mpweiher

So what is the Substrate VM? The main presentation appears to be about Truffle, a language-implementation framework, which looks neat by itself. The "Substrate VM Execution Model" slide tal…

This is pretty neat, I certainly like not having a separate query language embedded as strings and manipulated with string concatenation etc. (SQL injection ...). Similar: - Avi Bryant's Relation…

The F-16 has Mach 2+ top speed, the Mach 1.2 figure is "at sea level", so the F-35 is significantly outclassed there, not just by the F-16, but also by most potential adversaries. One advant…

While the indirect creation of terrorists is certainly also a factor, the direct method of creating plots that you can then "foil" has been widely documented and analyzed: http://…

Submitter here: I actually couldn't imagine that this hadn't been submitted before, but a couple of searches didn't turn up anything and the dup-detection also didn't pipe up...no…

I don't have to install any extensions in my browser. It Just Works™.

Hmm...when I click on an RSS feed link in Safari, my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) opens and asks me if I want to add this feed. (Worked for the comments feed, didn't see a link for the blog, and the…

> this server uses a thread pool architecture. Is the README wrong? It says: "Event driven architecture and worker processes for throughput" To me this indicates using events for the ext…

It's a bit more complicated. The US presence has many reasons, not least of which is non-proliferation, with the deal being protection under the US nuclear umbrella in exchange for not going nuc…

> someone always has root Chad claims that they throw away the ssh-keys to the machine. So they don't actually have root. Or maybe that was a goal that hasn't been reached yet, don'…

Hmm...that wasn't the intention. I actually would like to have such a language...

> I think "debatable" is rather kind :) Well, I think he has an interesting data-point, and makes some interesting points despite maybe making a somewhat incorrect generalization. But eve…

Submitter here: Yes, and some of the claims are simply factually incorrect: the original work on refactoring OO programs was done in the context of Smalltalk, the code navigation we now have in IDEs…

I find JS to be a good negative filter for sites that are large (in KB), slow and have annoying/weird UI. Just like Flash. I wish people would make good HTML/Web Apps instead of trying to (…

Solved by a web-page for harvesting e-mail addresses without any other information? Impressive!

I believe that this is what it says, in no uncertain terms.

Yes, but the US doesn't care.