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by polpo 9y ago
I don't think the ability to put some of the heavy lifting in C++ code diminishes the value of Electron or Node.js any less than any other scripting language that lets you write modules in C or C++. The way Node.js C++ addons are writt
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by polpo 9y ago
APNG support landed in Chrome 59, released in June!
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by polpo 9y ago
Yes, you can sync a playlist to the watch so it can play it independently: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204691
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by polpo 9y ago
(looks like the case for aircrack-ng, at least: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng/blob/master/src/a... )
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by polpo 9y ago
4,733,979 out of the 14,344,391 passwords (33%) in the rockyou.txt dictionary file used for cracking in this guide are too short to be WPA2 passwords, which have a minimum length of 8 characters. Are aircrack and/or hashcat smart enoug
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by polpo 9y ago
I learned this pretty quickly - I used Mathematica a bit too much for help on calculus homework and wound up paying dearly during the first few exams.
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by polpo 9y ago
Yeah, the first thing Highlights brought up for me this morning was some image posted in our company's #random channel. Uh, thanks?
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by polpo 9y ago
Over the many years and several companies I worked with Qt, nobody could bring themselves to call it "cute." Everyone called it "que-tee."
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by polpo 9y ago
Cool tech demos like this one can have unforeseen uses: On an episode of the podcast Reply All [1], a "trip sitter" would use this site to help calm people down who were on bad trips, and it was pretty effective. [1] https:/
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by polpo 9y ago
Whether you believe code schools are good or bad (I lean somewhat towards good), I wonder if we have not fully learned the lesson from the rash several years ago of fly-by-night for-profit colleges preying on vets and providing substandard
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by polpo 10y ago
And here's another article from 1993 in PC Magazine which goes into detail, and with a bit more accuracy than the original article for this HN discussion (for example, it explains how XMS works on the 286): https://books.goo
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by polpo 10y ago
This article is a bit inaccurate about XMS. XMS works just fine on the 286; see the original spec [1]. This is done purely in real mode on the 286 with the the A20 line [2] which allows addressing a 64kB area above 1024MB, in combination wi
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by polpo 10y ago
About 1/4 of the floor space of a typical Whole Foods is taken up by homeopathy and other quack remedies.
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by polpo 10y ago
I've always imagined that the reason that FastMail's web UI is so fast and responsive is because their developers are based in Australia, but their main server presence is in New York. They're optimizing for speed when commun
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by polpo 10y ago
It's not -- I'm getting OOM on some java processes and my swappiness is set to 60.
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by polpo 10y ago
Me too! It's one of the first things I check when upgrading. I was worried it wouldn't survive the first Retina version of Lion and then the flattening of Yosemite, but nope, it's still going strong. I hope they're leavi
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by polpo 10y ago
The Rio IP and engineers went to Sigmatel [1], who essentially turned the firmware for the Rio Karma into a reference firmware for their MP3 player SoCs. The Trekstor Vibez [2] was probably the most well-known player that used that platform
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by polpo 10y ago
This instantly brought to mind the classic 1984 book, The Unix Programming Environment, by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike [1]. Note that they call Unix a programming environment, not an operating system. This book shows that the original purp
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by polpo 10y ago
What the Archive Team saves does get uploaded to the Internet Archive, but they aren't officially part of it. I think Maciej's description of the Archive Team is accurate - they are the archivists of last resort. When a commercial
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by polpo 10y ago
I think it's just a video. The meat is in the article below it.
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by polpo 10y ago
Given the good reaction to an out-of-the-blue patch from me on the HAProxy mailing list, I'd imagine that contributing even major changes to HAProxy probably would go rather well. It's one of the best open source development commu
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by polpo 10y ago
The PS/2 keyboard interface is just AT with a mini-DIN connector instead of DIN. It's the same protocol.
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by polpo 10y ago
To address the "started using newer versions of Node and Chrome" point, since NW.js v0.13, on the day a new version of Chrome hits the stable channel, a new version of NW.js is released matching the Chrome version. At the time of
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by polpo 10y ago
A much better option than this is to just use NW.js [1], which supports all of the chrome.* APIs natively, without polyfills [2]. [1] http://nwjs.io [2] http://nwjs.io/blog/chrome-apps-support/
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by polpo 10y ago
He is certainly willing to divulge the details. He's posted his expenses yearly. Here are 2015's: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15RdDg3XyOGzW1T0Wjw9M...
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by polpo 10y ago
This is somewhat accurate. The Netflix Player was an internal Netflix project. Close to launch, Hastings realized that other device makers would balk at Netflix making their own hardware, so it became a Roku product. [1] Most articles I&#x2
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by polpo 10y ago
I went to high school next to a dioxin superfund site [1]. They incinerated it (I could see the smokestack from the school) and supposedly it's all cleaned up now [2]. We'll see how we all turn out. [1] https://en.wikip
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by polpo 10y ago
Quackle[1] and Elise[2], two of the best Scrabble AIs, do look ahead. [1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/jasonkb/quackle/doc/how_quackle_... [2] http://www.codehappy.net/elise/
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by polpo 10y ago
I was also surprised to see this here. It needs a (2012) tag in the title at the very least, as this is not what is being litigated right now.
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by polpo 11y ago
Comic Sans is a terrible font, even when used for its intended purpose. It has a really off-kilter awkwardness that doesn't evoke any sense of youth or playfulness. The perfect argument against Comic Sans is Chalkboard [1], a font crea

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