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by mkup 14y ago
There are more registers in x64, so there may be some speed gain. Or a loss of speed due to larger pointer size and more frequent cache misses.
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by mkup 14y ago
If people can't stop using Skype, they can use older versions, or bithack advertisement displaying code out from binary files of new versions. And there will be open source protocol-compatible clients. There are a lot of options besides pay
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by mkup 14y ago
Yes, it's exactly what I'm saying: retail prices in Europe include VAT and it's about 20-25%, same as difference between the value of one dollar and one euro. And, in general, taxes are higher in Europe because of higher government spending
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by mkup 14y ago
It's not Apple ripping off users, it's a price of state-sponsored healthcare and education. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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by mkup 14y ago
Latest C++ features are in MinGW and clang! And latest C features (C99) are there too.
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by mkup 14y ago
does it have fork(2) support? if it doesn't, then it's rather alternative to MinGW, not Cygwin
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by mkup 14y ago
Why don't you write small program in C and call it as external process from your PHP code to perform resource-intensive computations? Database should have nothing to do at all with user password hashes.
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by mkup 14y ago
With such compression ratio for text, and compression speed, this algorithm fits well to the Google Snappy / LZO / FastLZ group. Every database engine should use one of these, they are operating at disk I/O speed.
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by mkup 14y ago
Propaganda is, by definition, information sponsored by government. It's when people get brainwashed via taxpayer money. I'm not a government official, contractor, and not affiliated in any way. I fail to see how can I do any harm to the pro
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by mkup 14y ago
Install the new Visual Studio 2012! It is two times more visual than the previous one!
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by mkup 14y ago
Your emotional active downvoting will not make any my statements false. All I said in this thread is true. GPL-licensed code is viral: GPL in any library expands itself to the whole work; and it is illegal to distribute solely binary file,
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by mkup 14y ago
You are plainly wrong. Go reread LGPL. LGPL exists to have lesser GPL without viral nature. They both forbid static linking with proprietary code and distributing solely resulting binary file.
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by mkup 14y ago
Ah, great then, this will be even more epic fail than Vista. No Start menu, ridiculous 'store' instead of freedom of installing everything, new antitrust process vs goverment because of attempt to make Firefox and Chrome second class citize
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by mkup 14y ago
Still no Start button?
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by mkup 14y ago
For LGPL code, you may not statically link it to proprietary code and then distribute the result too. Only dynamic linking is OK (DLL, libFOO.so, some other form of combining which permits enduser to upgrade/modify free part). And GPL adds
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by mkup 14y ago
So, running proprietary software under Linux kernel is OK from legal point of view, but combining GPL kernel + proprietary initramfs to single BLOB and flashing it into hardware (distributing for end users for update) isn't safe?
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by mkup 14y ago
Linux source tree contains COPYING file which says that GPL viral nature does not extend beyond kernel/userspace boundary: http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.4/COPYING So, Linux kernel is basically under LGPL: it's OK to take it, bundle with s
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by mkup 14y ago
So, Microsoft is funding botnet operator to DDoS P2P network? It is legal? What if tomorrow Apple will fund botnet operator to DDoS Microsoft?
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by mkup 14y ago
Virtual machine is not required for sandboxing C++ apps in 21st century. [1] http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ [2] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
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by mkup 14y ago
Which key should I press to shoot? Original DOS version used [Ctrl] as far as I remember. It doesn't work in browser.
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by mkup 14y ago
MSVC has very powerful debugger. It is able to inspect STL collections, set conditional breakpoints, break on certain types of exceptions, watch complex expressions, view local variables by mouse hover etc. It can attach to running process,
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by mkup 14y ago
Some implementations of heap memory allocators manage free memory chunks as doubly-linked lists. There are multiple lists for chunks of equal size, i.e. 4, 8, 16, 32 ... 2^n. This XOR linked list hack makes sense for smallest chunk size. On
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by mkup 14y ago
I use UTF-8 for transmitted data and disk I/O, and I use UCS-4 (wchar_t on Linux/FreeBSD) for internal representation of strings in my software. I generally agree with this article, but I disagree with it on the point that UTF-8 is the only
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by mkup 14y ago
Yes, I find original Starcraft more enjoying too, as there is no implicit or explicit time limit in most missions as in SC2, so player doesn't have to rush through all the game and has time to explore the map, try various units and strategi
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by mkup 14y ago
Since you didn't propose a better standard during these decades, IPv6 is likely to stay. Why it's poor btw?
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by mkup 14y ago
> I'm wondering if that modulo value has any meaning It's a prime number, close to 1 billion
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by mkup 14y ago
Agreed. It's better idea to use mutex + 2 semaphores to implement queue with blocking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producer-consumer_problem#Using... (it's a classical computer science problem with classical solution)
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GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever(itworld.com)
61 points by mkup 14y ago|108 comments
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by mkup 14y ago
Nope - M.A.D. principle assumes perfect rationality, i.e. all leaders with launch capability care about the survival of their subjects. This assumption worked well during the times of Cold War, but may fail in future, as more states gain ac
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by mkup 14y ago
The only reason keeping one country from launching nuclear weapons at another one is Mutual Assured Destruction principle. Without nuclear weapons, the world would be a much more dangerous place to live. We had two world wars in the first h

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