Viewing profile — roxtar

Can someone tell me use-case wise how this differs from PhantomJS and CEF?

Thanks for the pointers and the link.

>> It also has a totally different set of syntactic rules which aren't worth my time to learn. >You're missing out. Powershell's syntax is quite intuitive after you learn the basic…

I develop on Windows for Windows and use these tools. Here is my reasoning. It's easy to see that Unix shell tools are much superior to the Windows cmd. There is PowerShell which g…

Well said.

>If you're using gps to track running and such, you aren't running 24 hours a day I run and cycle. I and many people I know do cycle ~ 12 hours in a day, while training. Right now …

Was this done with asm.js?

Look pretty slick. It's interesting that it's marketed as a fitness device but is actually a smart watch. I own a Garmin Forerunner 305 which can last 6-8 hours of active use. I kn…

Reminded me of the original Microsoft surface

This raises serious privacy concerns for me. Technical users can and will block access to portions of the API during authenticatcaion, but what about people like my parents? They m…

Yahoo didn't encrypt webcam traffic. Why is the outrage only at GCHQ?

To me it looks like when they published their app from the US, they got all valid reasons for a rejection. The fact that Toshl's app was present for an year with all these faults i…

It's smarter than a global lock (come on!). I would suggest reading the article which describes the implementation [1]. [1]: http://www.velox-project.eu/velox-transactional-memory-…

The article hints that GCC uses a combination of HTM and STM, if HTM is available.

Or "microsoft" http://microsoft.jpg.to/

I am guessing there are three more classes to come. That way the rows showing the classes, at the bottom of each class page, will be nice and symmetrical.

Why not do a master's instead? :)

The SaaS class ( http://www.saas-class.org/ ) is missing in the title. Looks exciting!

Did anyone notice the missing Godzilla-head in Mozilla's logo?

Yes sir, I did do that. Thanks for the link.

The one thing which I hate most about Gmail's new design is the damned feedback button is always there the next time, no matter how many times I hit "X".

I encourage you to try out the 6.828 course material, especially the labs. It's one of the best OS courses. I had taken UCLA's CS 235 which is based on similar content [1]. Learned…

The info page says that xv6 was released in Fall 2006. What's new?

Site appears to be down: http://www.isup.me/www.alexmuir.com