tarabukka

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by tarabukka 13y ago
The Amazon advertising fiasco? The commercial "Ubuntu Software Center"? The lack of upstream patches for many years? Debian maintainers and Red Hat wouldn't even thinking of pulling off that kind of junk. It's not about
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by tarabukka 13y ago
> Bose doesn't have nearly as good range of sound as professional equipment It's not about "range of sound", it's about producing sound accurately. A more accurate frequency response won't sound exciting, bu
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by tarabukka 13y ago
Magic of Erlang? I hate to be cynical, but have you got benchmarks to back that up?
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by tarabukka 13y ago
> p2p sync enables you... That isn't what "peer to peer" means, though. Peer to peer means that peers (the aforementioned browser, smartphone and tablet) communicate directly with each other. Also, how does CouchDB keep things secure if
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Automatic vulnerability notifications from creators of Symfony PHP framework(fabien.potencier.org)
2 points by tarabukka 14y ago|0 comments
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Not passive aggressive? >the browser that nobody cares about >Now they see Chrome is going to win Implies that Opera never innovates or has anything interesting to offer, and implies that instead they follow the market leader li
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Lua's runtime is small and easy to embed compared to something like V8. It's also written in ANSI C. I don't know about Guile.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
I think finding a kernel exploit in the server's OS that let you run the firmware-bricking code would probably be more viable than installing a new operating system.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
I've SSHed into my iPad to transfer media files (without using iTunes) that I can then play with another player... I really don't like iTunes.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
I think it's more on the part of the reader. A lot of willpower is needed to fundamentally change yourself, especially based on just one person's ideas. It's up to the reader to put the ideas into action, and I think that for a lot of peopl
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by tarabukka 14y ago
This is my problem with self-help books... you must try to replace years of your own learning, rationalizing and understanding with someone else's ideas, absorbed only through a few hours of reading. Naturally, it falls apart quickly.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Nothing, the R Pi just has a different host triple and lands you more pageviews and ad impressions. /cynic
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Although if you're running this over HTTP, you might end up compressing it with DEFLATE (either directly or with gzip), which partly involves adding references to duplicated data... I'm not sure what the use case for this format is meant to
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Oh, yeah. My mistake. Although what you describe is a lot more functional in style. You could probably emulate it in a language with higher-order functions.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
It's not about monopolistic practices, as another reply to my comment says. It's about developers using new, incompatible technologies and thinking that everyone is using a WebKit-powered browser. At least I didn't get a "please upgrade to
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by tarabukka 14y ago
>You should try it on Chrome And people ask me why I keep calling Chrome the new Internet Explorer.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
If is an expression in a lot of languages. The syntax you describe is identical to the "ternary statement" in C-style languages.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
I have never, ever seen nl2br referred to as making anything secure or safe. It just converts new lines to <br />s. That's what the manual says it does. That's what tutorials say it does. That's what the function name very obviously
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by tarabukka 14y ago
>Please leave your platform cheerleading at the door. And then you link me to an Apple security document that basically says (but in Apple style) "we encrypt a lot of stuff and use standard kernel-level security".
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by tarabukka 14y ago
The exploit used in comex's jailbreakme was just a PDF vulnerability. Sliding the "slide to jailbreak" simply loaded the correct PDF with some JavaScript; it wasn't actually needed. Memory protection? That's a basic feature of a kernel? Are
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by tarabukka 14y ago
iOS has a jailbreak for every single version. Some have even used a variety of exploits to do this straight from the web. Apple have no magic up their sleeve that makes iOS 'more secure'; they are running on a normal CPU with a normal kerne
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Why do I see people talking about this kind of thing in Tcl being perfectly okay, while PHP is nowhere near as randomly dynamic and gets a lot of hate?
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Isn't this blogspam? The original source is https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2012/12/...
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by tarabukka 14y ago
>I thought that was relatively well known I find that most HN contributors are well-off, don't make too many movies/songs and contribute under their real name. Put those facts together and you can easily get a hivemind reaction of "pira
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Not a real FreeBSD user myself, but I've heard that it has good/complete documentation[1], a solid foundation that doesn't change too often and a nicer firewall than Linux's iptables[2]. Also, it's not really an advantage per se, just inter
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by tarabukka 14y ago
"Sandboxed" apps that can even look at the system drive and inspect its contents? Doesn't sound like much of a sandbox to me.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Does Corel Draw use some kind of graphics hardware acceleration (e.g. Direct2D)? I find that GTK software completely ignores hardware accelerated rendering most of the time; Cairo (which renders most of the GNOME UI now) is pretty much comp
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by tarabukka 14y ago
Depends on how the video's audio was compressed and what you were playing it on.
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by tarabukka 14y ago
I would imagine that Lua was much, much simpler to pick apart and integrate into a system like this (from my experience using Lua) than trying to use a full JavaScript engine. A full JavaScript engine would be less lightweight, harder to im
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by tarabukka 14y ago
That's a poor analogy. A service and a way of formatting documents are completely different. Not to mention that most ways of formatting documents have a context-free standard already.

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