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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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Not really..
https://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/performance... …
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Some are true, but most are over the top.
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You have no idea what you are talking about.
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I am actually surprise this pieces was written by Brendan, given the way Mozilla has been moving lately with asm.js, PDF.js and Shumway which is like Flash.js; It wouldn't be surprise if their Next Go…
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Slightly Off Topic: Wasn't Rust suppose to be the codename or working name of the languages. Or Has Mozilla decide to simply use Rust as its official name?
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I am still waiting for Linode to React. At the moment i am still trying to find a host that sit somewhere in the middle between DO and Linode.
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Interesting it is working for me.
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Well there are many host that does this. Dediserve for example. But most of these Host are comparatively more expensive.
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off topic: Any update on Servo? And its license? ( I hope its not MPL and instead Rust like MIT license and the Apache License )
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Lose Interest in ZFS when dev is pretty much stopped. I am looking forward to DragonFly HAMMER 2
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On the Note of Node.js, i was wondering if there will ever be a Node.js based on IonMonkey + Baseline Compiler instead of V8.
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I am still thinking since the files stored on Hipchat are public ( with a long and hard to guess URL ). What are HN's take on this?
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I still dont get the drift about Ruby being fast enough.
Ruby is slower then CPython, PyPy, Lua, LuaJit, and literally majority of other popular dynamic scripting languages. The argument that keeps be…
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What about Pjax, Russian Doll Caching, Ruby 2.0 etc?
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Because you are not looking at the right place. Even OVH sells much cheaper Dedicated Servers then what you get in Softlayer.
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Exactly my thoughts. The Ivy E5 is just so much better in Power/Performance. I dont understand why they need to update now, not Earlier or later.
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Exactly what is in my Mind, an Intel DC SSD Cache in between would be a much better option. Or In fact ANY SSD Cached solution. HDD just dont hold up any more. Even if they are Enterprise HDD with 2x …
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Not that i hate these tools, but how much would this bloat up the browser? ( I am guessing they are less then a few MBs on installation size or download size? )
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Finally, i hope this makes Lua much more widespread.
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No Love for Lua and LuaJit.
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I wanted, MacPro in Cube Shape. Dual CPU ( Not Xeon Only, ) and up to 64GB of Memory, Dual Geforce GTX Titan, Dual Thunderbolt, SSD in Raid. Because the Margin of SSD and Geforce GTX is much larger, A…
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I wonder if the Engine behind it is Open Source or could we use this services from other browsers like Firefox? This is beneficial for
Getting pass Firewall restriction, from China Firewall to Office…
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Yeah i wish someone could crowd source a project so Mike could spare 20% of his time on RubyVM.
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Somebody pointed out about the CNAME available on Cloudflare. I never knew that and i checked out the article. The First paragraph: "CNAME setup is a manual process generally available to paid CloudF…
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Um, You could have go with a Akamai Reseller instead? Like Rackspace Cloud? The same goes for EdgeCast, Mediatemple, GoGrid, etc are resellers.
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So anyone know what is the services credit for 1 Min of downtime?
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That is the first time i have heard this as well. Thanks for the Link.
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Why would someone sign up for VPN when they could have set up the same thing with a much cheaper VPS? Anyway i am currently looking for something similar to Amazon silk and Opera Turbo, where the serv…