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by nn3 12y ago
Calculus is not like computer science. The basics haven't really changed in the last 60 years (and longer)
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by nn3 12y ago
What happens when there are multiple best solutions?
423.
by nn3 12y ago
The exploits today are written for admin-rights account, because most people use that. But I'm sure there are plenty of non-admin->admin holes too. If running as non admin became wide spread the exploits would just need to add an ad
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by nn3 12y ago
Looking at some examples, all those \/ on every line are really ugly. Reminds one why the term `syntactic vinegar' was invented.
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by nn3 12y ago
What's the point of announcing something that doesn't exist? Don't waste your time on the link. It's pure vaporware. Actually vaporware usually usually has a design, but this is more like "write something in rust, b
426.
by nn3 13y ago
GNU make restarts when a Makefile: dependency changes. So it works perfectly fine. Try it ...
427.
by nn3 13y ago
What is wrong wrong with just using the following. Given it would be nice if make had a builtin macro to do this, but it is not too bad to type out. depend: .depend .depend: ${SRC} ${CC} -MM -I. ${SRC} > .depend.X && mv .
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by nn3 13y ago
Agreed. Sounds like a big waste of tax dollars.
429.
by nn3 13y ago
Too many features in a language sounds like a bad thing to me. Anyone remembers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I Trying to be everything to everyone just makes you lose focus and causes too much complexity. Bette
430.
by nn3 13y ago
I don't really understand why people make fun of this. Would you rather they do not provide a workaround for the bug? And yes as every programmer should know, workarounds can be sometimes odd (I did similar things in the past to work a
431.
by nn3 13y ago
IIRC it turned out to be a side effect of their "toolbar" data collection. If most people using googles toolbar would use bing they would see a similar effect. But calling it "they get search results from google" is stre
432.
by nn3 13y ago
Definitely more interesting than the latest iOS fad.
433.
by nn3 13y ago
Your suggestion is the morale equivalent of asking to install Oracle for a simple "tiny data" database problem when sqlite or just a hand crafted table is far enough.
434.
by nn3 13y ago
bubble sort is useful for two cases: you have a small (3-5) fixed size array that you need to sort with very simple code. A classic case is to enforce a defined lock ordering when you have more than two locks in dynamic objects that you all
435.
by nn3 13y ago
>Compared to things like J or FORTH, OCaml is pretty simple. Huh? FORTH is one of the most simple programming languages around.
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by nn3 13y ago
Re underpaid researchers: The part that is always unclear to me is: there is lot of evidence that research/university budgets are growing at a high rate. Where does all that money go to. It doesn't seem to go to the people who act
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by nn3 13y ago
What do you mean? Intel/AMD FPUs suport it in microcode, but it is somewhat slow. But the OS is not involved.
438.
by nn3 13y ago
It's a cool idea, but it's imho really dumb to do something like that as a web service. It should be in the standard toolkit, like GTK.
439.
by nn3 13y ago
As opposed to the maximum size I find it more interesting what the minimum size of organisations is (Haldane's example was the mouse's eye): Can you write viable software with a small team (<5)? Yes Can you write very complex s
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On being the right size (1928)(marxists.org)
199 points by nn3 13y ago|144 comments
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by nn3 13y ago
tl;dr, can someone provide a quick list of all the functionality they removed this time?
442.
by nn3 13y ago
The paper describes flushing the data pages. I don't see anything about the code pages in their algorithm.
443.
by nn3 13y ago
The key part is the first line in the abstract "Flush+Reload is a cache side-channel attack that monitors access to data in shared pages" The OS does not allow arbitary programs to share pages with gpg. If you share pages with gp
444.
by nn3 13y ago
`sententious' is a great word. I need to start using it. Other than that it sounds like a tale from Jonathan Swift. Big or little endian anyone?
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by nn3 13y ago
Just two examples, there is more wrong, beginning with the title. >It creates a “memory barrier” CPU are usually free to >shuffle around the stream of instructions that flow through >them and it is done all the time as the CPU cons
446.
by nn3 13y ago
He's not correct. In fact the post is full of goobledock he only partly understands.
447.
by nn3 13y ago
So like a startup that burns all the remaining money on a single super bowl ad? Paint me skeptical on the wisdom of such investments.
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by nn3 13y ago
I don't think I misquoted. Yes I agree it's an interesting experiment and I like the idea in general. But the article certainly doesn't do a good job arguing for it by quoting that crazy lady and containing such obvious contradictions.
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by nn3 13y ago
"I’m going to save all the money I get and spend it on my son’s wedding.”" ... “But it’s a middle-class prejudice that the poor don’t know how to use money sensibly." I don't want to sound like a "middle class prejudiced person" but spendin