mcosta

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by mcosta 13y ago
Is me alone who sees NaCl as another kind of flash? It is just a blob running into a rectangle. No js accesible, almost no browser control over it. How web is this?
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab is obsessed with a certain game(penny-arcade.com)
5 points by mcosta 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcosta 13y ago
This was normal during the housing bubble in almost all the european capitals.
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by mcosta 14y ago
Isn't the largest identifiable chunks of government spending defense?
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by mcosta 14y ago
bsd? linux? solaris?
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by mcosta 14y ago
Trying... I see more danger in a drm-only windows 8 than the one comming form the ipad. I mean, the ipad is going to hurt the sales, but microsoft cant hurt the core itself. Think about vinyls. CD replaced them. But are alive. But what woul
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by mcosta 14y ago
> Side note: I'm also learning pure "modern" JS just because there's no choice on the client-side. Knowing Javascript, GWT is a win.
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by mcosta 14y ago
Are you serious? Do you have any doubt modern machinery is faster and cheaper? 40 hours/week * 50 week/year * 20 years * 10 $/hour= = 400000$
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by mcosta 14y ago
Since long ago Facebook is too big to be adquired. Now even less. Who can pay so much money?
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by mcosta 15y ago
Apple now allows full virtualization of its operating system, provided that it is installed on Apple hardware which is also running OS X 10.7. Great!
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by mcosta 15y ago
In the real world this small company would be counter sued with any random patent eg pattern matching. With reason or not the costs skyrockets... Guess who loses?
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by mcosta 15y ago
I can't tell numbers but our perception is the same. From these people, who are educated enough to pay for our service? Haha Anyway, it works ie7 upwards (tested), but they are getting hard corners and anybody cares.
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by mcosta 15y ago
Our experiences are opposite. My friends do not know the existence of the lists features. And because they have coworkers in their audience they just post political correct content. Read: farm & shit. As their personal technical adviso
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by mcosta 15y ago
A situation is not an "internet drama" by itself. It needs people talking and/or arguing about it. It is evident to me.
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by mcosta 16y ago
Anyone who cares about open source doesn't buys oracle. So now it doesn't matter. 5 years from now, when "open source believer" rise to a management position, and all the infrastructure and people is oracle, the is really very little decisi
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by mcosta 16y ago
Web developers should declare sensitive data no-cacheable.
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Google goes shopping in NYC(informationweek.com)
1 points by mcosta 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcosta 16y ago
You can't make a XHR request to another domain. You only can include it via a <script> tag and that is going to fail.
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by mcosta 16y ago
1) False, CRC does not detect byte shuffling 2) TCP is a byte oriented protocol, so there is no endian or word boundary problems. 3) Nothing is going to split a IP package between the backend servers and and the frontend balancer, where the
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by mcosta 16y ago
> they only ever state active user numbers Yeeeeeessss...? just as anyone else, amirite?
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by mcosta 16y ago
The answer is no. This article seems to be written to help some friends getting attention. Imagine this conversation between these folks and a google exec: For which mobile platforms is it available? Only for iPhone, but it's got 500,000 do
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by mcosta 16y ago
Yeah, I think is there to catch F#, VB.net and asp.net. But then, there should be a JVM option, where clojure and scala fits better than in other.
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by mcosta 16y ago
Right, but a country can get well-educated citizens in high-school, and spend promoting lecture and arts. This last benefits all society, not just students and professors.
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Comcast tests IPv6 (comcast6.net)
1 points by mcosta 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcosta 16y ago
"decent" is the perfect name. Better than the crap the anterior version was is a better description. Perfect for milking the cash cow. -Windows 95? Come on, your memory fails. It was utterly usable and crashed hard everyday. Any other OS of
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by mcosta 16y ago
I did not finish, the sentence.... What this guy describes is the stuff RIM is selling years before the iPhone; form over function sindrome?
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by mcosta 16y ago
What this guy describes is the stuff RIM is selling years before the iPhone;
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by mcosta 16y ago
In this case they are using for its profit the difference in GB and GiB. They do not make the GB smaller each year, or add the caches to the total size.
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by mcosta 16y ago
What do you think about "lignito"? Yeah, lignito.com is mine. We are very "discrete", nobody knows we exists.
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by mcosta 16y ago
How is better to spend 29$ to break a license? Because I suposse the upgrade license needs a "base" license.

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