Shish2k

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by Shish2k 12y ago
Obligatory standard explanation, which has been linked a thousand times already[1]: http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ [1] not yet in this thread, but at least once each in a
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> I'm quite happy to be a part of the development team for GNU Guix, a distro that is not using systemd. Thank you for doing this :) I love systemd myself, but I still think it's important to have alternatives available; also i
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I believe the reason for the title is that #FeministHackerBarbie is trending on twitter associated with this site. --> https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FeministHackerBarbie&src=typ...
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> the pain itself seems unavoidable from where I'm sitting. If there's enough time and energy in the community to be throwing death threats around, surely there is enough energy to maintain debian/systemd and debian/u
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I'm starting to wonder if this is a problem with modern culture in general -- all over the place I'm seeing less "let's try our different approaches and see who has the best end result" and more "I will rape yo
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> Barbie, a game DESIGNER Where did you get "DESIGNER" from? The title of the book is "I Can Be a Computer Engineer"...
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I wonder why these aren't under the main facebook account ( https://github.com/facebook ) o_O?
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> If you need a purpose in life, get children. Adding a couple more consumers into the sea of billions is more valuable than dedicating your life to science or art?
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> Comparing to Facebook ' s TAO approach from yesterday post Link? I see no relevant-looking "Facebook" or "TAO" in my recent RSS entries :(
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And while we're at it, let's solve world hunger by getting all the people who can't afford bread to eat cake instead :P
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I've been using SyncthingTray for keeping syncthing's GUI footprint to a minimum, it seems to work quite nicely: https://pulse-forum.ind.ie/t/syncthingtray-for-windows/586
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Indeed it is; TBH, having seen how easy this was to make, I wonder if there would be any merit to making a stripped-down postgres package which is just daemon + SQL parser + FDW interface (so no built-in storage engine) -- the FDW interface
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by Shish2k 12y ago
In the 30 minutes where the example was at the bottom of the README: 7 upvotes. In the 30 minutes where the example was moved to the top, so you could see it without scrolling: 30 upvotes. Given the fast-paced nature of HN, getting to the p
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PgOSQuery: Expose the operating system as a Postgres database(github.com)
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Turns out postgres is even easier. Took 15 minutes to go from "never used FDWs before, but how hard can it be?" to "got access to the process table as SQL" :) https://github.com/shish/pgosquery
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Done, took 15 minutes :) (Very incomplete, but works as a proof of concept and is super-easy to extend) https://github.com/shish/pgosquery
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Postgres would probably be even easier, since it already has the framework to do this (foreign data wrappers) and a nice API to write said wrappers in python[1] - 200 lines to use your SQL client as an email reader[2], I imagine that wrappi
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I've been trying this on my few remaining PHP based sites and finding it great. Can we now get the same for Python? ;-)
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> with 7 minutes I barely broke a sweat. Unless you're morbidly obese you need to do more than this I'm a twig who eats averagely and does no exercise other than walking everywhere (around an hour a day) -- I break a sweat afte
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Though BSD advocates would make the argument that if it was GPL, Apple would never have used it in the first place. (Personally I'm not sure if it's even possible to definitively say which situation is better; you can't do so
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by Shish2k 12y ago
"Remarkable that an American realises a world outside the USA exists at all" would be the stereotype :P (Not necessarily an accurate one; but as a European, that seems to be how the average American is viewed)
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I really hope that that's a joke that didn't translate well into text, as taking it literally, I would suggest seeing a doctor about that paranoia :S
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> eg bindata: translating binary files such as JPEGs into byte arrays in Go source I'm doing that myself in a terribly hacky way using custom shell scripts and a bit of python to print out a .go file -- but seeing it in this list ma
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> What happens if more tools start depending on systemd? Will people just have to keep finding alternatives? Linux becomes the new OSX (Slick, integrated, everything works great as long as you are doing the things that the system designe
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Is this the same Jonathan Blow who said "Braid physically cannot be ported to Linux, the sound APIs simply can't handle it"? :P (Braid was later ported to Linux by a third party and runs fine, IIRC) Regardless, the answer is
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by Shish2k 12y ago
The answer is have nginx do the redirect, varnish will handle it correctly
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by Shish2k 12y ago
So the impression that I'm getting is that some people just want Jessie to be released, even if some packages only run correctly under systemd; others wish for debian to enforce "every package must run correctly under every init
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I'm still hoping it won't be long until "Remember when computers had physical interfaces, we didn't just think about what we wanted and had it happen?"...
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> only 20% of drivers get traffic infractions, meaning the average driver has never had one. The median driver has never had one, but the mean (which is what most people mean by average) has had >=0.2
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As a european, I can go more than 100km, but I very rarely do go anywhere near that far - our towns are based on the assumption of walking rather than the assumption of driving, so anything more than a 15 minute walk away is "exoti

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