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by _wmd 9y ago
And what happens when Ansible checks out the Git repository for you? Or some equivalent shell script or deployment system, or some helpful developer hand-deploying something with 'git clone' on the server? Or what about helpful de
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by _wmd 9y ago
http://your.broken.site/.git/logs/HEAD
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by _wmd 9y ago
git clone https://username:password@github.com/.. . will end up in git reflog, so yes, it's a problem, and there's no guarantee a future feature of Git that you've never heard of doesn't make the problem
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by _wmd 9y ago
Hire 3 good people for 18 months, spend $200k on marketing
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by _wmd 9y ago
$40k/yr/server
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by _wmd 9y ago
Perhaps you could also take the time to detach and warn the reply in which I was accused of ignorance.
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by _wmd 9y ago
I have little doubt it could be written, but at risk of going blue in the face, this was irrelevant to the original question ("what do you dislike about this syntax?"). Never mind, 'truth' has won out in the end regardle
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by _wmd 9y ago
The suggestion was to use XSLT to transform Scheme syntax
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by _wmd 9y ago
> My first thought is how I'd parse, modify and write it back without losing user's comments, formatting, changes and suchlike. Is this some well understood format with libraries for common programming languages? If not, it is
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by _wmd 9y ago
$ cat my-config.xml <root>  <thing attr="foo">  <setting>value</setting> <&
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by _wmd 9y ago
So all I asked is whether it was possible to roundtrip an edit to one of these files from Python without writing an AST visitor, and without losing formatting and comments. I have absolutely no idea how this could be considered ignorant. Ig
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by _wmd 9y ago
My first thought is how I'd parse, modify and write it back without losing user's comments, formatting, changes and suchlike. Is this some well understood format with libraries for common programming languages? If not, it is just
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by _wmd 9y ago
I have to say this is the least appealing post I've seen here recently. It's totally impersonal, explains nothing of the company's needs or direction, and basically the sort of thing you might see on a recruitment site, which
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by _wmd 9y ago
This doesn't seem any more practical a technique than printing the pages to paper and OCRing them on each access.. one signal and two expensive syscalls per randomly accessed page of memory is hardly cheap, especially in the context of
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by _wmd 9y ago
The most material result of this is that Chromebooks won't have a working SSH client starting sometime next year, because WebAssembly can't do real sockets without an external proxy.
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by _wmd 9y ago
See PyFrame_FastToLocals() in the CPython source. Try wrapping your code in a function and notice the changes are no longer mirrored. Calls to exec() and eval() cause PyFrame_FastToLocals() to be applied afterwards, as used by the interacti
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by _wmd 9y ago
> Python uses many dictionaries in the background: among other things, local variables Just a minor correction, Python doesn't use dicts for local variables, `locals()` is a lie, it creates a dict from scratch. Internally each frame
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by _wmd 9y ago
There are plenty of ways they can keep the current API while eventually approaching optimal, for example, a chain of exceptions could incrementally refine the framework's idea of what the callback function expects, which could be turne
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by _wmd 9y ago
Similar story. It became clear over the course of a (contracting) interview that the cloth-eared PM who according to LinkedIn had just completed some big data course was using every imaginable buzzword he could fit on the whiteboard, and se
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by _wmd 9y ago
It looks like the same stuff that was presented in great detail at CCC over a year ago: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7331-the_exhaust_emissions_scand... Does anyone know how this research differs or builds upon the prev
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by _wmd 9y ago
Doctorow presented this at 2011 Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
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by _wmd 9y ago
Not much more difficult than Hamburg, 1:30 train from Berlin or a direct flight from Stansted (although not sure if that Ryanair flight runs over Christmas)
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by _wmd 9y ago
I'm a 20+ year Linux/open source neckbeard and I prefer WP as the ideal balance between cost and a variety of ideals it doesn't seem possible to get outside of an iPhone. My current Lumia 650 cost £60 refurbished, which is a
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by _wmd 9y ago
Just curious, which book did you read?
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by _wmd 9y ago
Mailpile went the custom server route, it's not exactly a turing complete problem
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by _wmd 9y ago
Curious, looks like an HN bug. Try this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Development_Corp._v._Bor...
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by _wmd 9y ago
One of the simplest things to do in software land is cloning an existing application, all the design work has pretty much been done for you and there is legal precedent even supporting direct rips of the look and feel of a UI (see e.g. htt
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Matthew Garrett: A quick overview of Intel's AMT vulnerability(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
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by _wmd 9y ago
Zero details and zero cross references, zero mentions on Google and zero mentions in any security list I'm on. Charlie blowing nonsensical steam yet again?
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by _wmd 9y ago
The same is true in the UK, a direct debit instruction can be setup on an account using just the name, number and sort code, but it doesn't make us more wary, much in the same way that supplying one's home address is enough to tak

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