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Is it that common for trackers to have Websocket/WebRTC as a requirement? Pretty much any trackers I see in the wild is using regular Ajax calls. And if you're a tracking service, it's not exactly hard to fallback to Ajax if Websockets aren't available...

EDIT: My mistake, I misread the first mention of HTTP as HTML.

Comment · 11 years ago

Yeah, I already lost three chargers because of my cats. I ended up wrapping the cord with one of those "Cable Organizer" things (I don't know their real name), which also helps with strain relief.

http://i.imgur.com/WCbGRZx.jpg

It looks terrible but at least it will last as long as the laptop.

Comment · 11 years ago

> In particular, Mac OS X don't even run well with only 4GB of RAM anymore

It actually runs great. I'm using a 2011 Air w/2GB (cheapest back then) and El Capitan and it's almost as fast as my 24GB Mac Pro.

I push it a bit with Logic Pro X + drum samples (for my V-Drums), but it handles that without complaints. But for web, videos and programming there isn't much of a difference.

Comment · 11 years ago

> I've re-implemented Rails functionality, poorly, way too many times.

It's been a looooong time since I last touched Rails, but I never really missed it when using Sinatra, mainly because of plugins/gems... I even wrote a few. (Currently I'm mostly using Go and C#, though).

Honest question, just so I know what I'm missing: what kind of functionality did you have to reimplement yourself?

Comment · 11 years ago

I like Zed Shaw's Debug Macros. Actually his whole book is great.

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex20.html

Comment · 11 years ago

Another useful OpenGL macro, at least for me, is this one:

    #define GLSL(str) (char*)"#version 330\n" #str

It basically enables you to embed quick snippets of GLSL inside your C code, instead of using concatenated strings. Example:

    char* fragShader = GLSL(
      in vec3 uv;
      out vec4 color;
      uniform sampler2DArray tex;
      void main()
      {
        // Comments work too
        color = texture(tex, uv);
      }
    );

In Sublime Text you even get code completion and color highlighting, since GLSL and C look so alike.

I believe it might work for OpenCL Kernels too.

The only downside is that it doesn't add line breaks by itself (hence the "#version 330\n", which requires a line break), so GLSL Compilation errors aren't as useful.

(Source: https://open.gl/geometry )

Comment · 11 years ago

I'm currently writing a game in C99.

Compilation times, no need for inheritance and the fact that most libraries I'm using are written in C were the reasons I chose C over C++ or something else.

Comment · 12 years ago

When you say that he's mocking Microsoft engineers, is that because of the Visual Basic comments? Because Erik actually enjoys VB and was responsible for adding some features to it. He's a former employee, so there's context...

And I don't think he's being dismissive of reactive programming, he's dismissive of that definition, which is too broad. He was one of the main proponents of Reactive programming inside Microsoft.

Comment · 12 years ago

It's been a while since I last had to parse ASP.NET pages, but AFAIK, the viewstate isn't meant to be parsed by clients, you just have to re-send it during postbacks. It's more like a cookie, or Rails' authenticity_token [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/941594/understand-rails-a...

EDIT: Oh, ok. Re-reading the article, he was parsing the ViewState because there was some data hidden in there (a serious flaw actually), instead of scraping the site normally! Clever!

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