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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 basics, you quickly start to be able to guess commands and params.

I have grown up using Unix tools and I am quite comfortable with them. If I have to learn a new shell and scripting language, there should be a demonstrable benefit for the time I spend learning it. Can you give examples where PowerShell can do something which CygWin/MinGw can't? Trying to understand why you say that I am missing out :)

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 gives you more flexibility, but in my experience I have found PowerShell to be slow. It also has a totally different set of syntactic rules which aren't worth my time to learn.

Given that, I would rather install Cygwin or MinGW. Spinning up a VM is much more heavy-weight that just directly using Cygwin.

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 the choice among road bikers I know, is the Garmin 810 which lasts that long with continuous use.

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 know that the recent Garmin devices last close to a day. The Microsoft Band doesn't tell us how well it does on battery with the GPS -- without the GPS it claims 48 hours.

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 might very well login, giving full permissions to the app, seeing that it's a trusted google URL while not knowing what they have done.

This is going to open a new can of worms.

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 is not a good argument for being automatically accepted.

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-stack (courtesy scott_s)

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 a lot from that.

[1] http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~kohler/class/10f-aos/

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

I like this site: http://www.statmethods.net/

Default IDE? Do you mean the R interpreter REPL? If you are looking for a nice IDE for R, I would suggest RStudio: http://rstudio.org/

Subtle. I was expecting a doodle. Didn't see the link.

Complex BAD. Simple GOOD. Move on with your lives.

The sad part about this is that it shows how much Kindle's current PDF conversion service needs to improve. I have tried sending PDFs to the email conversion service and more often than not it screws up diagrams, figures and equations. Even text documents, which you don't need to pass through the conversion, don't always render well (try transferring any RFC to your Kindle and see how it comes out).

TLDR version goes something like this "There is hardware support for low latency networks, thus the OS community should make use of it."

Overall the paper is weak. It contains arguments without experiments. Section 5 (which I think is the main section) claims a lot of things without presenting data, experiments and evaluation.