jakubw

12 ms·

1.
by jakubw 14y ago
bsdiff is not a general purpose binary delta algorithm, it's targeted at executables. When you change a single line in the source code of a program and recompile it, bsdiff produces a small diff, even though a normal binary diff between the
2.
by jakubw 14y ago
Presenting this screen before you can actually get the OS does not make much sense for new users. They won't know if "hardware support on more PCs" or "performance optimisations" will be any important for them. It'd be more sensible for thi
3.
by jakubw 14y ago
Great Britain is the island. Scotland would find it very hard to leave it.
4.
by jakubw 14y ago
Relevant: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx
5.
by jakubw 14y ago
I've used Qt a lot. In fact, I'm still a big fan and wasn't trying to sound negative about it in any way. I absolutely agree that Qt does a tremendous job at abstracting away the differences but still, it's the little details that matter an
6.
by jakubw 14y ago
The difference is that each environment for non-Web apps - Mac, Windows, KDE etc - has each own somewhat well defined look and feel, that applications should follow in order to feel native. That's not true for Web apps in different Web brow
7.
by jakubw 14y ago
Direct URL: http://code.google.com/p/collide/
8.
by jakubw 14y ago
Some syntax highlighters, such as highlight.js [0], can do language detection and it works reasonably well with short snippets too. [0] http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/
9.
by jakubw 14y ago
Ruby seems to have fixed it in December, PHP in January and Node was trying to get a fix in for v8 but it's been rejected AFAIR and then they patched their version. Perl hasn't actually been vulnerable for a couple of years.
10.
by jakubw 14y ago
I like how it displays the weather in each participant's location, now I can shorten the usual opening chit chat to a minimum.
11.
by jakubw 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717754 I don't think you'll get different results 9 days later.
12.
IMDb Data Analysis in Pure SQL(jakubw.net)
9 points by jakubw 14y ago|0 comments
13.
by jakubw 15y ago
Well, mine had falling snowflakes even when it was summer.
14.
Show HN: A super simple Python module for working with URIs(github.com)
2 points by jakubw 15y ago|0 comments
15.
by jakubw 15y ago
If you're really concerned about people not contributing back their changes, I'd first consider whether it'd be due to their unwillingness or maybe a cumbersome process of doing that. For instance, I can't find anything on the website that
16.
by jakubw 15y ago
They bothered with the $5 account because by stealing a wallet, they'd not only acquire its balance but also any future incoming transfers to one of its addresses.
17.
by jakubw 15y ago
I couldn't find a link to the source code but it seems to be this project on GitHub: https://github.com/toolness/collusion
18.
by jakubw 15y ago
There is a bunch of ways to distinguish important updates from the others. First, prioritize updates from projects I am or have contributed to. Second, updates from people close to me in the social graph (i.e. the people I watch on GitHub o
19.
by jakubw 15y ago
Here it is: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/frontier-digital-education-1...
20.
by jakubw 15y ago
In an interview, David Evans, who teaches the search engine class, said Udacity's business model will be recruiters paying for access to the top students.
21.
by jakubw 15y ago
You don't need to look too far for examples. Even on this very site, there are quite a few people who want to make a huge difference with their lives in one way or another before they're 30 or 40. Because they know they probably won't have
22.
by jakubw 15y ago
This doesn't look like a good framework for GAs. It assumes that the best solution to a given problem is explicitly provided but if it is, then there's no point in running a GA any more. A good framework would only represent the genetic dat
23.
by jakubw 15y ago
The Python version seems to be using an interpreter that frankly just doesn't work: x = [1, 5, 3, 2, 6, 4] x.sort() print x Output: [1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6] Not to mention the incomplete standard library. I'm not sure what i
24.
by jakubw 15y ago
So this is something I hacked on for the past two days. It's a bit different than the numerous implementations that have been posted on HN before. It shows how Mona Lisa evolves on all the browsers visiting the site and sometimes migrates i
25.
Show HN: Distributed version of the Mona Lisa evolution with migrations (Node)(jakubw.net)
2 points by jakubw 15y ago|1 comments
26.
by jakubw 15y ago
Would it make sense to include the error image in the format to make the compression lossless? As I see it, if the final fitness is high enough, the error image should be highly compressible?
27.
by jakubw 15y ago
One way to quickly find code that uses -webkit- only CSS properties is to use the GitHub's code search with queries like: language: css +"-webkit-" -"-moz-" .
28.
by jakubw 15y ago
You could just use SHA-256. If it does collide then Path's malfunctioning will be the last of our concerns. :-)
29.
by jakubw 15y ago
It's not exactly the same thing. To serve targeted ads, you need to associate the information you inferred from e-mails with individual users (and with so much data that goes through your Gmail account, that means building a very accurate p
30.
by jakubw 15y ago
For those who actually let their browsers store passwords I recommend looking for extensions that integrate the password storage with the native password management systems such as Mac OS X's Keychain, KDE's KWallet or GNOME Keyring. Some b

More ›