nuje

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by nuje 14y ago
His blog is so awesome. Mosts posts are like a mini Adam Curtis documentary / narrative. Now if the embedded BBC videos only worked on my Nexus 7...
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by nuje 14y ago
Anyone know how big the Asian demographic is in the US? Would help in guesstimating sincerity of this (vs just a play to get their vote after losing the black and hispanic groups) Regardless, the bigger story of the alarming anti-meritocrat
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by nuje 14y ago
People often bungle their firewall rules because they don't know any better, but Amazon continuing to willfully fuck up TCP for all of AWS is a pretty large issue for the functioning of the net at large.
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by nuje 14y ago
I would have assumed it's declining in terms of market share (driven down by tablets/Mac/Linux) but there's a surprisingly large absolute drop coming as well: "Researchers IDC and Gartner Inc. said PC shipments in the third quarter fell mor
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by nuje 14y ago
Actually NT was 32-bit on Alphas. Except a later in-house experiment that never shipped.
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by nuje 14y ago
Those LuaJIT numbers are really microbenchmarks with small working sets though, and wouldn't show the cache effects of increased memory usage.
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by nuje 14y ago
Is your "complete system data from multiple platforms" from JS apps? Let's also not confuse "a sufficiently smart compiler..." with real-world observed performance :) BTW data layout transformations like compressed fields would also be usef
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by nuje 14y ago
Yes. It sucks to worry about your chargers when you're not going home for the night (trips or something more spontaneous). Even for a 9-5 family lifestyle, charging every night is a habit you have to learn and you need to keep chargers arou
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by nuje 14y ago
As a new Nexus 7 owner my favourite tablet feature is: I can do my Android stuff without worrying about running my phone out of battery. Now if it only fit in my pocket...
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by nuje 14y ago
I don't know if you're a rich guy planning to marry down in the social hierarchy, living in a culture where where women don't work or just a misogynist but this is generally false in the west. Dual incomes with a single household is very ec
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by nuje 14y ago
Is stuffing the cracks in Windows the right thing in the end though?
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by nuje 14y ago
PostgreSQL does not have its own scheduler. Here's a comment at LWN that tries to correct the article a bit: http://lwn.net/Articles/518405/
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by nuje 14y ago
> I don't think there's anything there that wasn't already known. You must be a Nokia insider then: the various generations of UI design, types devices in development (with pictures!) that never made it, etc were new and fascinating imo
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by nuje 14y ago
> American culture appears to approach diet most scientifically, yet has probably the least healthy population What makes you think this? Assuming you mean the USA, I would think there are countries in northern european where diet is o
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by nuje 14y ago
> is it not possible to just have a python interpreter running in your game engine and only running vanilla Python code? Sure, but it means much bigger swaths of C/C++ code and your game app is no longer a python program that imports so
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by nuje 14y ago
Yeah, the freely available Python libs may not seem polished enough. [edit: not that I have experience trying to ship multiplatform games with them] But: if you flip it around embedding Python in your C++ framework as a "scripting engine",
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by nuje 14y ago
Yes
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by nuje 14y ago
Nice to know no iOS app can help out if some day drones start strafing my country (cue arab spring etc.)
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by nuje 14y ago
I've played around with multitouch on Ubuntu, it does work with some hardware (but not if the driver intercepts the touches and synthesizes something like scrollwheel events, that's bad). See eg. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch and ht
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by nuje 14y ago
No, the thought experiment didn't mention or imply SSL/TLS. Your claim also only applies to the f'd up CA bundle that browsers ship by default, it's not a property of SSL/TLS.
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by nuje 14y ago
If you could make snuff films in a sustainable way (without disabling the actors and starting a murder investigation), they might well be made. Maybe even with willing victims. There's a scifi/horror plot here somewhere...
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by nuje 14y ago
The fact that you can bungle WebRTC or SSL/TLS implementation doesn't make it useless for transport security. But of course security building blocks never guarantee properties of the entire system alone. Just like using AES doesn't make or
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by nuje 14y ago
Not really, you can have good enough security without perfect technology. Cost to acquire or develop and reliably productize (and risk divulging) targeted attacks for OTR would likely exceed the value your adversaries could extract from you
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by nuje 14y ago
There are still a few features that C++ lacks. If it only added a s-expression syntax and macros, and built-in logic programming support, it would be perfect!
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by nuje 14y ago
Doesn't look like Qt business is a big slice of Digia. They look like a big multinational IT house. At http://www.digia.com/en/Home/What-we-do/ it's only mentioned at the far bottom of the page...
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by nuje 14y ago
The Finnish stock exchange press release also says the deal has a "neutral effect" on Digia's earnings so seems they got it for a pittance, or maybe did some kind of more complicated hedged deal? Url is http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/porssi
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by nuje 14y ago
Nokia bought the Qt company, Trolltech, and sold off the part doing commercial support to Digia. The people actually hacking on Qt stayed with Nokia. Now the question is how much actual development Digia can actually afford to keep.
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by nuje 14y ago
It's the subset of Android that is released as open source some time after the proprietary versions are shipped.
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by nuje 14y ago
The guys doing new stuff are/were working for Nokia though, the commercial support part was split off from Nokia and sold to Digia. Judging from Digia's front page, Qt isn't a big part of the company. Are they interested, rich and capable e
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by nuje 14y ago
It's not as black and white as having a shitty vs fulfilling job. Many (most?) retirees are coming from ok jobs and are conflicted but positive about retiring, seeing it as a transition to antother phase of life. The workaholic is a special

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