Shish2k

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by Shish2k 12y ago
> you might remember that Xorg was forked from XFree86 a decade ago Today's xkcd is relevant :( ( http://xkcd.com/1393/ )
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Reminds me I made thing with far fewer features (just definition lookups within the same repository), but with support for lots more languages :3 --> http://ghctags.shishnet.org/
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by Shish2k 12y ago
How do you do "configtest" and "graceful" with old init.d scripts? # /etc/init.d/mysqld configtest Usage: /etc/init.d/mysqld {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|relo
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> Statically linked binaries make for easy deployment They certainly do, but have we solved the problem of statically linked bugs yet? What happens when the next heartbleed happens?
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> we even learned a while ago that not using Facebook makes you "suspicious" I tried googling for evidence of this ("nsa not using facebook suspicious"), and this comment (posted 56 minutes ago as of my writing) is th
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I see what you did there ;)
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Back when I was writing a client for a REST website, the default HTTP library lacked POST. The recommendation was that every app which wanted to POST should bundle the ~2MB apache HTTP library, which seemed a little painful given that other
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> We have a democracy, and obviously only a minority consider this to be an issue of concern. I think those are separate things -- being in a democracy means the majority decide what happens; it doesn't mean that the majority are we
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by Shish2k 12y ago
My favourite sample-based soundtrack; turns out it's actually the same composer working with the same software as yours :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yDVM77lGlM Also noteworthy is that you can open these games&#x
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I think you missed my whole point. Whoosh. (PS. This is silly :P) > if [native code] was enough people wouldn't care about parallelizing Python They would, for the same reason that they care about parellelizing Java -- once you&#x27
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by Shish2k 12y ago
A whoosh for you too :) > there's plenty more to be gained yet from that single thread. Except that there isn't, if your single thread is spending most of its time in highly optimised native code extensions already :P
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Nice to see I'm not the only one who has a habit of accidentally adding a "g" on the end of "python". Still no idea why that happens though...
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by Shish2k 12y ago
I think you missed his whole point. Whoosh. His point was about using the language with the most productive / fastest libraries. Single-thread python vs 8-thread python vs java makes no difference if the majority of your processing tim
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by Shish2k 12y ago
In my sample size of one, I've been using python for new projects almost exclusively for a few years (still maintaining a bunch of other legacy code) - but now in cases where Go is suitable (things where I don't need Python's
915.
by Shish2k 12y ago
I have no idea what you just said. Given that we're talking about type checking in python, care to give an example of a weakness of type checking in python ?
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Today I'm working on a project A which depends on B, which depends on C, which depends on D. In order to fix a bug in D, it seems that I need to make a personal copy of B and C in order to rewrite their import statements, and then I&#x
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> What science do you suggest they are ignoring? All of it - again not saying they're wrong, just that the overall mindset I've seen is "I believe animals have emotions, and that's what matters" or "we don&#
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> I thought the entire animal rights movement is rooted in the idea that animals can experience emotion I thought it was rooted in people's knee-jerk anthropomorphic emotions, science be damned... (Not saying they're right or w
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Show HN: cool project that I built (0 comments, 0 points) Show HN: cool project that I built with Go and Node.js (23442 comments, 63563234 points) (Not that I'm bitter about lack of exposure due to not being a clickbaiter or anything..
920.
by Shish2k 12y ago
As a frequent user of salt's docs I am quite impressed, but still more impressed by postgres :P --> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/index.html
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by Shish2k 12y ago
This is true, and several of the world's biggest companies run that way. Several-hundred-megabyte spreadsheets, with VBA interfaces copy & pasted between them; can't change it because the unknown cost of breaking it is potenti
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by Shish2k 12y ago
> I literally cannot understand how so many smart people can, all together, fail to observe the obvious. It doesn't matter how many smart engineers and ux designers can see the obvious, if one person from upper management can't
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Wish this could be done in the UK -- was giving a talk at a conference over here; hanging around back stage at the end of the night, it was quite disheartening to see that all the food trays (one of which hadn't even been started) were
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Alternatively for file syncing, peer to peer? If a company doesn't have your data in the first place, they can't give it up. It does require the user to supply their own always-on internet-connected device, but that's increas
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Are there videos anywhere?
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Saying that systemd service files are complicated because you need to take systemd's internals into account is like saying sysv init scripts are complicated because you need to look at the source code to "cat" and "grep&
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by Shish2k 13y ago
You can do that with systemd too -- service files are still just ordinary files; they're just "10 lines of info that matters" instead of "10 lines of info that matters + 90 lines of inconsistently implemented boilerplate
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by Shish2k 13y ago
In the case of folding at least, I think there is a function, a value, and a collection -- personally I'd call them something like "func", "val", and "list" rather than "f", "z" and &qu
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by Shish2k 13y ago
I think my main beef with haskell isn't the syntax per se, but the culture of single-letter variable names, which this post so wonderfully demonstrates :P (I know this is just a short demo rather than production code, but all the &quot
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by Shish2k 13y ago
I presume I got downvotes for people interpreting my memories of functional programming class at university as an insult? Gah :< But still, I would really like to know to apply formal proofs to even the simplest of real-world code base

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