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by repolfx 7y ago
That's more a criticism of C rather than LLVM. Bitcode isn't as portable or stable as JVM bytecode because real world C programs use processor specific intrinsics, make assumptions about endianness and word sizes, embed assembly e
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by repolfx 7y ago
It didn't fail that hard. It was pretty widely used, but the JRE was a large and not very fast runtime back then. It got better over time but the browser makers got pretty determined to kill off any competing platforms to HTML under th
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by repolfx 7y ago
I used to work at Google, so let's look at the practical difficulties with this idea of splitting. It's not impossible - AdSense exists after all - but it'd create a lot of problems. Firstly, it's not simply about drawin
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think there is, but it'd need to be very different to existing operating systems to justify itself, and in ways that other OS's can't simply adopt for themselves. In practice that means radical architectural change, and eve
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by repolfx 7y ago
Fair enough then. The first one is very clear cut. For the latter, men can get told that too. Some management theories almost elevate the worker above the manager and a belief that clearly asking people to do things is "aggressive&quot
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by repolfx 7y ago
For the avoidance of doubt I have no idea who the protesters were, what colour they are and don't really care. I agree with him that students shouldn't be occupying university buildings and disrupting the business of the universit
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by repolfx 7y ago
They can't do anything to mitigate. What are they meant to do, rewrite parts of Windows by themselves? The only fixes here come from MS. Until then, the more people that know, the worse it is.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Having read the whole thing I don't see what makes him an asshole. He feels he got fired due to allegations of things he didn't do, because he is (a) white and (b) a man and (c) not apologising for that. And of course, now his ene
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by repolfx 7y ago
"Could you please" is pretty universally considered basic politeness. I wouldn't consider it to be especially soft. "Do it now" is really an escalation to be used only if someone is somehow not understanding that th
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by repolfx 7y ago
Middle management is often desperately trying to justify their job by creating purposeful confusion. I swear he's trying to trip me up looking for reasons to put marks on my record. No conspiracy needed. Many people simply do not thi
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by repolfx 7y ago
Ah, the LSE blog. Always good for the worst possible spin on anything Brexit related. It's all especially tough for economists because the profession was so united in the claims about economic decline after the vote, but they were prov
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by repolfx 7y ago
None of this is true! All EU law is automatically implemented in the UK, parliament cannot stop it, and most things are no longer vetoable at the Council level either. What little veto power remains is under attack by the EU itself which wa
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes it does, because these are predictions about future events and thus cannot (yet) be true or not true. The civil service has previously published reports like this. They turned out to be totally wrong. There's a serious and importan
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by repolfx 7y ago
If you were British, you'd remember that these are the same people who assured the population that simply voting to leave would trigger a massive recession that'd destroy half a million jobs in the best case, before leaving actu
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by repolfx 7y ago
The article is wrong. The UK manufactures more stuff than it ever has before. The Guardian reported this as a "decline" but is only a relative decline, and a decline in the numbers of people employed. Actual value of all stuff mad
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yeah but they're often trying to predict where the software industry will go years in advance. You can see that in the disagreements between AMD and Intel on AVX-512: there's a chicken and egg situation where it's not always
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by repolfx 7y ago
The reality is Damore did an excellent job of articulating his beliefs. He wrote carefully, politely, cited his sources, used precise language, repeatedly clarified that he actually agreed with Google's goals but not their methods, and
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by repolfx 7y ago
Your post started out rather sympathetically, but I find I lack sympathy by the end. You rage against how racist you think white people are, a belief you justify with absurd generalisations - white people are "privileged", they wi
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by repolfx 7y ago
You do know that journalists do stings quite frequently, yes? It's a very common tactic and frequently deployed against politicians, business people etc. So Veritas tried to do a sting on the WP and failed, so what? You're acting
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by repolfx 7y ago
They're growing but not profitable. It's easy to grow by giving valuable stuff away below cost. It's not so easy to grow if you're making positive margin. Given CloudFlare's size and age, why are they losing money?
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by repolfx 7y ago
Job security doesn't suck, at least not for developers in a strong economy.
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by repolfx 7y ago
It's accurate. The Federal government in theory answers to the President or at least Congress. But the comment was discussing people in the government who work directly and quietly against government policy, to 'moderate' i
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, large companies sometimes screw up. The project zero policy on this is wrong and downvotes won't change my mind on that. You know perfectly well that MS will fix it once the right people are in the case, the 90 day "deadline&
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, I know how COM works. I was a Windows programmer in the past and understand its architecture just fine. You aren't really correct. DCOM doesn't use window messages only on "GUI threads". If you use it in the default
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by repolfx 7y ago
It may be different these days but it used to be the case that all kinds of things would start or require a GUI message loop behind the scenes. Most notoriously, COM STAs did, and all kinds of APIs would enter a COM "apartment" fo
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by repolfx 7y ago
It's called Windows for a reason ;) Even in Windows 10, the Windows kernel does a LOT of stuff that's GUI centric. Indeed the entire Windows API is totally GUI centric. The fundamental IPC primitive is window messages, which is a
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by repolfx 7y ago
No, I don't think so. The protocol in question is entirely internal. They could rip it out and replace it with something totally different, apps shouldn't notice. The CTF server can also be made to validate its inputs much better,
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by repolfx 7y ago
Oh you think that's bad? My email address ends in that most exotic of domains, .net I find websites that won't accept it because they think it's an invalid address all the time. I have no idea what logic they're using, w
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by repolfx 7y ago
Nobody specifically but it's not the wrong goal. Remember that "zombie companies" that don't make sense anymore but the state won't let die is a typical sign of a sclerotic Communist economy. At some point the exist
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's very interesting, do you have any sources for that? I'd like to learn more. Especially on the topic of second-by-second settlement.

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