peterwoo

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by peterwoo 14y ago
The language is not context free, although I agree there is a parsing solution which is not terribly complex.
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by peterwoo 14y ago
Python is not context free.
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by peterwoo 14y ago
> If you're going to say that terrorists can be killed without judicial overview, which I think you have to, then you can't say that doesn't apply to those terrorists who happen to be American. What about (people labelled as) terrorist
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by peterwoo 14y ago
So it's just serendipitous that this isn't the obvious and massive vulnerability it initially seemed to be.
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by peterwoo 14y ago
Everything you've said here is simply dismissive. "Kernel dev. policy is not to break user space. ENOENT is not a valid return from ioctl. Kernel maintainers are expected to know and adhere to this" is the only point that Linus had to make
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by peterwoo 14y ago
I wonder what (# of expired links clicked each year * 8 seconds / link) amounts to.
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by peterwoo 14y ago
How small?
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by peterwoo 14y ago
Would you be willing to suggest a global minimum bound on the amount of data that you should be allowed to push onto anyone's mail server?
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by peterwoo 14y ago
What does the average user want it to do, that it doesn't? The big discussion lately has essentially come from people who DO know what SMTP is. And apart from "Gmail is slow", from what I've seen there's been a lot of complaining about most
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by peterwoo 15y ago
RMS doesn't require that software be "free as in beer". It's okay to sell and purchase software -- so long as person making payment actually ends up owning what they get. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FreeAsInBeer
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by peterwoo 15y ago
Code duplication is an overhead. Not as bad as RTTI, but static memory footprint is still important in the embedded/systems world -- sometimes more so than runtime memory footprint!