xavel

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Show HN: A2mp3 – a bash-script to end googling “how to convert $thing to mp3”(github.com)
2 points by xavel 11y ago|0 comments
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by xavel 11y ago
That explains why these kind of news have been entirely absent from slashdot (with the exception of that one heavily castrated entry).
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by xavel 11y ago
The link in question is actually " http://yurivish.com/Silk%20Static/Silkura%20-May%2002%20-loo... - yurivish.com seems to be a loop to localhost (maybe broken DNS or something, I don't know). Apparently it&#x
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by xavel 11y ago
Is that argument supposed to be in favor of Kallithea? Because I don't see how it does, tbh.
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Breaking out of Virtualbox through 3D Acceleration [pdf](recon.cx)
1 points by xavel 11y ago|0 comments
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by xavel 12y ago
Yes, of course. But that's ABI , not API.
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by xavel 12y ago
> Nitpick about what? Subtle about what? What are you talking about? The clause I mentioned. I'm sorry if I was ambigious, but there were discussions in the past hovering about how the GPL still allows commercial software, and such.
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by xavel 12y ago
It's not so much about what I would like to see, but rather why some developers insist on copying Lua's stack-based API, merely because so many people have accepted Lua as the very definition of a lightweight, embeddable programmi
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by xavel 12y ago
About 'correctness' and 'small size' ... as soon as they'd add unittests as extensive as V8, JSCore, or SpiderMonkey, it'd grow big quite dramatically. :-) I'd be interested to see how ES5-compliant MuJS r
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by xavel 12y ago
>They can abide by the free license, or pay for a different license Or... use a library that suffers none of these issues. :-) My point is about the clause in the GPL that enforces developers to enclose the source of their entire softwar
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by xavel 12y ago
The grand majority of programming language APIs do not use a stack-based API. Really, stack-based APIs are an exception in just about every way, but not in a good way. If your question is about cheap memory storage, linked list algorithms a
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by xavel 12y ago
Well, that's just Oracle being Oracle. They did the same nonsense with Opensolaris, if I recall correctly.
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by xavel 12y ago
I noticed that too. My theory is that MuJS started out as a fork of Lua, with all sorts of Ecmascript-compat bolted on. Use with care, I suppose.
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by xavel 12y ago
And what if those companies wish to provide their software to customers? Enter a terrible hell of "how are we going to relicense our stuff", that'll most likely end up with said companies switching to a different library. No,
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by xavel 12y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not a particular fan of Lua-inspired pseudo-stackbased APIs. I'm not sure why so many language devs insist on this terrible design. I fail to see anything good about it; It doesn't make the co
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by xavel 12y ago
Aw, now I'm really interested in seeing what the jsfiddle was, but the post got killed... :(
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A BASIC compiler written in Bash(basic-converter.org)
12 points by xavel 12y ago|0 comments
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by xavel 13y ago
I'm from Germany, so I see what you mean -- in Europe, especially central and northern europe, there's hardly any need to share files physically. But alternatives are necessary in times like these, which is why I'm glad thing
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by xavel 13y ago
1.50$ for an entire pack of USB sticks? Where did you find such an offer? Because according to amazon, the cheapest they have are a pack of 10 USB sticks, 1GB, for 39$: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3MII96/ Not exa
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by xavel 13y ago
>Can you elaborate on why you feel a need for such physical media? Maybe it's not perceived the same way in the USA, but in Europe, most people who use cloud-services find it increasingly difficult to trust american cloud-services,
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Ask HN: What alternatives to floppy disks exist?
8 points by xavel 13y ago|13 comments
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by xavel 13y ago
Oh man, and I'm glad they finally settled for Phobos. I don't use D much, but thanks to gdc, the gcc frontend to dmd, and Phobos, writing D actually became acceptable, almost enjoyable. There's, of course, still the fact that
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by xavel 13y ago
Pretty impressive, I didn't know Erlang was suitable for web programming. :-) Nonetheless, you really should make sure that input is sanitized. XSS attacks are a nasty thing.
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by xavel 13y ago
Not to worry, but sanitizing input literally takes no more than one additional function call (at least for php/ruby/python/perl/nodejs/java/c#/ocaml). I can understand that this might be a hassle if you've written this app in COBOL, or some
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by xavel 13y ago
Doesn't look like this 'Derek' guy knows how to sanitize input properly: http://166.78.158.209/page?id=upolrzwhns This is just sad.