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841.
by mahmud 15y ago
LulzSec, as a Telstra customer, thank you!
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by mahmud 15y ago
heh, poor Jon Katz lost his career in tech journalism after he made up a story about an afghan geek boy who was in touch with the world throughout the Taliban rule via his home made Commodore computer powered by car battery and running linu
843.
by mahmud 15y ago
Front page? really? Do people even try to come up with article subjects lately?
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by mahmud 15y ago
If you used GET for the username parameter, it would show up in the URL & encourage cut-and-paste virality.
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by mahmud 15y ago
You're complaining about the DSL but have no issue with varnish as kernel module ? First thing I do with a production system is build it a new kernel, with a tight feature list, and disable modules.
846.
by mahmud 15y ago
Maybe the CIA lost its raison d'etre with Bin Laden's demise, and decided to Cuil things off.
847.
by mahmud 15y ago
My Galaxy Tab replaced my laptop at home. It's a ten inch ipad killer, open as your mother's arms, and makes phone calls. It's both wifi AND 3G. Costs sub-$300 in Australia. Fits snuggly in my jacket pocket and plays flash (when i absolutel
848.
by mahmud 15y ago
Prolog is awesome as a library, embedded in another "normal" language. Prolog as a culture is amazing; the depth of it, specially when it's submerged in other disciplines, like constraint logic programming. But, standalone, as a language, b
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by mahmud 15y ago
Google pulled out of China for refusing to cooperate with the regime. But .. it has met its match in Kazakhstan, world's next super power~
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by mahmud 15y ago
Compare it to any major API and tell me what you think. there are just about 4-5 platforms of the same calibre, and none come close. They thought it out well, and whatever other platform got you spoiled, I can tell you it's not win32, .net,
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by mahmud 15y ago
What do you mean fewer features? Intents are how everything is done. Android is basically four major components: Activities, Intents, ContentProviders and Services (Views are not really a components, just a nice hack which uses reflection &
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by mahmud 15y ago
Intents are an open messaging system. The fact that they use java package names shows you they're meant to be user-extensible and infinite. Compare this to the bit-packing retardedness that is the Win32 message crackers[1]. Commercial softw
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by mahmud 15y ago
You might need to factor out the TASM code hidden in pragmas in SETMODE.H first. Better yet, remove all asm and retarget for something less arcane, like Allegro or even SDL. If you want to keep it as is, Turbo C is free online, from Borland
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by mahmud 15y ago
I wonder who Mindy is :-)
855.
by mahmud 15y ago
JIT != byte compilation.
856.
by mahmud 15y ago
I have a new _no_ computation in log statements rule. A bug in there is nigh near impossible to fix because you're not looking for it.
857.
by mahmud 15y ago
Uhh, not same reasons. Harper is an ML hacker, he wants to avoid IFs to encourage generic programming and pattern matching. Adding a new branch to an if clause requires some nesting, adding a branch to a case/cond is just one entry of many.
858.
by mahmud 15y ago
fuckwit alert!
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by mahmud 15y ago
Protecting whom exactly? There are communities in the U.S. where the police are pretty much an occupying force.
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by mahmud 15y ago
It's an honest assessment by a conscientious engineer. And because of it, I trust Redis even more. See ma, no ass-covering, no excuses, no cooking benchmarks.
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by mahmud 15y ago
heh, those helped me learn ELF and linux assembly almost a decade ago. more tools are here http://asm.sourceforge.net/
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by mahmud 15y ago
ffmpeg is far more complex than wget, and has some seriously intimidating output for "--help", but it does the sensible thing of guessing intention from file extensions/suffixes. `ffmpeg foo.bar foo.quux` will just convert your file, silent
863.
by mahmud 15y ago
Unusually good article. Author knows what he's talking about.
864.
by mahmud 15y ago
That's very sensible actually, but how do you explain the free cost of automatically generated CRUD and admin panels?
865.
by mahmud 15y ago
Awesome! Ordering now. Postgres kicks ass.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Welcome to the internet.
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by mahmud 15y ago
yes
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by mahmud 15y ago
There is a Phrack article with a full kernel. These things are dime a dozen. I cut my teeth on Doug Comer's Xinu, still one of the more accessible ones, if a bit over-commented. Outside the x86 and ISA architectures, OSes are just algorithm
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by mahmud 15y ago
I was speaking specifically of the United States. I don't know of any state in the union that isn't democratic. I know Texas' redistricting shenanigans are sleazy, but it's still a democracy.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Hipsters are easy to disperse. Concerned citizens should sponsor four back to back shows by Larry the Cable guy. He can reduce any Seattle or Austin to a Raleigh or Jacksonville.

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