vortico

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   by vortico 8y ago

   But portability has nothing to do with whether the library is standardized. One could port any API, whether from the standard or a simpleton like me, and port it in pure C and OS calls to any environment. One could even port a better API to
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   by vortico 8y ago

   C is a good language, but why does the standard library need to be in the language standard? It's perfectly possible for there to be competing modern libraries which implement everything from the stdlib which can be built completely fr
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   by vortico 8y ago

   That it good evidence, but being the largest websites, they have thousands of subdomains on those domains, so they're kinda technically forced to use www.
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   by vortico 8y ago

   A domain is a marketing tool as much as anything else on your web page. If customers see a "www." in the address bar, it slightly dilutes the visibility of your brand in the main domain. I believe this is more important than any t
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   by vortico 8y ago

   Also, perfection and practicality do not match either, since imperative languages are the most practical for many applications. Pushing software toward perfection gives diminishing returns, and after some threshold, a company will have nega
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   by vortico 8y ago

   Yes, it gives the impression that the author thinks memory allocation errors are the only type of bug. Obviously there are thousands more, so it's kind of odd.
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   by vortico 8y ago

   I would certainly use a mostly-compatible Make extension/reimplementation. The issues I have with Make are very minor: the syntax clashes between indentation and condition blocks, better built-in functions for string parsing, correct h
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   by vortico 8y ago

   It spreads through word of mouth through younger users.
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   by vortico 8y ago

   Does the luascript interface have a vulnerability for actual remote code execution? Can someone launch calc.exe with the HUD API?
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    by vortico 8y ago

    With trivial method() functions, you could speed through that loop a million times in a millisecond.
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Exactly, that's what the parent comment was saying.
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    by vortico 8y ago

    True, but for rsync's case of setting the mtime of a file, performance of this logic is utterly insignificant.
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Just remove the `static` keyword and there you go. But it's an "optimization", and avoiding previously attempted methods is the whole point of the trick. Otherwise it would be an easy and uninteresting function.
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    by vortico 8y ago

    I don't like it. You should put the logic where the logic should be, so it's clear to see what was intended. typedef int (*MethodFunc)(); void doMethod() { static int methodId = 0; static const MethodFu
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Thanks, looks pretty relevant to what I'm looking for. I'll take a look.
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    Ask HN: Issue bounties for GitHub projects?

    2 points by vortico 8y ago|2 comments
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    by vortico 8y ago

    As a basis of your claim, it has been posted 9 times so far. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pictureddit.com
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Wada basins exist for any number of open sets. As you could probably guess from the article, the Newton method applied to x^n - 1 gives a Wada basin of n sets. These are fun counterexamples to the claim "given three nontrivial disjoint
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Pandoc is kind of neat but why not just use markdown? markdown input.md > output.html
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Eh, this only economically makes sense when the time you spend direct-licensing everyone over email is much less than the money you make from the licenses. Anything under $100 or even $500 is just too cheap to spend time dealing with all yo
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Does this require resources on your server? (Apologies because I don't understand what this is.) What's to stop me from uploading 10TB of video files and using all your resources?
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    by vortico 8y ago

    The title should technically be "World's Oldest Currently-Alive Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years". The first part is pretty much a tautology. This doesn't mean that the first torrent created happens to still be seeded.
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    by vortico 8y ago

    It's simple, an HTTPS download is between you and the provider. It would be unprofessional for them to encourage a system which they do not control. Torrents could be unreliable, require the downloader to also upload by default, breach
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    by vortico 8y ago

    How does this work? I tried searching "Liverpool F.C." and "Survivor" on Google and nothing unusual shows up. It is a future feature?
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Here's what the THX note would look like in creative sheet music notation. https://twitter.com/THX/status/1000077588415447040 DEEPNOTE from NYSTHI for VCV Rack does this in a virtual modular environment. htt
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    by vortico 8y ago

    No, I thought it was a repo containing code extracted unofficially from something Volkswagen did.
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    by vortico 8y ago

    I'd actually be happy if the name was changed ASAP, as it took me a couple minutes to figure out that the package was not an actual Volkswagon project. I thought the repo was extracted code from some official testing product.
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    by vortico 8y ago

    This is really cool and educational! How difficult is encoding relative to decoding?
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Puzzle companies need a lot of trust from their customers for hobbyists to buy them and spend hours working on them. To solve this problem, is there a community review site for puzzles without spoilers? Solvers would want to avoid Googling
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    by vortico 8y ago

    Thanks! That's what I was looking for.