davidhollander

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by davidhollander 12y ago
I've implemented pure LuaJIT servers (without libuv) which compare favorably to nginx in terms of latency and performance. But you should consider whether or not you will need SSL\HTTPS support. libuv is only an IO loop and will not pr
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by davidhollander 13y ago
Linux has natively supported xbox 360 controllers through the xpad kernel driver for a number of years, and Windows asks to install drivers when you plug in the controller.
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by davidhollander 13y ago
> but let's say something like X. Or your average window manager. Or, say, almost anything from GNOME. This doesn't apply to embedded Linux, or Linux for servers, which could be argued to be just as "traditional" a
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by davidhollander 13y ago
What are your definitions for "traditional Linux userspace software" and "traditional Linux users"? Do you consider Android to be "Linux"?
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by davidhollander 13y ago
> Unless you have lots and lots of time to spend micro-optimizing everything, you'll get better performance writing in Haskell. This is stating the case too strongly. Performance wise, the naive, unoptimized solution in Haskell (e
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by davidhollander 13y ago
In a multi column layout, I might wish to alter the width of the web browser in the primary column somewhere between 30% to 68%, in 2% increments, by simply tapping [Win+L] to increase its width, or [Win+H] to decrease its width, without wo
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by davidhollander 13y ago
I have found cascading to be an unhappy medium in the past. In awesome-wm, I'll tap [Win+Space] to toggle between 100% overlapped (fullscreen with unoccluded task bar) and 0% overlapped (multi-column horizontal). [Win+J] and [Win+K] cy
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by davidhollander 13y ago
To me the most important factor for developing on a laptop mentioned in the article is the use of a tiling window manager. For me an incredibly common task in web development is to have a web browser and 1 or more terminal windows tiled hor
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by davidhollander 13y ago
I think this page supports your assessment: http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/arms-visualization/ > "Global illicit networks — from drug smuggling and arms dealing to human trafficking and organ
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by davidhollander 13y ago
Anonymous Callbacks != Callbacks Callbacks have been around forever in C using named functions, and are not specific to either the current generation of programming languages or programmers. One can still use a named function instead of a
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by davidhollander 13y ago
> After you have run those commands, simply restart the SSH daemon so it starts up with the new keys in place I believe if your version of OpenSSH is up to date, sshd will read the host key each time a session is opened and does not ne
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by davidhollander 13y ago
The vote was over whether to add the following ammendment to the DoD appropriations bill: > None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to execute a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order pursuant to section 501 of t
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Rep. Amash (MI-03) Discusses His NSA Amendment to DoD Appropriations(youtube.com)
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by davidhollander 13y ago
Start by deciding whether you want to target a single platform or a list of multiple platforms, and then choose whether you want to work with 2D, fixed pipeline 3D, or programmable pipeline 3D. For single platform 2D, research the platforms
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by davidhollander 13y ago
There are an estimated 12-27 million people currently in slavery[1]. With a current world population of 7 billion, this proportion is between .0017 and .0038, a dramatic decline, and probably the lowest in history. Regarding incarceration i
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by davidhollander 13y ago
Whatever one's thoughts on the article in its entirety , the initial implication that the thinkers listed could not account for Herzen's fish is disingenuous. Helvetius (one of the listed): "The free man is the man who is n
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by davidhollander 13y ago
> sent people to their deaths, directly profited from it, and will continue to profit off any future militaristic endeavors the US pursues. This would remain a valid example of moral hazard even if Cheney had been drafted and experienc
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by davidhollander 13y ago
It's an ad hominem which falls short of hypocrisy or contradiction because the soldiers and contractors sent to Iraq were not conscripted. Surely there are more substantive arguments to be made.
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by davidhollander 13y ago
For information which functions as advertising to also be a candidate for fraud it must first assert something as fact. There are many forms of advertisement which do not assert facts or even include language. An advertisement could simply
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by davidhollander 13y ago
The counter-argument is that advertisement is speech, even if it is undesirable, and that speech is information. Parents who do not wish their children exposed to advertising could use the same rules they would use to prevent their children
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by davidhollander 13y ago
USD is only one currency. There are many places in the world where banking in and holding only USD would be impractical, and where banking in and holding only local currency would be higher risk. Bitcoin doesn't have to be intrinsically "su
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> All those replacement of classic shell-script-based start-up tools In case you are referring to the introduction of systemd, I'll mention that Arch Linux has also made the switch, and away from the BSD style in doing so. None of my
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> "real" communism, one which is say, managed my an AI, with no one small group of humans in power, is probably going to be fair and equal. Any rational agent, whether biological or artificial, A) possesses a set of preferences, and B
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by davidhollander 14y ago
State agencies may be immune from prosecution for environmental crime and have no incentive to account for payment of legal damages. Additionally, they may be immune to demand shocks and have no incentive to account for consumer boycott ove
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by davidhollander 14y ago
Unless a better word than "wildlife refuge" is discovered to specifically denote human living areas. In which case people will be in towns.
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> It has an obligation to actually protect its citizens Perhaps you can claim agents acting on behalf of the state have a metaphorical obligation to protect citizens. But they do not have a literal, legal, or contractual obl
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by davidhollander 14y ago
Notably missing: any topic covering networked applications, servers, or version control.
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> I could buy one of the world's most powerful supercomputers if I were rich enough, but I'm fine with my MacBook Air. A world class supercomputer isn't the same category of good as a MacBook Air. Most laptop owners would feel worse o
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> no way to change the window manager Is this actually the case? I use Linux as my primary OS, but I recall seeing xmonad running in osx on a macbook.
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> They are merely useful abstractions Why are things which are useful and abstract of lesser value than things which are non-useful or non-abstract? Can you give an example of a non-abstraction using your definition of abstraction? &#

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