mrich

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by mrich 12y ago
Unfortunately not. Making this available is a lose-lose for Google: It will prevent collection of personal data which their business model relies on, and break apps which will diminish the user experience and reflect badly on Android.
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by mrich 12y ago
Related: 28c3: Behind the scenes of a C64 demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9IY5Kf0Mo
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by mrich 12y ago
The guy was helping others. He should not have to take extra steps to be safe while doing it.
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by mrich 12y ago
I'm amazed how even these US judges cannot see what is wrong with this. Or are they themselves under pressure/threat from the executive and NSA/CIA?
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by mrich 12y ago
Then again, there are countless websites which fail to outperform a comparable desktop app written in C++ 15 years ago, on today's powerful computers, which is sad.
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by mrich 12y ago
The article is about Axel Springer AG, publisher of the largest German tabloid Bild and newspaper Die Welt. Springer, the scientific publisher is another entity.
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by mrich 13y ago
So your build speed is limited by metadata file accesses to network storage? Your network/storage must be really bad then. How about mirroring all the needed headers locally before building? You could establish that as a makefile rule.
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by mrich 13y ago
The car systems are probably all running QNX, you cannot just switch them to iOS which cannot deal with the hardware.
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by mrich 13y ago
They missed a chance to call a project 'Stalin'.
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by mrich 13y ago
I like it!
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by mrich 13y ago
The same holds for C/C++. You can find a wide variety of companies that use it in one form or another. Plus, it's a front-end technology too :) And it is kind of a superset of Java or C#, so you are a good fit for very many jobs.
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by mrich 13y ago
You could argue that it is a fault of the C language that it does not expose the carry flag of the CPU. This makes the most optimal implementation of e.g. addition impossible without resorting to (inline) assembler. Of course not every CPU
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by mrich 13y ago
Google is happy to strengthen another Android OEM to balance out the ecosystem, keeping Samsung from dominating. They focus on the software which is their strength. I'm curious whether they have some clause to keep Lenovo from dropping
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First TV interview with Edward Snowden (original english version)(archive.org)
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by mrich 13y ago
Perhaps it will help you to understand some background: In a Unix process stdout typically is file descriptor 1 and stderr is fd 2. So you are saying: Redirect from fd 2 into fd 1.
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by mrich 13y ago
Making that data truly anonymous so that you cannot de-anonymize it with other data sets is likely impossible. You would have to remove so much that the data becomes useless.
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by mrich 13y ago
They want to find a longer-lasting arrangement with a company which would have two advantages: 1) Not necessary to beg the community each year, saves a lot of time for the real work on the project 2) The company could easily deduce the dona
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by mrich 13y ago
Javascript does not have threads, so the only way to use it on the server with decent multiuser performance is with async I/O and callbacks. So he's saying people are using NodeJS because it made it possible to write server-side a
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by mrich 13y ago
> "Obviously with iOS devices having ports closed and being behind NAT, the NSA can't exploit them remotely." This is a pretty limited view of remote exploits. It could easily be a browser-based exploit for example, with t
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by mrich 13y ago
Except Apple uses their patents offensively, even trolling with them, but he prefers attacking a small developer since he may be affected this time.
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by mrich 13y ago
I assume you mean publishing date?
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by mrich 13y ago
Are custom software keyboards officially available yet? This would be the first thing I would miss.
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by mrich 13y ago
You can outsource your work before he does.
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by mrich 13y ago
As an example, the NBA.com stats website is running on HANA: http://stats.nba.com/
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by mrich 13y ago
This is the interesting question. I think they don't have to.
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by mrich 13y ago
As a side note, the whole site is an amazing collection of wisdom and worth bookmarking: http://yarchive.net/
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by mrich 13y ago
He didn't mind shaking the hand of the president responsible for illegally monitoring the communications of all Germans.
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by mrich 13y ago
However, this line of reasoning also leads to slow web applications that make a high-powered workstation feel like a slow 386 from 15 years ago.
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by mrich 13y ago
Unfortunately, for large projects I have seen some bugs that currently prevent replacing valgrind with Address Sanitizer.
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by mrich 13y ago
Most open source libraries are written in C/C++. The interface is usually described in header files, you need them to compile your program. The implementation itself is contained in a library, which you link into your program. There is

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