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ksec

56,010karma·17,291submissions·February 1, 2012
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Edksec @ protonmail . com

https://ksec.mataroa.blog

London, Hong Kong and somehow California*.

Often a Contrarian.

The unwritten rule of HN: You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.

Interest: JPEG-XL, AAC-LC, VVC / LCEVC, Patent Free AVC, FreeBSD, TigerBeetle, ZFS, DTrace, Vitess, Vespa, Objective-C, Java, Zig, Odin, Crystal, Ada, Ruby, Graal, Rails, 5G/6G, OpenPOWER, Apple/China, Supply Chain / Manufacturing, Retail.

@Google: Why No Pixel Phone in Hong Kong?

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Seagate are going to ship SMR HDD in the next 6 months. With BPM is still way off on any RoadMap.( Correct me if i am wrong ) The other alternative is HAMR. But do HAMR works with Helium Filled HDD?…
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Well the problem is Battery. Since you are using the processing power directly on your Phone. It will required to be constantly charging. And this means if this was used for serious gaming the battery…
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I am actually looking for a solution where the filtering is done through water rather then a HEPA filter, which needs replacing quite a lot in a environment as bad as Bejing.
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Yes, but not everything is applicable to Desktop Firefox. And the porting back takes time. We have already been told dont expect e10s until early 2015. That in Mozilla calendar is telling me it will …
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With All of their effort shifted to Firefox OS. Dont expect much improvement with Desktop Firefox in the short run.
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You see, it is fine people dont like Apple. I mean no one is forcing everyone to like them. I suppose people have different value and we have to learn to agree to disagree. But the world has turned to…
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Well they do offer the services of replacing your battery. It is not they force you to buy a new Phone. And the swappable batteries, They have their own set of trade off and problems.
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Um........ Yeah. iPhone 4, an 3+ years old phone, which usage pattern are beyond what normal ( or called dumbphone) and therefore you charge it a lot more........ And you expect the battery to not die…
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While I agree JS is a shitty language overall, and worst when writer larger apps. Having someone who wrote this on a website that spend 30% of the screen estate for page footer isn't very convinc…
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OH Great, another Project closed due to stupid and insane License argument and restriction.
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I am not quite sure if devices is the right word. I would choose Product instead. But then Product in a sense doesn't include services. ( To me at least ) So they would be a Product and Services…
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Great analogy. I think next time if we try to guess the amount of time we need to complete a project, we will just ask how long would it take to complete up to Stage 80%. And just times it by two.
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1. IE 6, Is that not enough to hate them? Anyone who has done any sort of web development during the IE6 era would hate them. 2. The ugliness of Microsoft Office. I dont see each version of M$ office …
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First, PC/Notebook Industry hasn't been on the performance tracks for a few years already. Peformance/Watts is what matters. Faster CPU with Higher IPC at Lower Power. Much Faster Graph…
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My thoughts exactly. So why isnt this being used instead.
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I think it is actually the Ruby Pool is increasing much faster then there are Ruby Devs.
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To me, that is more like Ruby 3.0, or a similar languages with another name. How will this turn out? Matz will approve it? If yes why not make Rubinius the default implementation? If not, then ?
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Gist title is Ruby 2.0 MRI vs Rubinius 2.0 While HN Title is Ruby 2.1 So which is correct?
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Not Even on Front Page? SK next time you should tweet the HN page instead of direct link. tl;dr Ruby 2.1 is the fastest MRI yet. Rubinius is on par with if not better then most of it and exceed it in …
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Finally, i thought it would be another Duke Nukem Release. Glad to see it out. Now, Rubinius 2.0, Ruby 2.1, Topaz, JRuby. Exciting time for Ruby implementation.
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Realistically, how are content provider suppose to copy protect their properties without the use of DRM?
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For those Complaining about Firefox Responsiveness. There are e10s Reboot ( Process Per Component or tab ) that they are working on. Generational GC, New Graphics Backend etc.
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Why is it that when any other countries doing the same, it will be heavily criticize and be named and shamed on nearly all sort of Newspaper and media. Yet US is no difference. And there is countless …
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I have always tempted, and wanted to use VLC. But i have always been sticking to MPC and its derivative. Currently I am using MPC-BE. The reason is rather simple. VLC on Windows is just plain ugly. Yo…
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Ok, Varnish 4.0 were mentioned, by I dont find anything concrete of specific with Google Search. When will that be coming? And I would love if High Scalability do an Interview with Disqus. 8 Billion P…
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1. A Correction to that post is there isn't MANY provider that are around the same price. He said Hetzner. And that is like the ONLY other provider for the same price. And in many cases OVH off…
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Could Some one tell me how these people game the stock market by releasing news that are um, false or unrealistic. I mean Analyst and Media, wanting to trash Apple for headlines has become insane.
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It changed from 2.0.0 to next minor. And this is 2.1 already. What is the course of this delay?
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Time for some Benchmarks. Ruby 2.1, JRuby 1.7.5 and the Duke Nukeum Rubinius 2.0.
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