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  1. Re:platform-specific bugs? Doubtful by Tamerlan · · Score: 1 · on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful

    You are right to some extent. Many previous slashdotters said that too. From my own experience - we have discovered many memory-related bugs quicker just because we had a Solaris port and memory layout is different.

    As a submitter of this story I am partially at fault for misunderstanding, because I wrote about "bugs". I wrote more extensive blog entry on that, but main point is that there are two many differences even in close platforms. So to actually write a cross-platform code you _must_ know peculiarities of each platform.

    I mean, just look at APR or NSPR. Several examples:

    • Dynamically loaded libraries. Even Solaris and Linux different, let alone HP-UX and Windows
    • Taking care of endianness independence presents additional burden
    • Case-insensitive vs case-sensitive file names
    • Different forms of line feeds (I am aware of 3 (three))
    • Path separators, separation of path elements in PATH.
    • Even Linux distros have different layout of configuration files and startup scripts. If your application has to deal with that - you are in trouble. Let alone Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, whatever.
    • System utilities sometimes have different set of flags
    If this is not enough, try to look at the output of some non trivial autoconfigure script!
  2. I have another concern though by Tamerlan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator

    Not only that, but Google will conceal real web statistics from websites.

    Remember acquisition of Urchin? Here is my concern about Google Webaccelerator.

  3. My hypothesis is... by Tamerlan · · Score: 1 · on Google Web Accelerator

    ... that this yet another revenue stream project for Google waiting to emerge. No, Google is not evil. Just another corporation.

  4. Re:Searchability and automatic directories by Tamerlan · · Score: 1 · on Suggestions for Browser Bookmark Management?

    Delicious does not, Furl does what you want. Again, take a look at my comparison.

  5. If you decide to go with online bookmarking... by Tamerlan · · Score: 2, Informative · on Suggestions for Browser Bookmark Management?

    You may want to check out online bookmark services comparison chart. Most of them will import/export your bookmarks from all popular browsers.

  6. This is not news... by Tamerlan · · Score: 1 · on Torvalds Switches to a Mac

    This guy dsicovered that Linus uses PowerPC and Pine a month ago.

  7. Re:Also for your perusal by Tamerlan · · Score: 1 · on Cox on Torvalds and Linux Kernel Development

    It is not the funny thing though. Recently I discovered that Linus uses Pine. Now that's a geek icon!