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by PeCaN 10y ago
K&R et al are dirty, dirty men. …still not as bad as O_CREAT though.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
If anyone isn't sold on DuckDuckGo: using quotes for literal queries actually does something, instead of Google deciding that's not actually what you meant. That's the killer feature for me: it actually obeys "advanced s
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I take "megacorps" to mean large, established companies with strong political connections. Companies that exert influence both over people's lives and governments; not necessarily malicious.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Starcraft was in its prime when KeSPA was managing everything. Blizzard effective ran SC2 into the ground rather quickly in comparison (SC:BW had a strong competitive scene for 10+ years, SC2 lasted maybe 4 and started to taper off very qui
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I think WeChat has this right with scanning a QR code to pay. I like the idea of NFC payments, but like you said… it tends to take a while of fumbling around to actually get it to work.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Exactly. Compiler-enforced ownership and lifetimes _dramatically_ reduces the mental overhead of memory management compared to C. It also saves time from having to run things under Valgrind and ASAN just to make sure I didn't mess up.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Exactly. Compiler-enforced ownership and lifetimes _dramatically_ reduces the mental overhead of memory management compared to C. It also saves time from having to run things under Valgrind and ASAN just to make sure I didn't mess up.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Ha, I did exactly the same thing. FreeBSD is well-organized and generally makes sense. It stays out of the way and just works. BSD documentation culture is also second-to-none. Seriously, the manual for every BSD is incredible. FreeBSD&#x27
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Can confirm it actually works great with JS disabled (in Opera 12 no less) – much better than with JS enabled, actually. Really Bloomberg….
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Eh. Oracle has a huge amount of engineering talent in certain areas (i.e. the database and SPARC). It would be pretty fun to work on the database I imagine. I would personally never be able to bring myself to work there, but maybe working
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United States V. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by PeCaN 10y ago|0 comments
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by PeCaN 10y ago
GDB looks intimidating, but once I decided to try it I'd never go back to printf debugging.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
A similar one when dealing with compiled languages with good type systems (Haskell, OCaml, Rust, Mercury) is to periodically build even when your code is broken and try to guess what error the compiler will give. This helped me a lot with t
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by PeCaN 10y ago
These days all the cool kids use LPaaS on http://left-pad.io/ , it scales much better than running leftpad on a local machine.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
MongoDB: Because /dev/null doesn't support sharding.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Such as what exactly? "Computations to return results" is rather generic, to say the least (and, if ‘computations’ includes handling requests, something that servers tend to always do).
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Different stokes for different folks. Looks fine to me. But I'd prefer you don't try to offer advice if you don't actually know Erlang in the slightest.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
What are some cases where I would choose to write a server in Go instead of in Erlang?
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Or because it's considerably faster—if you don't have to deallocate, you can just reserve a bunch of pages on startup and use a stupid simple bump allocator. Actually, D's compiler more or less works this way: http:/&#x
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by PeCaN 10y ago
The future as in, say, 1979? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System/38
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Both of which somehow manage to be less usable on mobile than the desktop site....
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Intel i432 had some of that (capabilities, garbage collection, multitasking, etc) but was crippled by a variety of problems—perhaps most of all that it was quite slow and expensive. It was originally intended to run a Smalltalk-like languag
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The Future as of 2003 – Web Services and WinFS(youtube.com)
2 points by PeCaN 10y ago|0 comments
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I'm not sure what plumber salary has historically been, but according to [1] and [2] they make average to somewhat above average, and according to [3] a master plumber can make upwards of $100k. All-in-all not bad, particularly given t
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I think the journey of a Lisper inevitably ends up with realizing that Common Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. Then you start searching for an acceptable Lisp. You look at Tcl, at Prolog, Io, Rebol, and Icon; you learn Shen, try Scheme and R
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Sign in to Firefox sync? It works for me. shrug
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Isn't that more of an effect of ambient darkness? Focusing on something dark doesn't affect one's pupils, as far as I know. Regardless, I've been using a dark GitHub theme¹ and a dark Firefox theme², as well as a variety
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Go to µBlock Origin settings, 3rd-Party Filters, check "Adblock Warning Removal List" and "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek‎".
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by PeCaN 10y ago
The key for me was: > Each urbit is a node on an global, encrypted P2P network. Your Urbit name, a generated pseudonym like ~talsur-todres, is also your network address. Like Bitcoin, Urbit address space is a cryptographic asset with a l
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Thanks, that's exactly what I was thinking of. Does it re-link only libc on startup, or other libraries as well? Found the slide that I remembered: https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/577005049374601217

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