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1. 61.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   Are failures independent?
2. 62.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   Er, technically this license doesn't stop forks -- they are explicitly allowed -- but it definitely propagates the non-commercial clause. I agree, it's definitely not Open Source.
3. 63.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   Rust (another "systems language of the future") has a lightweight syntax for spawned "tasks", I think. But I'm far from a Rust expert.
4. 64.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   While the potential is really exciting, there isn't much of a story here. I'm sure someone will eventually write a blog post showcasing whole classes of errors detected by the new checker -- I'll upvote that.
5. 65.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   Latest mirror from archive.org for those experiencing the slashdot effect: http://web.archive.org/web/20110724055653/http://www.godaddy...
6. 66.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   It might be prohibitively expensive (think: CPU time and memory required to run a virus scanner (multiple virus scanners?) on every unique page on the internet). Edit: Plus, per-machine licenses, and profitability -- how much is it worth vs
7. 67.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   Here's the actual Nature article (I love that io9 hides the link by removing any visual indication it's not normal text): http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.320...
8. 68.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   A friend of mine wrote this a few months back: http://blog.engineering.kiip.me/post/20988881092/a-year-with... Almost all of it is still valid. "To be fair, the global write lock is now JUST a DB level write lock. Living in the future guy
9. 69.▲
   by throwaway54-762 14y ago

   How does this compare with e.g. Timsort[0]? [0]: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Objects/listsort...
10. 70.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    The location of process arguments on the stack (and environment variables) is just a convention between your kernel and system libc's crt0.a / the dynamic loader. (Not part of the C standard.)
11. 71.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    2, 3, 4, 7 are all bad questions too. It's pretty bad as collections of C questions go.
12. 72.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    None of these are especially interesting C questions... Most rely on assumptions about the x86 architecture and GCC (stack grows downwards, ordering of stack variables in memory (not registers), ...). #3 notes a warning for main not returni
13. 73.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    I've never seen the name "Obama" and "licensed under GPL v2 or later" in the same document before -- cool.
14. 74.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    No, it sounds creepy.
15. 75.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    I was a little disappointed that this wasn't sarcastic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal ).
16. 76.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Your "much written better than I can" article is about Upstart, not Systemd. They're unrelated init daemons, and it seems like many of the complaints in the article relate specifically to upstart (event-triggered services with no dependenci
17. 77.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Here's the (much more readable) mailing list in gmane: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.devel Currently (Friday 3:48 Pacific time), this thread is at the top. Edit: Lots of +1s in the early thread messages; some elaboration surround
18. 78.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Webkit is a fork of... wait for it... KHTML! The open source rendering engine from KDE.
19. 79.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Thanks, I placed a sell order at $13.99
20. 80.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Last I heard, you could only register a .xxx name if you were in the porn industry or wanted to reserve the name (but not put up any webpage). I wonder how he got the domain.
21. 81.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    It's all parody, folks. They just want your attention long enough for you to consider them. Find a sense of humor =).
22. 82.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Thanks, I forgot about that.
23. 83.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Nevermind that this feature isn't particularly exciting... Python 3.1 is "old." Python 3.2 has been out for a while, 3.3 will be coming out soon... there are plenty of interesting features in 3.x. This is a small part of the overall picture
24. 84.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Aw, and I expected a C/C++ article! Still, this is good stuff: "zero copy" for web content.
25. 85.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    This was wonderful. Thank you.
26. 86.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Thanks!
27. 87.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    I'm curious / young / ignorant -- can you give me a link or name of the big oil spill caused by the totalitarian government?
28. 88.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    You're free to run Chromium instead of Chrome. I do.
29. 89.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Tl;dr: WD claims: Higher-perf than its "green" line of hard drives (but not as good as "black"), greater MTBF, lower power consumption than comparable drives, rated for 10°F hotter conditions than previous WD offerings.
30. 90.▲
    by throwaway54-762 14y ago

    Look at the Concorde — new crazy fast airplane technology is great, but it's not affordable or attractive enough to make it worth an airline's time. Make it affordable and we'll all fly on your hypersonic jet liner tomorrow.