EdiX

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by EdiX 8y ago
It's a shame that the Computer History Museum never finished its NLS restoration project [1] just because the copyright holder could not be nailed down. [1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/nlsproject
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by EdiX 8y ago
Behavior like this is very prevalent in gamergate-adjacent wikipedia pages. For example the OAPI page [1] claims that OAPI is a non-profit organization and any attempts at amending it to clarify that it's not incorporated, only exists
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Searching the Creative Internet(crawshaw.io)
2 points by EdiX 8y ago|0 comments
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by EdiX 8y ago
Almost all of them are from the documentation of flysystem which is some kind of PHP abstraction layer for filesystems.
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by EdiX 8y ago
Early on he argues that USB and graphics cards caused the reduction of OS from the 80s to the 90s. I would argue for the opposite correlation. Generic ports always existed (RS232, the parallel port, ISA) and you could attach whatever you wa
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by EdiX 8y ago
Pasting into a terminal is interpreted literally, meaning an attacker can hide ;sudo do $really_evil_thing; in innocent looking, pasteable HTML with CSS trickery TBH the fact that you can't tell what the fuck you are selectin
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by EdiX 8y ago
It would actually be better if we replaced x million lines of COBOL with x million lines of COBOL. For many reasons: 1. it would run on a modern environment instead of a weird mainframe OS using a weird database 2. it would use modern codin
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by EdiX 9y ago
> SQL was originally designed for non-programmers SQL was designed for mainframe programmers, made to look similar to COBOL and PL/I presumably with the idea that at some point in the future it could be integrated into one of those.
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by EdiX 9y ago
https://play.golang.org/p/rfq52ZmLPS
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by EdiX 9y ago
To be attractive to github users it would have to have a better issue tracker and a better patch review system. Given that sqlite uses a mailing list for both I'm guessing it doesn't have that.
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by EdiX 9y ago
Best guess: user Someone is referring to "Eve" as in "Alice, Bob and Eve" in cryptography scenarios. But Mallory would be more appropriate here.
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by EdiX 9y ago
A separate server has also some advantages: (1) it's not going to crash your editor, and (2) it opens up the possibility of keeping the language server running outside of the editor and available to other tools. Yes, serialization and
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by EdiX 9y ago
> Now now. If I went on /r/the_donald and started leaving comments about Gun Control, Trans Rights and Abortion, you and I both have a fairly good idea what would happen. /r/the_donald has become (or maybe always was)
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by EdiX 9y ago
It's not objectionable, it's just impossible. Well, not completely impossible, you can do that if all you allow is pictures of food, kittens and flowers and people responding with the thumbs up emoji (actually I'm not so sure
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by EdiX 9y ago
Regardless of whether they can be called programmers, we can not deny that they exist.
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Golang SSH Redux(bridge.grumpy-troll.org)
213 points by EdiX 9y ago|42 comments
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by EdiX 9y ago
> I have consulted the HN guidelines to find a polite way of saying this. Best I can come up with is "What an utter load of superstitious crap". I'll try. This is an interesting story of how the traditional pseudoscience o
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by EdiX 10y ago
You are probably thinking of the eurozone.
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by EdiX 10y ago
Please don't do this. It may sound reasonable at first but 'simple structures' don't define strings, variable length ints nor any kind of list type. Eventually you'll need some of that and your protocol will become
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by EdiX 10y ago
For test.xml the RSS is 20MB and opening it and going to the last character is instantaneous, search and replace on test.xml takes slightly less than one second.
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by EdiX 10y ago
The problem here is that most unix tools (ls being the exception) do double duty, they both emit output for other programs and output for the user. Which one you get and how the user output is presented being controlled by flags. If you wan
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by EdiX 10y ago
OS already zeroes out pages, obviously. But malloc doesn't usually request memory to the OS but takes a chunk from the already allocated heap.
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by EdiX 10y ago
whenwillitstop: you are hellbanned.
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by EdiX 10y ago
You are forgetting the whole austerity thing, a combination higher taxes, lower government spending, forced privatizations and strong euro.
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by EdiX 10y ago
> because of perceived issues rather than real ones 10 years of stagnation or decline of GDP in all top 5 countries of the eurozone (which account for 50% of all GDP of EU) is not a perceived issue.
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by EdiX 10y ago
Uses medium.com instead of a tweet storm...
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by EdiX 10y ago
Free startup idea: Patreon for Open Source * Users signs up to OSPatreon, downloads OSPatreon app that creates ospatreon directory in $HOME/.local/share/ or other operating system appropriate location, then creates a cronjob
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by EdiX 10y ago
geopolitical advantage: when their internal labor becomes too expensive they'll have a place to outsource to.
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by EdiX 10y ago
> First, there is no way to get a reference to a field inside a struct in Go what? https://play.golang.org/p/1OJ5U5ZwFJ > if you could get such a reference the compiler would be forced to reference count the memb
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by EdiX 10y ago
I don't know. The reason I haven't done it is because it's too much work, there is no pleasant way to do GUI programming and I don't have a clear design for how the UI.

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