wingo

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by wingo 16y ago
It is a bit of a slur, but if _I_ had to attack an organization, I'd do it with PDF and Flash. If I were the CIA, then I'd pay for it. What's the market price for an Acrobat zero-day? A hundred thousand dollars?
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by wingo 16y ago
Free software is a third perspective which uses other forms of capital than Amazon does. It's not as fast as a targeted, talented, VC-backed firm, but it does get there; so I'm inclined to interpret the "omg-no-internet" sentiment as hyper
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by wingo 16y ago
It sounds like you need to build on the strengths of the JS implementations you care about, and encode your data structure in a string or something. Have a jump table in the beginning with the first characters, and then likewise for other
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by wingo 16y ago
I got to the "Booya!" and tittered.
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by wingo 16y ago
I do indeed; that's why I had forgotten my password, because I always log in with my key. Amusing, this!
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by wingo 16y ago
A wonderful, human survey of the field, with pleasantly little jargon. Thanks ltratt!
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Linux 2.6.28: autogrouping, faster dcache, transparent hugepages(kernelnewbies.org)
2 points by wingo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 16y ago
I went to look at my logs and realized I forgot both my own and root's password on my linode. Doh!
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by wingo 16y ago
That is not the point, and Hutterer never said "devs are clever", much less "users are stupid". Those are your words. Read the article again. I found it amusing, as it has been happening to me lately.
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by wingo 16y ago
I heard recently that Solaris 5.10 doesn't like $(). http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/11707
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by wingo 16y ago
100ms is an eternity. You can do GC with 1ms pauses. http://www.infoq.com/articles/azul_gc_in_detail , for one example.
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by wingo 16y ago
Of course; in that case the default value expression for `b' would not be evaluated. Common Lisp does this right.
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by wingo 16y ago
I read these comments and think that this article wasn't directed at HN readers; it was directed at free software people.
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by wingo 16y ago
You raise some interesting questions, and some misconceptions. It's an ugly format, but I'm going to respond point-by-point: > Why isn't it re-entrant? I'm not certain what you mean here; certainly you can call from C to Scheme to C to
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by wingo 16y ago
It is indeed copied from some other Scheme, though I can't recall which. Rather embarrassingly, I've never fired up Scheme48, or used the original scsh. Lots of the POSIX bits in Guile were inspired by scsh though, originally anyway. Most
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by wingo 16y ago
As far as history goes, http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/History.h... is where it's at.
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by wingo 16y ago
And his recent FOSDEM speech can be read at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fos... . There was good discussion on the recent LWN story, too: http://lwn.net/Articles/426763/
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by wingo 16y ago
What benchmark is this?
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by wingo 16y ago
This is precisely why "q" is defined only to accept three digits after the decimal. It's actually not a floating point number, and anyone who parses it as such is just being lazy. "q" is more properly represented natively as an integer bet
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by wingo 16y ago
This article is wonderful press. I want the book!
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by wingo 16y ago
Their web page has a box on it; how quaint. I remember getting software in boxes.
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by wingo 16y ago
Regardless of whether you think Google is more or less evil than Microsoft, what does it matter how many billions they spent? It's silly to hold onto some murky moral click-ownership here. It would still be silly, even if it hadn't given G
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by wingo 16y ago
> On a related note, can this technique be exploited to improve site ranking on Bing? That was my thought when I heard of all this! I don't know what kind of authentication the bing toolbar does, but this seems ripe for reverse enginee
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Bufferbloat(bufferbloat.net)
4 points by wingo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 16y ago
Contraband and counterfeits have long been a source of funding for gangs -- both sides of the northern irish conflict, ETA in the Basque country has a commercial wing, and I'm sure the more traditional mafias are into this sort of thing too
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by wingo 16y ago
Your swap should be off, and there is mlockall(2). The kernel does let userspace have a /little/ fun on its own.
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by wingo 16y ago
I like Conrad Barski's take on explaining quasiquote: http://www.lisperati.com/looking.html "Flip, flop, flip, flop..."
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by wingo 16y ago
Is it a sail or a drag parachute?
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by wingo 16y ago
35 billion in the bank, adding 2.5 billion to that every quarter? Did I read that right?
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by wingo 16y ago
Cutlery and meat have nothing to do with debugging.

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