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I've implemented pure LuaJIT servers (without libuv) which compare favorably to nginx in terms of latency and performance. But you should consider whether or not you will need SSL\…

Linux has natively supported xbox 360 controllers through the xpad kernel driver for a number of years, and Windows asks to install drivers when you plug in the controller.

> but let's say something like X. Or your average window manager. Or, say, almost anything from GNOME. This doesn't apply to embedded Linux, or Linux for servers, which could be ar…

What are your definitions for "traditional Linux userspace software" and "traditional Linux users"? Do you consider Android to be "Linux"?

> Unless you have lots and lots of time to spend micro-optimizing everything, you'll get better performance writing in Haskell. This is stating the case too strongly. Performance w…

In a multi column layout, I might wish to alter the width of the web browser in the primary column somewhere between 30% to 68%, in 2% increments, by simply tapping [Win+L] to incr…

I have found cascading to be an unhappy medium in the past. In awesome-wm, I'll tap [Win+Space] to toggle between 100% overlapped (fullscreen with unoccluded task bar) and 0% overl…

To me the most important factor for developing on a laptop mentioned in the article is the use of a tiling window manager. For me an incredibly common task in web development is to…

I think this page supports your assessment: http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/arms-visualization/ > "Global illicit networks — from drug smuggling and arms dealing to human traf…

Anonymous Callbacks != Callbacks Callbacks have been around forever in C using named functions, and are not specific to either the current generation of programming languages or pr…

> After you have run those commands, simply restart the SSH daemon so it starts up with the new keys in place I believe if your version of OpenSSH is up to date, sshd will read the…

The vote was over whether to add the following ammendment to the DoD appropriations bill: > None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to execute a Foreign Intelligen…

Start by deciding whether you want to target a single platform or a list of multiple platforms, and then choose whether you want to work with 2D, fixed pipeline 3D, or programmable…

There are an estimated 12-27 million people currently in slavery[1]. With a current world population of 7 billion, this proportion is between .0017 and .0038, a dramatic decline, a…

Whatever one's thoughts on the article in its entirety , the initial implication that the thinkers listed could not account for Herzen's fish is disingenuous. Helvetius (one of the…

> sent people to their deaths, directly profited from it, and will continue to profit off any future militaristic endeavors the US pursues. This would remain a valid example of mor…

It's an ad hominem which falls short of hypocrisy or contradiction because the soldiers and contractors sent to Iraq were not conscripted. Surely there are more substantive argumen…

For information which functions as advertising to also be a candidate for fraud it must first assert something as fact. There are many forms of advertisement which do not assert fa…

The counter-argument is that advertisement is speech, even if it is undesirable, and that speech is information. Parents who do not wish their children exposed to advertising could…

USD is only one currency. There are many places in the world where banking in and holding only USD would be impractical, and where banking in and holding only local currency would …

> All those replacement of classic shell-script-based start-up tools In case you are referring to the introduction of systemd, I'll mention that Arch Linux has also made the switch…

> "real" communism, one which is say, managed my an AI, with no one small group of humans in power, is probably going to be fair and equal. Any rational agent, whether biological o…

State agencies may be immune from prosecution for environmental crime and have no incentive to account for payment of legal damages. Additionally, they may be immune to demand shoc…

Unless a better word than "wildlife refuge" is discovered to specifically denote human living areas. In which case people will be in towns.