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by sid0 16y ago
I really don't know much about this, but I understand that VP8 was designed to deliberately avoid patents. (Thus some of the weird decisions Dark_Shikari comments on.)
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by sid0 16y ago
It should be fairly easy to use the same idea on other platforms.
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by sid0 16y ago
Ever heard of the "broken window" theory? Ever heard of entropy? Ever read the history of any cultural aspect, from poetry to jazz, to teaching, Yes, some things, those that are vulnerable, need protection. The Bengal tiger needs protec
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by sid0 16y ago
Everything needs protection. Do you have a logical or empirical basis for this statement, or is this an axiom for you?
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by sid0 16y ago
I don't really want to speak for him, but what I got from his post was that he was saying that the unary syntax is as bad as C++'s (imho retarded) cout syntax.
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by sid0 16y ago
And why would you draw that distinction for unary operators but not binary ones? I wouldn't -- I think it's wrong for binary operators too.
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by sid0 16y ago
You're presuming an awful lot of things here. * that one has a stable high-speed Internet connection. * that one lives in a country where Pandora and other such services work. * that the music one listens to can actually be found on Pando
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by sid0 16y ago
nodata was talking about home users. I think apt-get shouldn't require admin rights for security updates.
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by sid0 16y ago
That still normally requires admin rights.
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by sid0 16y ago
I'd argue that your default expectation should be the world as you wish it were, not the world that is. So here you shouldn't be impressed with the CI, but should instead have an unfavourable opinion towards software that doesn't. But that'
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by sid0 16y ago
Having the program be installed by root but not require admin rights to update, I presume. That sort of system is quite possible with services or scheduled tasks on Windows. In fact MSI can do that already as long as everything is signed.
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by sid0 16y ago
Why are you so impressed about a continuous build cycle? I think continuous integration (including full build and test runs for roughly every push) should be a given for a non-trivial and widely-used desktop application, especially one that
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by sid0 16y ago
As long as both users are already logged in and (obviously) the other user's stuff hasn't been paged out, fast user switching on Windows is lightning fast. 4 GB of RAM, standard with laptops today, is more than sufficient to ensure that.
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by sid0 16y ago
Spyware? What?
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by sid0 16y ago
Ah, the just-world phenomenon. Some people call it a fallacy -- I for one am not so pessimistic.
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by sid0 16y ago
Why I don't use DuckDuckGo: it's slow as hell for me. Google has servers here in India, so its latency is less than 60ms. DuckDuckGo doesn't, so it takes well above 350ms to respond.
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by sid0 16y ago
Everything you need to know to understand the algorithm would be covered in a mandatory "intro to theory of computation" or "intro to automata" course in a CS undergrad degree. You could start by reading the first half of a good textbook: w
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by sid0 16y ago
I think something simpler would be a better Hello World equivalent. The first program I generally write in any functional language (usually as a sanity check) is one to calculate the factorial of a number.
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by sid0 16y ago
For instance, you can't actually use an application that depends on the WebSocket rev76 API in Firefox 3.5/4, Opera, or Safari 6.0 or less. Given all the issues with the rev76 WebSocket spec [1] and the reason it isn't present in either F
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by sid0 16y ago
If you're in an environment where you actually must use a proxy for some reason, you're in an environment that is probably going to ban arbitrary socket connections anyhow. Not necessarily. For example, an SSL-encrypted connection would n
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by sid0 16y ago
How do you reconcile the different spellings? :)
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by sid0 16y ago
What's wrong with Firefox's MathML rendering? The MathJax MathML example looks fine with Firefox 4 on Windows 7 (it seems to be using Cambria Math to render symbols).
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by sid0 16y ago
Indeed, and I think the reason it's done is simply to make square-root an easy-to-deal-with single-valued function rather than a multifunction. Remember the quadratic formula: the ± in it is in addition to the square root, not part of it.
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by sid0 16y ago
Yeah, sites like http://www.didyouwatchporn.com/ and http://ha.ckers.org/weird/CSS-history-hack.html fail to work in Firefox 4. The followup bugs are more to do with tuning what is allowed and what isn't, e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.
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by sid0 16y ago
Oh, tons of work has been done in trying to bring STM to imperative languages, most notably with STM.NET (which is what SPJ's referring to there).
446.
by sid0 16y ago
Works fine in Firefox 4 (behind an HTTP proxy too).
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by sid0 16y ago
> On a related note: what exactly is the business value for google to abuse your trust and misuse the passwords you've given them in the course of non-client-side encrypted password sync? No one else in the world knows my passwords. Per
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by sid0 16y ago
Chrome Sync does everything that Firefox Sync does I really don't think it does. For one, it doesn't encrypt your data client-side so that Google won't know about it.
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by sid0 16y ago
I guess an important question is whether this test bank is supposed to be accessible only to instructors. Presumably a test bank would contain enough questions for several tests, so it isn't necessary that there were any repeats from previo
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by sid0 16y ago
Can't you exclude all jars by default and add whatever libs you do want to check in? I don't know too much about git, but that is how I would do it in Mercurial. (In Mercurial, if you specify an explicit filename, it overrides .hgignore.)

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