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Linode giving $100 credit to first 1,000 new customers to sign up this Friday(blog.linode.com)
93 points by asb 16y ago|68 comments
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Gmail adds support for delegating access to accounts(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
58 points by asb 16y ago|13 comments
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by asb 16y ago
Does anyone actually know of a commercial build system that's had any success? I know commercial support is available for CMake and I expect some of the Java build systems, but they're still all under a free software license.
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by asb 16y ago
The project README provides much more information: https://github.com/apenwarr/redo/blob/master/README.md
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An implementation of djb's 'redo' make replacement(apenwarr.ca)
33 points by asb 16y ago|9 comments
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by asb 16y ago
libgit2 is GPLed, but importantly also has a libgcc-style exception.
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by asb 16y ago
HN users contributed some interesting datapoints to a discussion about scaling in preparation for a mention on Oprah: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767637
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by asb 16y ago
I was under the impression that using S3's versioned object support, it's possible to set up an account that has the ability to write objects but not to delete previous versions.
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by asb 16y ago
If you find this interesting you may want to read about this more current research: http://www.openmirage.org/ To quote from the vision paper http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-bcs-visions.pdf Mirage is written in the spirit of vert
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by asb 16y ago
For my own personal projects (which admittedly have very modest requirements) I quite like waf. It neatly avoids the problem faced by most non-standard build-systems by distributing itself as a self-extracting bundle of python scripts small
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by asb 16y ago
It's important for the ability to use existing C libraries.
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by asb 16y ago
How did you decide when it was time to stop and try something else?
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by asb 16y ago
Phoronix are being misleading with their headline. If you review the original release announcement you'll see that the actual feature is winelib support for ARM, which just means you can recompile Windows applications if you have the source
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by asb 16y ago
Not yet, but they're working on a solution using the LLVM bitcode format: http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/native-client-documenta...
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by asb 16y ago
I recently moved a domain from Godaddy and did not have this experience, so perhaps things have changed. I just unlocked the domain and requested the authorisation code be emailed to me by clicking the relevant link in the control panel. My
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by asb 17y ago
You no longer need a secretary for a private company: http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/companiesAct/implementation...
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by asb 17y ago
I also often find them interesting. I recommend you read them through http://ask.searchyc.com/ as even popular questions disappear from the front page so quickly I rarely get to see them.
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by asb 17y ago
Does anybody know the status of smart HTTP support? git-http-backend seems to have been added in 1.6.6 but the release notes haven't mentioned it.
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by asb 17y ago
You ignore the noscript option which seems the most practical.
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by asb 17y ago
In 2007 at least, he opted to use a demon to email him pages rather than browse the web: For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I se
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by asb 17y ago
They've answered this concern on Twitter: "all the planned features are still free! we've developed some new awesome premium features that we're planning on charging for." http://twitter.com/wakemate/status/8102380070
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by asb 17y ago
Hopefully somebody more knowledgeable can fill in the details, but my understanding is that for godaddy domains they are auctioned on tdnam.com before they are dropped. Therefore, even before placing a backorder you probably want to try to
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by asb 17y ago
They've had software installing on a client machine after acquisitions though - SketchUp, Picasa and Google Earth.
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by asb 17y ago
One of the Lua authors has recently posted a more thorough summary: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/61505 The in keyword has been very controversial as with it comes the deprecation of setfenv and getfenv, which are v
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by asb 17y ago
Just thought I'd share an example where the graphs really help you to understand the performance profile. http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20090911/benchmark....
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by asb 17y ago
I've opened an account and deposited $5 on a whim but haven't made any use of it. Would you count me as a customer?
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by asb 17y ago
jacquesm: Could you please comment more on the inaccuracies you notice from Google Analytics?
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by asb 17y ago
That's really sad, hopefully he felt some remorse that he duped you so effectively and didn't just go and brag about it on namepros and dnforum.
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by asb 17y ago
Yodlee will work with UK accounts, for whatever reason (perhaps legal?) Mint still haven't added UK support.
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by asb 17y ago
I clicked around a bit and couldn't see where their servers are located. I assume they don't (yet) offer multiple locations like Linode and Slicehost.

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