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by riobard 13y ago
It would be nice to have some rough performance numbers to compare with existing JS engines.
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by riobard 13y ago
>>> ord('@') 64
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by riobard 13y ago
Yes there is. It's called economics.
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by riobard 13y ago
The assumption is that bots don't usually scan other ports: way too inefficient for them to scan all ports for every potential target host.
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by riobard 13y ago
“Networking improvements: A new Network Address Translation (NAT) option allows virtual machines to talk to each other on the same host, and communicate with the outside world. ” This feature alone is worth the upgrade.
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by riobard 13y ago
I've always struggled to remember the correct spellings of some elements' names, and this looks like a good reason to do it all right!
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by riobard 13y ago
“This includes turning off radios when there is no data activity and other services as needed. ” Yeah, right… Forget about push notifications, push emails, IM, video/VoIP calls, background updates. Why not get a feature phone then? It
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by riobard 13y ago
Sad thing is, even if we pay, we still get ads. Like before the movie is shown. Apparently we don't pay enough.
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by riobard 13y ago
This explained all the iMessage spam…
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by riobard 13y ago
OO does not have to use classes and inheritance. OO is about encapsulation of data and behaviors. Declaring a function on a type lets you specify the behaviors of the type. In particular, in languages like Go with interfaces, it allows you
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by riobard 13y ago
Client: Give me the style.css file. Server: Here you go! Oh BTW you'll almost certainly need the prettyfont.ttf file too. Accept? Client: Sure!
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by riobard 13y ago
So PPTP is insecure, and IPSec is fundamentally broken… How about OpenVPN? Is that compromised too?
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by riobard 13y ago
It's from the Lavabit mail.
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by riobard 13y ago
The SPDY server could hint the usage of the font before the browser actually requests it.
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by riobard 13y ago
The catch is that the girlfriend and the subordinate seems to be the same person.
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by riobard 13y ago
Author here. Thanks for the comment! Interesting that the Chromecast sticks out from the side of your TV. Mine is an 40" Samsung, and the HDMI port is deep in the center of the TV enough to completely hide the plugged Chromecast from f
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Chromecast vs Apple TV(blog.riobard.com)
4 points by riobard 13y ago|2 comments
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by riobard 13y ago
You don't get dedicated IP and custom DKIM with SES. Those affect deliverability significantly.
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Apple starts 3rd party USB power adapter takeback program(apple.com)
2 points by riobard 13y ago|0 comments
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by riobard 13y ago
I have similar problems building Go apps for internal use. My solution so far is to use per-project $GOPATH and `git subtree` to manage the whole $GOPATH as a single repository. The primary benefit of doing so is build repeatability: any de
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by riobard 13y ago
Thanks very much! Now I feel I have even more questions… If the story happens in the far future of year 13291, as mentioned by the link above, I'd assume the people would understand the geography of their surroundings pretty well, no?
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by riobard 13y ago
I went through the comics and read the story plot on http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190 but I have to say as a non-native speaker, I don't think I “get it”. Could anyone explain in a few paragrap
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by riobard 13y ago
Not just command line apps. Any time you need to deploy on multiple machines, Go saves you a lot of trouble. At work we use primarily `buildout` [1] to deploy Python apps with complex dependencies. It is rather slow and fragile. Additionall
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Each socket should have two file descriptors(cr.yp.to)
120 points by riobard 13y ago|48 comments
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Show HN: Poor man's Bash Powerline in pure Bash script(github.com)
2 points by riobard 13y ago|0 comments
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Structural diff Python code(github.com)
5 points by riobard 13y ago|0 comments
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Ultralisk, Quora's parallel web architecture(engineering.quora.com)
3 points by riobard 13y ago|0 comments
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by riobard 13y ago
How does it compare with ZeroMQ? Looks to me they have some overlaps for the message batching part.
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by riobard 13y ago
For the purpose of physical drop boxes, there are much better tools than a Pi. For example this one http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n is cheaper (< $20), smaller, much more power efficient, and come
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by riobard 13y ago
Could they use a drone instead of manned aircrafts to address point 2? So there's no need to shield and thus saving the weight.

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