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by xuhu 15y ago
High-traffic websites ? He said quarter-million requests a day, so 3 requests per second (and inetd forks a process per connection, not per HTTP request).
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by xuhu 15y ago
Hard to believe, but the sources compile cleanly on win32 (using mingw). And ... it actually works! I put binaries up at http://patraulea.com/diveclog/diveclog-win32-110904.zip
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by xuhu 15y ago
> George R.R. Martin still uses WordStar on a DOS machine. So that's why it takes a decade to turn out a new book.
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by xuhu 15y ago
At $1 per month, support is through a forum, community driven at best.
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by xuhu 16y ago
Unlike HTTP, SPDY is no longer plain-text (it uses a packet structure similar to TCP headers). While Wireshark's usability has been constantly improving, I will miss being able to do: $ telnet google.com 80 GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: goog
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by xuhu 16y ago
I'm still puzzled how the Fulfillment[1] game builds a board by doing the opposite of this. Naively adding random walls clearly doesn't lead to a board filled with tetris pieces. [1] http://homokaasu.org/gasgames/game.gas?27
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by xuhu 16y ago
Let's suppose the webserver takes 0ms to run. How much would that help ?
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by xuhu 16y ago
I guess stolen laptops with OS X are a lot more likely to be recovered simply because there are fewer (pirated) OS X install disks laying around, so the thieves eventually cave in and just let them boot up.
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by xuhu 16y ago
Installing the blog right from the marketplace was impressive, non-technical users will love this. How about integration with other frameworks ? CommonJS is promissing but I'm sure RingoJS/NodeJS can't do everything yet. EDIT: I was thinkin
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by xuhu 16y ago
Here's a comparison of playing 720p video using Flash versus Mplayer: http://imgur.com/fq5c1 Mplayer is roughly twice as fast, and both are using libavcodec for decoding H264.
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by xuhu 16y ago
"Really complicated" is possibly related to having to decrypt/reencrypt to HTTP at every hop. Otherwise all but the last node are basic pipes.
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by xuhu 17y ago
What if you're trying to learn a new, popular language and you can't come up with one plausible construct, let alone two ? The gutenberg project may be of help: if books are available in both a language you know as well as one you're trying
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by xuhu 17y ago
Or starting notepad.
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by xuhu 17y ago
Nice. How about live streaming ? Often my "friends & family" simply get confused by some gui and the best way to help them starts by asking them to click on the 'tightvnc server' icon on their desktop.
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by xuhu 17y ago
If an analogy helps, think of a traditional hard-disk in your workout mp3 player.
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by xuhu 17y ago
The total amount (not the average amount) is what counts to wikimedia. From the original blog post (less suggested -> more donated): #17 suggests $30, totals $22,000 #18 suggests $1.95, totals $11,000 (same views)
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by xuhu 17y ago
> Threads get really confusing when [name withheld until you vote] argues with himself all the time. Randomly generated names, until you vote ?
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by xuhu 17y ago
Maybe remove the "&type=printable" at the end of the URL ?
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by xuhu 17y ago
The 34-54 age-group is a 20-years interval (28%) versus 24-34, which is a 10-years interval (25%). In other words, there are almost twice as many users in the 24-34 interval as either in the 34-44 or the 44-54 intervals (contrary to what th