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Try out the Inferno OS without installing it(debu.gs)
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by 1337p337 14y ago
BeOS and Plan 9 have such different concepts of OO that they're hard to compare. In BeOS, there's a C++ interface your applications have to conform to, and it's somewhat machine-centric. Your objects are live processes in memory. Plan 9 g
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by 1337p337 14y ago
It's certainly disappointing. There's been this furious obsession with "getting Linux onto the desktop", which lead to misguided attempts to dumb the OS down to the level that a Linux hacker thinks works for a "normal user". The efforts s
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Ah, okay. Clicking on the tutorial link and then clicking on the "Overview" link on the site for the tutorial yielded "Creates a new service namespace beneath normal userspace for administration" and "Move between namespaces on demand with
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by 1337p337 14y ago
It's interesting, but I can't tell from the documentation what it's actually for. It's apparently for clustering, but what does it do? I had downloaded the image a week or two back, but it just...booted Plan 9. A few examples that tie it
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by 1337p337 14y ago
It's even bolder to use a time machine to send software back in time. Of course Plan 9 has a time machine built in, it's just that people can't get used to rio(1) and the lack of readline support, so they tend not to get far enough into th
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Well, random sorting might be a bit of an annoyance due to HN's other annoyance, the "Unknown or expired link" problem, which seems to crop up more often if I do actual work and then pop over to HN when I have to wait for tests/compilation/
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by 1337p337 14y ago
I was a bit more annoyed that it seems to have been written and submitted just to drive traffic through the affiliate links. I do agree, though, that the USB adapters are nice. I have a couple of PSX adapters and an SNES adapter. The Ja
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Shilling hardware with affiliate links?
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by 1337p337 14y ago
The situation with x86 specifically is a little weirder than that: http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx06_rmw.htm . It's a bit of a long read, but the summary is that on some x86s, single-instruction adds to memory are faster, and on others
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Firefox and Webkit both allow a user-specified stylesheet, although it is buried a bit in Firefox.
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Sorry for the omission; I think Bind is actually a bit tricky to configure by comparison to the other three mentioned.
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by 1337p337 14y ago
> It can get exhausting keeping up with all of the silly CSS/JS web trends This is DMR's website. Good job criticizing a dead man on not "keeping up" or writing CSS so that you don't have to customize your default styles.
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by 1337p337 14y ago
I don't quite understand why people have this allergy to running their own DNS. If you just want a single text file and don't need anything major, dnsmasq will serve records out of /etc/hosts. Slightly up the chain in terms of power, Mara
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by 1337p337 14y ago
example.com isn't just better: it's actually specified in RFC 2606 as one of the domains "reserved for use in private testing, as examples in documentation, and the like."
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Agreed; a link that discusses what it actually entails would be great. Or does no one actually know, outside the companies that implemented it?
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Fretting over actual pixels is counter to trying to stay display-independent, as a web site ought to. The actual thing to worry about here is apparent DPI. A TV at 1080p viewed from ten feet away needs much larger text than a monitor at 1
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by 1337p337 14y ago
I hadn't noticed that the font is so small here; I've set the minimum text size in all my browsers to something reasonable, which works fine in Webkit and Firefox, so that I don't get eye strain reading Wikipedia's ridiculously small text.
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Personal opinions about Javascript aside, it does cover several fundamentals, is available on every platform, and is established enough that it will probably (sadly) not be going away any time soon. If you're going to teach kids a language
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by 1337p337 14y ago
s/always/usually/. Depending on the disks involved and your network hardware (either a super-fast link, or even a system with a slow CPU and cheap network hardware that expects the drivers to do the heavy lifting in software), it actually
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Once you can read some C, I'd recommend reading over another bytecode interpreter, like mawk (Mike's AWK): http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ . Another good read is the TinyCC compiler (originally by Fabrice Bellard, who did QEMU among ot
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by 1337p337 14y ago
After reading the article, I was really hoping the comments would be full of ports, glad to see this thread! Here's a version for the Inferno shell, because I couldn't resist: wm/sh -c 'load std mpexpr;while{}{unicode -t ${expr 2571 1 rand
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by 1337p337 14y ago
I don't know where you shop, but the "traditional flatware" of my people is whatever was cheap enough at the department store. Our rich native customs dictate that we spend $15 on a set, and then use it until there are not enough non-bent
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Previous entries on the blog cover introductions to the OS in a bit more depth. Introductions for it are not too difficult to find overall, but anything past scratching the surface is less easy to find; that's the gap I was attempting to f
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by 1337p337 14y ago
"The whole point of the Doomsday Device is lost if you keep it a secret. Why didn't you tell the world?" I can't be the only one to hear Dr. Strangelove's voice every time documentation is missing, can I?
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by 1337p337 14y ago
At the speed Linux changes, a 5-year-old Inferno would not even build. The lates available tarball is from 2010, but the reason a tarball is even provided is because it speeds up a pull from Mercurial. If you are interested in the current
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Well, there's BSD, Plan 9, Inferno. If you don't want the "same old GNU tools", there are plenty of places to go.
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by 1337p337 14y ago
Of course. If you love programming, an OS whose primary interface is a programmable shell is going to be very appealing. On top of that, the large number of small programming languages that come with typical installs of the OS (awk, sed, d
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by 1337p337 14y ago
This is largely spot-on. Of course, the author's assertion (that having all of these things in one place is novel) is incorrect for some programmers, but the sheer boringness of the language is a virtue. Go's features as bullet points are u
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by 1337p337 14y ago
> I really don't think that this has anything whatsoever to do with closed vs. open source. [...] > Would open-source prevent this kind of thing? Probably. I don't think I could have made the argument better than you have. The point

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