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by mbq 14y ago
And at least one more bit for browser tracking...
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by mbq 14y ago
Don't forget about Pohl.
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by mbq 14y ago
Wait wait, all questions in this quiz are not really about C but about the form in which numbers are stored in computer and consequences of that -- C just expresses them in raw way, but other languages also suffer from this quirks, either d
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by mbq 14y ago
Come on, whatever you do only the resistive screen or active styluses can make iPad usable for handwriting -- the first would kill this "slidiness" and glass surface which seems a core selling factor for this stuff, the second would require
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by mbq 14y ago
What about a law-enforced, sealed jumper under the battery? You break it with a screwdriver and a gadget permanently enters "open" mode in which original, proprietary OS performs suicide and decodes the bootloader. Hostile jailbreak is hard
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by mbq 14y ago
Me too! I have even drawn and assembled my own character in this "ACE" editor MS has published... Anyway, I think it was a great technology -- it could work perfect just as a async-capable and timeout-dismissable replacement of all those st
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by mbq 14y ago
Great post -- I hope this will eventually trigger some serious discussion about hardware openness. People should realize it is (at least!) a serious freedom of competition issue, not only an odd fetish of weird bearded men.
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by mbq 14y ago
Evaluate_some_stuff() in Prolog? Quaggy ground.
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by mbq 14y ago
Plus they must be first made of silicon and rare metals and then deconstructed, both in a very toxic and energy consuming processes. Nuclear waste on the other hand is not only coming form nuclear plants but also from medicine, industry (mo
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by mbq 14y ago
I was trying to say that it is better to invest a bit of time in improving data viewers/editors to present timestamps in a nice form than to waste huge amount of effort on parsing and serializing stuff no human will ever see. Besides, huma
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by mbq 14y ago
I don't get the argument that timestaps are not human readable -- they are, the only thing you need is a good viewing software. And yes, it is worth it since at least 99.999999% of accesses to this data come from machines.
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by mbq 14y ago
Meh, it is just time to accept that Android, iOS and Windows RT are not a serious OSes but an unobtrusive, eye-candy cloud clients for masses. The step ahead is either to waste money on VPSes or just demand the right to have full control of
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by mbq 14y ago
According to the code, it actually does a file read on every request -- this is certainly suspicious because some implicit caching may significantly change the results.
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by mbq 14y ago
Man, this is terrible! Are the numbers proportional to radii or areas? How to compare two bubble blobs when bubbles overlap? How to spot the proportions of colors within a blob? This changes are about what? Last year? If so, the most intere
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by mbq 14y ago
Restoring app last state? Like terminal emulator recreating tmux session wrapping screen session with package manager working under sudo? SSH unHUP-ing processes on remote machine? Python VM resuming all scripts in a precise place and state
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by mbq 14y ago
Having VM per core may be quite beneficial -- you get more fault tolerance, immunity to GC glitches and one tier less when scaling over several machines. And there are nice tools to manage multiple processes.
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by mbq 15y ago
The game is about speed -- probabilistic algorithm use PRNGs so heavily that their internal CPU demand may easily become the limiting factor.
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by mbq 15y ago
Such app is already shown in the Quora thread: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-easiest-way-to-cut-a-pizza-...
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by mbq 15y ago
On the other hand implementing pixel hinting of some shape in a font is quite likely equally hard then writing a JS generator of optimized SVG. Yet rendering speed may be a problem.
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by mbq 15y ago
I have r830 with Arch, so a less-ultra but quite similar stuff -- everything works, after some tuning it can eat only 7.5-8W during normal activity (with Compiz).
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by mbq 15y ago
The most of this Zen comes from array paradigm, not functional; still it is nice to see another soul on the path to Renlightenment (-;
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by mbq 15y ago
Many people would be very surprised to see what MS Pyton is capable of (-:
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by mbq 15y ago
Bypassing maths to make a better model? This is called machine learning (-;
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by mbq 15y ago
R bench is glaringly unfair -- it consists of dumb ports of scalar algorithms while R is an array language.
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by mbq 15y ago
This is so wrong... The point of math is that ideas can be generalized and re-used in previously unexpected places -- your ideas remind me Middle Ages where people were learning a mnemonic poems to remember "law of proportion", treating it
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by mbq 15y ago
Python for iOS is something that makes Python programs run as apps and maintains its library -- thus something explicitly impossible. This is just a gadget.
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by mbq 15y ago
Boo, give me OpenID back! Or at least don't do password reset via HTTP.
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by mbq 15y ago
Don't worry; ten years from now some people will still shout how wonderful is yet another Apple's ultimate hardware build from "miraculously excavated" Jobs' notes -- for instance an eye-track-controlled sphere covered with continuous displ
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by mbq 15y ago
There is always a good time for some shameless auto-promotion, so I'll mention Triggr, a package which allows one to convert R process into a fast, event-based XML-, JSON- or even more freestyle RPC server: https://github.com/mbq/Triggr
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by mbq 15y ago
This DoS would require constant poking since sshd drops all looped connections once fds are exhausted... And can be fixed via small open fd limit put on sshd.

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