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by mkup 14y ago
GNU Hurd?
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by mkup 14y ago
Domains are real estate of the internet. Losing domain control is like losing your house or land.
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by mkup 14y ago
I guess consumer pressure on Microsoft tech support after Win8 release is above any limits. Lack of Start button, no easy way to shutdown PC, full-screen interface with no way of knowning which app is active and without easy way to switch t
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by mkup 14y ago
I wish this article had some comparison of AWS I/O (both ephemeral and EBS) to the real hardware (some average HDD and SSD, maybe RAID-1) in terms of random R/W throughput, sequential R/W throughput, single thread random IOPS, multithread r
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by mkup 14y ago
Because it's better to be safe than sorry.
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by mkup 14y ago
Microsoft has protected itself from the next Netscape Navigator. Now every software vendor for Metro/WinRT is effectively running a market research for Microsoft: what feature should be included to the next version of Windows? And after ads
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by mkup 14y ago
Why WinRAR team didn't add digital signing to the code for that VMs? Old WinRAR versions would contain VM interpreter, public RSA key and signature verification code; new WinRAR versions would embed already signed blobs of VM code into arch
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by mkup 14y ago
Can NDA overrule the law? For example, can burglar who broke into your house force you to sign NDA so you don't report this case to the police? IANAL, but probably law doesn't work that way; burglary is still a crime regardless of NDAs, and
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Building software for Raspberry Pi in Windows: Cross-Compiler Howto(gurucoding.com)
6 points by mkup 14y ago|0 comments
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by mkup 14y ago
New kind of trolls detected in the wild: bugtracker trolls.
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by mkup 14y ago
SSL client side certificates are already implemented, but they have their own problems: 1) UI is hard to use http://pilif.github.com/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-clie... 2) Can be easily stolen by malware (if client certificate is pass
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by mkup 14y ago
Microsoft could just make Visio interface a bit little messy. I.e. eliminate the need to open popup menu in order to change properties, add quick search for objects etc.
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by mkup 14y ago
Also there's Paint.NET on PC. It's fast, not bloated with useless functions (yet), and freeware. I've switched to it from Photoshop a few months ago and never regret my decision.
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by mkup 14y ago
(A bit off-topic question to physics expert on HN) I've read that supermassive black hole accretion is the most energy-effective process of mass to energy conversion in the Universe (50% efficiency or so). I'm just curious: Where does all t
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by mkup 14y ago
This is what one school of thought says. Another school of thought says that people still buy deflating computers, mobile phones and other electronics, and Intel would have gone bankrupt long time ago if "mattress theory of deflation" is va
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by mkup 14y ago
It looks like it would be easier to bruteforce fixed RC4 key than 10000 iterations of MD5, especially due to known weaknesses of RC4 key schedule. Name of target software in Program Files is interesting nevertheless. Probably it's mentioned
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by mkup 14y ago
Apple couldn't choose Linux as a core of OSX or iOS even if they desperately wanted to, because GPL would expand to entire "collective work" including closed-source userland tools (if they are distributed together with a kernel as a single
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by mkup 14y ago
It's much easier to guess a weak password than create a fake profile. As for everything else, I totally agree with you.
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by mkup 14y ago
We've also gone thousands of years without electricity! So should people turn off their computers and phones and throw them out of the window?
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by mkup 14y ago
Now, Truss and I disagree on what it means to have "zero tolerance." She thinks that people who mix up their itses "deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave," while I just think they deserve
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by mkup 14y ago
I didn't knew about it, thanks. Maybe it will replace slow, ugly and expensive Photoshop for me; because I don't use most of the functions of that bloatware, neither I understand what they are for.
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Ask HN: Which tools are you using to edit graphics for web?
5 points by mkup 14y ago|11 comments
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by mkup 14y ago
There was existing implementation in 90s, bound pointers were implemented in Borland C++ Builder (__closure keyword).
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by mkup 14y ago
PayPal is a thing from 1990s. Today there's a Bitcoin :)
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by mkup 14y ago
How many hardware crashes were not recorded? If CPU, memory or harddisk fails, OS can't always record the event, isn't it? Is the data backing this paper statistically valid? We have only subset of failures here, when failed system was part
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by mkup 14y ago
Go language has no syntactic difference between owning and non-owning pointers. Therefore, it is impossible to replace stop-the-world GC with reference counting GC eventually. IMHO that's a flaw in the language design and it's too late to f
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by mkup 14y ago
Bitcoin mining coffee warmer is a great idea. But why we don't have bitcoin mining water heater for entire house? :)
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by mkup 14y ago
People started to use Dropbox as a free CDN, didn't they? Why do we need AWS CloudFront if we have Dropbox? :)
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by mkup 14y ago
Not that complex really, if we are talking about buddy allocator or jemalloc. They both have predictable and limited running time. Default platform malloc(3) and free(3) can be a crap indeed, but they are drop-in replaceable with the above
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by mkup 14y ago
It's not the only advantage. Another, more important advantage of C and C++ over Go is a lack of stop-the-world garbage collection (and predictable memory usage under high load).

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