nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
Nim is really underrated.
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nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses
*Tor
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance
It's spelled Tor, non TOR
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network
What's the threat model here? Is the potential adversary able to do MITM?
- The DHT does not anonymize the poster ipaddr, the post contents, posting time and other metadata
- same for the reader ipaddr, what was reading, and when
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
Nim GC is optional; It can be disabled to write system libraries.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: We Need a Better PC
> mvn, npm, composer, gem, and pip all work just fine
...for you.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Why I don't like smartphones
> So is a photoalbum, so is a book, so is a TV, so is a music player
Comparing a powerful, expensive, fully programmable computer provided with cameras, GPS, radios with a photoalbum/book/TV is silly.
> They're becoming bigger, more powerful, and some can now be plugged in to monitors
You could plug a Commodore 64 to a television and write software on it, even if its CPU was probably less powerful than the battery controller of my smartphone.
It's obvious that smartphone OSes are designed to turn the device into an addictive toy. Your examples of not owning software and centralization goes on the same line.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Subuser turns Docker containers into normal Linux programs, limiting privileges
How is Docker + Subuser different than just using firejail?
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Amplifying C (2010)
...care to explain why?
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Python developer for 8 years. What should I pick up next?
+1
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted
> phone/TI-83 is doing the crypto
Phone? Can we remotely trust nowadays smartphones not to have a number of backdoors?
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted
Indexing for search != parsing for advertisement.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Driving Is Losing Its Allure for More Americans
And it is about time! This crazy fuel-consumerism is simply unsustainable.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
"Decentralised"? How is this different from a static site generator and an RSS reader?
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: The Internet of Things Will Be the World's Biggest Robot
Indeed.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016
> Go's runtime makes no provision for interfacing to code that doesn't play by its own
This alone makes Go really unfit for developing system libraries.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Request For Research: Basic Income
>People who retire earlier die sooner
some people. Do not generalize.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together
At least bencoding has dictionaries.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together
> proxies (haproxy), routers, forwarders, web servers (nginx)
...all stuff that people should not implement in javascript in the first place.
nyan4 | 10 years ago | on: Why Are So Many Zappos Employees Leaving?
$2000? That's it? Not surprising that "Less than 2% of all prospective employees end up accepting the offer."