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DXR: a smart code browser using instrumented compilers for static analysis(quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com)
2 points by saulrh 15y ago|1 comments
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by saulrh 15y ago
That's possible. I have a friend who works in the university aerospace lab that can read and write C and Matlab. His major contribution is being able to both understand the engineering and write code to manipulate it, and it's basically gua
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by saulrh 15y ago
Something I heard from one of my professors once: "A programmer alone has a good chance of getting a good job. A scientist alone has a good chance of getting a good job. A scientist that can program, or a programmer that can do science, is
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by saulrh 15y ago
The second half of that was pretty much what I was getting at; I was presenting a way for people to legally demonstrate that a corporation or government entity is breaking the law. If the government changes the laws to make its spying legal
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by saulrh 15y ago
A blanket legalization would be bad, I agree. The best approach that I can think of is to set up a way for these releases to be grounds for a warrant. Instead of releasing those credit card numbers to the internet, you send them to the poli
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by saulrh 15y ago
The counterargument, as presented by blendergasket below, comes when the situation is reversed and the government is the target. Consider the recent #antisec releases as a sort of first-amendment freedom of the press, or the attacks on HBGa
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by saulrh 15y ago
I'm running Canary. I think it's mostly thanks to Flash, really; I've never had good luck with Adobe software and Flash is the worst of the worst.
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by saulrh 15y ago
I believe that there are also some information-theoretical limits on the efficiency of garbage collection and memory allocation. Don't quote me on that, though.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Win7. Between eight and ten tabs open, one open to Grooveshark. Everything gets refreshed every eight hours or so. Firefox usually has anywhere between five and a hundred tabs open. Both get rebooted about once every three days for updates.
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by saulrh 15y ago
It's not just a programming environment, either; a web browser is an interpreter for some of the most poorly-written, highest-level code in existence. Not very conducive to good memory usage even theoretically.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Maybe you have a different use case than I do; my Chrome instance usually uses about 30% more memory than Firefox despite having a quarter as many tabs open.
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by saulrh 15y ago
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases#Firefox_6 FF6 has already been frozen and released to the Aurora channel; it goes to Beta tomorrow. FF7's code gets frozen and released to Aurora tomorrow.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Summary: Firefox has a bunch of long-living system javascript objects; these get fragmented in the javascript engine's heap and end up keeping alive a bunch of mostly-empty chunks of memory. Tests show that removing this fragmentation reduc
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This is why memory fragmentation is bad(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
144 points by saulrh 15y ago|94 comments
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by saulrh 15y ago
We won't wake up one day and be all "oh shit we ran out of oil". These things work on a gradient, yo. After seeing how well corporations have dealt with IP addresses, I'm not so sure about this. Add in the possibility of a random w
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by saulrh 15y ago
This article is wrong . As oil becomes scarce, consumers will necessarily turn to an alternative before the supply runs out. When something has become so scarce that it is necessary for everybody to turn to an alternative, you've r
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by saulrh 15y ago
Not quite. This is a quine that relays through eleven languages before finally reproducing itself, not a quine that works in eleven languages. There's an actual algorithm for doing it in some journal somewhere, but it's still pretty impress
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by saulrh 15y ago
sreynoldshaertle
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by saulrh 15y ago
Yeah, my mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by saulrh 15y ago
it certainly can be overcome with UI, it would require some massive changes to Facebook Agreed here. I've known for a long time that Facebook had near-identical groups functionality, but the interface is simply so painful to use th
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by saulrh 15y ago
Sure. Random acts of vandalism end up all over the news, affected companies' stock crashes because simple random vandalism is highly effective , companies improve security to avoid becoming a target and losing money. In other words, "doing
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by saulrh 15y ago
I would be very surprised if simple diagonal bars are sufficient to prevent a good programmer from reconstructing the code. Has anybody here tried it?
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by saulrh 15y ago
The only reason I had a Live account was for the xbox, and one day they updated something and I suddenly couldn't log in. It took me ten or fifteen tries to figure out why my newly-reset passwords weren't working, and it took their system t
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by saulrh 15y ago
Even worse, if I remember correctly they silently truncate passwords longer than 16 characters. I wasted nearly an hour trying to log in when they started doing that.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Created: 22 minutes ago. Posted: 19 minutes ago. Welcome to HN, Mr. Barr. :P
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by saulrh 15y ago
The fact that Sony is a weakling is a problem, and I suspect that LulzSec is doing their level best to solve that problem. If the world comes out minus some internet filters and plus stronger corporate internet security, they've helped.
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by saulrh 15y ago
According to his quotes in [1], yeah, he really does spell and write that way, even in professional communication. It's kind of sad. [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-secu...
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by saulrh 15y ago
My point is that the two largest video distributors both provide and maintain html5 players. The fact that they're putting in so much effort means that there is demand for HTML5 video and that people are actually using it. Furthermore, Ap
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by saulrh 15y ago
The more interesting point is that he may not be using a password in the first place; TrueCrypt can do arbitrary keyfiles. Someone found[1] a post elsewhere on the forum citing a subpoena that required someone to "type the passwords or pass
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by saulrh 15y ago
They may not default to it, but Youtube[1], Vimeo[2], and a few other places have HTML5 players available; I have them all turned on. HTML5 video is still in beta, but it's somewhat easier to build into a page than Flash and its development

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