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by swdunlop 15y ago
"and other Internet-facing Simatic HMI systems .." I love that ThreatPost wedged that one in there -- anyone who has worked with SCADA systems knows the second rule is "don't expose your HMI's." (The first rule is "don't believe the vendor
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by swdunlop 15y ago
(I know one award-winning SF novelist who uses an obscure British word processor, originally for CP/M and MS-DOS) This is not so exotic; how many of us still adhere to vi in an xterm when we are in "time to stop fooling around and work" mod
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by swdunlop 15y ago
From the article: "if anyone has the motivation, the resources, and the smarts to get AI right, the iPhone dev team is it." Which is why they acquired Siri, instead of writing their own? :) http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/apple-buys-virtu
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by swdunlop 15y ago
At the risk of sounding facetious: by continuing to work on the features they promised for the last version which they hope will cover the lack of development on the parts people actually enjoy. While it is still better than Netflix's outri
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by swdunlop 15y ago
If you're using closures in an embedded environment with no heap, you've got bigger problems than executable stacks to worry about..
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by swdunlop 15y ago
Linus wasn't very clear, but the issue has more to do with the cost of context switches between the kernel and a userland process to support a userland filesystem. These switches are relatively expensive; a good example is the relative thr
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by swdunlop 15y ago
Only because Snoracle hasn't ported Oracle to it, yet.
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by swdunlop 15y ago
Add another extreme -- the 1024x768 tablet (ipad), the 1024x600 (nook color) tablet, the 1280x800 tablet (xoom), or the wild ranges of DPI's out there; some of these devices have ludicrously high DPI, such as the iPhone 4. How about the fa
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by swdunlop 15y ago
Well that only took a decade..
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by swdunlop 15y ago
"you still have to include the Scala base libraries with every app. Proguard may help, but it seems wasteful." I have started to see Scala coming into Android market apps, and haven't felt they were worse for resource utilization. Bump is
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by swdunlop 15y ago
Depends if the torpedo strikes a yacht containing any of the following: the RIAA, MPAA or Disney. Oh, you thought that "states" meant government bodies?
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by swdunlop 15y ago
Well, if you can't trust Ken Thompson, who can you trust? http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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by swdunlop 17y ago
What, exactly are you doing? Could you email me (swdunlop at gmail) with an ls -lR of what intermediate files you are seeing? waspc -exe should be doing the following: * Regenerating precompiled modules as necessary. (These are .mo files,