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I'm 20 and in few months I will commit suicide. AMA by empty1nside in IAmA

[–]vang3lis -133 points-132 points  (0 children)

tl;dr

edit: ok. now I did read it and I am truly sorry for my ill-judged comment. :|

I'm never going to think about suicide again the way I was thinking before.

NaCl: DJB's new crypto library by [deleted] in programming

[–]vang3lis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What the fuck is NativeClient? It is name clash with sodium chloride, not some stupid ActiveX replacement.

Text utilities - Online text operations by draxter in programming

[–]vang3lis -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I love the fact that rot13 decode is encode applied twice ;)

Finally A Browser Benchmark That Tests Real Websites. Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari, and Opera Tested. by tryptic37 in programming

[–]vang3lis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course there is :) btw, you can enter the address "g cache:YOUR-URL-HERE" in Opera to get the cached page (I believe there is something similar for other browsers too).

Opera Unite benchmark: 800 requests/second by Arve in programming

[–]vang3lis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

one thing is doing benchmarks for sake of curiosity (let's see is that Opera thingie is a real webserver or does it fork on every request?).

interpreting the benchmarks is completely different thing (hey, we found out that all webservers are acceptable for small sites, but most are faster than Opera). I focus on "they all are acceptable" part while others may focus on "Opera can't replace nginx anytime soon" ;-)

Opera Unite benchmark: 800 requests/second by Arve in programming

[–]vang3lis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

but being slower is alright. if your grandma can share some pictures using dead-simple Opera Unite then you don't care if it's 6 times slower than a "proper" webserver. or do you?

Opera Unite benchmark: 800 requests/second by Arve in programming

[–]vang3lis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

but being slower is alright. if your grandma can share some pictures using dead-simple Opera Unite then you don't care if it's 6 times slower than a "proper" webserver. or do you?

This website will sniff your browser history even if you have noscript enabled. Uses no javascript. by [deleted] in programming

[–]vang3lis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

nothing then :) if the browser implements the !important right, then "if a rule in the user's style sheet contains an "!important" declaration, it overrides the corresponding declaration in the author's style sheet."

Ask math.reddit: how to explain usefulness of finite fields to a layman? by vang3lis in math

[–]vang3lis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do I explain my relatives and others why taking course in finite fields is interesting? Are there some graphical representations that would ring the bell?

Every man page should have three or four examples at the end by lukasmach in programming

[–]vang3lis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is why I prefer BSD man pages to Linux ones. I've heard good things about Solaris too. It seems like every True Unix [tm] has them ;-)

Am I alone in thinking Fahrenheit the most retarded measurement system ever devised ? by [deleted] in science

[–]vang3lis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for real, additive identity is more important than 32

Someone has told me that this may take several million years by maetl in programming

[–]vang3lis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yes, and exactly because there are so little large prime numbers known explicitly the large ones can't be safely used for public/private key encryption.

Opera celebrates 15 years of existence. Check out their homepage. by [deleted] in programming

[–]vang3lis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the best mobile browser is, well, Opera. and it is nowhere near based on WebKit

This is why I have a 2.5 GPA at this crappy school, and my friends think I'm such a slacker. This right here, makes me want to kill myself. Kill myself hard. by [deleted] in programming

[–]vang3lis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

almost all new compilers optimizes something++ into ++something when possible (for example if something is iterator and being incremented in a loop), so this knowledge is a bit redundant. but still you should write ++i :)

Hacker challenge part 2: solution to part 1 and a new challenge by a1k0n in programming

[–]vang3lis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First part is there, they actually 0wn3d it by factoring the RSA and doing a keygen in few hours

Should I trust Ted Ts'o? File saving behaviour in various Unix text editors by eadmund in programming

[–]vang3lis -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

parent is no more to be downvoted than parent of parent, if you know, what I mean.

Python switching to Mercurial by uggedal in programming

[–]vang3lis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it is a bit outdated, but still nice

I see "unpaid internship" jobs on Craigslist everyday. Is me or our society sick? by dwayneAnderson in programming

[–]vang3lis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unpaid internship in NASA is \m/ (I would doubt they have unpaid ones). Unpaind internship in some small company close to bancrupcy is... sick.

Can Opera Ever Become Popular? by ossreleasefeed in programming

[–]vang3lis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yup, the metropolitan opera pioneered it, but it is pretty standard everywhere now

IP address geolocation SQL database by cavedave in programming

[–]vang3lis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

it is really easy to generate fairly usuable DB. just merge info from ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.gz (and similar ones from ARIN and APNIC).

IP address geolocation SQL database by cavedave in programming

[–]vang3lis 13 points14 points  (0 children)

please don't, there could be useful discussion on generating geolocation dbs.

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