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Yeah, I consider reddit/hn to be more of a waste of time (for me) than videogames. Still, it's easier to browse Reddit than progress in a videogame.

It's like an Age of Empires FFA where the losing players always team up against the leader.

Could you just bring a device with freshly installed Windows / OSX, and clone the whole disk image over the internet once you're inside U.S. ?

True.

I think author's point was that if you're not happy to talk with Max for 15 minutes, you should not agree to the call.

Since you already decided that this endeavor is worthwhile, you might as well enjoy it.

Notably, exceptions are not used. Instead errors are handled with assertions and error objects.

memcpy(0x1, 0x1, 0) is a well-defined no-op even when you don't have 0x1 in your address space.

Why handle 0x0 differently?

Bing is using them: http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/09/03/microsoft-using-fpg...

Using FPGAs allows new features and optimizations to be tested and productionized (almost) as quickly as regular software. Upgrading to a newer design is essentially free and instantaneous, compared to expensive and time-consuming process of producing new chips.

If you're wondering why this is useful, the reason is buffer overflow exploits. Strings in C are null-terminated, so having a null in your code may stop it from getting copied.

This board only has 1GB RAM and no support for fast secondary storage (only USB2) so having 64bit address space would provide little benefit.

There are (at least) two hard(ish) problems involved: 1. Preventing dishonest results. 2. Not disclosing your queries to your friends.

The idea of a browser is far easier to understand than git from users perspective. Implementation is something user doesn't have to know about (for firefox or git).

What makes git so powerful is that it doesn't abstract things as much as other systems. To make git easier would mean making it less powerful. I rather use a tool that is complex than a tool that doesn't let me do what I want.

Git interface is hard, because git is hard. Git is hard because it is so powerful. Git developers don't care about newbie users who can't even bother to RTFM. There is just no reason they should.

Git user interface is fine when you finally learn how to use git.