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by alayne 12y ago
This sounds more like a problem with gluing a bunch of "stuff" together with shell scripts that are not well thought out than a problem with less or GNU in general having untested features.
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by alayne 12y ago
Racket is a fringe language. Github has about as many Prolog repositories as Racket repositories. If Racket syntax highlighting was causing performance issues that were noticeable to Github, performance must have really sucked. Why should G
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by alayne 12y ago
You can't compare by total output, you need to normalize by population or as percentage of GDP. It's only about 13% of the U.S. GDP and 23% of Germany's GDP according to the World Bank for 2011.
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by alayne 12y ago
I'm sure Pascal was really the silver bullet and its failure had nothing to do with Pascal derivatives being academic, non-portable, not very expressive, and having numerous other issues. I think your ad hominem comments about people w
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by alayne 12y ago
Why would you optimize the system for rare circumstances? Why are you appealing to emotion with the "your loved ones"? Why are you talking about throwing out the legal system? Your arguments are all terrible, green poster.
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by alayne 12y ago
It's popular because it's Unixy without all the bullshit. I stopped running desktop Linux/FreeBSD years ago because the UI and system management tools in that world were such a clusterfuck. Now I can run commercial applicatio
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by alayne 12y ago
Even if you could find public servers running OS X that were exploitable, who would put effort into it? OS X also isn't glued together with scripts like a typical Linux system.
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by alayne 12y ago
Yes, you could queue an at job for every deletion. If you moved the file that approach would break. Also, you'd have to remove that at queue entry if you changed your mind.
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by alayne 12y ago
Igorw's post uses the word compiler four times.
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by alayne 12y ago
You should not be getting downvoted. The article is clearly discussing the compiler. Compilers and interpreters are not mutually exclusive. Just because a compiler produces bytecode (virtual instructions) instead of machine instructions (l
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by alayne 12y ago
Swift has GCD and NSOperationQueue which work well. Why marry yourself to that functionality if you can externalize it with the potential to change it in the future? Why doesn't Go have generics and sum types?
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by alayne 12y ago
You can download the non streaming versions if you need to.
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by alayne 12y ago
And you would be spending $3 billion _now_ to sequence the human genome in this analogy.
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by alayne 12y ago
Gordon Murray is 68. It's more likely about what he is used to than paper being more effective than CAD. Drafting on paper sounds ridiculous to me.
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by alayne 12y ago
I think the question is what does portable mean, or is there a better word to use than portable. It clearly doesn't just mean written in C or C++. From the linked page -- "It currently runs under CLisp and SBCL, Clojure, Scheme, R
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by alayne 12y ago
Why not just tail -n [file]?
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by alayne 12y ago
I'm absolutely not anti-OSS. I personally think it is against the spirit of the GPL to copy code that is GPLed, though. I'm just saying be careful about how you do your engineering. This seemed like an inexperienced developer and
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by alayne 12y ago
I try to never look at GPL/LGPL code if I'm going to implement something at work or under another license. Sorry for suggesting a good practice to avoid legal liability.
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by alayne 12y ago
It sounds like there still is a restrictive dress code: "He isn’t showing up in a T-shirt, but he’s free to wear a wrinkled button-down and comfortable pants."
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by alayne 12y ago
These rule problems can be a distraction from actual role playing. Might be a good time to try the White Box rules.
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by alayne 12y ago
Someone posted a video of part of a Mirzakhani lecture a few hours ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMWJW-AVVCI
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by alayne 12y ago
I take it you weren't around at that time. Well, there was software all over the place in stores and on BBSes, some that was entered from magazine listings, and much that was pirated on tapes and floppy disks.
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by alayne 12y ago
My comment was about the bad map. The map makes it seem like metric is a binary condition: you use it or you don't. That is not true, even though metric is the primary measurement system in most of the world. Many non metric units are
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by alayne 12y ago
A liter of water weighs a kilogram and is 1000 cm^3 (.001 m^3). These units are easily related. That's what GP is referring to.
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by alayne 12y ago
The U.S. uses the metric system and the customary system. Even many countries that are primarily metric use non-metric units like stones for body weight or feet for airplane elevation. I agree that metric would be a better system, but your
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by alayne 12y ago
It's hard to take people seriously who suggest Haskell as a good language for general scripting. That's some powerful religion.
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by alayne 12y ago
Perl is better than sed/awk, but you're still going to write unreadable code. Python or Ruby are a better choice for maintainable scripts.
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by alayne 12y ago
#firstworldproblems
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by alayne 12y ago
Here's the non mobile link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-24/netflixs-con...
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by alayne 12y ago
Not in the enterprise.

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