EdiX

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by EdiX 12y ago
You don't understand, the graph itself is a nightmare, in any format. EDIT: there are 1101 edges in the graph produced on my machine.
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by EdiX 12y ago
>Feed "systemd-analyze dot" to Graphviz Maybe on Arch this is simpler, on Fedora systemd-analyze dot produces a nightmare that no human mind can navigate.
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by EdiX 13y ago
Before this I could at least pretend they didn't play ball with the NSA, I knew it was self deception but I'm also very lazy. Now they might as well hang a "Friend of NSA" sign in front of their building. I downgraded my
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by EdiX 13y ago
A lot of modern journalism is already like this, it's a middle man between a number of sources (news agencies, PR offices, politicians) to a public. What's worse is that usually the source wants the message spread as far and wide
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by EdiX 13y ago
If reading is your main form of entertainment 40 books/year is not much.
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Bitcoin chumpatron(loper-os.org)
4 points by EdiX 13y ago|0 comments
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by EdiX 13y ago
Plan 9's userspace was originally written mostly in Alef, a predecessor of Go, then translated to C. I wonder if the original version of the C toolchain was in Alef, too. Unfortunately I don't think there is a easy way to check.
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by EdiX 13y ago
For people interested in seeing the 1968 demo here's the links to the best (to my knowledge) version available on the internet: https://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCn... (first reel, follow t
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by EdiX 13y ago
It wouldn't be very useful without NLS. It wasn't intended for text entry but to select commands to execute while the mouse selected the target for the commands, ie you would enter DW for "delete word" with the chorded k
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by EdiX 13y ago
Two words: "One Direction". No one will ever escape the boy-band era.
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by EdiX 13y ago
> I wonder if imprisoned gang members have access to cell phones, though. They probably do. No, they don't. Most countries (including USA, AFAIK) restrict inmates phone communication with the external world.
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by EdiX 13y ago
>I think even Google has discovered that, even in their incredibly quantitative process Google's process is not that incredibly quantitative. When I interviewed there everyone I spoke to had seen my resume, for example, if you wante
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by EdiX 13y ago
You must be new to apple products: launchd had problems running scheduled tasks for years, people resorted to installing anacron, when the Cisco VPS connection was released in snow leopard it was utterly broken, the first iteration of time
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by EdiX 13y ago
> In his world, there are no facts -- just assertions made by interested players. His job as a reporter is simply to record the stage managed argument. IMHO this is also why journalism has had so much trouble recently monetizing their pr
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by EdiX 13y ago
It was a bad decision by french revolutionaries: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/history-si/name_kg.html However all the standard prefixes still apply normally, ie you will have milligrams (mg) that are 1/1000
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by EdiX 13y ago
Your mock argument for oil companies is actually better than the one in the article for microsoft.
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by EdiX 13y ago
They are a smaller code base, commands take less options, do less things. It's closer to the original UNIX userland. A minority of people prefers this characteristics, history suggests that the majority just enjoys the added features:
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by EdiX 13y ago
> As for familiarity, you wouldn't test current Gmail users against a new interface. Of course they would perform better against the old one. You'd get a group who'd never used either one and run your tests (unless you&#x2
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by EdiX 13y ago
> Google is constantly breaking one of the most basic rules about UI design: "Good Design" is not about making it pretty. "Good Design" is about making it easy to use; I suspect that the problem is that for establishe
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by EdiX 13y ago
We are more prepared to survive a 10 degrees drop than a degree and a half increase?
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by EdiX 13y ago
> you won't defeat an agency that has you on your radar because you use "open source software". The point is not to create obstacles to criminal investigations but to thwart massive online private data collection.
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by EdiX 13y ago
Most of English's problems come from this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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by EdiX 13y ago
1. Because if you do use your real name you are recruited into Google+ and they get to say "Google+ has X bajillion active users" in their next PR statements. 2. Because of networks effects on Google+ (maybe) 3. Because people wri
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by EdiX 13y ago
And the PBJ banana. And spiderman.
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by EdiX 13y ago
> their C++ is (I'm just guessing here) nigh unreadable by non-übernerds. Judging by their coding guidelines the C++ they use is a smallish subset of the full C++ language hence very bearable.
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Django: serving hashed static files with Nginx(blogs.skicelab.com)
4 points by EdiX 13y ago|0 comments
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by EdiX 13y ago
> I thought that the problem lay in 4 where you might read a partial update of the pointer, possibly giving weird results. Is he saying that it might get assigned first and then constructed afterwards? Yes. In some versions of java the c
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by EdiX 13y ago
func must(err error) { if err != nil { panic(err) } } func (g *Gopher) DumpBinary(w io.Writer) (err error) { defer func() { err, _ = recover().(error) } must(binary.Write(w, binary.LittleEndian, int32(len(g
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by EdiX 13y ago
> If you test-and-return after every call, your function has multiple exit points and is far less maintainable. There is nothing wrong with multiple exit points as long as: a. the language has a mechanism for scoped resource allocation (
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by EdiX 13y ago
> Some people even claim they find parentheses soup (LISP-like syntax) readable. Personally, I cannot comprehend that. Lisp is read like python, you read indentation, ignore the parenthesis.

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