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by mkup 15y ago
Btw, what do you think about Microsoft trying to apply its desktop OS, descendant of Windows NT, to tablets? Aren't tablets disruptive innovation to desktops (in Christensen terms) and therefore the entire plan is doomed? It looks to me the
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Ask HN: A service to send highly-voted HN submissions to email
1 points by mkup 15y ago|1 comments
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wxWidgets
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a link to support your argument on Miller's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_...
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Regarding STMP-command-style lookup: A more portable way to do that is to define a macro to assemble the 4 bytes into unsigned int: #define CHAR4_TO_UINT(a,b,c,d) \ ( \ ((unsigned int)(
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by mkup 15y ago
Maybe, I don't remember. It was long ago.
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My favourite C trick is -Dcontinue=break in the Makefile. Sacrasm aside, I like (( x > 0 )&&( (x&(x-1)) == 0 )) trick to test if x is a power of two. But all arithmetic tricks like this need to be commented in detail, used r
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by mkup 15y ago
So now Google will be targeting advertisements using information about keywords you read from the screen all day long? Great.
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I think RMS is doing perfect trolling to get more attention to his GNU/FSF/commie stuff. The net effect is the people talking about RMS, about FSF and GNU. More people get to know about this stuff, more people get involved. Just a little tr
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by mkup 15y ago
the point is: traffic is 50x expensive compared to RAM
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And what about gamma ray bursts from nearby supernova directed to the Earth?
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In USA, you have a law permitting to take a photo in a public place. In Soviet Russia a law permitting to take a photo in a public place has you.
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Are there code licenses you seek out or avoid? Avoid Affero GPL (AGPL). Everything else is fine for commercial (closed close) startup based on open source software.
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D-Bus Experiments in Vala(brunogirin.blogspot.com)
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If there is no difference on the syntactic level between owning and non-owning pointers, like in Go programming language, like in Python, then I agree with you - it's extremely easy to make a cycle. But if there's a difference between ownin
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In Go, there's much larger overhead for GC. Russ Cox says in [2] (see link in my first comment above): We used gopprof to study an inefficient Go program and then to improve its performance by an order of magnitude and to reduce its memory
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It would be nice if it could work that way in Rust. In Google Go garbage collector stops all heavyweight OS threads [See go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:runtimeВ·stoptheworld() in the source tree.]
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Reference counting works just fine in Python and C++. If reference counter is thread-local (i.e. its increment/decrement is not done with InterlockedIncrement/Decrement = LOCK XADD/XSUB), then it won't cause a lot of MESI traffic and relate
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I'm writing this comment in hope that Rust language designers read this thread. It's very important to language designers at this time to avoid stop-the-world GC approach in Rust at any cost. Google Go is beautiful programming language, but
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There was a time when Windows Logo was considered prestigious, respectable and trendy thing. With such a practice Microsoft is quickly approaching a time when Windows Logo will be perceived like a hot-iron branding of robbers and other crim
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> Hacker News is definitely turning into the monoculture Paul Graham said (here on this site) that he wanted to prevent. It happens to all websites with upvotes and downvotes system for comments. Before Hacker News I've seen it happen
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> you don't understand how the gpl works, or how linking works wrt license compliance Please clarify. Am I allowed to statically link GPL code with closed-source code and distribute resulting collective work in binary form? Am I allow
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by mkup 15y ago
OK, thanks for clarification. I didn't know about this special exception.
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The attack works in such way: 1. A user opens any HTTP website like http://google.com/ in Iran (for example) 2. Government-controlled Iranian ISP intercepts HTTP traffic and injects some rogue JS code. 3. Rogue JS code opens https-AJAX-co
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GPLv2 says: ----citation---- 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provide
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... A firmware upgrade, for example. Or some jumpers changed.
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OK, now I get the idea Still there could be some edge cases - like hibernating filesystem cache as a part of kernel-related RAM , then shutting down, booting Linux, changing the filesystem and then booting windows (which does not know that
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> whether detecting changes and initating a more complete boot or dealing with it in the GUI. Sure, they can detect hw changes and make full cold boot, therefore losing all RAM data which was saved to the disk at the point of hibernatio
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And what if I turn off my computer with Windows 8 and add/remove/swap PCI cards? HDDs? It will crash when booting and corrupt my data, isn't it? In Windows 95 I had two options: reboot and poweroff. In Windows 2000 I had three options: rebo
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OpenVPN sessions look like SSL traffic to the eavesdropper. So there's a good reason to use OpenVPN in Pakistan. They'll have to ban SSL at the state level as well.

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