xilun0

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by xilun0 15y ago
If you do everything in the constructor and the destructor, and in the meantime store a generic instance (or maybe a list of generic instances) somewhere. This can be a quite rare situation, though. But not impossible.
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by xilun0 15y ago
one should also note that even if we take a fantasist hypothesis of a major breakthrough demonstrating a loose of strength of 2 bits for AES-128 once a year during ten years, we would probably still have tens of years to replace the cipher.
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by xilun0 15y ago
(little nitpicking note : there are cases where it can be useful to have a virtual descriptor as the only virtual method of a class)
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by xilun0 15y ago
It could have 0 impact if you don't use it (like a lot of things in C++)
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by xilun0 15y ago
not e.g. with 64-bits, va args and literal 0 (cf FrankBooth example)
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by xilun0 15y ago
Considering how i use computers, most of the time i found it far more convenient to apt-get search and 20s latter install (or the equivalent with the package manager you use) than downloading a random piece of software from a random intern
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by xilun0 15y ago
I argue that it's claiming the traversal of linked lists, provided you have a choice between at least two linked lists containing the same set of elements. I argue that this restriction is meaningless, because it has no technical impact in
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by xilun0 15y ago
use your fingers, report 10 millions, times 3.
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by xilun0 15y ago
I could not. There is nothing anti-competitive in distributing something at marginal cost, when expected revenues that fit into a proven and habitual business model are elsewhere.
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by xilun0 15y ago
More on 2.; for the purpose of disclosing knowledge, patents are typically somewhere between 10 and 1000x less useful than a good scientific paper. And the content of the innovative parts of most scientific papers are not covered by patents
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by xilun0 15y ago
I agree there is a risk of misinterpretation as in "all kind all linked lists have been patented, here is the patent" and for this reason, it maybe would have been better to get an even more precise title. By i'm technically still fine with
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by xilun0 15y ago
At first I thought that too. But within 1 or 2s, I remembered that linked lists have never been limited to single linked lists (except maybe in poor quality courses), multiple linked lists have been around since Unix and very very probably
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by xilun0 15y ago
Summary by one sentence of the article: "Now, I’m not a software developer, mathematician, or patent expert". That reads in other parts of the text... and even in the poor choice of patent excerpts. Some parts are naive at a rare level, e.g
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by xilun0 15y ago
How would you define "social coding"?
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by xilun0 15y ago
IIRC Os X can now resize its own FS, so we can probably let my beautiful (just kidding) HFS code RIP. I won't talk for the other FS code, I have no special knowledge of them. I have had no involvement in Parted for years (i'm doing radicall
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by xilun0 15y ago
That is a little sad because the FS code was once the whole point of Parted. But that does not mean the removal was not justified, I don't know, I've been away from Parted for a very long time. (disclaimer: I wrote the HFS/HFS+ code.)
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by xilun0 15y ago
"Revolutions" in the industry are often not the result of a big bang, but more frequently of mere accumulation of little steps. GNU+Linux has not changed anything in the industry when initially released. It was years (decades?) behind curre
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by xilun0 15y ago
It's debatable whether github is more important than git or not. Despite the impression a reader of this site could have that (hype and with an user interface copy pasted from the prototype hype fashion simple user interface of the moment,
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by xilun0 15y ago
That does not make him irrelevant when he is still here. For example, the direction he "recently" gave to the arm branch (basically ordering everybody to clean up their shit immediately), will probably imply that Linux has been and will be
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by xilun0 15y ago
who reads CNN Money anyway?
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by xilun0 15y ago
It's possible to prove talent directly in an enormous number of occupations, it's just necessary you are let work for a probation period. Of course there are situations where everybody anyway want to avoid loosing time or where a mistake co
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by xilun0 15y ago
> Well, now I’m telling you that Xbox applications need to run in kernel mode. wtf?
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by xilun0 15y ago
Once you start calling anything an invention, the next logical step is to allow to patent it. OK it's too late for the US, but we still have some hope in Europe, so unless you are writing stuffs using concepts and algorithms never used befo
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by xilun0 15y ago
It's only impossible to write a program that can be feed with any completely arbitrary program and input and yet determine all the time if it will halt or not. What few people realize, is that most completely arbitrary programs are very uni
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by xilun0 15y ago
> When Windows was better than the competition, it was winning in the marketplace. Now Google and Apple are better than the competition, so they are winning in the marketplace. hm??? this contains at least as much factual errors or impr
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by xilun0 15y ago
Not a very good strategy to avoid bloat... Not even mentioning you will end up with 100 times the number of tools you have now. I would not call such a system more simple, indeed it would be inferior on all possible points. In a real system
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by xilun0 15y ago
you are pretending there is on difference between attribution of ideas and utilisation of ideas. I won't even explain why this is not true.
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by xilun0 15y ago
why does it requires executable stacks?
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by xilun0 15y ago
Paying both the incumbent operator and the ISP was the situation in France about ten years ago, at the very begining of DSL lines for the general public. It has been for ages that most people here only pay directly the ISP. Either the line
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by xilun0 15y ago
argggggg Might have been an interesting way to proceed because of various weird reasons 15 or 20 yeats ago, but current x86 plateforms are not that convoluted (for at least 10 years). Just outw (or is it outb? don't remember) the correct va

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