rcoder

7 ms·

271.
by rcoder 17y ago
Yeah, it looks a lot like XMPP to me, too: "The Google Wave Federation Protocol is an open extension to XMPP core [RFC3920] protocol..." (From the first paragraph of the draft spec.) Whatever your feelings about XMPP, I challenge y
272.
by rcoder 17y ago
Two 8-bit cores != a 16-bit CPU. By your math, every dual-core 64-bit Intel CPU would actually be a 128-bit processor, a quad-core would equate to a 256-bit system, and the Cell would be a very studly 1088-bit chip (64-bit PPE + 8x128-bit S
273.
by rcoder 17y ago
Repeat after me: censor-ware does not work . It's like spam -- since you can't even define what constitutes offensive content in a consistent, formal way, how in the hell can you expect any system (human or algorithmic) to make an effe
274.
by rcoder 17y ago
> ...these C libraries are always insanely convoluted... If you haven't actually looked at the code, you might want to avoid making such a overly-general statement. CDB is a very simple data structure (basically a two-stage hash table)
275.
by rcoder 17y ago
Actually, the core CDB data structure only limits keys and values to 4GB each , not in total: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/cdbinternals/index.html The hash algorithm used also only produces a 32-bit key, meaning you'll be limited t
276.
by rcoder 17y ago
I'm a bit surprised at the poor showing of Tokyo Cabinet in this test, given the amount of buzz it's gathered in the last few months, but the CDB results honestly don't surprise me in the least -- it's a special-purpose datastructure wrappe
277.
by rcoder 17y ago
I would honestly say that they're all pretty equally terrible, across both the paid and free/OSS segments on the market. Making any of them useful for your environment requires customization, training, and plain old time. When I was working
278.
by rcoder 17y ago
Thankfully, there are better, free alternatives out there to either Angel or Blackboard. Sakai ( http://sakaiproject.org/ ) has the more substantial "big school" base, and looks like a good platform on which to build if you're okay with a J
279.
by rcoder 17y ago
As I see it, data.gov isn't so much a source for new types of information -- it's a more approachable and usable clearinghouse for the public datasets already being made available by the federal government.
280.
by rcoder 17y ago
XMPP solves many of the issues with email only because it requires explicit whitelisting of message senders, and because it's still a niche ecosystem compared to email. Most users don't even try to accomplish cross-domain message sending,
281.
by rcoder 17y ago
Starting a conversation is much easier when you have a reason to think you have something to talk about with the other person. I too find it difficult (and generally, also fairly pointless) to engage random strangers on the street in conver
282.
by rcoder 17y ago
This is all very cute, but the real exploit isn't embarrassing your friends and co-workers by revealing their kinks. Imagine a phishing site which could sniff your browser history to see which bank you use, and then provide a customized log
283.
by rcoder 17y ago
You have a point, but you're dangerously close to an argument that people who live in more expensive areas are intrinsically "better" than those who don't, whatever the reason. Some of us may choose to live in more affordable cities because
284.
by rcoder 17y ago
Cost of living affects startups in a number of ways, including the price of office space (or home rental, in the "working in the basement" stage) and the minimum salary expected by your staff (once you start hiring). However, the areas with
285.
TorqueBox: JRuby on JBoss(torquebox.org)
3 points by rcoder 17y ago|0 comments
286.
by rcoder 17y ago
Knowledge of macroeconomics != personal spending discipline
287.
by rcoder 17y ago
> Yet another smug boomer with an overinflated sense of entitlement... ...who, to be fair, made a very public "mea culpa" about his failures in personal judgment when faced with the possibility of buying a house he couldn't really affor
288.
by rcoder 17y ago
I think the reference to gaming in the article threw me off a bit -- looking over the NaCl API docs, I don't see any references to accelerated 3D of any sort[1]. Basically, it can handle Quake, because it works with a software-only renderin
289.
by rcoder 17y ago
Okay, good to know. It was unclear from the article what set of syscalls we exposed to the apps running within the NaCl sandbox.
290.
by rcoder 17y ago
I haven't read up on BitFrost in several months, so bits of the model may have changed by now, but as best I can recall, BitFrost is very closely tied to the Linux/POSIX process model. A core part of its process isolation model is the execu
291.
by rcoder 17y ago
I'm failing to see how this could possibly disadvantage Microsoft at all. Since the sandboxed code runs as a native X86 app, it also uses native system calls. Games (or any desktop app delivered via NaCl) using DirectX or other native Windo
292.
by rcoder 17y ago
Slow startup time has been an Achilles' Heel for JRuby for a long time now. Being able to get <100 msec startup times could help a lot in making JRuby a reasonable option for short-lived systems automation scripts, cron jobs, etc.
293.
by rcoder 17y ago
Even the base-model Amiga had almost double the CPU speed of the IBM (7 MHz vs. 5), four times the RAM (512 KB vs. 128 KB), and a full 32-bit processor (albeit with a 24-bit address space). The Amiga was also released four years later than
294.
JRuby Nailgun Support in 1.3(blog.headius.com)
1 points by rcoder 17y ago|1 comments
295.
by rcoder 17y ago
Q: What happens when you combine this with the default Ruby OpenSSL certificate verification level? (Hint: the default verify setting is 'none'.) I'm also not sure this is worth an entire blog post, given how little code is required to impl
296.
by rcoder 17y ago
XMPP was a core part of Twitter's feature-set from the earliest days. Delivery became a bit ( cough ) "spotty" in early 2008 or so, and has been turned off AFAIK for a while now. That being said, there's no reason it couldn't be a part of t
297.
by rcoder 17y ago
The web browser on the Kindle is limited, but works fine for basic sites (Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, and many other mobile-optimized sites) and absolutely piggy-backs on the onboard (free) cell modem. News.YC doesn't look terribly on it, e
298.
What Makes Jersey Interesting(codahale.com)
1 points by rcoder 17y ago|0 comments
299.
by rcoder 17y ago
I'm sorry, but...what? The book-scanning process in Rainbows End was an obvious parable, not an attempt at plausible futurism. Even in the book, alternatives to the destructive scanning process existed, and the choice of digitization techni
300.
by rcoder 17y ago
I don't disagree that livestock are a serious greenhouse gas factor, but goats may have multiple uses as a stock animal, including mowing, meat, and dairy. If these animals are raised as, say, a dairy herd, and incidentally feed on grass at

More ›