pmjordan

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by pmjordan 15y ago
No: "The measures won't require congressional approval because they don't constitute changes in current immigration law. Instead, clarifications will be issued for existing visa categories with the objective of enabling more entrepreneurs
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Doesn't mplayer/mencoder also use libavcodec (i.e. ffmpeg) for many codecs?
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by pmjordan 15y ago
The participating entry-nodes (proxies?) could be systematically determined with a scanner How, exactly? Measuring the run-time of packets and comparing to the expected run-time? I suspect this could be masked by the proxy, but I'm not su
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by pmjordan 15y ago
yield; Will block execution until the generator is resumed and return control flow to the caller. I haven't actually tried it, but it should be pretty straightforward to wrap a generator function in such a way that it's driven (resu
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by pmjordan 15y ago
True, you wouldn't get the syntactic sugar of the result variables - you would have to return them as an array or object with named properties. Lack of V8 support is of course the killer, and when I wrote my original comment, I for some rea
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Proposal? JavaScript 1.7 introduced generators circa 2006, which I do believe lets you implement something like this (in addition to a bunch of other cool things). https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7#Gener... Unfortunat
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by pmjordan 15y ago
The problem this solves is a serious one, in my experience, even though I find their choice of syntax rather curious. Given that JavaScript 1.7 introduces the yield keyword, it would make sense to add support for that to V8 and implement
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Right now core P generally has to completely flush its write buffer and broadcast invalidations to all other cores, even the ones with no references to that memory and no reason to care about its contents. That's not strictly true. Modern
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Internet VC Investing in Europe(avc.com)
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I can crash a JVM or CLR program instantly by calling out to some careless C code. This bug is exactly such an instance: the C code for one of the library functions is flawed. The only way you can stay safe is by (a) having a flawless VM an
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by pmjordan 15y ago
This class of subtle bugs exists whether or not your GC is accurate as soon as you take the red pill and leave the VM environment. If you forget to add your C pointer to the accurate GC's root set, you're just as dead. Related story: http:
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by pmjordan 15y ago
It still costs them CPU/IO time and thus represents a possible DoS vector.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
The problem is this[1]: strings are compound objects, which use 2 memory allocations. One for the object representation, the other for the memory holding the character array. The problem arises when you access the character array but techni
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I suspect it's not that easy to graft them onto existing search engines efficiently. I don't know what sort of data structure search engines usually use, but in order to support regexes efficiently they would almost certainly have to be a p
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by pmjordan 15y ago
There is an OpenSocial REST API which works pretty well, it's just that some SNs don't offer it, or at least they didn't early on. I haven't done any Facebook App development for about 2 years so I can't comment on the status quo, but back
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I'm curious to see whether they'll base their API on OpenSocial. After all, it is a Google-based "standard" that's seen updates right through late 2010. It would certainly give them an instant base of apps right from the start, and an obv
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by pmjordan 15y ago
UIWebView is (presumably deliberately) pretty restrictive in its JS<->native bindings. Having to redirect to URLs which are then intercepted on the Objective-C side is pretty awkward. Then there's the fact that HTML/CSS aren't even
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by pmjordan 15y ago
We've put some of the styling-related components online on http://appuicomponents.com/ but the layouting engine isn't there yet, I do feel it's valuable enough to productise eventually. The main problem is lack of polish right now. Interf
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I had the same experience with my first Cocoa Touch/UIKit project. The GUI stuff far eclipsed the rest of the app in terms of development effort, which I did not expect. This hadn't been the case with previous GUI stuff I'd done (Windows
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by pmjordan 15y ago
What if you lose your phone, though?
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by pmjordan 15y ago
It does work pretty well, but for new, big publisher games, "not too expensive" is simply not true. Buying the disc version on Amazon is usually 30-50% cheaper. I've bought indie games on Steam, though.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Are there any implementations of it that actually work well through NAT and which have a UI that non-technical people can use? We use Skype a lot - iChat would be fine, too, but seems to require port forwarding on both ends, which isn't goi
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by pmjordan 15y ago
You can unflag! The 'flag' link turns into 'unflag' next time you view that comment/story.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Let's face it, AMD, nVidia and Intel have >99% of the PC GPU market, and 100% of the Mac market. The drivers only change from one chip generation to the next, and the Mac has had chips from all recent generations from all 3 manufacturer
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by pmjordan 15y ago
What about Apple? They're clearly working on WebGL support for Safari. They have at least equal insight into the whole stack, considering the ship the GPU drivers with the OS. Then there's XNA in Silverlight. If they believe in the security
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by pmjordan 15y ago
There are places where it's a criminal offense to go deface some person's facebook? I think you'll find that to be the case anywhere that has laws about "computer crimes" - the laws are usually phrased as gaining access to or manipulating
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Ikea have an adjustible height desk with sensible depth and width. I haven't got one yet, though.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
They've only mentioned 12cm discs so far, and no word on GC controller ports.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
While not explicitly stated anywhere, it seems the Wii U only supports a single new controller, as they haven't ever shown more than one. It probably ships with it, so you won't need to buy it on its own.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
The DS screens are roughly the same distance from your eyes, though, so switching between them doesn't require refocusing, which is both tiring and slow.

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