Arkanosis

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by Arkanosis 12y ago
That was Wikia, not Wikimedia, but yes, the code is still available: - crawler: http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub/ - search engine: http://nutch.apache.org/
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by Arkanosis 12y ago
Yes: http://www.vim.org/mercurial.php
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by Arkanosis 12y ago
It certainly isn't (it pays my bills). It just isn't an obvious good investment for some people (including myself).
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by Arkanosis 12y ago
Paying gives no guarantee, open-source does. Some did not like Gnome 3, they created MATE. Some found GCC was too conservative, they created EGCS. And MariaDB. And LibreOffice. And ffmpeg… And… That's how you guarantee software will co
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by Arkanosis 12y ago
Can't tell for others, but I'm very reluctant to spend time learning a tool that I know from the beginning I won't be able to debug / improve later and that the owner may change in a way that doesn't fit me or even
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by Arkanosis 12y ago
“If you've used Make, you're used to creating Makefiles. In them, you manually build this immense graph where all of the parts hopefully add up to a working program.” Actually, I used to generate rules using gcc -MM which does pre
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Wikimedia Logos Have Been Freed(blog.wikimedia.org)
2 points by Arkanosis 12y ago|0 comments
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by Arkanosis 12y ago
> I just tried this in zsh 5.0.6 Do you mean that you run bash -c in zsh, or that you run zsh -c ?
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by Arkanosis 12y ago
Not the same thing, but this made me think about it and readers might be interested to know that the xlrd, xlwt and xlutils python modules ( http://www.python-excel.org/ ) allow you to manipulate Excel files in Python, withou
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by Arkanosis 12y ago
I was pretty sure it had already hit HN, but it seems that it hasn't…
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OpenWhateverMap(openwhatevermap.org)
2 points by Arkanosis 12y ago|1 comments
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by Arkanosis 13y ago
Their support by email / Internet is just nonexistent: I've never had any reply to the many messages I've sent this way. The support by phone requires you to wait about ~20 minutes until someone takes your call, but then, it&
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The Language Double-Take: Dealing with Bidirectional Text (or: Wait,?tahW) (moriel.smarterthanthat.com)
1 points by Arkanosis 13y ago|0 comments
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by Arkanosis 13y ago
Thank you for telling me. I guess my submission would be dead too if I were hellbanned. Anyway, it's not a big deal since the comment is just a tl;dr, but I've no idea why it isn't visible. Maybe this thread? https:/&#x
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Https enabled by default for logged-in users on Wikimedia sites(blog.wikimedia.org)
14 points by Arkanosis 13y ago|2 comments
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by Arkanosis 13y ago
Why not? Unless a task is complex enough to take the time to write some Python, I'm doing most of my automation using zsh scripts.
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by Arkanosis 13y ago
Awk
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by Arkanosis 13y ago
For those who've never heard of the author, Matt Mahoney is the author of a number of compression algorithms (and implementations), including the famous PAQ family of arithmetic coding / context modeling compressors. PAQ and its (
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by Arkanosis 13y ago
Yes. And because regular blocks are useless if people can use Tor to circumvent them. Legitimate users can get a block exemption to edit from a Tor IP, though.
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(Pidgin's) SSL support appears to have been written by a lobotomy victim(developer.pidgin.im)
43 points by Arkanosis 14y ago|24 comments