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by pdw 11y ago
It is a silly convention, really. Algol-60 didn't require them, and neither did any language in the Algol family (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, etc). It used to be something peculiar to Fortran and C, but today every language imitates C...
332.
by pdw 11y ago
And where do the odd numbers come from? 1023 bits? 799 bits??
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by pdw 11y ago
For some "fun" reading, here are the 149 public errata of Haswell CPUs: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
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by pdw 11y ago
Explained in the second question of his FAQ: http://www.trnicely.net/pentbug/pentbug.html
335.
by pdw 11y ago
Not checking malloc's return value can easily lead to security vulnerabilities, particularly in bytecode interpreters and things like that. The basic plan is simple: Trick the target program into allocating an impossible huge block of
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A Game of Clones: Video Game Litigation Illustrated(adlervermillion.com)
47 points by pdw 11y ago|10 comments
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by pdw 11y ago
The logo copyright licensing was fixed years ago. The reason Debian still ships Iceweasel is that they do not have permission to use the Firefox trademarks. IIRC, to get permission, they would either have to use unmodified binaries as shipp
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Linux: Software Raid 0 on SSD's and discard corrupts data(lkml.org)
1 points by pdw 11y ago|0 comments
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by pdw 11y ago
I don't know about Google, but I believe Facebook keeps all of its code in one gigantic Mercurial repository.
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Deterministic Doom video(jmtd.net)
2 points by pdw 11y ago|0 comments
341.
by pdw 11y ago
Linus' trace shows that 12% of the runtime is spent in libc's malloc and free. So yeah, there's a problem there.
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What happens if you remove randomness from Doom?(jmtd.net)
450 points by pdw 11y ago|102 comments
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by pdw 12y ago
The CRPG Addict also played _Wraith: The Devil's Demise_, his second game: http://crpgaddict.blogspot.be/2015/04/game-184-wraith-devils... And _Dark Designs_, a more elaborate RPG, one of his first games for
344.
by pdw 12y ago
And indeed, Wine can run 16-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux. You could say that at this point Linux is more Windows-compatible than Windows itself :)
345.
by pdw 12y ago
The BSDs have their own gzip. I know this because it rejected some files that were fine according to the official version...
346.
by pdw 12y ago
Cornerstone was a menu-driven database application, it wasn't programmable. It would probably have sold better if it was.
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by pdw 12y ago
Yes, C works if you know how to avoid the gotchas. It'd be nicer if the gotchas weren't there. It's not as if they add value to the language. (C++ OTOH seems to have too many gotchas to learn them all...)
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by pdw 12y ago
While Oberon is a bit verbose, the C/C++ declaration syntax is a train wreck. Consider the declaration of signal(), which does not have a very complicated type: (*signal(int sigcatch, void (*func)(int sigraised)))(int); I can&
349.
by pdw 12y ago
Another annoyance is seconds since epoch (traditional Unix) vs milliseconds since epoch (e.g. Java).
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by pdw 12y ago
Here's a short (and quite sad) documentary about a family of Beanie Baby collectors -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo
351.
by pdw 12y ago
They're mentioned in a February 1996 changelog entry for libwww-perl, so at least 19 years.
352.
by pdw 12y ago
Interesting that he praises the RAND editor. It's a branch of editors that has entirely died out as far as I can tell, on Unix at least. The source code for RAND E19 can still be found, but I couldn't get it running.
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A head-mounted three dimensional display (Sutherland 1968) [pdf](design.osu.edu)
1 points by pdw 12y ago|0 comments
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by pdw 12y ago
But if Google is paying her now for the use of her music in YouTube videos, how can they then claim after the agreement ends that they were unaware of the same videos?
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by pdw 12y ago
The actual init command is only about 3000 lines, the rest is for auxiliary programs that you probably wouldn't need for Docker. And 10k lines is still tiny compared to Python :)
356.
by pdw 12y ago
libc does have regexps. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/reg...
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by pdw 12y ago
It's not a compiler bug, it's unfortunately what the C standard requires. That being said, every compiler I know of will issue a warning for this construct.
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Apple offers EU customers 14-day money-back returns on e-purchases(arstechnica.com)
2 points by pdw 12y ago|0 comments
359.
by pdw 12y ago
Though the first sentence of the NaCL website says: "NaCl (pronounced "salt") is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library"...
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by pdw 12y ago
The same is true for comparison though, isn't it?

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