potkor

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by potkor 14y ago
> Developers should never have to use a try-catch. Is the "no exceptions" rule common in Javascript? Are exceptions trouble in JS for some technical reason compared to eg Python?
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by potkor 14y ago
Especially if the benchmark measured programming and debugging time.
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by potkor 14y ago
They aren't keeping up with demand. Eg. in Finland they've been constantly sold out since it launched a few weeks ago (same time with Scandinavia). The 16GB version is 269.90 EUR / 350.68 USD, and doesn't include the $25 Play voucher, the 8
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by potkor 14y ago
A dial-in might be useful though.
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by potkor 14y ago
Definition of PROBLEM 1 a : a question raised for inquiry, consideration, or solution b : a proposition in mathematics or physics stating something to be done [other meanings elided]
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by potkor 14y ago
It's the job of the 802.11 L2 to hide correctable packet loss L3 so most radio link loss isn't passed on to TCP. This could just as well read "the wifi L2 error correction doesn't try hard enough". This problem is very common but it wants
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by potkor 14y ago
What does the "userland" subset encompass? What's left in closed source blobs?
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by potkor 14y ago
Agreed. Maybe they're testing the waters with the Chromebook and not updating the Android Chrome yet. BTW is there a dev channel for Android Chrome?
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Google Chrome SVP says Portable NaCl will ship "in six weeks"(news.cnet.com)
43 points by potkor 14y ago|34 comments
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by potkor 14y ago
Youtube HTML5 is experimental and not production quality. Many (most?) videos pop up a "Flash player is required" error when you try to access them even after turning on html5 on. Probably something to do with ads, random joe videos have a
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by potkor 14y ago
Actually, Chen implies that it would be a security bug if an unprivileged user could do it on her own: "Enabling the kernel debugger requires administrative privileges, so it's not like unprivileged users can force a system halt on their
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by potkor 14y ago
Sounds interesting. Anyone else have evidence for Microsoft's policy of ignoring local DoS vulns?
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by potkor 14y ago
Also, Mesa / Gallium3D.
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by potkor 14y ago
The abstraction the whole idea. Dropbox is expensive capacity that has much more functionality than offsite backup. It's multiplatform online shared storage with good disconnected operation support, file history, dedup, etc etc. Different
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by potkor 14y ago
Works with my HTC Desire if I use the info code, the dialog for showing battery status etc pops up. Raises interesting consumer protection questions, this is a 2010 phone with no updates recently. The law says the dealer has to fix or make
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by potkor 14y ago
This kind of lump sum contracting isn't usually called consulting and is pretty hard to do well unless you have really good chemistry with your client.
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by potkor 14y ago
>> when a Left value is accidentally read as a Right one, you don't get a "random" bit pattern due to type punning, but a correct (albeit meaningless) value such as NULL > How is that any worse than the current situation of not
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by potkor 14y ago
Paid software just has a bad emotional association. People are usually goaded into paying for Windows/Office and antivirus software, not exactly rewarding. Games are an exception but people don't think of them in the same category.
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by potkor 14y ago
I think they were doing fine until they got joined up with Intel. Drove the nice Maemo stuff to the ditch with the failed attempt to merge it with Moblin (-> Meego). Intel and Microsoft... good partners - but only with each other :)
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by potkor 14y ago
The sensible way to get electricity out of burning wood would be a steam turbine or stirling engine-based micro CHP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_combined_heat_and_power ).
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by potkor 14y ago
In Finland the banks recently dismantled the old debit card system and forced everyone onto the insecure (EMV based) and expensive Visa/MasterCard branded debit cards. You still sometimes see the old cards but banks have stopped issuing new
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by potkor 14y ago
I must have bad luck so far then. Can you remember examples?
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by potkor 14y ago
> You want OpenGL or/and Linux, and you need performance ? Get a Nvidia. Unfortunately they've dropped laptop support so not really an option these days. The open source Intel/Radeon drivers in Mesa look to be the only game in town in t
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by potkor 14y ago
It carries the pcie protocol but pretty obiously it's not electrically identical to pci express (external cables and connectors don't generally provide as good signal integrity as required by pcie that is happening on your motherboard).
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by potkor 14y ago
Maybe the thunderbolt cable is short and well-shielded enough that they can just run plain pci express over it.
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by potkor 14y ago
These "embedded systems with highly constrained resources" are machines with 512MB+ of memory and monster CPU/GPUs. It's perfectly OK to write code for them that you haven't bled over to optimize the hell out of. And JWZ just showed you don
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by potkor 14y ago
Hmm, wouldn't it be less practical to do that with large CHP plants (vs small ones)? Here in Europe district heating CHP plants are generally run by utilities.
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by potkor 14y ago
Going by just the subject, maybe a perfect hash function generated with eg. GNU gperf?