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by obtu 15y ago
The problem with the localStorage API is that it blocks on IO: https://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2012/02/22/psa-dom-local-stor...
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by obtu 15y ago
It's a stumbling block the beginner must learn once, not really an overhead that comes up at every use.
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by obtu 15y ago
Possibly the author is doing something inefficient that shouldn't happen in a mostly-static blog? In which case Google could provide a bit of load testing so that people know their site won't survive a social aggregator. Or offer some read-
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by obtu 15y ago
Huh, they're beating Proxad (French ISP Free / Iliad group) then: 470Gbps as of 2011-04-20: http://lafibre.info/free-les-news/carte-du-reseau-fibre-opti... .
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by obtu 15y ago
Doesn't live up to the title. Node.js just provides a bit of glue between the browser and the face recognition software ( FaceTracker http://web.mac.com/jsaragih/FaceTracker/FaceTracker.html wrapped in ofxFaceTracker ).
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by obtu 15y ago
It's mentioned in the abstract of [1], but not really expanded upon. [1] http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/Papers/DigitizedVisi...
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by obtu 15y ago
Shouldn't zoomed photographs of smooth objects have mostly identical pixels, with the 9-dimension coordinates clustering around the all-pixels-at-the-same-intensity axis? Edit: Oh, the papers mention this is about feature extraction and the
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by obtu 15y ago
<rant>Simple, but not reliable. I've seen admins enable statement-based replication without understanding it, and trash the db. Which is generally my gripe with MySQL: it has some popular features that only work if you don't look at
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by obtu 15y ago
Here's the oldest so far (1996): ftp://ftp.w3.org/pub/old/miniserv/old/webd_4.0B_src.tar.Z
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by obtu 15y ago
NaCL would probably have been mentioned if it was involved. I think Chrome can still do less fine-grained, OS-assisted sandboxing, and Flash on Pepper is cooperating with that.
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by obtu 15y ago
How is it like LuaJIT? The calling convention thing means they have a method JIT, the assembly isn't hand-written, and I don't anything in the commit message that relates to this list of LuaJIT's innovations: http://article.gmane.org/gmane
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by obtu 15y ago
Git is getting better with large files (now that changes to those are streamed to packfiles), but there's still some way to go to make it scale to large numbers of tracked files; https://git.wiki.kernel.org/articles/g/i/t/GitTogether10_bup
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by obtu 15y ago
Considering the proliferation of software patents, with very general claims like the XOR patent, all non-trivial software "infringes" anyway, no matter how many fees are paid. Politically it matters in that it means software patent laws are
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by obtu 15y ago
Mozilla does it with their Jinjo (template loader applying Django's layout conventions to Jinja templates): http://jingo.readthedocs.org/ Coffin ports some template tags as well: https://github.com/coffin/coffin/ That said, PyPy is 16×
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by obtu 15y ago
This isn't easy to navigate right now… Here are the schedules for saturday and sunday: http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/days/sat http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/days/sun If the talks are in the first three rooms, they are in these three
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by obtu 15y ago
A karma system might make the game more fun for griefers. There's nothing in an automated system that prevents a subtle troll from levelling up to mod and hurting wikipedia more efficiently.
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by obtu 15y ago
cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10"
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by obtu 15y ago
https://bugs.pypy.org/
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by obtu 15y ago
This one is a great big hack…
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by obtu 15y ago
Sure it's justified on their part, but if the EU doesn't cut everyone 's crap we'll be left with a shitty oligopoly.
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by obtu 15y ago
Minor correction: the LGPL relaxes the reciprocity requirement for code that uses the LGPL code; linking isn't the only example, imports in dynamic languages is another.
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by obtu 15y ago
Thanks, the intranet business makes a little more sense.
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by obtu 15y ago
It shows up as a normal Google result. Did anyone measure the delays for getting delisted from the "search plus your world" results?
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by obtu 15y ago
They can push updates fast enough[0] that they don't want this to wait after a restart. And since you're bringing software updates into this, even though an optimal strategy will target both problems independently: one can't force users to
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by obtu 15y ago
Emulation would indeed kill the advantage of ARM, but I can see Apple slashing the ecosystem (again) and allowing only vetted apps that go through their OSX app store and get compiled natively.
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by obtu 15y ago
OCSP was supposed to block fraudulent certificates (as long as the break-in is noticed and published); because of softfails the protocol fails at this task. Google's security researchers are proposing an incrementally deployed, admin-friend
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by obtu 15y ago
OCSP stapling is good for privacy and latency, but it requires every server to upgrade to provide any increased security. Until then it is as insecure as OCSP: it can just be stripped.
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by obtu 15y ago
You can namespace your branches. Once you're done with one, you can rename it to merged/essential-dingbats-feature or discarded/dingbats-are-in-fact-useless.
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by obtu 15y ago
They aren't the default windows charsets. Windows code pages tend to be close, with differences here and there that are impossible to sniff for.
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by obtu 15y ago
JS engines use various strategies depending on actual string content because it's more memory- and cache-friendly.

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