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by obtu 14y ago
Some governments have access to that source code, but it gives them no guarantees that what they run is faithful to it, and it doesn't let them replace the usual products with something audited. Even if they can compile something out of tha
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by obtu 14y ago
June is already decided. We'll know either way about the December second when the next bulletin C is published, sometime next July: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/
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by obtu 14y ago
Mozilla's multi-processing project is called Electrolysis[1], and the process-per-tab variant is used in mobile versions of Firefox. I think it's pretty far off for the desktop version, and as long as blue sky ideas go, I'd prefer to get th
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by obtu 14y ago
It seems far from final: the outline for Python basics is way more detailed than anything about Pandas.
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by obtu 14y ago
I was going to ask, but the early release does come with (free!) upgrades towards the final product: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/early-release.do
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by obtu 14y ago
Looking at the requirements, particularly l10n and the REST API for editing (which rules out compilers, unless the API server operates at a different privilege level), this will have to be solved by something like a CMS. Except for the offl
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by obtu 14y ago
Seems like they are looking for partnerships (they wouldn't really want to get into the business of integrating and building the whole hardware I expect): > While Google had no immediate plans to commercially develop the system, the com
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by obtu 14y ago
This might work if you create a category and add these languages to it. Ontology-wise you would need one category for the compilers that target javascript (subcat of compilers), and another for languages (primarily?) designed to be compiled
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by obtu 14y ago
It's just an index so you can see if your favourite language is supported. Follow the links for the rest. You couldn't trust extra information in the wiki itself because most of the details you need would get outdated pretty fast.
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by obtu 14y ago
The new instant search does some strange things stashing js assets in hidden form fields, and it seems to have a performance impact at several levels (including the IO cost of serialising the session for restoring it after a crash). There's
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by obtu 14y ago
Someone in this thread has made a wget copy (easily convertible to ePub), ask him to contact you. Nevermind, the html version is still public: https://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php
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by obtu 14y ago
Even if I bought from a store it's not expected, and because I always look for the opt-out checkboxes, anything unexpected goes to the spam bin.
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by obtu 14y ago
The only place I see some rhetoric is the second sentence of the first paragraph, the second paragraph, and the first sentence of the second to last. It's tame: it emphasises the exploit being very involved, which is well supported by the r
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by obtu 14y ago
It's available for extensions I think (there's also the higher-level WebGL which you must be aware of), and requires whitelisted graphic drivers. As you can see, graphic acceleration offers a huge attack surface (memory-unsafety in C++ code
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by obtu 14y ago
I was wondering what was taking them so long, as I recall the blogposts at the time promised that disclosure and a postmortem would come “soon”. Now that we have some detail I'm lapping it up.
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by obtu 14y ago
MetaFilter does symbolic payments for a different purpose (controlled community growth) and that is working out well.
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by obtu 14y ago
Those who stay on a hellbanned account tend to be the moderately clueless who got a false positive hellban after a tone-deaf first comment rather than trolls.
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by obtu 14y ago
I'd like to think so, but I imagine that as a fast-growing company in a tech niche they are unusual enough that a bank wouldn't be qualified to evaluate their credit-worthiness.
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by obtu 14y ago
You have to put a lot more on top of that: gitweb, authentication, authorisation, notifications, maybe other kinds of hooks. Granted gitolite supports it, but you have to write a bit of glue. There's also the option of Gerrit which puts mos
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by obtu 14y ago
Here's a bit more about perverse incentives that make VCs' decisions less rational: http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/08/vc-insanity-economics... The differences between Pinterest and GitHub are that: GitHub is more unique (it's not str
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by obtu 14y ago
I've met someone who worked at two large and conservative workplaces where his mission has been to set up an internal Git service (a slow task thanks to an archaic IT) so they can move some of their projects to that. According to him, insti
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by obtu 14y ago
I think part of his point was that expecting everyone to have a thick skin is a small step away from requiring everyone to have that thick skin, and to not reacting appropriately to people who direct flames against those supposedly thick sk
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by obtu 14y ago
Unix time (which is UTC, and expressed in seconds) does not embed a time zone, which is useful information in some contexts. For example, with e-mail you want to know both the absolute time (so the mail client can indicate how long ago that
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by obtu 14y ago
The original article is about generating date strings, and I would give it more credence if it mentioned the RFC 3339 profile. (edit: I just noticed you're probably the author; please excuse my abrupt tone)
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by obtu 14y ago
The game is rigged a little bit so that this won't happen early on (for example, with a 30 day greenshoe option): http://ask.metafilter.com/214810/Quick-turnaround-strategy-f...
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by obtu 14y ago
I think that's stretching the definition; NaCl is part of the runtime environment, but only as a sandbox which programs won't notice unless they go off the rails. Unless you meant Pepper, which does provide enough platform support for a por
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by obtu 14y ago
Actually Emscripten allows you to port an existing native application to JS, and the development effort is comparable to using NaCl.
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by obtu 14y ago
Ruby will likely be packaged as a PNaCl library, and silently pulled by any chrome application or extension that uses it.
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by obtu 14y ago
Porting a rails application to run serverless.
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by obtu 14y ago
arbitrary code For certain values of arbitrary; actually the code is restricted to the NaCl sandbox and the Pepper API.

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