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by sid0 17y ago
I usually have around 200 tabs open, and any other browser is a nightmare to use. Firefox + Tree Style Tabs + Ubiquity is the only way I can maintain some degree of sanity. Since I keep my browser open all the time, I don't particularly car
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by sid0 17y ago
I consider this notion of speed being the only important factor pretty stupid. No amount of speed matters when a browser's UX sucks. Firefox is the only browser where it's actually _possible_ to get a decent UX (vertical tabs and a way to q
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by sid0 17y ago
Meta's an ex-Microsoftie -- he's currently at Google.
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by sid0 17y ago
I don't think SunSpider tests DOM operations. I admit I was thinking purely of the JS engine and not of the DOM, and that the DOM is still a bottleneck. (I'd much rather the IE folks focus on DOM stuff rather than try to get raw JS any fast
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by sid0 17y ago
I have no idea what he's talking about there. Firefox supports ligatures, but ultimately relies on the OS to do the font rendering, just like IE does. DirectWrite's support for Y-directional subpixel antialiasing and subpixel positioning is
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by sid0 17y ago
I think the IE9, Firefox, V8 and Squirrelfish Extreme JS engines are all "fast enough". When you start performing that quickly, JS is no longer the bottleneck. The graphs the MSDN blog post has seem to demonstrate this nicely. Amdahl's Law
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by sid0 17y ago
It's a great reference book, but I don't think it's a good text book. I had a lot of trouble trying to treat it as one and learn anything truly new from it -- for that, I turned to the book by Dasgupta et al and found it much more helpful.
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by sid0 17y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "back in the day". I played it the first time a year or so ago, and was consistently impressed at the design. The gameplay holds up very well against today's best.
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by sid0 17y ago
> The only way Win32 stays as stable as it is is by just not changing anything or even adding new APIs. What the hell are you talking about? Vista (and to a lesser extent Windows 7) have tons of new APIs. Apple does not have a 64-bit ve
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by sid0 17y ago
No... what I'm referring to is given in http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/RSA-survey.pdf -- basically using LLL to bring the numbers down to below the RSA modulo. (I know it works, because I wrote Mathematica code to implement it. :
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by sid0 17y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that Google uses p4 for practically everything.
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by sid0 17y ago
Workstation 7 and Player 3 are out too. /waiting for the mail with instructions to download...
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by sid0 17y ago
Yes. 65537 is commonly used.
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by sid0 17y ago
Hell, even if you do send just one message and do pad it, but the padding sucks (i.e. is known to the adversary) and e is small, you can use Coppersmith's theorem to break the encryption. This is really just reason number 242151205 why you
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by sid0 17y ago
Great review. I agree with Peter's claim about the lack of attention to detail, but Windows 7 is still, as he calls it, a "fantastic OS". At least the Install Font dialog from Windows 3.1 is gone. :)
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by sid0 17y ago
Yeah, emacs has them too. Interestingly, I've noticed that Komodo supports emacs modelines, but vim doesn't.
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by sid0 17y ago
Lock the computer.
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by sid0 17y ago
The equivalent exercise for the Windows PE file format: http://www.phreedom.org/solar/code/tinype/
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by sid0 17y ago
I've started using AutoHotKey recently, and it's a wonderful little tool to automate things. Also, this great file search tool called Everything. Basically like locate on *nix, except it uses NTFS tables directly to search (it indexed the n
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by sid0 17y ago
On XP, through Windows Update. On Vista, automatically the first time you visit a StartCom-signed site.
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by sid0 17y ago
> Most teams trying to implementation a Ruby compiler simply look at the CRuby source code, but this isn’t an option for Microsoft. CRuby is licensed under the GPL, which Microsoft is afraid of for numerous legal reasons. This means the
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by sid0 17y ago
> Wordnet: " an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act" You conveniently elided the part that says "(criminal law)" before that. Who's the one being intellectually dishonest here? > and "an evil act not necessarily pu
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by sid0 17y ago
> but is it true that the existence of a civil action implies that no crime was committed? Clearly not. However, if a court hasn't decided on the matter, whether the act is criminal or not is at least partly a value judgment. My value j
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by sid0 17y ago
I don't want to "win" anything. I just want people to use the right word for the right thing. The word crime has very different connotations for me than the words civil suit do, and it really disturbs me when people substitute one for t
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by sid0 17y ago
> A 'crime' is an act in violation of law No. A crime is an act in violation of criminal law. From wiki (apologies in advance) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime -- "While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the la
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by sid0 17y ago
> it sometimes use different terms as the EU is not quite a state yet but I'd argue "convicted" captures the meaning there too. It only captures it if the EU considers it to be a crime . Does it? (genuinely curious)
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by sid0 17y ago
Where I live, the word convicted relates to a crime . Wikipedia seems to agree with me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction . By that definition, Microsoft was never convicted, since it was never accused of a crime . Microsoft was
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by sid0 17y ago
No, it's not a crime , and Microsoft was not convicted . US v. Microsoft was a civil suit. Please use the correct terms to describe things.
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by sid0 17y ago
Interesting. I hadn't considered that possibility. I'm more familiar with hg than with git, but from what I gathered in #mercurial, it should be possible to write a combined extension + a commit hook that: * allows people with appropriate p
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by sid0 17y ago
Centralized VCSes can lock files. DVCSes cannot. Ergo, DVCSes are not a superset of centralized VCSes.

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