nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet Dublin, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Stockholm. Even if they didn't actually have physical offices in Europe, there are any number of situations in which Facebook may end up subje
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by nknight 15y ago
What the heck is "all or most of the time"? Which time? What if everyone including the child is regularly out of the house for all but a few waking hours per day? "the television" -- which one? Does the one in the teenager's bedroom count?
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by nknight 15y ago
I didn't vote you down, but I'd say you were missing the point. You think OWS is exclusively left? Did every ordinary right-leaning American suddenly decide massive government spending is OK so long as it's to bail big corporations out of t
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by nknight 15y ago
Fine: > When a maximized window is behind an active non-maximized window, the panel serves as its title bar. But it actually spells out the name of the active window. Very confusing. This just doesn't happen in OS X that I've ever obs
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by nknight 15y ago
It's a combination of political slogans/rallying cries and observations about wealth distribution problems in general. The former will always be wider than they ought to be, the latter can't exclude the "good guys" from the conversation ent
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by nknight 15y ago
Actually it does, you just have to tilt your head right. :) See [1]. Either way, the principle stands. If a desktop environment wanted to standardize on JSON + C/C++-style comments, they could extend their standard parser easily enough with
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by nknight 15y ago
No, it doesn't. OS X has several crucial behavioral differences. * OS X does not launch a second window if the application icon is clicked twice. Some like this (I do), some don't, but it's how the Mac UI works, and is a critical part of th
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by nknight 15y ago
The bailouts are a result of brokenness, I never said they were a property. But I think we have rather different ideas of what "fundamental" means, if you're arguing that it's not fundamentally broken, but that "core changes are necessary".
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by nknight 15y ago
They are a result of the system. I find it hard to believe that a not-fundamentally-broken system would produce that result. What non-fundamental properties of the system do you think should change to halt now, and prevent in the future, ba
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by nknight 15y ago
Let's assume for a moment that the richest 400 people in the US "create jobs" in some reasonable proportion to their personal wealth. Let's also assume that all of them disappeared tomorrow. Do you believe that half the jobs in the US would
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by nknight 15y ago
I have two very simple questions for you: 1) Do you believe it right that the financial sector was, and is still being, bailed out? 2) If not, how do you describe the system producing that result, if not "fundamentally broken"?
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by nknight 15y ago
A long time ago, some crackpots thought protests were worth protecting. Can't remember who they were, must not have had much impact... Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise the
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by nknight 15y ago
> How many milliseconds does it take to parse YAML, XML, or any other file format for which a parser written in C is widely available? YAML and XML may be slower than this, but Python 2.6's built-in 'json' module averages less than 20
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by nknight 15y ago
Please do not slander OS X like that. I've been a happy OS X user since 2005. I look at GNOME 3/Unity and I vomit. Vigorously. If this was an attempt to be Mac-like, then it was pure cargo-cult UI design. They clearly have no understanding
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by nknight 15y ago
What are your requirements? There are a couple good VPS providers out there that offer up-to-date OS options. Look at Linode if you haven't already. (They've added London and Tokyo datacenters in the recent past, so if geography was a facto
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by nknight 15y ago
Seems to work fine on my mid-2010 MBP in Chrome, running Snow Leopard. Could do with a little more contrast on the globe, though...
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by nknight 15y ago
No, not better, in any way. The article was about dealing with the slow start problem. It didn't seek to examine the causes or likelihood of latency in its or any other particular situation. It had a well-defined problem: 50ms RTT combined
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by nknight 15y ago
I'd be fascinated to know how you determined where he personally was when conducting the test, and the location of the other, unnamed server he was using to download the content: "I only have approximate numbers since the RTT between the s
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by nknight 15y ago
I've read the article three times, and I see no mention of anyone's location, distances, or number of hops, merely a statement that the link is 50ms round-trip. Meanwhile, your statement also made no mention of distance, only a blanket "rid
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by nknight 15y ago
> The RTT quoted (50 ms) is ridiculously slow for most broadband connections. The speed of light would like a word with you. Even if you had a "straight" link across the surface of the earth, the information transited at 100% of c, an
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by nknight 15y ago
It's impossible to state with absolute certainty without going through the patches that have been added by Red Hat to your kernel, but I'd be surprised if something like this from so far down mainline got backported. 4.x is pretty old, and
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by nknight 15y ago
I hate that this rule exists in the form it does, but changing it is potentially difficult. Accredited investors and the offerings they invest in are largely outside the regulatory system, and it's ripe for fraud. The whole idea is that acc
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by nknight 15y ago
You could basically say the same thing about any proprietary license. It won't go unused by anyone who needs it and is willing to abide by the provisions of the license, same as any other software license. And there are many millions of peo
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by nknight 15y ago
Not sure what you mean, exactly. GCC went away for 5.x, sure, but that's because they've switched over to clang, which may not be (L)GPL, but is open source, and I haven't heard any stories of secret modifications to it. Everything else see
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by nknight 15y ago
The logic he described belonged to no one. Neither he nor mmaro actually claimed it. It was an entirely hypothetical scenario in which some people might see mmaro's statements as something other than selling snake oil (I certainly wouldn't,
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by nknight 15y ago
While most of the Dutch people I've heard speak did so with perfectly fluent English (and American accents -- thank you, Hollywood), you're unwittingly assuming he's relatively young -- my understanding is that, not surprisingly, levels of
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by nknight 15y ago
He hasn't made that argument or anything close to it. The most he's said/implied is that $50/month is worth it. If he has some other logic, he'll need to share it if he hopes to convince anyone. Otherwise, he's just a guy standing on the si
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by nknight 15y ago
> Personally, I would want to be > 99% sure about this before completely giving up on cryonics. That same logic can be used to justify spending inordinate resources on any sort of snake oil. Why should cryonics be special?
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by nknight 15y ago
Maybe when there's real evidence that cryonics is actually useful? Hackers of all people ought to know that no matter what your models say, it's all bullshit until you test it. And as far as I know, there's not even a model generally accept

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