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nn2on AtomizeJS - Distributed Transactional Memory implementation in JavaScript

the security model of this seems dubious for JS. every untrusted client can execute arbitrary code in the other clients. this is equivalent to letting every visitor inject JS code to your website.

It's a great thing if you're a rootkit distributor I suppose.

nn2on My dual core can beat up your quad core, and other mobile CPU mysteries

reads like an ARM commercial. is that independent writing?

nn2on Why Facebook is never safe

facebook is for sheep

nn2on Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?

Open a terminal and type

sleep 30min ; mplayer xxx.mp3

Don't need any ticking timer, it will just distract you. But if you really need it's only a few more lines.

I used to do sleep 60 min ; find / to wait for the hard disk noise but that doesn't work anymore since i have a SSD.

nn2on Ritalin Gone Wrong

the association of witch doctors recommends ... water!

nn2on Before Python

Guido may be a great language designer, but the color scheme and background on his blog is revolting. Is he color blind?

nn2on NASA’s open source projects

I bet a Fortran unit testing framework is something the HN readership has been waiting for.

nn2on Do scientists really need a PhD?

I doubt the scientists need PhDs, but a lot of research groups need cheap sla^wgrade students and the PhD process provides that. Now if more of the research funding actually was used for paying scientists that system wouldn't be needed, but it is how it is.

nn2on [dead]

So I thought google hired only geniuses: what kind of interview does an "account picture reviewing associate" need to pass? Does he/she make more than the cleaner?

nn2on Are You Stuck in a Girls' Club?

Those who can do. Those who don't connect.

nn2on After 7.5 years, Firefox finally adds line numbers to view-source:

The "switch to something else to fix a bug" strategy is clearly unsustainable. What do you do when you find a bug in chrome then? Switch back to firefox? Switch to opera first before you switch back to firefox? Just change browsers every month in the hope that they all have different bugs?

(chrome has plenty of bugs: the latest update on linux has a tendency to hang and use 100% cpu in some glib functions)

On the other hand to do changes to large code bases on short notice is a big asset to your programming skills. See it as a challenge. It's well something you could put up on your resume.

Often the main challenge is just to find the code, and if you can't do that can you deal with any other non toy code bases? Once you found it a lot problems are easy.

nn -- (who has one patch in Firefox)