LukeShu

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1711.
by LukeShu 15y ago
I think you read that `add' as an `and'. It's "after using `git add', before they get committed", which is correct, the `git add' command adds a file to the index.
1712.
by LukeShu 15y ago
You know how sometimes on HN there's a conversation that's like A> X person is so epic and better than all of us. B> NO, that person is just a normal person like us B> there's nothing special about them. B> We're a
1713.
by LukeShu 15y ago
I timed it with the `time' command :P
1714.
by LukeShu 15y ago
That's not him saying using a microkernel was a mistake, it's him saying that he was mistaken about how long it would take, and the impact Mach would have on development time.
1715.
by LukeShu 15y ago
That's the kernel's limit, Bash (3) has its own limit, which is significantly lower, I've hit it before. I think Bash 4 can do an arbitrary number of arguments, within the kernel's limit.
1716.
by LukeShu 15y ago
-delete will be the fastest because find can do everything, and it already has the file loaded, and doesn't have to do a second lookup. -exec will be slower because for each file it has to spawn a new process (this is where most of the time
1717.
by LukeShu 15y ago
That's better, but still horribly broken. Sha1 and md5 simply aren't adequate for secure passwords, they are still broken too quickly. You should use bcrypt. http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ explains why, and links to
1718.
by LukeShu 15y ago
Oh, definitely. However, EA is disallowing characters that are standard characters in the ASCII set, for which they have no excuse: "/?~,.|\
1719.
by LukeShu 15y ago
The article is fairly old, so I think it may be worth pointing out that kqemu is no longer non-free.
1720.
by LukeShu 15y ago
I think he misused meritocracy; I think he was looking for `plutocracy'.
1721.
by LukeShu 15y ago
A large part of the reason Firefox chose to keep them separate is for privacy. Everything you type into the search bar is sent to Google--even before you hit enter--for autocomplete purposes. The Firefox team felt that many privacy-consci
1722.
by LukeShu 15y ago
Well, most binary updates do go through bsdiff, which was designed for exactly this. I'm surprised they were able to beat it by such a margin. Shit, the guy who made bsdiff did his doctoral thesis on the subject (actually, the algorithm use
1723.
by LukeShu 16y ago
> My name is John Harris, and I am working on ... Is this _the_ John Harris? (The Atari hacker?)