maxdeliso

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by maxdeliso 13y ago
The amount of engineering rigor that has gone into sqlite over the years boggles the mind. It's a project that has been held up as a sterling example of successful software development many times, rightfully so. I especially like this
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
This is kind of saddening to see, but it is a crime that virtually every programmer has committed at one point or another in their careers. Let's be honest - in some cases it can be quite fun to do. The underlying problem is the ego, and th
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
Still: how many currently deployed devices running iOS are you going to be QAing that application on? Two, maybe Three? How many versions of iOS are you going to be seeing on those devices? One or two most likely, iPhone users tend to upgra
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
Having done corporate grade mobile work, there's no question of which platform is easier to develop for. On Android, not only do you have to simultaneously target in some cases four or five different API levels, you also have to hit several
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
Although that's true in principle it's a little idealized: HTML5 development on mobile is still a little half baked and impractical. You only have to look at Facebook's massive abandonment (at least temporarily) of that platform in favor of
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
This is not the case. Did you use the makefile to build it? I'm thinking that those specific compile and link flags are key to the triggering condition. I've gotten it to crash at least three or four times on several windows 7 boxes of wild
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
I haven't exactly pinpointed the cause of the problem, I just noted that that call was the last point in my code to get executed before the system was hosed. Also, the code is complete: check the tarball listed at the end of the page.
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Windows System Exploit(megafrock.com)
92 points by maxdeliso 14y ago|45 comments
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
agreed. I was surprised at the number of responses to the contrary. this 'idea' is nothing new, nothing innovative, and has been proven to be a terrible approach by history time and time again.
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by maxdeliso 14y ago
>Howell knows how to do this well why doesn't he explain how we safely present a system API to arbitrary code? the whole point of the browser is to provide a method for cross platform ui, abstracting the display of an application from t