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by afhof 12y ago
They just start sampling your data, the feature doesn't stop working. When you buy premium, you get the unsampled data (and a person to call on the phone)
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by afhof 13y ago
"(which it should already be)." No, why should domains be required to attached to an individual person?
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by afhof 13y ago
Dumping the entire database to disk on every write? I can't imagine more than 1 qps.
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by afhof 13y ago
+1 to short and sweet incremental change lists. VLC / Firefox used to be this way until /someone/ deemed those not worthy. You can still get to the VLC changes which ware way more satisfying to read: http://www.v
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by afhof 13y ago
JUnit4 kind of helps with ExpectedExceptions. try-catch doesn't usually have a good reason to exist in unit tests.
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by afhof 13y ago
libfaac is a safe aac default, but aacplus works MUCH better at the the 8 - 16 kbps range, which seams to be a stated goal of this page. It turns on SBR+PS and has ffmpeg support. If any Dropbox people are reading this, can you comment on
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by afhof 13y ago
Are there ANY hardware manufactures that know how to write software? It seems like both firmware and hardware were an afterthought to almost any piece of computer hardware I have seen.
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by afhof 13y ago
4096 is a good goal, but there is a much more obvious benefit at 1024 since it would fit within the IPv6 1280 MTU (i.e. a single packet). I recall hearing stories that the Google Homepage had to fit within 512 bytes for IPv4's 576 MTU
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by afhof 13y ago
Your mind fills in the gaps. What makes a picture NSFW is what it makes people think, not so much what it actually is.
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by afhof 13y ago
The interesting effect of bubbling is not so much that people appear naked, but that the original picture, containing clothed people (typically bikinis), appear naked.
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by afhof 13y ago
Is this even news? Pick any Wikipedia article at random that has more than one author. It isn't hard to find run on sentences and verb tense mismatches.
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by afhof 13y ago
Does anyone seriously think that the difficulty with parallelizing code is the amount of boilerplate? The real problem is synchronizing multiple threads; being too lenient means deadlocks; being too strict means under utilization. The map
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by afhof 13y ago
The language. Really the problem with SQL is the API. I like having a relational database, but SQL strings are a really crummy way of writing to it.
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by afhof 13y ago
If you were to say "programming languages today are deficient in X, Myrddin fixes that!", what would X be? From the looks of it, it appears to be nothing. The syntax looks palatable and I like the lack of header files. That sai
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by afhof 13y ago
The "I'm doing this and I don't give a damn about you" attitude I think has at least some merit. If the lead programmer is good, its better if he/she can say no. If there is a correlation between being an asshole
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by afhof 13y ago
Cox does something similar but bypasses the the DNS records and just slipstreams in a response. I noticed Cox would redirect javascript requests to their own HTTP server and put in their own snippets, effectively doing mass javascript inje
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by afhof 13y ago
100 and 120, at least in my brief experience. Coworkers start expecting 100% output from you, which means you are going to get a lesser review for putting out 80%. That they don't let you do 20% in the first 6 months there is what ma
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by afhof 13y ago
I thought the segmented stack was the key to having hundreds of thousands of userland threads. It seems pretty farfetched (though not impossible) that realloc'ing the entire thread stack when it gets too big.
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by afhof 13y ago
Its more link-baity this way. Instead of knowing what the article is about before clicking on it, you are now forced to waste an extra 10 seconds.
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by afhof 13y ago
By the common understanding of alpha, pre alpha means its not really ready to demo.
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by afhof 13y ago
Its deeply troublesome when these kinds of comments come up for two reasons: first and lesser: its wrong; secondly: its inconspicuously wrong. Processor speeds double approximately every generation which we can estimate is once every two y
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by afhof 13y ago
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
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by afhof 13y ago
It doesn't even stop at audio cable. Ever seen those "High quality HDMI cables? The bits on THOSE wires are purer than any other 1s and 0s. There is real money to be made in selling the emperor his clothes.
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by afhof 13y ago
If you are summing up the whole experience rather than the audioformat, then you really don't have anything comparable. If one format really is better (and even that is subjective), then there needs to be a repeatable experiment that
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by afhof 13y ago
Its painful sometimes to read audiophile forums. Often you'll see people claim that FLAC audio doesn't sound as good as raw PCM. Some people seem so proud of their ignorance that they ignore the benefits instead of trying to und
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by afhof 13y ago
Its doubtful that the image can be recovered. The information really is gone. I suspect it would be easier to make it simple to have redundant copies of the data, rather than trying to fix the images after they're gone.
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by afhof 13y ago
Nope, you should still validate your input. The correct thing to do is the validate that the input is semantically valid rather than syntactically valid. If they enter an address, try looking it up. If they enter an email, try sending a
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by afhof 13y ago
You raise a point that I am not sure you meant to: Do people prefer participating in anonymous communities? Wanting to be anonymous and wanted to be with other anonymous people are pretty different things.
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by afhof 13y ago
Nothing actionable in this post. If they said "OpenSSL is backdoored, don't use it!" then great. But, "Some software somewhere has a security hole in it", is pretty unhelpful.

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