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by pmjordan 16y ago
You may want to have a closer look how Xen (acquired by Citrix) handled this, considering the similarities. Their kernel code and the core tools have always been open source (largely GPL, I think), with various closed-source value-add.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I don't know if there's such an effort underway, but I hope so. Unfortunately, the entrenched players don't really have much of an incentive to change things, they're making billions from the current certificate model. The CAs don't even ne
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by pmjordan 16y ago
This isn't a weakness in the protocol, but in the way certificate trust is handled. This is a bug in policy, not code.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
My first association was with the character from the UK children's TV show Rainbow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_(Rainbow) I doubt it's a trademark issue, as trademarks tend to be usage-specific. (e.g. Apple Computer vs. Apple Music
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Since the V8 JavaScript engine runs on ARM, is there something about the Android environment that prevents running node.js directly?
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Yes. It's maybe more frequently seen on other functions such as trig functions (e.g. the identity sin²α+cos²α=1) but it crops up a lot on logarithms in computational complexity (as here). I've certainly never seen it used to mean anything e
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Folk Models in Home Computer Security(schneier.com)
4 points by pmjordan 16y ago|0 comments
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by pmjordan 16y ago
the media in german speaking countries went full retard of fukushima I can confirm this for Austria. The country has always had a somewhat schizophrenic relationship with nuclear energy[1], and the media (even supposedly reputable papers
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The latest version of Mono apparently ships with F# support: http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.10#Language... Now I just need to find the time to try it out...
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by pmjordan 16y ago
In my experience, even if you're not learning any new concepts or techniques, you're learning about parts of the code base you would maybe not touch normally. This can be a huge advantage when it comes to localising/fixing bugs later, or wh
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Startups are (very) high-risk investments. I doubt he's quite that wealthy that $1m is peanuts to him, so taking outside investment seems like a good idea.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I realise that, I'm interested in the per-object overhead. This approaches zero for the single giant string.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The only thing missing was converting the dictionary data into a trie. ;-) That's what I was thinking. I wonder what the memory and download footprint for that would be in practice. Considering characters are represented by string objects
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Experiments often fail, no matter how hard you try. That doesn't mean there isn't anything encouraging left to say.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Start -> Run; type "cmd"; drag & drop the chrome icon onto the command line window. You may need to prefix it with start /wait To capture output. But there might not be any output. Process Explorer traces some stuff, and does
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The network effects are (luckily) also not exclusive. There's no reason why you can't use Skype AND a SIP phone AND GNU phone software - the only time it's an issue is when you want to do a conference call. That said, if GNU want to win thi
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I don't know if this works on the windows version, but you could try launching it from the command line and see if there's any output. Maybe get a chromium debug build or something? Have you tried other browsers? You might be able to trace
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I don't know, people seem pretty happy to pay for the higher-spec models. Maybe this time around, with non-early-adopters playing a bigger role, price sensitivity is higher. Still, if you're dedicated enough to queue for one during launch w
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Have you tried using Chrome, with its embedded version of Flash (check chrome://plugins to enable only the embedded one)? If that doesn't work either, it sounds like there's a bust configuration somewhere, rather than a problem with the ins
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by pmjordan 16y ago
"over-preparation" I'll admit, it's hyphenated.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Another option would be base 5 for a pentatonic scale [1], or using the decimal representation to cover 2 octaves. Might sound a bit more natural than base 12. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Is there a GPGPU API available on typical Tegra2 devices? OpenCL, CUDA? Without that, using the GPU for number crunching basically isn't going to happen.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
True, though even IGPUs have decent-sized texture caches which absorb some of the load, and embedded GPUs additionally usually have embedded frame buffer memory. In any case, blitting isn't anywhere near the crippling operation it once was.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
In case it's not clear: I wasn't passing judgement, merely explaining the situation and weighing up the advantages of the various approaches. For iOS, Android and Mac, OpenGL is pretty much the only choice, and sticking to the subset that
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I don't know what the story is exactly (I quit my job at a major UK developer shortly before I was supposed to start working on a PS3 project) but there are some details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSGL Since RSX is rumoured to not
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by pmjordan 16y ago
It also means apps don't receive as many redraw events. It's interesting how priorities have inverted over the years: when windowed systems were first developed, RAM was in short supply, so not storing invisible pixels was an important opti
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by pmjordan 16y ago
All the viable gaming platforms, other than the Xbox 360, are running some OpenGL variant. That's pushing it a little. Maybe you mean "viable for low-budget, independent developers" (no expensive devkit needed)? It's not that widespread o
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OpenSUSE 11.4(news.opensuse.org)
6 points by pmjordan 16y ago|1 comments
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Oh, absolutely. But a targeted attack with that level of sophistication is hardly going to let a few Windows updates get in its way.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
C++ seems full of missed opportunities. I fear a lot of them are due to the slavish backward compatibility to C.

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