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by orib 18y ago
Come up with a loose guideline. If your spec is more than a page, and rigidly specifies stuff, you've over specified. The idea is to get an idea of how the system fits together and what the components are needed for putting it together, not
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by orib 18y ago
Sorry, but all the larger Linux vendors -- Gnome Foundation, Novell, KDE Foundation, Canonical, Redhat, Mandriva, and more -- have spent time and money on usability studies. The biggest usability issue Linux has these days is a holdover rep
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by orib 18y ago
Because it tends to be a linkbait machine, and generally doesn't seem to be intellectually stimulating, newsworthy, well researched, or well written.
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by orib 18y ago
I really do want to see more bias towards science/computer science stuff, but this is one place where I can come for general intellectually stimulating reads. So long as the content continues to be mostly well written/well thought out, with
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by orib 18y ago
Yes and no; I have yet to see a single site that works when you swap the CSS layouts out. The thing is that CSS tries to separate layout and content, but you still have to encode the way that you want stuff to be laid out in the page at som
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by orib 18y ago
Yes and no; I have yet to see a single site that works when you swap the CSS layouts out. The thing is that CSS tries to separate layout and content, but you still have to encode the way that you want stuff to be laid out in the page at som
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by orib 18y ago
No, What I want isn't possible with CSS adding turing-completeness to CSS, or using massive javascript hacks, and special-casing every browser out there. And even then, you'd end up with inconsistent behavior across websites. I want to be
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by orib 18y ago
This is not a startup idea. It may be a small Firefox (or even Greasemonkey) extension. However... This is one of the reasons I think CSS should have been designed to be selected client side, not server side. (in other words, the CSS is s
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by orib 18y ago
I did include the jcc stuff; 63 variants of those still seems excessive to me. It would be totally stupid if there were that many straight 'jmp's. Accessing dwords off the top of the stack is a smallish penalty if they're in cache, and i
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by orib 18y ago
I fully agree, but I was asked for why I don't like the x86 architecture, so I gave an answer. Current x86 CPUs are pretty awesome when it comes down to it. the ISA is quite hairy, and that makes writing tools for them quite a bit more pain
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by orib 18y ago
Edit: Some people seem to have missed my point; in summary: x86 is ugly (and below is why I think so) but we don't care because compilers enable us to just forget about what ISA we're using. This is a good thing. This is the way it should
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by orib 18y ago
Compared to most architectures, X86 sucks pretty badly. Thanks to good compilers, though, you don't have to care about the lameness of the instruction set (eg, there are ambiguities in the encoding that need to be disambiguated by register
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by orib 18y ago
This sounds like a case of "Damn, I don't want a pay cut. I don't want to deal with the fallout of being the head of the department that has to hand out the pay cuts.. Better come up with an excuse!" more than a computer system problem.
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by orib 18y ago
Please link directly to the article. Linking an article that links to an article is bloody annoying. Thank you.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy(herpolhode.com)
28 points by orib 18y ago|32 comments
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by orib 18y ago
See section 1.14 http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/c-faq/c-1.html
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Communicating Sequential Processes: A Formalism for Concurrent Programs(usingcsp.com)
3 points by orib 18y ago|0 comments
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by orib 18y ago
First: Lose the cast. It's not needed in C, clutters the code, and can hide real problems (like implicit declarations of the functions -- this can cause crashes on 64-bit architectures). A void* exists solely so it can be assigned to any ty
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by orib 18y ago
I'm not actually using the Bold (I'm beta-testing a different device as my personal device) but I've played with it, and I'd say that it's a major improvement over the curve. It's much faster, the screen is beautifully sharp. It's browser i
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by orib 18y ago
I second waiting for the bold. It's quite capable, and has a screen with double the pixel density (screen has the same resolution, but is smaller to make room for the keyboard) of the IPhone. It's beautifully sharp, and I'd have to say that
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by orib 18y ago
Nah, I was distracted when I read it. It's clear, I'm just stupid.
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by orib 18y ago
If you read my first post, I'm not objecting to the tone so much as the way that it's used to cover the emptiness of the article. I can appreciate a good angry rant -- I've written some myself, and I tend to enjoy Zed Shaw's rants -- but an
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by orib 18y ago
No, it's not. It's sufficiently bad that I won't waste my time reading more articles by that author, and I will probably take a pass on articles by the Register, since their quality standards are low enough to let that drivel on. (Actually,
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by orib 18y ago
The Register: When children do journalism. He may have some points in there, but any real content is drowned by the noise of the baseless insults, ad-hominem attacks, and poor writing. The angry rant style can be made to work, but it needs
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by orib 18y ago
Mainstream media is far from the best, but they tend to at least gloss over the cause of the explosions, whether people were hurt, and so on. The commentary we got from what was posted went something like "Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god."
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by orib 18y ago
Why would they? It's not about what's new, it's about what's effective. And these tactics have been effective for thousands of years. Of course, they're more effective with tourists who haven't been exposed to this sort of bargaining before
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Are We Harming Our Children by Banning "Risky" Play?(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by orib 18y ago|2 comments
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by orib 18y ago
Plenty of people use shared hosting. The unix security model isn't amazing, but it does a reasonable job of protecting you from users other than root -- putting cleartext passwords in command line arguments is one way of throwing that away.
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by orib 18y ago
$ cat /proc/3791/mem cat: /proc/3791/mem: Permission denied $ ps aux | grep 3791 ntp 3638 0.0 0.0 24440 1480 ? Ss ntp 3638 0.0 0.0 24440 1480 ? Ss Jul30 0:01 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntp
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by orib 18y ago
I disagree with the premise of the article. On average, Free software seems to have better usability proprietary applications. Furthermore, usability is rapidly improving, since developers seem to be becoming more aware of usability issues

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