courage

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by courage 3y ago
The SG had to do a few TCP-level things for NAT purposes like rewriting checksums, and it would sometimes synthesize a RST. No layer 7 processing at all There was a low level protocol allowing backends to get some extra metadata about a con
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by courage 13y ago
The Macintosh has been around for 30 years. Three major transitions during that time doesn't seem like an abnormally high rate of change to me. DOS-based Windows -> Win95 -> NT during the same period is pretty close. I also find it
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by courage 14y ago
The LM hash hasn't been stored by default for years now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash . The problem wasn't the difficulty of adding a better hash algorithm. The lousy hash was kept around to maintain compatibility with network clie
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by courage 14y ago
You really want to start off with a baseline of good sleep, eating and fitness habits. If you are healthy you'll have a lot more energy to get things done. After that it's like everyone tells you--choose the most important things to do with
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by courage 14y ago
I think DOS/Windows is a pretty good analog, and it was very successful.
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by courage 14y ago
The time required to JIT compile code apparently has a big effect on web browser JavaScript performance. Web pages often have a lot of cold code that isn't run often. JavaScriptCore is getting a new fast interpreter that will be the first c
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by courage 14y ago
I don't think Id got most of the money, or any sustainable advantage from making the first networked first person shooters, but that's not the point. First mover gets to change the world. That was true for Id, Xerox, AT&T, etc.
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by courage 15y ago
This is a good insight. Pair programming is a tool that is very useful in some contexts but not in others. There are so many things that can vary from project to project: How big is the system? What level of expertise does each developer ha
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by courage 15y ago
The benefits of share most likely do outweigh disadvantages for most people, most of the time. The whole point of putting photos on Flickr is that you can share them with other people. However, Flickr also gives its users the opportunity to
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by courage 15y ago
Flickr and Pinterest both have systems that allow copyright holders to specify what rights they wish to grant to others. Those two systems are now interoperable. Cool.