audible form are not all that important in the online context. This is a conjecture,
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by latitude 16y ago
First two points - fully agreed. I should've mentioned the domain name availability, it is indeed the first coarse filter for rejecting name candidates. > if someone can't spell your name after hearing it, it's a fail. Practically speak
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by latitude 16y ago
Certainly, it's a well-known method. My main goal was to illustrate the actual flow from a set of words through associations to the name. As for its unpredictability - at least it provides certain framework that generally speeds up the conv
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by latitude 16y ago
Bee-vee-cup , but here's the thing - in two years of it being in beta this has never come up as a real issue. I guess this can impede a word of (physical) mouth to a degree, but the assumption here is that few people are going to need to
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by latitude 16y ago
I was going to submit this myself, but you beat me to it. In any case, while mostly in a reading mode, I am on HN. If anyone has any questions or comments, shoot, be happy to talk about my stuff :)
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by latitude 17y ago
> Much better security-wise than most scenarios nowadays. Can you elaborate on this?
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by latitude 17y ago
The trick with priming NAT for receiving bogus inbound TTL-Exceeded ICMP packets is really clever. However keep in mind that this method assumes that: (a) the client knows server's external ("Internet") IP (b) there is exactly one server be
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by latitude 17y ago
Oh. I may need an addendum then.
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by latitude 17y ago
It does not say that the insertion is O(1). It says that it's O(1) _at the head_.
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by latitude 17y ago
Sure thing, I've considered adding that. But since it is not directly related to the stack/queue/etc split, I kept it out for the sake of simplicity.
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