nknight

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by nknight 14y ago
Like hell he isn't. Go back through his comment history. He's arrogant, dismissive, presumptuous, and yes, outright mocking. This is, intermittently, his MO on other subjects as well, notably infosec, but it's been particularly bad of late
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by nknight 14y ago
In light of your recent rantings about "nerds"[1] and the law, it's hard to see your post as anything other than a continuation of your angry attacks on anyone who dares speak on the subject of the laws governing our hypothetically-democrat
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by nknight 14y ago
You should look up what "linkbait" actually means. A forum discussion between developers about a problem using the Dropbox SDK in the iOS app store assuredly does not qualify.
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by nknight 14y ago
You can claim all the experience you want, but your statements belie the truth. JSON is in no way limited to raw data interchange, and the files puppet manages cannot be put off to one side in some magical place where root cannot access the
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by nknight 14y ago
I'm forced to wonder from your comments throughout this thread whether you have much real-world development experience, versus having just ingested a bunch of theoretical information on best practices. The things you're dismissing out of ha
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by nknight 14y ago
From my work with Taiwanese engineers, I have found that reading and writing are as much two different skills as speaking and listening are. Almost all of them can read English remarkably well, but some of the emails I get from them... Ofte
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by nknight 14y ago
I'm afraid your dialect is rather singular. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enthusiast
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by nknight 14y ago
> For an enthusiast I think you're misusing that word. A space flight and/or specifically SpaceX enthusiast would recognize the terminology instantly. Assuming you mean something like "amateur" or "layman", thinking anything without t
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by nknight 14y ago
That bleeding can cause other problems like anemia, and aspirin can also cause ulcers, which besides the discomfort, can become a serious medical emergency. This is truly a balancing act, and we really don't know enough to balance it for ge
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by nknight 14y ago
What exploration? The context of this thread is commercial exploitation of a resource. This isn't a search for knowledge. You're caught up in the romanticism of space.
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by nknight 14y ago
The first few times, sure. But we're past that now. Anywhere from 1000-5000 people reside on Antarctica at any given time. No more than a handful die in any given year.
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by nknight 14y ago
> soldiers in combat zones The very goal is death. The situations are utterly incomparable. DanBC has already addressed the faulty assumption you made as to police. > I am curious why people think that space travel is safe or tha
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by nknight 14y ago
If you look up the mortality rates for things like mining, fishing, or logging in the US, you'll find that they tend to run between 0.01% and 0.05%. You're proposing a risk 100 to 500 times what the most dangerous ground-based jobs run. I h
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by nknight 14y ago
It doesn't really matter. Any method of server-side encryption for email (and many other) systems as we currently understand them has inherent flaws. The simple fact is that key material is accessible in RAM, and even if it weren't, the dat
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by nknight 14y ago
> converting to UTF-8 every time text needed to go through the layout engine would kill us in benchmarks So what? Is your goal to create useful software, or win at worthless benchmarks?
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by nknight 14y ago
You are making many faulty assumptions, attacking a culture you clearly do not understand in the least. To call something braindamaged in hacker culture is well understood as a personal value judgement with certain connotations. It has abso
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by nknight 14y ago
Telling the hacker community not to use the term "braindamaged" is one of the most braindamaged things I can think of.
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by nknight 14y ago
You're making this way more complicated than it needs to be. It's not an alerting system, it's a knob, like a thermostat. I turn the knob where I want it, the system follows the "run until this limit is hit" instruction. If I want to chan
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by nknight 14y ago
> you'll knock them offline for a given billing cycle Er... Because caps can never be raised mid-cycle?
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by nknight 14y ago
> a free tool anyone can use So, no more gcc, clang, Eclipse, Blender, nasm, or GIMP. Anything built with free tools is not worth supporting. Do you want to let the entire Fortune 500 know they need to close up shop now, or should I?
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by nknight 14y ago
> I'm questioning whether the game will ever come out at all. Then why have you not said that anywhere? All you've done is complain about the perceived quality of the result as predicted by you.
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by nknight 14y ago
He is not talking about disk cache, disk cache is accounted for separately, he's talking about actual memory being allocated by the kernel_task process . It's been obvious since Lion came out that there's a problem, and so far Apple ha
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by nknight 14y ago
> The logic is for things like daemons or infrequently used processes that wake up maybe once a day. They don't need to be in ram all the time needlessly. So swapping out their memory that hasn't been used for N hours isn't a bad thing
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by nknight 14y ago
True, but most of them are confined to their own tab.
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by nknight 14y ago
When is the last time a web feature with the potential to annoy was used only judiciously? I now expect the use of tabs to become impractical as half the websites on the planet start animating their favicons and I can't handle the distracti
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by nknight 14y ago
private void RangeCheck(int index) { if (index >= size) throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException( "Index: "+index+", Size: "+size); } If this were the basis of Oracle's copyright claim, any judge in the coun
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by nknight 14y ago
Civil forfeiture is based on a simple preponderance of the evidence, and has not changed.
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by nknight 15y ago
> The law is the law as it's written and then as it's reflected in court decisions. That may not be as true as you think. I don't really know how the modern UK legal system works in this regard, but in the US, the courts would A) defe
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by nknight 15y ago
> Certainly nothing like the 28 million subscribers they currently have. Netflix alone had over 23 million streaming subscribers at the end of Q4. I'd say your instincts as to the market potential are quite underwhelming.
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by nknight 15y ago
Speaking of bandwidth... Are you really not losing money on $1.15/mbps overage? How many 10gbps ports did it take before you got Cogent down that low?

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