xuhu

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xuhuon Named parameters in C

Doesn't work in MSVC though.

xuhuon Quebec jailbreak: escape by helicopter was 'well-planned'

Inspiring stuff.

xuhuon Happy new year and goodbye bzip2

Why ditch bzip2 and not gzip ? It was clearly for storage space.

xuhuon Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke

Here you go:

"HSBC Bank USA knowingly set the thresholds in CAMP so that wire transfers by customers located in countries categorized as standard or medium risk, including foreign financial institutions with correspondent accounts, would not be subject to automated monitoring unless the customers were otherwise classified as high risk."

xuhuon Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice

There were 2.5M deaths in US in 2010: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

If you take other leading causes out (accidents 120k, diabetes 70k, influenza 50k, suicide 40k), it still leaves about 2M deaths related to ageing: heart, cancer, chronic respiratory, stroke, alzheimers.

xuhuon The First Car You Can Build Yourself in an Hour [video]

You could say the same thing about the Tesla Roadster.

xuhuon Modern Minimalism

paging Moxie Marlinspike ... http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-worst

xuhuon Login And Pay With Amazon – Yesterday’s launch will change the face of retail

Customer service might make the differente, since Google hasn't got any.

xuhuon This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight

> Aerodynamically, flight is vastly less efficient at smaller scales because the air molecules remain the same size.

What also counts is wing size relative to air swirls/bubbles/thermals ... turbulence in general.

xuhuon Lavabit founder turned over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout

offtopic: scrolling through the printout by dragging the scrollbar handle slowly (~3 pages per sec) crashes the chrome renderer (tried on 2 win7-32 boxes)

xuhuon Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer

Please make the characters taller (h/w ratio), they seem a little fat.

Otherwise I like how it looks overall.

xuhuon Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code

But it's still not the equivalent of: if (one && two && three && soon) {stuff} else {stuff} which I assume the GP meant.

xuhuon Unreal JavaScript

Very late reply, but I tried win7 x64 and x86 with 4GB. Taskmgr shows the ram usage jump from 900MB to 2.5GB after a fresh reboot.

I tried downloading the entire page (html,css,js) and increasing TOTAL_MEMORY (et al) in the js, but with the same result.

Nightly-23 from 07 May (firefox-20.1, same result). It did work on ubuntu-amd64 though.

xuhuon Unreal JavaScript

I could start it in nightly on linux but with low framerate. On windows I see this in the console (and it stops at "preparing javascript"):

    [15:16:42.533] TypeError: asm.js type error: Internal codegen failure (probably out of memory) @ http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/UDKGame-Browser-Shipping.js:9649
    [15:16:50.798] out of memory

xuhuon What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source

Good point (that js could be evaluated on client side as well). Although someone else said the template scripts need access to the database, and Lua can run in the browser as well (via emscripten for instance).

xuhuon Arrogant Anti-virus Doesn't Appreciate Your Choices

Does anyone have the text ? The site seems down.

xuhuon The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor

HFS+. Searching for 'git osx performance' turns up these:

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3313908/git-is-really-slo...

- http://lists-archives.com/git/652294-git-performance-on-os-x...

- http://blog.persistent.info/2010/12/making-git-faster-on-lar...

xuhuon How Search Works

Since forever, Chrome has been doing scroll at less fps than Firefox, where I can read comfortably while scrolling.

xuhuon Why cyclists enrage car drivers

That cyclist means one more free parking spot for you, and one less source of pollution though.

xuhuon HTML5/WebGL source port of Quake

I still don't understand his logic for this: Element fullscreen is not going to be added because there's already browser-wide F11 fullscreen.

If pointer-lock only works in element-fullscreen in Firefox (on which he develops) then what other choice is there ? Nobody plays shooters with the keyboard since wolf3d, and the BananaBread demo does pointer-lock precisely via element-fullscreen.

xuhuon Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released

Meanwhile Ubuntu's Wubi-based installer is rendered useless since the Windows 8 bootloader won't load it (nor will it load anything except Windows apparently if SecureBoot is enabled).

xuhuon Samba 4.0 released

I counted 21 references to "Active Directory" in the release announcement (out of 26 paragraphs). Judging from this, AD may actually be a primary target use.

xuhuon Cute riddle: Four kids holding one toy balloon

The balloon will go in unstable equillibrium in this case.

xuhuon Paypal policy update: No class-action suits

So where is the webpage that takes your Name, Address, paypal Email, and sends the opt-out letter for you, for $0.99 ?

xuhuon Russian team develops x86 emulator on ARM

It wouldn't be a shock if the Russians' code was based on QEMU.

xuhuon Will Bitdefender Be Romania's First Tech IPO?

> I would love if Romania would start to be known for something other than antivirus solutions.

Ubervu and Epayment, off the top of my head.

xuhuon GRUB 2.00 released

Would be cool to have this signed by a trusted-boot key that ends up in all consumer x86 BIOSes, since it will probably be used by a lot of distributions.

xuhuon Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery)

Thousands of items arguably don't belong in a combobox, they should probably be split by letter, country, prefix, etc.

xuhuon Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

I've had these as well. Firefox 6 on win7-32, with latest Adblock-Plus, Firebug(usually disabled), Flashblock, Greasemonkey, Noscript(in allow-everything mode), Foxit plugin, latest Flash, no antivirus, no other media plugins.

xuhuon "When I design software, I really try hard to make it simple."

High-traffic websites ? He said quarter-million requests a day, so 3 requests per second (and inetd forks a process per connection, not per HTTP request).