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811.
by sehugg 12y ago
Probably too early to discuss, but what's the status of the VM + bytecode spec? The preface of the SE 5.0 VM spec [1] says: We intend that this specification should sufficiently document the Java virtual machine to make possible compa
812.
by sehugg 12y ago
You can do this from the JVM command line with "-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintAssembly". (it's kind of a mess, though)
813.
by sehugg 13y ago
The phrase "premature optimization" gets thrown around a lot, but it seems to me we'd avoid this whole discussion (and benchmarking, and testing) if we could safely and easily inline the assembly version of the function. Afte
814.
'Operation Choke Point' May Be Root of Porn Star Bank Account Closings(reason.com)
13 points by sehugg 13y ago|2 comments
815.
by sehugg 13y ago
I like it so far. Seems pretty responsive. Firefox 28 had been crashing at least once a day for me (which is rare, I didn't have any crash logs since 2011) so I'm hoping they squashed whatever bug was causing that.
816.
by sehugg 13y ago
Reminds me of the old Alter Ego .. sadly the JS reboot is down right now. http://jayisgames.com/archives/2010/11/alter_ego.php
817.
SpaceX names Texas as site of its commercial space launch facility(arstechnica.com)
6 points by sehugg 13y ago|0 comments
818.
by sehugg 13y ago
It's probably easiest just to redefine "net neutrality" to mean "whatever the FCC comes up with" which seems to be their current strategy.
819.
by sehugg 13y ago
They're using Mechanical Turk to transcribe the audio.
820.
by sehugg 13y ago
Here's some more detail [1] on the buffer overflow AOL was allegedly exploiting to validate their AIM client. Probably wouldn't fly these days. [1] http://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/security/aim/ind
821.
by sehugg 13y ago
I think that one safe exception is upcasting of integer types (e.g. i8 to i32) and I think it's a little awkward to program in Rust without it. It seems also that using the "as" syntax for both upward and downward casts makes
822.
by sehugg 13y ago
Look what Turbo Pascal/Delphi gave a PC developer in 1995: * An insanely fast compiler * Statically linked binaries -- no DLL hell (still important for certain kinds of applications) * A proper module system, no need for precompiled he
823.
by sehugg 13y ago
It's weird that the author chose to use field accesses (in every possible instance) instead of local variables in the manually optimized version.
824.
by sehugg 13y ago
That could mean anything from "there was a typo" to "there were factual omissions that were unknown to the author".
825.
by sehugg 13y ago
"To enhance the potential punishment from a misdemeanor to a felony, the Government alleged that Auernheimer’s CFAA violation occurred in furtherance of a violation of New Jersey’s computer crime statute, N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2C:20-31(a)&
826.
by sehugg 13y ago
Allegedly he was carrying technology that made satellite phone calls hard to geolocate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Phillip_Gross#Background
827.
by sehugg 13y ago
Not a lot here about China. One can only speculate whether they've been on top of our surveillance efforts all along, and how much of the Golden Shield project is about defense rather than censorship.
828.
by sehugg 13y ago
such bulk data release would include information pertaining to criminal investigations, which is privileged from release; and They also make the argument that the license plate reader data is "investigatory" even if it is not co
829.
by sehugg 13y ago
I dunno, I've been on a (authorized) shuttle at SXSW driven by a meth-head whereupon at the end of the trip everyone was sheet-white and couldn't say a word. Could Uber be worse?
830.
by sehugg 13y ago
• Keep regression tests around for up to a year — but most of those will be system-level tests rather than unit tests. • Keep unit tests that test key algorithms for which there is a broad, formal, independent oracle of correctness, and fo
831.
by sehugg 13y ago
Hyatt's microprocessor patent was invalidated in 1996, but not before he extracted $70 million or so in royalties from Japanese and European companies. More context: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/20/busi
832.
by sehugg 13y ago
The trade is a victimless crime. Like punching someone in the dark!
833.
by sehugg 13y ago
They (well, contractors) are re-engineering the F-1B as well: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/new-f-1b-rocket-engin...
834.
by sehugg 13y ago
Sure we still know how to build rocket engines. But we are also reverse-engineering technologies of the 1960s for incorporation into modern systems [1] presumably because the oral and/or written history has been partially lost. I also
835.
by sehugg 13y ago
I've got to imagine the availability of cheap and fast broadband influences property values in a given area. I've seen numbers like $5k thrown around; I'm tempted to think it's more like $10k-$30k. When you multiply that
836.
by sehugg 13y ago
He was also drinking Nice ad hominem, dude.
837.
by sehugg 13y ago
One group that should be willing to pay for it are those writing high-reliability and safety-critical code, e.g. DoD. It appears they have less of a preference for Ada nowadays, instead using a "safer" subset of C++ and static a
838.
by sehugg 13y ago
More likely a different three-letter agency: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06...
839.
by sehugg 13y ago
I don't see any mention of storage costs in the article. If you're using S3, it's really hard to wean off of it, and using it externally doesn't usually make economic sense because you're paying twice for bandwidth.
840.
by sehugg 13y ago
I kind of figured where this story was going when I saw the word "regimes" in the headline.

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