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by mfukar 16y ago
The guy should try to convince me that PHP is bad. It goes both ways: he has tried to do certain things with PHP and made his life miserable; you've done certain things with PHP that made your life easier. Telling each other which is whic
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by mfukar 16y ago
Well, if we're talking about different hardware, this whole discussion is moot - CPU (not C-entral anymore..) architecture changes render "old" optimization techniques only situational today. At any rate, the same is true for all languages,
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by mfukar 16y ago
" much hand-optimized 90s-era C code is now slower than more naive implementations, because the optimizations used to save some instructions often actively harm cache performance. " On the same hardware? That seems unlikely - do you have a
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An interesting new RNG by George Marsaglia(groups.google.com)
2 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
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by mfukar 16y ago
I will actually make a blog post of it. There are a few more things to be said, and too little space here.
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by mfukar 16y ago
"Of course, this is not easy to do in C." Actually, it's quite simple. The issue is that debugging becomes a bitch, and error codes are hidden even from the developer inside nested function calls - ie. you can't stop/recover from errors
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by mfukar 16y ago
Maybe not. Probably not, in many cases. Hey, have you seen function prologues in assembly? How does it know all the amount of stack space it's going to need beforehand?
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by mfukar 16y ago
You could be proven right, but I don't think we should be alienating the education system, anyway. Education, regardless of it being public or private, exists for a reason, and that reason wasn't always babysitting and patronizing. Lack of
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For One Quarter of Users, the iPad is a Game Machine(toucharcade.com)
1 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
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by mfukar 16y ago
I'm willing to forgive his "poor" writing on account that he's right - most CS students and graduates don't have any clue about cache effects on algorithm implementations, and that's just wrong.
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by mfukar 16y ago
Well, if you want to get a kid hooked on programming, or at least grab his/her attention quickly, you should also keep the coolness factor in mind: how easy is to create something impressive and how you can promote some algorithmic and/or a
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by mfukar 16y ago
"...it also requires a great depth of knowledge and patience on the part of the teacher..." Not to mention imagination and creativity. I'm not completely aware of the situation in U.S. schools, but here (Greece) it's utterly terrible, eve
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by mfukar 16y ago
http://bit.ly/bbzeYP and http://bit.ly/bB1sVG You could use those.
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by mfukar 16y ago
Could you provide us with details of your setup for your benchmarks? Some box specifications (location, net capacities, CPU/mem/bus specs), presence or not of middleware (and what kind), software configuration, evaluation methodology, etc.?
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by mfukar 16y ago
Naming and Necessity, by Saul A. Kripke It's a series of Kripke's lectures from 1970 if I'm not mistaken, republished, but without significant changes/corrections. Note Kripke's age of 29 at that point. In them, he develops his theory of di
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by mfukar 16y ago
Let me start by saying I don't like the GIL. It's limiting and buggy (last week we discovered a bug involving GIL and on-demand imports for constructing Unicode objects...it's hiding pretty well). However, if I were to judge it as a design
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by mfukar 16y ago
Two things: a) A module to load and execute arbitrary ELF files, to be used for post-exploitation in penetration tests. b) A PoC method to detect SSL stripping attacks, client-side.
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by mfukar 16y ago
Those studies do seem to indicate so. However, they do not take into account multiple other factors that could make an individual wanting to, consciously or not, become a night owl . The same is true for all a person's preferences, althoug
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by mfukar 16y ago
There is no question the generated code is practically indecipherable. But you have to treat it like a compiler; no one goes leafing through the ".o" that GCC generates on a regular basis, so why worry about what "autoconf" and "automake"
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by mfukar 16y ago
Unfortunately most of his "rant" is justified. Autotools are exceptionally bad for several reasons: - They are difficult and not at all intuitive to learn and use. As another poster noted, there are no abstractions whatsoever, so what's sto
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by mfukar 16y ago
It's been a long time since I've benchmarked a RDBMS, but it's always the same story: Benchmarks are rarely done correctly. People think a benchmark as the definitive way to prove their point, so they hastily and sloppily design a simplisti
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by mfukar 16y ago
He didn't have to. We're talking about the real world here, not kindergarten. If he absolutely had to go public, he could at least anonymize the data before handing it over to a journalist.
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by mfukar 16y ago
Evaluating an exploit, unless sanctioned by a bilateral agreement between both parties (like in pentesting), is in fact illegal in most countries. Disclosure without proper notification of the affected parties can also lead (and sometimes d
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by mfukar 16y ago
Your guess is in fact correct. If you watch many a game, even on YouTube, you'll find that's exactly what most professional gamers are doing.
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by mfukar 16y ago
That's how I felt at first, but in 10+ years playing SC I've found the opposite. High APM is important for two reasons: a) Scouting constantly, producing units, upgrades, building buildings, attacking, harassing, retreating, maneuvering. Wi
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by mfukar 16y ago
Let's not turn this into C vs assembly again. People are free to choose their favourite language to develop a hobbyist OS - and do a pretty good job in the process.
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by mfukar 16y ago
"Big law firm did it but didn't get punished, yet I did it and got raided." Really? Are you really going for this elementary school argument? Doesn't help when you distort the concept of 'full disclosure' and related practices, either. No s
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by mfukar 16y ago
Any chance you can provide some measurements or link relevant data in an article, perhaps?
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by mfukar 16y ago
That sums up my opinion about the article as well. What I wonder though, is why people don't relate their distaste for online advertising to ads via conventional media. Advertisements are equally frustrating regardless of medium, and are by
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by mfukar 16y ago
Since when is dynamic programming considered an algorithm?

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