wladimir

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by wladimir 15y ago
Agreed. It's very cool to a limited amount of people that build/debug/reverse engineer hardware and device drivers. On the other hand we're on a hacker forum, so this might be a surprisingly large share.
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by wladimir 15y ago
If you regard the object to be protected to be 'the history of wikipedia' instead of 'the current state of wikipedia', it makes somewhat more sense. After all, MediaWiki stores all older revisions as well. Imagine how much people in 500 yea
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by wladimir 15y ago
It is aimed at debugging embedded systems, not at server virtualization. Performance and ease of management are not so imporant in this case, configurability and ease of writing virtual devices is.
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by wladimir 15y ago
The ability to copy/paste from/to emails, source code, and documents does keep me using task apps instead of paper. Also, I find it very hard to keep large amounts of paper organized in a useful way over longer times, and you need to carry
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by wladimir 15y ago
The transition away from Flash is slow indeed. It's legacy... But it's happening. Even my non-technical friends seem to hate flash, and I don't know anyone that'd use it for a new site.
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by wladimir 15y ago
This is crazy from our (Western European) perspective. It was one of my reasons for not taking a job in the USA that was offered me a few years ago. Yes, it paid somewhat more than here in Europe but I'd rather have the benefits such as mor
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by wladimir 15y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I think you can use the files stored on the system itself in many cases, at least for binaries. /etc/ and other configuration is an exception, which you could special-case. As config files are generally small fil
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yep, thanks for noticing, it's solved.
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by wladimir 15y ago
That upgrader using binary differences (courgette) is impressive. From 10 megabytes to 78 kilobytes. I wonder why Linux distributions such as Ubuntu still download the entire new packages on an upgrade. A lot of upgrade time and bandwidth c
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by wladimir 15y ago
Same with Firefox on XP. Even though the article is very interesting, trying to read the very thin font hurts my eyes and I had to stop reading.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I'd also expect SVG to be faster if you have a reasonable amount of shapes but only move one or two. In canvas you have to redraw everything yourself, with SVG you simply change the coordinates of the shapes you want to move, and the browse
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, that'd be very useful as a built-in. In the meantime, you could use a SVG-on-canvas renderer such as: http://code.google.com/p/canvg/
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by wladimir 15y ago
"of course shared between browsers" Is it? Are saying that the flash crap doesn't distinguish between browsers/profiles? That's another very bad security problem with flash. For me, it's the final straw. I'm going to wipe flash from all my
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by wladimir 15y ago
A good example of "Defective by design". Software should be engineered to facilitate better and easier debugging of issues instead of making it even harder. Administrating a computer is already hard enough without programs purposefully hidi
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by wladimir 15y ago
For some long and complex git commands I have aliases, also for command line options that I always want to provide. My ~/.gitconfig therefore is quite extensive. But I agree that using aliases for trivial, short commands such as these doesn
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by wladimir 15y ago
You could also use multiple profiles (at least in Firefox), one for browsing around and one for social network sites. In that case there will be guaranteed no cookie cross-pollution as the sites are completely isolated from each other. Just
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by wladimir 15y ago
And of course the older things are the better they are. For example, we all now 1000 year old medical practices are good and effective whereas recently developed ones suck. ... why would it be true for economic practices? Some experimentati
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by wladimir 15y ago
I've been doing this for a long time with the Ghostery firefox plugin. It blocks all kinds of trackers and other dubious stuff.
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by wladimir 15y ago
If you can have shaders in WebGL with integer ops (bitshifts, xor) you could do it.
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by wladimir 15y ago
If the unlimited downside scares you, why not buy put options?
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by wladimir 15y ago
My vote goes for pseudonymity. It has the advantages of transparency (such as reputation) but also the advantages of anonymity (such as to allow expression of less popular opinions without repercussions).
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes, that's the kind of thing I was talking about! True disruption, not the gradual improvement that has been going on for 100's of years. Something that allows for quickly building cheap, efficient and environment friendly housing.
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by wladimir 15y ago
The new graphics driver and chipset support seems pretty important for the average user (given that they have the the respective hardware). Apart from that, optimizations such as lock removals might make some things a little bit faster. Edi
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Trading as a "Massive Multiplayer Experience"(ritholtz.com)
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by wladimir 15y ago
What was the last time you had any problems with the rendering speed of Webkit in reality? Have you tried the other link in HN, that boots Linux in your browser, with a terminal app, and it still manages to be fast even on my modest sys
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by wladimir 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Webkit was just as fast or even faster in rendering than your average Linux terminal emulator. About caring enough, yeah, that depends, maybe the world is ready for this now :) At least it isn't some overengineere
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by wladimir 15y ago
It's primarily aimed at quickly building structures in disaster areas. But maybe this will finally revolutionaize/disrupt the construction sector? It's long due...
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by wladimir 15y ago
No, he shouldn't be making compromises at all. He's rightfully aiming at making the shell of the future. Features to comfort people that are stuck in their current ways can easily be backported in later, as we know how they work since the 7
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by wladimir 15y ago
There's lots of scope for this kind of thing. My main concern would be whether a single WebKit control is the right way to go - it'd be nice to, for example, embed custom controls within the shell (but this might also be possible). Yes, t
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by wladimir 15y ago
The token idea is genius. This could be applied to programming languages as well. Why settle with crazy delimiters like ',"; /xxx/ and manual escaping with \n \x \\\\\\ (making a \ in a regexp in a string :P). A subtle visual hint could be

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