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by asjo 11y ago
Yes, so I am asking why is Lucene switching now?
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by asjo 11y ago
Xapian has been using BM25 forever[1] - what made Lucene switch now? [1] https://xapian.org/docs/bm25.html
93.
by asjo 11y ago
I like this quote: "If you like writing code but you don't like dealing with bug reports -- and you should be so lucky that your code is popular enough that you actually get any -- then you're no hacker, you're just some
94.
by asjo 11y ago
wajig(1) is your unifying interface friend in this space.
95.
by asjo 11y ago
Windows XP looked like Fischer-Price toys, so maybe it was a combination of the graphics and your age!
96.
by asjo 11y ago
One of those "gimmicks" has been working great for me the past 20+ years...
97.
by asjo 11y ago
gwene.org is half way there (RSS/Atom to NNTP, read-only).
98.
by asjo 11y ago
From what are you protecting your drawings/recreation?
99.
by asjo 12y ago
Install sl(1) and teach your 3 year old to type s l ENTER :-)
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Crushing the business plan(doonesbury.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by asjo 12y ago|0 comments
101.
by asjo 12y ago
> Perl never managed to enter this league Perl did have something of a stronghold in bioinformatics (sequencing the human genome etc.), although other languages are catching up.
102.
by asjo 12y ago
Working all night and skipping vacation to work may indicate that you think your work is indispensable. The bucket of water shows you that the mark you leave may not be as big as you think.
103.
by asjo 12y ago
The sidebar says "Hila Peleg is a UX expert and designer living in Israel" - it pops in if you click the tre striped icon in the top left corner of the page
104.
by asjo 13y ago
The website doesn't work with my trusty Mosaic 2.7b5.
105.
by asjo 13y ago
autossh (sometimes you need a tunnel), ssh (to connect), x11vnc (when I have a running X session remotely), xvncserver (when I haven't), and vinagre (to show the desktop remotely).
106.
by asjo 14y ago
Only that nntp is more mature than nnrss in Gnus, in my experience. I only had nnrss working well when I used an external script to fetch the feeds via cron (there is an example in the documentation). When Lars created Gwene, I switched to
107.
by asjo 14y ago
Here is a little video I made showing how to use Gnus in Emacs to read RSS via Gwene: http://vimeo.com/asjo/rss-in-emacs
108.
by asjo 14y ago
My first (Intel X-25) SSD went from working fine to not being able to read _anything_ from it, at all, in 10 minutes - after having worked great for 1½ years. It is still worth it, but I have never experienced a failure mode like that with
109.
by asjo 14y ago
"Horrid" is a bit harsh, but the typography choices are hard to understand, at least as rendered on my screen: * http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/sg.png The font for the main text is oddly changing between being very thin/light and on some sel
110.
by asjo 14y ago
To get a laptop with a 2880x1800 pixel resolution?
111.
by asjo 14y ago
privately built /= commercially built
112.
by asjo 14y ago
You got any links?
113.
by asjo 14y ago
OpenID, or none, would be great.
114.
by asjo 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by asjo 14y ago
You can set MAILTO by itself between the job lines in the crontab; e.g.: MAILTO=user1@example.com * */10 * * * script1 5 * * * * script2 MAILTO=user2@example.com * * * * * script3 Any output from script1 and 2 will
116.
by asjo 14y ago
COMAL 80 is missing. Too bad I don't remember anything of it :-)
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by asjo 15y ago
I have been using Linux as my only operating system since Yggdrasil Fall 1994. Before that I was a happy Amiga user. After Yggdrasil I took a short turn to Slackware (downloaded a lot of floppies), and then switched to Debian which I had he
118.
by asjo 15y ago
I think I tried programming initially when I went with my father to a course in BASIC at his workplace. After that we hauled a 300 baud matrix printer-like terminal home, equipped with a couple of sucktion cups for attaching the phone's han
119.
by asjo 15y ago
Yes, here is a scatter plot: · http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/pl/data.png I would like to make a bar chart with favorite votes pointing up from the x-axis and dislike votes pointing down, but my rudimentary R skills doesn't stretch that far
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by asjo 15y ago
Here is a plot of the votes (updated hourly): * http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/wymdpl/data.png

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