The one that runs the NSA's servers policing the internet.
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#22The engine behind Opera up until 2013: Presto. I understand why they moved to Blink, but I liked Presto so much better... The current Opera has the same memory issues Chrome does, and it is nowhere close to feature parity as the 2012 version.
An open source release would let the community help keep up development
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#23VMware Fusion userland & kexts to see how they intercept IOKit USB connections.
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#24The firmware from the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S3 which has unexplainable access to storage devices and such while the phone is powered down. I wanna know what was really going on there...
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#25Sublime text!! I use it all the time
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#26The firmware for the radio on my phone. Ideally I'd like it to be free software, not merely readable.
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#27Roller Coaster Tycoon, to this date it still amaze me that Chris Sawyer wrote almost the whole game using Assembly
That blows my mind. Old-school game development is fascinating.
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#28All the video games blizzard makes specially Starcraft 2 and Overwatch. They just seem to not struggle in lag department as other games. And for the massive world World of Warcraft it keeps state amazingly compare to other mmorpg's. Plus the networking seems to be a step above most.
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#29I would really be interested in seeing the source for IDA Pro. I would love to see how it interacts with each operating system.
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#30All the video games blizzard makes specially Starcraft 2 and Overwatch. They just seem to not struggle in lag department as other games. And for the massive world World of Warcraft it keeps state amazingly compare to other mmorpg's. Plus the networking seems to be a step above most.
WOW is dead simple TCP with smoke and mirrors.