akavel

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by akavel 9y ago
Re: myself: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/microsoft-build-2017-liveblog/ has something, but it's too fast and too noisy, and they don't even try to highlight some key "twits" with bold o
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by akavel 9y ago
Anyone know of some high-quality (meaning: good reporting, high signal-to-noise ratio), live, textual ("SFW") commentary stream covering the event? (blog? twitter? reddit? some IT news agency?)
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by akavel 9y ago
I also sometimes find :Gstatus useful when resolving merges/rebases/cherry-picks. Makes it easier and faster to iterate through the affected files.
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by akavel 9y ago
As to 'continue', starting with Lua 5.2 you can actually simulate it perfectly with a goto continue and then a ::continue:: slapped immediately before the relevant loop's end. Surprisingly, it's not affecte
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by akavel 9y ago
Also: http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-... The above comic strip absolutely perfectly shows what's it about for me. Though I agree there is stuff better done with others (brainstorming,
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by akavel 9y ago
And CON, as Macha mentions in a sister comment. An idiom I remember from old times in DOS, for quickly writing some contents into a file - equivalent to `cat > myfile.txt` on Linux: COPY CON MYFILE.TXT
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by akavel 9y ago
Would be cool to port this to Nix package manager machinery (i.e. make this kinda an alternative to NixOS).
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by akavel 10y ago
Hmm; so maybe I just misunderstood the original post at first, this or the fact that I'm already trying hard to take into account ethics in what I do as much as I can, so no big change for me? I dunno; still not quite convinced by this
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by akavel 10y ago
Um, could you give some specific/concrete examples of what you mean, when speaking of this leverage? I honestly have no slightest idea of what you may have in your mind here, and am totally curious - at least as long as we're talk
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Nix package manager: Perl dependency removed(github.com)
2 points by akavel 10y ago|0 comments
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by akavel 10y ago
Regarding "a UNIX experience today", I'd think some *BSD system maybe? I.e. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or similar.
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by akavel 10y ago
From the sound of it, seems that editing issue descriptions is not possible? (E.g. for fixing typos, adding details, renaming issue title - if supported at all.) Do I understand correctly? If yes, do you have plans for this possibly?
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by akavel 10y ago
I've fallen in love with the Parker Jotter pen (the full-steel version) http://www.parkerpen.com/en-US/jotter-us . Stumbled into it by accident (a marketing/promotional gift). Never knew it's apparently &
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by akavel 10y ago
Seems to still be live-ish: http://forum.outerra.com/index.php?topic=3547.0 — most recent update apparently in Dec 2016, photos: http://forum.outerra.com/index.php?topic=3547.msg42555#msg42... . Seems they&#
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by akavel 10y ago
Editorial notes: The questionnaire seems to be missing "desktop (GUI) apps" and probably "mobile apps" in "What you'd pay for?" section. Also, the "time/effort" was weird for me; I don&#x2
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by akavel 10y ago
Can you explain more precisely what do you mean by that? Are you trying to say that companies with >150 people are somehow incorrect?
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by akavel 10y ago
AFAIK, Nix even has a testing framework, where you can start a VM and simulate various actions inside it. All described by a single Nix script. I haven't explored it myself yet, but I understand it's used for unit-testing various
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by akavel 10y ago
What about docker-compose? We've recently started using it, and we don't see any problems; did your colleagues evaluate it?
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by akavel 10y ago
In my opinion, the problem with papers is different: that of high cognitive barrier to entry (they're too dense for casual reading, and tend to build on silent assumptions well known only in narrow circles of specialists), and number
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by akavel 10y ago
Hm, maybe that's the way how we can try fixing the "programmers don't know their ancestors' discoveries" issue? By "older" programmers blogging about things that are obvious to them, but apparently no lo
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by akavel 10y ago
In this case you'd probably be better "just" going for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6030407/how-does-linux-em... ?
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by akavel 10y ago
Slightly tweaked to allow using len(): type Hash [16]byte const _ = uint(len(Hash{}) - md5.Size) https://play.golang.org/p/qH6DkOcvSC
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Compile-time assertions in Go(reddit.com)
1 points by akavel 10y ago|1 comments
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by akavel 10y ago
The finale was weird for me, kinda anticlimactic (back to "hello world"); is that how it's expected to behave? No "finished" message or something? Or is my NoScript interfering somehow? She is betraying us! Ru
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by akavel 10y ago
Not sure if you're serious or joking (the parenthesis suggests to me serious), but AFAIK it's a well known saying that fusion power is in permanent state of "to be delivered commercially in ~15 years" since '50s or
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by akavel 10y ago
A batch or PowerShell script potentially could (and it could even be named make.bat, so that instructions would stay the same). Windows does actually support symlinks, though the caveat is that it requires elevated privileges. See e.g.: ht
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by akavel 10y ago
Am I right to understand that it's "build from anywhere" as long as "anywhere" is not Windows? (Please don't tell me about MinGW/Cygwin if the whole idea is to "make life simpler".)
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Ubisoft downgrades [video](youtube.com)
3 points by akavel 10y ago|0 comments
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by akavel 10y ago
Note: [SEIZURE WARNING] I suppose, for those for whom it may apply -- the linked page has a weird moire-like fast-blinking pattern, epileptics be careful.
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by akavel 10y ago
Wow! Is it possible you could do some write-up on what was behind switching from Go to C for you? Also, whether you evaluated Rust in the meantime? Or just a short HN reply with a summary? From the readme I assume some performance arguments

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