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   Brazilians fight back against corruption– with the help of a Chrome plug-in(theguardian.com)

   1 points by rumcajz 9y ago|0 comments
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   A version without the paywall: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/people-would-rather-b...
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   Yes, but with somwhat more convenient syntax: mutliplication_table = { x = alt(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), y = alt(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), get result() {return this.x * this.y} }
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   My rule of thumb is to look at application's design and only ever use malloc where there is 1:N (or N:M) relationship between entities. Everything that's 1:1 should be allocated in a single step.
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   Look for intrusive containers.
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   Cartesian – generator for complex configurations(github.com)

   14 points by rumcajz 9y ago|4 comments
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   by rumcajz 10y ago

   It was done with other types of WMD, so why not nukes? Such bans come with extensive monitoring programs. Also, it's better to have couple countries hiding few nukes so that they are not found by inspectors than thousands of nukes on h
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   by rumcajz 10y ago

   It looked pretty much the same in Ostblock. Nuclear drills when we walked with hands and feet in plastic bags through the woods etc.
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   by rumcajz 10y ago

   Just this week, one nuclear state is threatening another nuclear state that happens to border with two other nuclear states. Meanwhile, the nukes are on hair trigger everywhere. What can possibly go wrong? The really scary part, however, is
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    This is what I heard in Korea (someone with more insight, please correct me if it's nonsense): Doing a startup doesn't make sense because you'll end up as a contractor for one of the chaebols. Once that happens no other chaeb
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    Why is my TCP not reliable (expert edition)(250bpm.com)

    1 points by rumcajz 10y ago|0 comments
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Make remote work the standard option whenever possible. For example, all the paper pushing work can be easily made remote and distributed to rural areas.
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Let's start with ourselves. How long is the software you are writing going to work?
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Given that Elite game [1] used to run on Sinclair with Z80 processor and 48kB of memory, any complaints about the costs nowadays sound ridiculous. If our software infrastructure was coded by Elite programmers, we would be able to run in at
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    One thing that comes to mind is that young people today are weaned on oo languages and may find it hard to adopt the good old-fashioned non-oo style typical for C. For example, intrusive data structures may seem like an anti-pattern to oo p
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    It should be mentioned though that that goal is well served even by permissive-licensed software.
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    The fact that C never changes is the best part of the language, IMO.
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    i wrote this: http://libdill.org
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    That's deploying on weekends, isn't it?
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Ack. Also, the system introduces a new problem: If you are deploying on weekend, most devs are not around to help solving the problem. Thus, the outages would be longer.
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    I believe "our site works when the engineers go on holiday" thing is not fair. Of course that application is less stable when it's actively modified. There's no way to make it more reliable on weekdays than on weekends e
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Glad you wrote this. I was often wondering whether it is possible to communicate with a psychopath. Communication requires trust, i.e. that the person you are speaking with isn't lying. With non-psychopaths this is achieved by the comp
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    Chinese official calls for easing of internet censorship(theguardian.com)

    2 points by rumcajz 10y ago|0 comments
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    and imagine how annoying it gets when you are punching a punchcard.
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Related: https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780....
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    Digital encoding. Legacy software. Evolution(250bpm.com)

    2 points by rumcajz 10y ago|0 comments
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Yet one example: "dccp_send" or "datagram_congestion_control_protocol_send" ?
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    The interesting question here is: Once we have flush() function does that means that protocols are allowed to delay data indefinitely if flush() is not called?
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Fixed.
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    by rumcajz 10y ago

    Another example: use "tcp_connect" instead of "transmission_control_protocol_connect".