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841.
by sehugg 13y ago
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but are there any feature differences from the grammar checkers available in word processors since the 90s? (besides being on the web, I mean)
842.
by sehugg 13y ago
I'm seeing some projects shipping without configure which is annoying.
843.
by sehugg 13y ago
Why should I let kernel panics have all the fun? :)
844.
by sehugg 13y ago
I can't find a comprehensive overview of C++ compiler performance, but this article [1] seems to point towards #includes and duplicate template instantiation. Header file hell is specific to C/C++, but it'll be interesting to
845.
by sehugg 13y ago
It's funny that OS shutdown time has seemed to be increasing over the years, despite Moore's law. (I admit I sometimes just hold down the power switch rather than go through the agony of a proper reboot on my MacBook)
846.
by sehugg 13y ago
It'd be hard to do worse in compilation speed than C++.
847.
"Cybersecurity threats" listed as permissible use of bulk SIGINT(icontherecord.tumblr.com)
2 points by sehugg 13y ago|0 comments
848.
by sehugg 13y ago
I noticed that rustpkg has been removed, leaving Rust essentially without an official package manager for the time being. Can't say I'm heartbroken, but what's the plan?
849.
by sehugg 13y ago
For those that are mainly software-oriented, the Lighterra overview posted earlier is helpful background for understanding where VLIW fits into the zoo of CPU architectures: http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicropr
850.
by sehugg 13y ago
Leno's quip tonight: "I didn't know they had Target stores over there!"
851.
FBI Looking to Buy Malware From Security Vendors(securityweek.com)
1 points by sehugg 13y ago|0 comments
852.
by sehugg 13y ago
Note that the slides don't say "4 methods that are legal".
853.
by sehugg 13y ago
OSM data came in handy in Europe. Their public toilet database seems pretty complete. I'd love to have more complete metadata. No reason in 2014 I shouldn't be able to query pet-friendly hotels near brewpubs near bike trails.
854.
by sehugg 13y ago
Also CISC instruction sets (VAX, 68k) were already pretty high-level.
855.
by sehugg 13y ago
When you fork() a process you don't have to copy all process data either, thanks to copy-on-write semantics.
856.
by sehugg 13y ago
That's as silly as the claim that no one will use relational databases, because only humans can properly optimize queries and transactions are too slow to be useful.
857.
by sehugg 13y ago
in the current state of technology it's impossible to determine what is derived data that can be easily recomputed and what is essential data without which the current state could not be recomputable. Can you elaborate more on that s
858.
by sehugg 13y ago
Another cool thing is that the author of Redis made a decoder for ADS-B to decode aircraft transponder signals: https://github.com/antirez/dump1090
859.
by sehugg 13y ago
If they went all the way with optimization it would have rolled over back to 0.
860.
CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers(cbc.ca)
41 points by sehugg 13y ago|12 comments
861.
by sehugg 13y ago
I went straight from Apple BASIC, FORTH, and 6502 assembler to Turbo Pascal, and C seemed esoteric to me at first, and even unneccessary -- compared to Turbo Pascal that is. Then when DOOM was released compiled with Watcom C, I realized thi
862.
by sehugg 13y ago
Nokia is still trolling VP8/VP9.
863.
Macintosh review from BYTE Magazine (1984)(aresluna.org)
2 points by sehugg 13y ago|1 comments
864.
by sehugg 13y ago
One nice thing about GIF is that the format is not patent-encumbered. Same goes for MPEG-1.
865.
by sehugg 13y ago
The arguments are the same as today: We don't want more controls and oversight, because our enemies could use our limitations against us to neutralize our capability, and in any case strict military discipline and comprehensive personn
866.
by sehugg 13y ago
Guess this is a good candidate for Emscriptening? (if it hasn't happened already)
867.
by sehugg 13y ago
Judging from the number of dependencies I think it'd be more fair to say Chromium is the new Boost.
868.
by sehugg 13y ago
There's Servo from the Mozilla team, written in Rust -- not a pure functional language but an interesting step. (Not that there are strong guarantees it'll be less complex overall, though it may have other properties like memory s
869.
by sehugg 13y ago
There's also an open source Liero: http://www.openlierox.net/
870.
by sehugg 13y ago
One of the actuaries where I worked wrote a paper or gave a talk somewhere that I found very thought-provoking. In the future, he said, healthcare costs might rise to be as high as 50% or even 90% of GDP, and there would be nothing intrins

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