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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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Backbone, or anything non consumer end, are pretty much done or will be done soon. Especially with the massive growth of Mobile devices. The problem is the last mile. User End. With Super Outdated Sof…
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I still need tab overflow. Which so far none of the Chromium provides.
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What Kind of SSD? Intel DC Series 3500?
What CPU?
Do those price includes Backup?
Pricing Wise is similar DigitalOcean. Only with USD / Pound sign swap. But I guess UK's electricity and Rack…
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I wish some of the biggest country should mandate all router and ISP to have IPv6 by 201x. Otherwise we are just not getting anywhere.
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Oh, nearly forgotten about it. HP promise to mass produce Memristor in 2013, and then push back to 2014. Wasn't it suppose to COMPLETELY revolutionise the way we do computing? Why haven't we…
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And yet no one is building another Visual Basic today anymore. Purely, In terms of ease of programming. We have't had single improvement since the days of VB6.
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There is definitely a need. In 3 years time we could get Dual 10 Core CPU on a server with PCI-E Based SSD card at insane IOPS speed for a very reasonable price. So very soon, year or so we will be bo…
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DediServe are good. But still dont match those two in terms of pricing.
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I was just about to post this. And will the next round be tested on Rails 4.0?
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My thoughts exactly.
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Does it have Tab-Overflow?
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Nope, It is a common issues with Firefox although it has been greatly reduced in the last year or so. The project to fix all this is called e10s. Moving Content, and UI etc to seperate process as well…
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Can you elaborate on that? I am pretty sure those bugs about rendering ( lots ) of images were fix a few versions ago.
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Way too many Geeky answers here. I could understand that, after all this is Hacker News. But Majority of Users, My guess that is 60-70% of them, wont even know what Javascript is or mean. My bet is th…
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I saw iron.io, I thought immediately it was another Ruby bashing article.
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Written in Ruby as well? Edit: Just Checked GitHub, it is Written in Go, Interesting..... Another sign of Ruby being painfully slow.
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The questions i had in my mind,
Are Apple still involved in the OpenGL / OpenCL development? It seems OpenGL, didn't move or improve much at all in recent years and OpenCL has had much news…
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It depends, i suppose you are asking for an Web alternative. I haven't tried Digg or AOL Reader since they aren't available. My usage is basically a headline view of all the feeds, I have th…
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No Comment Yet? Anyone knows any major client using Rubinius in production?
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I remember a phrase, something like;
We known more about the Outer Space then we do about Earth's Ocean.
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Hopefully they dont stop at being only 50% of C Speed. So asm.js, will be what Java was originally, write once run ( nearly ) everywhere. asm.js being the bytecode of JVM. Would that also means asm.js…
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It has been a long time since I managed to push Firefox down to its kneels again. Ever since i got my Core i5 and a Crucial SSD, Firefox has been ( or any Apps ) snappy. Chrome was still noticeable fa…
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Firefox Development speed is slow. Few things that they are working on, GGC, Generational GC, Hopefully there will be less pauses in Heavy GC Web Apps. Necko - Their Network Engine that is now causing…
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Oh God... MPL 2.0 again. Why Cant Mozilla just Switch to Apache 2.0
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It is just Mozilla has far to few resources and doing far too many things at the same time. I wish Rust and Servo would come faster.
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Doubled Down on Pjax and Caching, i wonder if they are using Rails 4.0 already.
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Slightly Off Topic, What happened to Rubinus which is based on LLVM?
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Anyone?>>
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Will there is Livestream this year?