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by terminus 12y ago
Also a longer critique by John Siracusa here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/#hfs-p... I wonder how this ties in with the whole Apple philosophy of "Design is how it work
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by terminus 12y ago
> It's like a never-ending stream of lies, every word being a little more absurd than the last... It's been my experience that most things are tractable once you spend long enough staring at them. If you care enough about a sub
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by terminus 12y ago
I'm guessing this was posted earlier than expected. Don't see much content beyond the Preface.
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by terminus 12y ago
> From what I know (and I am not a finance professional), the hot-airiest phase of the dot.com bubble sort of looked like this. You had a ton of startups selling each other things and advertising with each other. It was not planned, but
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by terminus 12y ago
You can watch it live (and I believe offline) using the Google IO app.
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by terminus 12y ago
> Your only involvement is as the hook that enables the tax advantage. Agreed. I think what a lot of people are uncomfortable about is that an employee's life is now a "tax-advantaged investment vehicle" for a company. Any
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by terminus 12y ago
I have been fascinated with chip diagrams like these for a long time: http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2012_04_19_Ivy_Bridges_GP... http://chip-architect.com/news/2003_09_21_Detailed_Architect...
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by terminus 12y ago
> They might not be the most open of company but they had open source technologies that are awesome in their own right. LLVM is just one of them. Open sourced and won the ACM award. That by itself is a achievement hard to beat. I don&#x2
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by terminus 12y ago
> Granted building a fallback into the design at the beginning would have been a better way to do things Notice that, that building the fallback is not building a fallback for the location API but for all the cloud based APIs that the ap
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by terminus 12y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. I'll reserve judgement on whether Amazon's conduct is legal or not. But, Apple's collusion was decidedly illegal. In any case if the DoJ feels that Amazon is misusing monopoly power, then t
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by terminus 13y ago
Try saylor.org.
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by terminus 13y ago
Not to be pedantic or anything, but git != github. AFAICS, none of this is about github. It's about git, the protocol, the versioned object store and markdown, the markup layer.
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by terminus 13y ago
The two scenarios you outlined seem contradictory: * I don't think you can minimize the boost android got by having eric on apple's board during a very critical formative point * Google completely abandoned their earlier prototype
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by terminus 13y ago
> Services like Netflix that send massive amounts of traffic in a single direction violate this assumption. Netflix does not send any data. Comcast customers request lots of data from Netflix. Significant difference. Another example (jus
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by terminus 13y ago
That's a pretty interesting approach. Might even work! I wonder if something simple (and stupid) like an LD_PRELOAD with an alternative fixed SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange would work. Won't work if the code ends up getting inli
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by terminus 13y ago
> But there is no guarantee of anything unless the reviewer is incapable of making mistakes, in which case you could just ask him to write the code in the first place. Did you look at the bug? I'll quote it here: if ((err = SS
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by terminus 13y ago
Thanks for that extremely insightful analysis. Haven't looked at pandoc before but will do.
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by terminus 13y ago
> If you argue that an obvious bug is evidence of NSA involvement, then you must also believe a subtle bug would be evidence against NSA involvement. You can't have it both ways. Thanks for taking the argument to a mathematical plan
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by terminus 13y ago
From the article: > NSA itself planted it surreptitiously. > Apple, complicit with the NSA, added it. Neither seems very likely given how visible the goto is. Something just a little more subtle like a semicolon at the end of the if()
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by terminus 13y ago
> The foundation of our economy has just been proven to be on very very shaky legs. Exactly. That sums up my feelings about it better than I could. Something so critical, something trivially easy to catch in a code review was not caught.
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by terminus 13y ago
> entire code base being written with substandard style rules and no static analysis or tests, which suggests to me that incompetence got here first. That and inadequate, bordering on zero, code review. Even a beginner C programmer loo
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by terminus 13y ago
Those are just the surface differences. The modes in which you use all of these are very different. Word: explicit WYSIWYG control over typesetting. LaTeX: semantic level control over typesetting. Additionally provides explicit low level ty
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by terminus 13y ago
> We as developers in the Open Source community should be ashamed people are still using Vim to write LaTeX in Bash running on terminal emulators. (Yes, it gives me shivers just thinking about how much each of those technologies sucks wh
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by terminus 13y ago
I would imagine that .inputrc would serve as a superset in that all programs (for instance gdb) whiich use readline would now default to vi mode.
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by terminus 13y ago
And, he expected to be, and was arrested for it plenty of times.
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by terminus 13y ago
Funny, but in light of recent events (see http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/uk-spies-continue... for example) things like Byzantine General's problems do not seem quite so far fetched.
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by terminus 13y ago
More details: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-13/visa-mastercard-swi...
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by terminus 13y ago
Witness: iAds.
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by terminus 13y ago
Or blocking Random House's ebook app if they did not agree to an iBookstore deal. Chief Apple cheerleader Gruber himself finds that "worrisome" here: http://daringfireball.net/2013/06/siege_mentality
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by terminus 14y ago
Thanks for all the work. That was an amazing read. I've always wondered how people map chip-die photos into something like this: http://chip-architect.com/news/2007_02_19_Various_Images.htm... or this: http://chip-architect.com/news/2003

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