malone

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by malone 1y ago
Why is the commit frame not sufficient to determine whether the transaction was fully written or not? Is there a scenario where the commit frame is fsynced to disk but the proceeding data isn't?
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by malone 1y ago
> The data in the article proves Gary's point. Not only is income tax brought in less now, but more taxes are VAT Does the article data show that? Looking at the tax % graph the ratio between Income+NI and VAT+Stamp duties has been
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by malone 1y ago
They give a lot of characters/vbucks away for free. I have a whole list of skins (including the 3 you mentioned) and have never spent any actual money on fortnite. I can't deny they've made a crazy amount of money from convin
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by malone 3y ago
If this is true why does Apollo need its own server at all? Couldn't the client make requests directly to the reddit api servers instead? Then each user could use their own api key, rather than Apollo having to pay millions for a singl
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by malone 11y ago
I've just been practicing Ian's fastest knot for the last 10 minutes and I can definitely see the speed advantage already. My only issue is in keeping the starting knot tight. I usually use the standard shoelace knot which makes i
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by malone 11y ago
It might be fun to engineer a gzip stream that uncompresses to something huge, and then serve that instead. I wonder if you could compress it enough that the limiting factor becomes the clients disk write speed rather than the network. It&#
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by malone 12y ago
Thank you for writing that. I'm going through a rough patch at the moment and you've really given me a moment of clarity. I've realized that there is at least one person in my life that I should be considering a friend which
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by malone 12y ago
I like your solution to prevent the kernel from interfering with your packets. An alternative method I've used in the past is to add an iptables rule to silently drop the incoming packets. libpcap sees the packets before they are dropp
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by malone 13y ago
They are using node-webkit which means any javascript has unrestricted access to the nodejs api http://nodejs.org/api/ . It wouldn't be hard to do something malicious with those low level filesystem, network and pr
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by malone 13y ago
I have a bodged together standing/bed desk - http://imgur.com/Ia9GNwL I tend to stand behind the desk during the day and recline on the bed in the evenings. I do find reclining with the suspended monitor is very comfor
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by malone 13y ago
Yesterdays discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6802203
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by malone 13y ago
I always feel guilty about how much I end up downloading from the npm registry. I keep my nodejs projects is separate dirs, so I end up downloading the same dependencies over and over again each time I start a new project. I wish the --glob
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by malone 13y ago
How about node-webkit? https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit It's basically Chromium on top of nodejs. Then you can mix your C++ code with nodejs via addons. http://nodejs.org/api/addons.ht
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by malone 13y ago
That check is actually recommended by the RFC, but using the --noarp switch should disable it.
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by malone 13y ago
When rsync needs to update a file it saves the contents to a temporary file first and then copies it over at the end, which should be an atomic operation on most filesystems. So you shouldn't end up with half updated files (unless you
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by malone 13y ago
Any plans to release the nodejs code? Coding in the browser is ok, but it'd be much nicer to be able to code in my usual editor and test locally using the nodejs version.
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by malone 14y ago
Streams are nice but in my experience there aren't many modules that let you use them. Most networking protocol modules will only let you specify a hostname and port to connect to, and not pass a stream to use. That's fine for the common ca
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by malone 15y ago
I don't understand why they didn't just provide an api to normal IP layer sockets, it would have given a lot more flexibility. I'm thinking the sort of lower level networking access you get in node.js If people really wanted to send data ov
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by malone 15y ago
Nice work. I've been looking for a pastebin server to run on our internal network for a while now and this certainly seems like a winner. Would be useful if there was an option to enable line numbering. Not sure if this would go against the
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by malone 15y ago
Same here, most man pages seem pretty good at documenting all the available options, but are pretty useless at explaining how the tool should actually be used. I'd like to see someone dump all the common man pages into a public wiki so peop
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by malone 15y ago
Agreed, you can build great apps with html and js if you're prepared to spend the time, but it never quite feels like it's the right tool for the job. Flex has more in common with desktop widget toolkits and is a far better fit if your tryi