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by zvrba 11y ago
Intel Xeon Phi: general-purpose CPU w/o ridiculous stuff like warps, groups, different memory types, etc.
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by zvrba 11y ago
I feel his pain with packages. I'm running Debian 8.2 here, and the number of packages that Qt has been split into is just overwhelming. I ended up downloading Qt's official binary distribution. Now I know at least that I a) have
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by zvrba 11y ago
Is there a version with KDE desktop?
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by zvrba 11y ago
LuaTex project ( http://www.luatex.org/ ) is working on fixing the language part. Hans Hagen, of Pragma Ade company, is on the team. I know about him and his work because I've used the ConTeXt macro package for TeX for m
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by zvrba 11y ago
What is the reason grsecurity never got integrated into Linux mainline?
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by zvrba 11y ago
> Password management belongs to the command line. Not really. You don't want passwords in plain-text traveling around pipes or sockets with easy to sniff system-calls. You want a secure channel between your password manager and the
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If Apple implemented Posix unnamed semaphores, how many X Serves would you buy?(lists.apple.com)
1 points by zvrba 11y ago|1 comments
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by zvrba 11y ago
Hm. People (at least I do) have a bias towards small numbers. Given the choice, I'd probably choose something below 20. I don't know how representative I am of the general population, but I'd guess the average to be around 15
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by zvrba 11y ago
Notable quote: "Process algebra is algebra, which is certainly math. Category theory and temporal logic are also math. These esoteric forms of math have their place, but that place is not in the basic education of a computer engineer.
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Teaching Concurrency (2009) [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
20 points by zvrba 11y ago|1 comments
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by zvrba 11y ago
So, the DTrace language specification and other public interfaces are well-documented. GNU has already reimplemented a bunch of other stuff, so why not DTrace too?
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Snapchat announces pay to replay(usatoday.com)
3 points by zvrba 11y ago|0 comments
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by zvrba 11y ago
> a traditional von Neumann ISA like ARM incurs a semantic gap; the architecture wastes time and energy rediscovering facts that the compiler already knew. So thought the designers of Itanium too; it turned out that the compiler doesn&#x
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by zvrba 11y ago
So this is a basic prolog engine in JS. Still a far shot from what I though it would be from the title, i.e., something like Coq.
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by zvrba 11y ago
> A minimal viable program is the smallest program that solves a particular problem. It is small and beautiful. It has no additional features. A problem is rarely well-defined. Alternately, you can encapsulate small and beautiful program
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by zvrba 11y ago
I've read the quote in the book "Wittgenstein's poker". After a bit of searching, I've found the following link: https://hengstmengel.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/philosophy-to-... I bel
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by zvrba 11y ago
I'm just reading Wittgenstein's works. He had also said "If you want to know whether a person is religious, don't ask them, but observe how they behave."
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by zvrba 11y ago
> longjmp() and setjmp() are tricky. They’re obscure, can give rise to subtle bugs, are highly platform-specific, and, if abused, will probably lead to awfully confusing code Actually, being part of the ISO C standard, they are not pla
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The end of capitalism has begun(theguardian.com)
3 points by zvrba 11y ago|1 comments
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by zvrba 11y ago
"Plain C" is defined by the ISO C standard. Once you start using extensions like these you're better off going over to standard C++.
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by zvrba 11y ago
> I definitely recommend using Free Software only if you want to be absolutely sure of confidentiality. So, has anybody ever audited build farms for Debian, Ubuntu, etc? Have we ever seen a breakdown of their income sources? How do you
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by zvrba 11y ago
> I wonder if the more popular desktop OSes are ever going to change their monolithic architectures into something similar and adopt these ideas. Windows graphics stack from Win7 (or maybe already Vista?) can recover from driver crashes.
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Microsoft open-sources its Objective C implementation(arstechnica.com)
3 points by zvrba 11y ago|0 comments
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by zvrba 11y ago
Having multiple implementations of a feature does not make it a "mess" unless they step on each other's toes.
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by zvrba 11y ago
Their reasons were maintainability due to static typing.
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by zvrba 11y ago
People who had to maintain complex financial systems would disagree. They were slowly migrating to, IIRC, Java.
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by zvrba 11y ago
Is there alternative to Flash which also gives you DRM?
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by zvrba 11y ago
Tidal and Deezer are others which require flash. Both have desktop apps, however.. Tidal's desktop app is awful and laggy to the extent I prefer using the web interface; Deezer's Windows app lacks some features compared to the web
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by zvrba 11y ago
Yes, except that you're far more often operating at the 0 boundary instead of at the INT_MIN / INT_MAX boundaries. Also note that C only half-heartedly supports objects larger than SIZE_MAX/2: relevant quote from http:/
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by zvrba 11y ago
See my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9850833

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