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fugyk··on Where are the missing gravitational waves?
That will be huge if true. Gravity wave will tell us many things about the very early universe(first few 100,1000s of years!), for which we have very little data now. Its an amazing achievement for LIGO just after 10 days of its start.
fugyk··on Tunneling Data and Commands Over DNS to Bypass Firewalls
I had used it once. But the speed it gave to me is too slow. I could not even open a basic site without waiting for 10-15 seconds. Had I done something wrong or is this speed same to you?
fugyk··on Monopoly Man – the same image uploaded to Imgur 3.2M times?
There is a link of DB attached(https://mega.nz/#!WBg1zAIA!dg0g2Q0kDm1q6r1WBMPe0-nrP3wxvokeF...). Can anyone verify weather the images actually point to "The Monopoly Man" or is a test image.
fugyk··on When ‘int’ is the new ‘short’
How can they hide the bug in an open source project after fixing it. Isn't commit public?
fugyk··on Stuff in Space
What is the benefit of having time period larger than geosynchronous satellite? I see quite some satellite like that, e.g. OPS 6638 which has a time period of 6,701.8 minutes. I can think of no benefit of it, and on the downside it will require stronger rocket and provide low visibility.
fugyk··on Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPX0SCl7OzWilt9LnuQliat...
fugyk··on Favicon bug
Why do browser people always forget about favicons? Most browser saved favicon on private browsing and then this.
fugyk··on Batteriser: a gadget that extends alkaline battery life
If we now use 20% energy of battery as batteriser claims, how can it extend the life of battery by 800%.
fugyk··on Rearchitecting GitHub Pages
What percentage of the requests is handled by CDN?
fugyk··on The Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoins
Why hasn't Mt. Gox disclosed what they know about the attack?
fugyk··on Myself – v1.0.3
Oh, I just overlooked the name odesk.
fugyk··on Myself – v1.0.3
Link?
fugyk··on The Z3 Theorem Prover released under MIT license
You can try Z3 online here: http://rise4fun.com/Z3/
fugyk··on Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
While I find this project awesome, but I don't think telecos or even facebook will allow this in long run. I think that it even breaks facebook TOS.
fugyk··on Ask HN: Mobile site
For this reasons I have made pinch.js (https://github.com/fugyk/pinchjs). It enables desktop like zooming in mobile.
fugyk··on VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
Why can't I update VLC 2.1.5 using 'Check for update' in OSX.
fugyk··on Io.js and Node.js reconciliation proposal
This type of competition is not good as there will only be minor differences which will confuse others. They will not be viewed as two different environments but two version of same environment. Developers will not want their libraries to work only with io when they can make it work with node with a hack. This can create situation like unix/windows compatibility. And using same package manager worsens the situation.
fugyk··on Sans Bullshit Sans
It is working on OSX Chrome 40 in my case.
fugyk··on “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”
What if any intermediate version is found to contain the violation of trusting trust? Every go maintainer has to build every version sequentially from that version to current version.
fugyk··on Show HN: Pinch.js – Desktop like zooming in mobile browser
http://jsbin.com/cudeguyibu
fugyk··on YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
Wow, I almost forgot that I was using HTML5 version of youtube as a preview. I am using HTML5 preview since day 1 and I don't remember any glitches or bugs. I wonder why this switch has taken so long given many upsides and no known downside.
fugyk··on Main is usually a function – when is it not?
The reason that I use C many of times is not because of its speed but because it (almost) completely reveals it inner working even when there is clear reason not to do so.

(1) Though it is bad for most of time but still I feel more contended sometimes with it, especially for complex code.

(2) Even if this transparency is at superficial level with optimising compilers, but there are very few high level optimisation applied to C code and that too in the form of loop unrolling, tail call optimisation, loop interchange etc.

fugyk··on Facebook was down
Facebook status[1] on this seems dry. Hoping to see a tech blog post soon on this issue.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/39399836411226...

fugyk··on PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech
Is there any research which compares eye strain on reading from paper vs e-ink/LCD?
fugyk··on Google Domains Launches to All in U.S
I think integration with other Google products is the main reason they are venturing here. It can offer one click integration to google apps, app engine, cloud compute and blogger. If they offer free google apps for personal use, I think it can be a major selling point.