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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Pass-by-reference: The formal parameter merely acts as an alias for the actual parameter." "Alias" means nothing to a CPU, nor is it an ABI. At the core, passing by reference is usually implemented by providing t
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Anybody aware of any browsers making this a trivial workflow? Any comprehensive list of recommended plugins? Anything targeting mobile platforms?
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
I've been using this exact comparison, to pitch against web bloat (and bloated technology in general). Some more fantastic demos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=farbrausch
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Guess what computers excel at? Driving consistently on consistent highways." Possibly on paper. In reality, as of right now, computers are clearly far from excelling at this specific task.
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
A video of the team at Ghibli having a late dinner together, as they near the release date of one of their bigger features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPTNdmdJSc They were working hard in that studio, with passion and
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "No comments on how crazy this viewpoint is?" Lucky you're here! > "The state is anti-innovation" Not in Sweden, it isn't. Ad hominem all the way. > "They're arguing that a monopoly of the
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "even a small amount of data processing will make your program CPU bound pretty quickly" I don't know what "a small amount" means. You are bound by hardware (cores, hyper-threading). It simply makes no sense to
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "In languages that rely on the OS to schedule threads, the situation is much more dire, even with the great performance of NPTL on linux. Context switches are more expensive since they have to go to the kernel. And so on." Wh
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "It's just not trendy." The "thread-per-connection" model doesn't scale. It's simply not resource-efficient in any way.
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "They could have designed for privacy and real-time deletion of data" Actually, they could not. If data is geo-replicated across multiple clusters, spread all over the place, divided into hot and cold storage layers - it&#x27
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Do you think it's as easy as "rm"-ing a file away? Your data is kept internally in a multitude of different databases. Parts of it sitting in cold storage. Log files, caches. That data is split across thousands of different n
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
This proposal is a compromise. Wouldn't a specific metadata/heartbeat "packet", routinely dispatched by the involved parties, serve a better solution? My personal stand is to prohibit exposing any metadata on the connect
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
Why are you being down-voted? What's going on? This case has been going on for years; he has been through hell. How is this a proper reimbursement? Edit: Forgot it's yet another echo chamber community.
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
You'll need to define a clear set of criteria. All of the aforementioned providers have similarities, and differences. Requirements, costs, SLA, support, availability, APIs, redundancy... it's an infinite list that you'll hav
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
You're free to do as you please here. You don't have to use malloc()/free(), just implement your own LIBRARY_Alloc()/LIBRARY_Free()/LIBRARY_GetMemorySizeBytes() :)
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
I appreciate the insights, and respect OP's point of view, but some of these "takes" are extremely dichotomous. > " Microsoft - I don’t know that there’s much about their culture or current business that’s particularl
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
Blocking the whole country is an interesting move, mostly because it has the potential to generate a much greater public outcry than simply masking away the few specific books in question, putting a greater public pressure to reevaluate the
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
As a business person, you're going to have to sell yourself/your services to other people. Perhaps that's not too different from pitching yourself to an "anonymous promotions committee"? Interesting and insightful r
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
Sure, you can call your "ex-coworkers at Microsoft" (most of which are irrelevant to debugging/verifying this issue) - or, you can just spend some time reading the documentation, as previously suggested. The coherency issues
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
Answer is: "none of the above". Coherency is covered by the WinAPI documentation (check the remarks section). Always RTFM. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
Twitter was twitter before they had all those people. Sure, but it can't scale without them. How exactly is Twitter supposed to pay the bills? People use this platform because, for the most part, the basic premise is entirely f
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
People make mistakes, "punishment" isn't the way forward here. There are alternatives out there to Intel, but kindly remember that other chip makers also released hardware that is susceptible. Also, you can trust this won&#x2
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
This same logic can literally be applied to anyone working on anything. Engineers, carpenters, pilots, literally anyone. I bet there are many people who know everything about "XMLHttpRequest", but know nothing about congestion con
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
When I'm thinking about bloated web frameworks and inefficient libraries, I often come back to memories of 64k demos released by groups such as Farbrausch. Here's what they've pulled off in 2000: https://www.youtub
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
If your clients trust the self-signed certificates (by updating their certificate stores, adding up a self-signed root CA), then, as of today, as far as I'm aware there won't be any warnings. No guarantees that this situation won&
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
Now how the hell do we create a webserver that will work reliably for the next 30 years if we have to embed SSL certificates with built-in expiration dates in the range of 1 to 3 years? You can use self-signed certificates. Your cli
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
The doctor example is great, but where do we draw the line exactly? Offloading some aspects of your work by utilising other people and their expertise is surely the way to go, but there's a balance to be kept. Sticking to your example,
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
In a modern office there are no specialist typists; we all need to be able to pick our way around a keyboard. PowerPoint has made amateur slide designers of everyone. Once a slide would be produced by a professional, because no one els
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
I have been working on Snow, a unit testing library for C. OP requires a unit testing library for C, so they've written one. What is the alternative solution you propose? The framework itself may appear complex, but the entire
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by xtrapolate 9y ago
Decoupling code/infrastructure is not a bad practice. As it so often turns out to be, "Microservices"/"Monoliths" mean different things to different people, and your mileage may vary. Difficulties may be introd

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