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by slacka 13y ago
For the tech savvy, there are plenty of solutions to "fix the internet". From Tor to I2P, I use many of these tools regularly. Many more can be found here. https://gist.github.com/postmodern/5018337 We don&#x
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I have a free Amazon EC2 VPN that's also acting as a Tor Bridge. Over the past 4 years, between Tor and my personal VPN, I've never once been blocked in China. Setting up the bridge takes about 5 min: https://cloud.torp
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Before it was censored, Google had about 1/3 of the browser market. People with education always used it for english or foreign searches but generally prefered Baido for Chinese. I lived in Shenzhen which borders Hong Kong. Facebook is
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Avoiding writes to the DOM is a good tip for beginners. As a desktop developer, you're going to realize quickly that DOM is decent model for documents, but a terrible paradigm for interactive applications. Overall performance is terrib
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I lived in China when Google announced that they were refusing to comply with government censorship. Shortly after the announcement Google was blocked by the great firewall. When big sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Google are blocked, i
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It's not an issue of turning completeness. CSS was never designed to be hardware accelerated. So many implementations run faster in software. Here's a good example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10014461&
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I prefer the headlines here over Reddit’s. What worries me is the quality of the comments. The community and their insightful comments are what keeps me coming back. Lately I've seen an increase in memes and trollish comments from new
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Yes, these benchmarks by Mozilla are biased, but I wouldn't be surprised if Asm.js actually performs as well as Dalvik for 2 reasons. First, the Dalvik VM has always been optimized for memory footprint and not speed. Secondly, Google h
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JavaScript and Friends: CoffeeScript, Dart and TypeScript(smthngsmwhr.wordpress.com)
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AMD's OpenMP implementation required support from both Clang and the LLVM IR, while Intel’s latest solution does it all in Clang. Intel’s Clang only design appears to be on its way to becoming the standard. Performance wise, LLVM needs
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Firefox has come so far from the memory hogging 4.0 days. Like others here, I give it a shot ever few month and UI responsiveness always sends me back to Chrome. The resurrected electrolysis project can’t come soon enough. The irony is wha
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This would strike a good balance between an open and invite only community. I also think this would help with rising number of the negative comments made on new accounts.
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Yes, I wish they would, but if they really cared about boosting Android performance, picking up Myriad for their Dalvik Turbo would be a better choice. It's 2-3x faster[1] closing the huge performance gap between Google's JIT and
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For speed, nothing beats Genymotion. If also want to test the latest android, I found installing the latest Android-x86 image under virtualbox to be painless. If you want to run ARM code, be sure to install the Intel ARM translator. There a
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exactly. Why does everyone assume "Tor mode" would have the private browsing features disabled? Mozilla isn't stupid.
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If Mozilla added a "Tor mode", I'm sure it would be configured like the Tor Browser bundle, ie with both disable JS and session cookies disable along with all the privacy enhancements. The existing "private browsing mode
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For all the reasons you listed, if we’re going to crack the problem of strong AI in the next century, we’re not going to be doing it by simulating the brain at the atomic or molecular level. However the lower level simulations are important
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by slacka 13y ago
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Einstein We are failing to communicate here. Did you watch Bret Victor's from yesterday? I’ll do my best to explain. I said I agreed with most of your criti
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> Code is complex in the best of times...The Holy Grail of a visual, drag and drop environment that could create meaningful business value would have manifest years ago if it were possible or even desirable to do so. This latest attempt
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With massively parallel hardware, concurrency is the biggest challenge facing programmers today. It's a terrible programming paradigm. And your Non-blocking algorithms only add complexity to an already difficult problem. For example, I
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After Bret Victor's inspiring talk yesterday, it's fitting to see a new CPU architecture make it to the top of HN. Keep it up! Maybe tomorrow we'll see an idea to replace threads and locks.
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Here you go: http://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4
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I think you missed my point about Darwin. Darwin was inspired by the geologic theory, gradualism, where small changes are summed up over long time periods. It was this outside theory applied to biology that helped him to shape his radical n
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by slacka 13y ago
> disgusting lie Is a little extreme. This is what companies do in the computer biz. Nvidia, ATI have been doing this BS for decades now. As cscheid said it's quack.exe all over again. If they just gave the user the option to enable
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by slacka 13y ago
> We've been doing concurrency for many years now; it's called pthreads. Sometimes, the major advances come when fresh ideas are infused from the outside. In Darwin's case it was his geological work that inspired his theor
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by slacka 13y ago
From my hometown to some acquaintances in SF, every meth user I've know has screwed up their life. At the same time, I've been friends with and worked with many highly functional coke users. Scientific studies appear to back my pe
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by slacka 13y ago
First of all, the UI is not the same when in phone mode and desktop mode. In desktop mode it runs traditional Unity and in mobile mode it runs Ubuntu Touch, a gesture based UI that only looks similar to Unity. I spent some time on a BlackBe
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by slacka 13y ago
Matlab is just another tool for your toolbox. Part of programming is choosing the right tool. I found Matlab extremely useful in college for graphing my lab work. Haven't had much use for it since. Did run across OpenTLD AKA predator.
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I've filed almost 40 MSO interop bugs with LO and 20 with AO over the past as 5 years. Far as I can tell only about 3 or 4 of them have been fixed. This is a personal issue with me, because I lost some face with the owner. I had pushed
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by slacka 13y ago
Here are a few of the bugs prevented us from migrating to OO. Note that the bug tracker DB has migrated from OOs servers to Apache. https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121429 https://issues.apache.

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