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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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Will there be LiveStream tonight directly from Apple?
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Well, Great, how about more snappy and perf bugs land on 25 as well. Still waiting for SuperSnappy or e10s, or the new Necko work. Firefox is slow ( Comparatively ) , I hate opening Chrome from time t…
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It doesn;t allow Tab Overflow or any other UI features suggest to me this is nothing more or a Rework of Skin instead of a whole new UI rewritten from scratch.
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Opera used to Pack all the features of a browser and email and more into a 15MB downloadable exe. Now the browser itself is 25MB already This is Chrome. I was hoping for Tab Overflow? No Drop Down lis…
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I still could not get my head around, what happens when Coinbase are hacked and i have no way to trace back the money i lose.
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I hate Javascript. Sorry if this offended anyone. I think it was good for its limited use case during the early Web 1.0 - Web 2.0 era. So therefore I dont like asm.js either. I much prefer LLVM or PNa…
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Hopefully it is something bigger, i cant believe a simple website update deserve a special talk in RubyKaigi
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i think i know ... its http://rubykaigi.org/2013
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An Insanely superfast JIT complier with GGC and new FFI but without GIL?
( Dreaming....... )
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am i missing something?
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Since people continue to post about docker without much news or comment on usage. Here is a real thing being used to build Firefox.
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Why is this getting upvoted? I read the title, ( sounds familiar ), look at domain mixpanel.com, didn't they did these a while ago? Turns out to be same post from 2011. Come on! Stop posting the same …
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Isn't this .. old news? Why keep posting this every two month or so? Would be better if there are improvements, major site using it to roll out etc.
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It would properly take two months, which is properly optimistic, they would get it done in four months instead. And JC got it done in 4 days.... This isn't 10x programmer anymore, this is 30x!!
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And that was less then 5 years ago, and it was a Stop the World GC until less then 2 years ago updated to Incremental. While Mozilla's has had incremental for a year and are still working on Generatio…
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Well it wasn't long ago that JS, arguably the most used dynamic languages gets GGC.
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The problem was PHP and Python are slow too, and yet they are still faster then Ruby. And not to mention there are many other implementation of the two that gets them further along. So if Ruby was 1x,…
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I am risking myself getting insanely downvoted for writing this. But I hope it at least gets some of the attention. I really hope the Ruby Communities do actually admit Ruby is Slow. Because until you…
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The following has nothing against or for Steve ( which every comment seems to be focus on ), but a matter of opinion on the problem. So she has a problem with THE highest chain of Command cutting her …
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so they have completely ditch Rails and Ruby?
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Apple makes money on both hardware and software. So while all those manufacture have to pay for its OS ( Windows ) to M$, Apple gets those themselves as well with MacOS. Which is why Apple is much mor…
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You dont even get 1670, most got a 2650L which is actually 2.0Ghz only.
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just to be reminded that linode is unmanaged host.
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no one mentioned this at all?
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Well yes please do this, not sure if it is allowed though since Oj gem is written in C ( I think )