Argorak

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by Argorak 13y ago
Thats precisely the point ;).
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by Argorak 13y ago
Thats interesting. As a liberalish European, I think DigitalOcean shouldn't be allowed to police their content, just as ISPs shouldn't be allowed to block websites at their whim. Thats clearly in the realm of courts and lawyers. D
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by Argorak 13y ago
Berlin has something similar with a subway since ~1900 (along with the house that can be found in other comments): http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=... (scroll all the way down)
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by Argorak 13y ago
Ubuntu has a dock-like-launcher and pull-downs in the menu bar. Interesting.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Differences in userbases are definitely part of it.e.g. Ruby is very often used in the whole devops space - where constant forward-change is usual, because of the mindset of "never being done". Constant change is a thing that does
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by Argorak 13y ago
The 1.8/1.9 switch was problematic and can be seen in parallel with the python 2.7/3.x switch. Rails 2/Rails 3 was a similar big jump that reengineered the whole framework. Rails 4 was a much tamer release in that regard. But
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by Argorak 13y ago
I didn't talk about release processes. There are lots of projects with mature release processes in the Ruby world. What I meant is that agressively replacing parts that became obsolete or turned out problematic is much more accepted.
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by Argorak 13y ago
This is where the Ruby and Python communities fundamentally disagree. The Ruby community is great at moving fast and replacing bad things, while the Python community takes a much slower approach to the whole thing. I wouldn't say any a
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by Argorak 13y ago
It tends to drop your connection on large packs. Thats more a server configuration thing, many git hosts disconnect slow clients. I was in Botswana for a few weeks in November and I can relate to that sentiment: git was unusable down there.
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by Argorak 13y ago
There is an argument to be made that many people dislike sed, awk and find because they are hard to use. Which is fine, because there are other alternatives, thats why the are not complaining. git is a must-use for any software project that
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by Argorak 13y ago
My mother was programming FORTRAN, my father was a UNIX-admin (mostly HP-UX, AIX). My brother is a self-taught programmer as well. Yet, I didn't pick up programming before university. Which was good, because I learned Ruby on the side
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by Argorak 13y ago
Well, I once had a very disgrundled girlfriend after a dinner talk pivoted to an overview of compression algorithms.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Sadly, it doesn't deal with YAML frontmatter, that is often used in blog engines like jekyll (github pages) and middleman. (found that issues can be filed here: https://github.com/ClockworkEngine/LightPaper-Support
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by Argorak 13y ago
Which JVM are you running JRuby on? AFAIK, the one included in OS X 10.6 is not really the best performing one. Running with a more modern VM might yield better results.
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by Argorak 13y ago
That might be true for you, but that still doesn't make it blogspam, necessarily. Content curation is a tried and true technique that some people love. I like reading the SO articles by arstechnica because I don't have to sift thr
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by Argorak 13y ago
I am not sure whether I would call this specific instance blogspam. It is a curated series arstechnica runs together with stackoverflow that presents the most interesting excerpts.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Apple uses a lot of open source software, but tries to eliminate free (as in speech) software from its stack. Apple is also the champion of not allowing device owners to tinker with their devices. This doesn't make their involvement in
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by Argorak 13y ago
Try to read this, even if using Google Translate. The most important parts: a) he cites a whole chain of events, like unknown people claiming they have been allowed entrance into his apartment by the landlord. (which is illegal in germany,
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by Argorak 13y ago
Most people are also never exposed to this stuff. While a some readers here cringe at the FSF going on the streets and speaking to "most people" about this stuff, I highly appreciate it. Those FSF members got out of their echo cha
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by Argorak 13y ago
Ex-Padrino maintainer here. I would agree - to an extent. Padrinos goal is to not be in the way of integrating minimalist libraries and it is composed of a set of Sinatra plugins that are minimalist as well. So, it breathes the mindset, but
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by Argorak 13y ago
You can compile LaTeX to two different output formats if you want to. Sure, you'd have 2 different output files, but e.g. for slides, thats done very often.
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by Argorak 13y ago
The author ignores several advantages of LaTeX, one being: a commitment to forward-compatibility. On any recent version of LaTeX, I can still compile documents from decades ago with a reasonable chance that they still render the same.
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by Argorak 13y ago
SAP is a strangely technology-driven company on the inside. They just solve a horrible problem: implementing everyones business process as they find them at the client, instead of the other way around, with legacy support for ages. (disclai
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by Argorak 13y ago
For those not into poker slang (like me, I had to google it): Nosebleed refers to very high stakes games where the minimum stake is usually over 200$/400$ per round and more, with an open end ;).
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by Argorak 13y ago
Which all previous posters expected me to extract from a wall of text that runs from here to Dubai :). Thanks for clarifying!
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by Argorak 13y ago
Which is precisely the right thing when this happens. So what?
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by Argorak 13y ago
Interesting, it works fine for me. FF 26
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by Argorak 13y ago
As always, context is the problem. Google is showing those pictures because they run a search service, which has the goal of passing you off to the orignating site. Also, you _can_ tell Google to not index these images (robots.txt) etc. The
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by Argorak 13y ago
Thats neat! Is the source available somewhere?
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Oh My fish(github.com)
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