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by ploxiln 11y ago
No api stability promises before 1.0 is technically part of semver. It sounds like io.js should have stayed below 1.0 if they broke backwards compatibility three times in less than a year! I always found the naming-and-proclaiming of semver
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by ploxiln 11y ago
The main problem with that standard, focusing on copies , is that when a work isn't fixed in a physical medium (like an optical disk), everything is a copy. The internet just copies, into your system memory, onto your storage device.
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by ploxiln 11y ago
But if 2 is the only restriction, they could trick you into clicking something (anything anywhere on the page), and then silently access your clipboard.
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I was wrong about that. I thought there were cases where accusation + not (yet) being proved innocent was enough to get on the list. But a look at wikipedia shows that some kind of conviction or guilty plea is always involved. But there is
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Well in the US, "sex offenders" (including public urination and some people not actually convicted of doing what is alleged) are marked for life and need to inform their neighbors of their shunned status whenever they move. (On th
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Did you watch the video? "a template isn't for you. A facebook page isn't for you." ... "you could build one yourself, but designing, developing, dragging and dropping, these are all full time jobs." ... "
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I'm not minimaxir but anyway... that's an odd way to put it. My guess is, he/she is not the kind of software QA engineer you might be accustomed to depending on the kinds of companies you've worked at. Think of automated
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by ploxiln 11y ago
ya know... my mother is a doctor, a Family Practitioner (FP). She's the type who's probably more frank with her patients than most. But she still would give slightly different advice to family than to patients. This is to manage r
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by ploxiln 11y ago
That assumes that the sponsors don't distribute operating systems or devices containing them, only services in the cloud (or user-space software). And even still, they could re-distribute the grsecurity code if they wanted to. But they
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by ploxiln 11y ago
"Since our lawyer has advised us not to mention the companies by name" Yeah, uh, they're lawyers, they always say that, it's not a signal with any information in it. As you said, this company can outspend you, and it&#x2
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Well, again, if you read the article... a judge does approve these settlement changes, they're accompanied by signed statements from the victims stating what they need the upfront money for, and yes there is legal forum shopping to get
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by ploxiln 11y ago
And the result would be, at best, another structured settlement... and then what prevents the same outcome again?
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by ploxiln 11y ago
In general I'd say the inclination to delete a comment because it's being down-voted is... not good. Don't try so hard to conform to what appears to be the local public sentiment. (EDIT: or, if it's a threat to delete if
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I don't think that's a good metaphor. There are no actual horses inside any gasoline (or electric) engine. But there are gotos behind many (though not all) of these modern constructs...
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by ploxiln 11y ago
A year or two ago I ran into the fact that classic TCL still only supports UCS2 as it internal text representation. In particular, that any unicode characters outside the basic multi-lingual plane, like many popular emoji, are not supported
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I worked at bitly for a couple of years, we used mongodb for one of our secondary datastores. We had the expertise to keep it working, but we really hated it. It's this funny situation where some engineer starts off using it because it
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by ploxiln 11y ago
systemd's "journald" does this, it's called "Sealing", and it's enabled by default. I turn it off on my stand-alone systems, it's a waste of processing on them IMHO (particularly if you don't bac
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by ploxiln 11y ago
There was inetd and xinetd, for many years. They start a process which listens on a tcp or udp socket, only when a connection or packet is seen on that socket. I'm not sure how popular they were, but I've been using "desktop&
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by ploxiln 11y ago
... or, for some of them, just correlated. Like expectation/demand of academic success in childhood.
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by ploxiln 11y ago
So... CSS has the same global namespace issue as C, and this CSS Modules is the same solution as C++ namespaces and classes. They call it "mangling". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling#Name_mangling_i
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I don't think GPUs will be big with "web services" datacenters anytime soon. As the slides mentioned, the difference between this web-services stuff and HPC is that HPC has a much higher compute/data ratio. Said another
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by ploxiln 11y ago
When the years add up like that, you have to wonder what they're thinking internally. So many years! You also hear this about state payroll systems being built by defense contractors, or the F35, etc. They're in a position where t
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by ploxiln 11y ago
My point was that the hardware acceleration, and vp8 vs h264, doesn't really matter. The computation power of processors sold in 2010, even those in not-very-thick laptops, was probably double my Athlon64. The difference is everything
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by ploxiln 11y ago
That's probably not why. h264 would indeed use less cpu time than vp8 if there was hardware acceleration from the graphics driver available and being used for h264 but not vp8 (which is plausible). But software decoding can be pretty e
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by ploxiln 11y ago
In the recent past I worked at a place that used daemontools extensively. We used a wrapper shell script which would do the restart loop detection, then exec the actual process to run. If it detected X restarts in Y seconds (by echoing the
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Performance. That's an extra branch on every arithmetic operation.
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Not all the purposes. Abstractions can still make the complexity more manageable. Linux kernel developers write the vast majority of their code in C but very often inspect the assembly instructions generated by the compiler. Web developers
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by ploxiln 11y ago
That interview says he started working for Connectiva at 14 and started maintaining the 2.4 kernel at 18. (still impressive)
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by ploxiln 11y ago
The optimal compiler with perfect knowledge theory never really comes true, and it's been around for a long long time. Many years ago some people said that java would be faster than C, because it can optimize based on information learn
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I talked to an Uber driver who said he previously drove a cab for 15 years (in NYC). His biggest complaint was the medallion rental fee, it comes out to over $100 per day (around $150 at peak I think?), even when you're sick or you wan

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