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by windlep 11y ago
Would've been nice if the article had pointed out that ad-networks have become a popular way to distribute trojans and malware using Flash exploits (though I'm sure when Flash is gone, ppl will keep finding other browser exploits
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by windlep 11y ago
Sleep deprivation. It explains all the symptoms mentioned in the article. Kids in kindergarten start early, and stay later than they have in the past with no nap period. Busy parents (both of whom are now working full-time) are lucky to get
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by windlep 11y ago
"To create a garbage collector for the next decade, we turned to an algorithm from decades ago. Go's new garbage collector is a concurrent, tri-color, mark-sweep collector, an idea first proposed by Dijkstra in 1978." So, the
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by windlep 11y ago
The article is terribly mislabeled. Uber's bookings are scheduled to reach 26bill, not its revenue. Supposedly this year they will reach 10 bill in bookings, which would provide revenue of about 2 billion [1]. [1] http://w
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by windlep 11y ago
Soylent open-sourced their recipe afaik, that was part of the whole appeal for many, they could replicate the entire formula and tweak as desired. There's other food-replacements as well, like ensure, which I cited. Edit: Soylent has a
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by windlep 11y ago
I'd love to see this study replicated, only instead of "proprietary (expensive?) product", it was just 40% of your daily caloric intake.... in soylent. There's been multiple studies I've seen now indicating that fas
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by windlep 11y ago
Ground Kontrol ( http://groundkontrol.com/ ) has generally done an awesome job imparting the vibe I remember. And The 1-Up ( http://www.the-1up.com/ ) has given me similar goose-bumps. Of course, now that I can
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by windlep 11y ago
Was quite excited to try out a little websocket server with Kore till I saw it fork's per connection. I don't really want 20k processes for handling 20k connections, I was really hoping for an event loop.
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by windlep 11y ago
"I can't trust air I can't see", was my favorite line of my grandfathers, who lived in LA for the past 60 years. He always mentioned how incredibly clear and clean the air is now compared to a few decades ago (where I
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by windlep 11y ago
First thoughts in my head.... 1) Ah, cool, creator of Raft algo, so some of the 'obvious' mistakes in an implementation should've been resolved by now (though if ppl weren't trying to use it in production.... who knows).
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by windlep 11y ago
With regards to the name-server bit, I honestly can't re-iterate this enough. It's amazing how many "My internet is slow" remarks really come down to DNS resolving slowly. My router has WAN failover, and I've had to
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by windlep 11y ago
So... $337 for a decent soekris board and 'ok' case... or $340 for this: http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-Edgerouter-Router-ER... The latter has a complete open-source OS, you can ssh in and re-flash it you
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by windlep 11y ago
I meant more that languages with an iterator/generator usually have similar constant space usage. That is a drastic oversimplification of stream fusion and fails to mention other practical outcomes as you mention, along with a variety
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by windlep 11y ago
Yep, that was added after my bug report about it. Also fairly recently, he added the ability to do a request with no CookieJar at all.
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by windlep 11y ago
Yup, agreed. The #haskell channel on FreeNode has been great about providing feedback on what libraries one should use for performance.
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by windlep 11y ago
I actually thought that too, but I guess that's not the case. I helped write some HTTP2 frame-parsers for Haskell using attoparsec, but apparently it wasn't fast enough as the lib author later rewrote all the attoparsec code to us
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by windlep 11y ago
I tried to write a Haskell websocket server, the library is quite nice, but it leaked memory (space leak? fragmentation? some of both?): https://github.com/jaspervdj/websockets/issues/72 The author helped me
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by windlep 11y ago
I really like Haskell, but one of the main problems I've had (that I don't see many people cite) is that the libraries just aren't made for use under serious load/concurrency. Many of the people that have written these l
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by windlep 12y ago
I continue to be incredibly sad that any OS considers it ok to lock-up the entire UX for a program running amok. Most people would consider such an OS defective, and consider what else is out there, rather than ssh into it. I can't rea
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by windlep 12y ago
A crash is not a hang. Firefox never crashed, eventually linux asked if I wanted to kill it, but there was no segfault, no crash.
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by windlep 12y ago
Yes, it's not named "lock-up the entire system". I was expecting a segfault, quite disappointed.
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by windlep 12y ago
Seriously, no disclaimer that this will hang Firefox, and will likely lock up a system for 20+ seconds before it will let you kill Firefox (linux)? (Thankfully I run linux in a vmware image, so I can go play a game while waiting for linux t
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by windlep 12y ago
PyPy really closes the speed gap. The latest PyPy 2.5 release uses pinning to pass pointers between the C layer and PyPy greatly improving IO performance [1]. I've noticed this in a project I've been working on holding open large
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by windlep 12y ago
I'd assume that Google/Youtube's TOS include a clause such that any issue you might ever have, can only be resolved by arbitration. Lots of companies are busy making sure that merely using their service means you can't p
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by windlep 12y ago
Many of the industries/groups you cited don't have nearly as much wealth wrapped up in them. That's what makes the tech one worse, more wealth concentrated with less gender equality than others. Once you reduce that list to o
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by windlep 12y ago
Firefox Hello does have an open socket connection to Mozilla servers. This is why once you give out the link, Hello can ring the browser to indicate someone has joined the conversation. Since Hello currently doesn't have a Friends list
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by windlep 12y ago
Cool, I didn't know that. It definitely counts for something.
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by windlep 12y ago
Agreed, I believe Hello will be added text chat along with the video calls using WebRTC data channels in an upcoming release.
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by windlep 12y ago
Since no one realizes that Mozilla actually develops stuff in the open (vs. code/project-dumps like Google after its 'done'), here's the Mozilla project page for Hello (previously called Loop): https://wiki.
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by windlep 12y ago
WebRTC was "generically" added to Firefox in 2013, ie: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/06/webrtc-comes-to-firefox/ Of course, with it being added generically, tons of websites immediately started usi

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