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by teacup50 11y ago
Nothing really changed in terms of MacPorts liveliness; development continued as it always had, and Homebrew has gradually learned why MacPorts adopted the solutions it did -- usually the hard way. Homebrew's popularity was built on
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by teacup50 11y ago
In this case, new applications of the same law (Title IX) sit at the center of the debates in both '91 and today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#Further_legislation_a... The room for broad interpretation a
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by teacup50 11y ago
> Apple already runs your binary through a bunch of binary analysis tools, I'm not sure why LLVM is significantly different. Massive increase in attack surface. > Who actually does that? Anyone that debugs an issue in their s
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by teacup50 11y ago
What? The only way to find many issues is by looking at logs of unexpected (and especially unhandled) exceptions. If you have so many of those that they're impossible to dig through, FIX YOUR CODE .
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by teacup50 11y ago
I'm burnt out. The change was horrible, and now they've walked it back -- yay, I guess, but why did they do something so customer hostile in the first place? JetBrains lost my trust, and I'm going to keep an eye on competitor
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by teacup50 11y ago
> I'm not clear on how Bitcode changes this, apart from expanding the already huge attack surface of the app store. It massively expands the attack surface, since Apple is running untrusted IR input through LLVM , server-side. &g
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by teacup50 11y ago
java/dalvik/whatever bytecode is simple, has a clear formal specification, and is not vulnerable to the same scale of "undefined behavior" traps that you'll find in C/C++ and LLVM IR.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Yes, assembly (inline or not) isn't supported on tvOS/watchOS. It is grandfathered-in on iOS, but the direction is clear.
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by teacup50 11y ago
The biggest issue I have with ebooks (and I read a LOT on my Kindle) is in digging through all the self-published crap to find actual novels published by reputable publishing companies. This is a huge turn-off, so much so that despite lik
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by teacup50 11y ago
Ugh. The last thing a smart, creative young person with a soul needs is to be sucked into the VC empty-air universe.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Science Fiction came into its own once we moved past serialization; there's simply more value in a complete, cohesive, edited book. Serialization was simple an industry constraint, not an actual desirable state of being.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Single stack IPv6 is just not happening; there's just WAY TOO MUCH STUFF out there that only speaks IPv4.
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by teacup50 11y ago
I genuinely can't tell whether you're joking.
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by teacup50 11y ago
How about OS X? (and, how does that work when calling into userspace APIs that assume fixed 1:1 thread/stack correlation)
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by teacup50 11y ago
However, calling directly into the syscall interface is illegal on most platforms other than Linux. I'm not sure Go can fix this without getting rid of their M:N threading.
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by teacup50 11y ago
In this case, a magazine of note specifically chose to label this individual "the Best War Reporter in a Generation". That's not a link-bait superlative; it's a statement of judgement relevant to the story. "Why a W
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by teacup50 11y ago
It's not strlcpy he had an issue with. His issue was converting a whole lot of code over to strlcpy() while introducing bugs that didn't previously exist. For another example of this kind of irrational thinking, look at NeoVim&#x2
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by teacup50 11y ago
A binary-friendly client would be a hundred lines of code at most, versus inefficiency for a pretty standard protocol use-case forever.
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by teacup50 11y ago
What qualifies as "born"? Successful standards committees are just a group of implementing industry members. WebSQL, for example, was edited by Ian Hickson. The work almost always predates the standards committee -- also just
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by teacup50 11y ago
> When I try to think of any product or service born of a standards committee that has been wildly successful, I can't think of any. He says in a post submitted over HTTP , using DNS for name lookup, TCP for OSI layer 3 tra
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by teacup50 11y ago
Why wouldn't you just include a length field on strings/bytes, allowing the protocol to be "binary clean" and avoid the base64 problem entirely? This is one of the most annoying things about XMPP (even sending contact ph
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by teacup50 11y ago
This is frightening; is the state of the art in software development set by a process more reminiscent of music fans arguing about esoteric bands than any kind of formal rational engineering?
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by teacup50 11y ago
No, Tokyo had a weak economy. Thanks in large part to non-local demand, however, that affordability is disappearing -- just like everywhere else: "Japan’s sluggish economy caused price gains in Tokyo to trail those in other urban cente
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by teacup50 11y ago
"The trend has already hit Sydney, Vancouver and the U.S. Now it’s happening in Japan: busloads of real estate buyers from China coming in, buying up homes and pushing prices higher." "Partly as a result of nascent Chinese bu
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by teacup50 11y ago
Anywhere this urban upzoning has been tried: in the short term, rents either rise, or stay roughly the same. In the long term: rent rises.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Were you even in SF 15 years ago, when the .com bubble popped and housing prices returned to a degree of sanity? If you want to see the cause for "the problem SF has had for nearly 30 years now", look in the mirror.
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by teacup50 11y ago
How does opening more restaurants: 1) Allow non-local demand? Do people fedex overnight the food? 2) Significantly increase infrastructure load? Do people live at the restaurants when they're not serving food, and thus require schools,
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by teacup50 11y ago
> Change zoning restrictions and make it a lot easier to build denser housing everywhere. Which increases infrastructure demands, which increases labor requirements, which increases housing demands ... > I don't understand how
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by teacup50 11y ago
People don't fight upzoning because it reduces the value of their real estate; in fact, it almost always does the opposite. People fight upzoning because they like where they live, and upzoning would destroy what they like about it. As
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by teacup50 11y ago
By a whole 3%, on average, across the entire DC metro area , with questionable causation. In DC proper, rents rose .

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