Full Speed has existed since USB 1.0 — it’s “full” relative to USB 1.0, where the only other option was Low Speed — but I agree that the name was a poor choice.
Some of their other writing seems to be of a similarly low quality. Another of their pages [0] seems to mirror a post [1] that they had sent to comp.lang.lisp, where they describe their difficulty with finding out the identities behind some blogs in sufficient detail.
> PS it annoys me to no end when one cannot easily find the name of the author on blogs, when the blog author clearly didn't meant to be anonymous. Is there a reason you didn't want it spelled it out?
This turns into a small rant against handles, which, if you set aside the jargon, are essentially nicknames.
> (i despise hacker culture, where these “hackers” idiotic-namesake prefer to go by “handles” or abbrevs (e.g. “RMS”, “ESR”, “JWZ”) or whatnot insider-fashion fuck. But that's just me.)
One person seemed a bit annoyed by them, so they then responded with a larger rant [2] that proposes that “hackers” are a strict subset of the people who like to tinker with computers, without ever clearly describing what it is about “hackers” that they “despise” — concluding:
> It is this group of people, i despise. More accurately: i despise their general style and outlook. I despite them. Fuck them. FUCK hackers. FUCK their hacking. Fuck their mothers. Scumbags.
At this point, I’d have dismissed them as a troll, but they went to the effort of buying a domain name and everything!
With progressive enhancement, Twitter could provide basic functionality with full page loads and the like, and use JavaScript to replace these with a better user experience.
That a person would continue to work for a given rate does not imply that they don’t mind working for that rate. There are many reasons why one might continue. They may not be trained in another occupation. They may not have the money to choose to stop working in an effort to make a statement about their rate. They may even want to continue working despite their objections about how much they’re being paid.
If you only look within a given occupation, sure, the disparity isn’t as wide, but that fails to answer some important questions: why do the choices that women (or any given group) make result in them being paid less overall? Should they essentially be punished for those choices, particularly when you consider the power that money buys? Are some of the occupations that are dominated by women undervalued and underpaid, such as teaching and nursing? Consider watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9zBAotFeo
2016 is less than 48 hours away. Why is curl http:// | sh still a thing? Why is the Windows installer delivered without HTTPS, and does it really have no digital signature, or have I been MITM’d? I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t touch this with a barge pole, let alone a computer.
That’s more true for Linux than other Unix-like systems. Solaris comes with Bourne, FreeBSD comes with that and csh defaulting to Bourne, OpenBSD comes with those and pdksh defaulting to pdksh, and so on.
In my limited experience, rendering vector fonts is among the slowest parts of rendering text in a terminal. The difference between an xterm with a TrueType or OpenType font and an xterm with a PCF is noticeable.
It's only secure when used with TLS 1.1+ where it has an effective security of 112 bits. Otherwise it is susceptible to the BEAST attack, like any other CBC cipher suite, unless the client has been updated to mitigate the attack.
Probably fail spectacularly, as it seems to make modifications to the FAT32 data structures directly. A more generic fragmenter might interact with a file system via pathological file access patterns, but this doesn’t take that approach.