astine

55 ms·

511.
by astine 12y ago
I can see this ruining a few relationships this Valentine's day. I love it!
512.
by astine 12y ago
Still, the problem with having occupation-style technology and drones is that it further spreads the power of those with capital at the expense of those without. Are we certain that this is a bad thing. I personally like that it requires
513.
by astine 12y ago
Completely skipped graph and object oriented databases. Makes it sound like the NoSQL folks invented distributed data-stores. The fact is that most of the innovations that happend during NoSQL already existed and really deserve more attenti
514.
by astine 12y ago
Then the process supervisor can then launch your processes. But then all init is doing is launching your process supervisor. We can just drop a step by providing the process supervisor executable to the kernel. There is no need for init any
515.
Why systemd is taking over(theatticlight.net)
4 points by astine 12y ago|0 comments
516.
by astine 12y ago
From a political standpoint, privatization of space is probably for the best. Some people are automatically fearful of anything a private company does as if government entities were beyond reproach. There's probably nothing evil that M
517.
by astine 12y ago
Found a working link: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=961...
518.
by astine 12y ago
"Says who? What's the rationale for where a language belongs?" From the article: "Unfortunately they aren’t trained to recognise Angular’s performance problems." ... "The problem is that there is no way fo
519.
by astine 12y ago
Does anyone have access to the companion paper? The link[1] is broken. 1. http://scsh.net/docu/scsh-paper/scsh-paper.html
520.
by astine 12y ago
Not if you're using it for interactive use, which is what I think the GP is talking about.
521.
by astine 12y ago
I was a homeschooled kid whose father taught him programming. I still managed to learn the value of history.
522.
by astine 12y ago
The author of this article is straining logic to argue that Clojure is not a functional language. It's true that Clojure is not a purely functional language, but most people should already know that. Unlike Haskell, Clojure allows si
523.
by astine 12y ago
Huh, a round trip to Kuala Lumpur is less than the course in the States.[1] Best excuse for an overseas flight I've seen lately. https://www.hipmunk.com/flights/WAS-to-KUL#!dates=Jan12,Jan1...
524.
by astine 12y ago
I dunno. I'm curious as to why they chose that particular number.
525.
by astine 12y ago
No, because he wouldn't really be running NASA the way he runs SpaceX. Government organizations are subject to a host of political influences that that don't affect the private sector. I used to work for the Library of Congress wh
526.
by astine 12y ago
Run Emacs through Cygwin and Flyspell works just fine. I doubt ESR is posting from Windows anyway.
527.
by astine 12y ago
No, my point is that you cannot just take a script written for bash and run it on Zsh or Ksh and expect it to just work. (Well, sometimes you can, but that's beside the point.) Yes you can write your init scripts in whatever language y
528.
by astine 12y ago
I understand the author's point; he's not being oblique at all. I just disagree. He explicitly claims that the kernel providing socket functionality is enough. But it's not. The example using mkfifo for example, is terrible f
529.
by astine 12y ago
Well, a lot of them then... I know that Arch and Gentoo at least use Bash and I'd be surprised if they were the only ones.
530.
by astine 12y ago
"For Internet socket activation, all you have to do is start your daemon the old way, have it bind on the port, and let it sit there idly. If the kernel needs the RAM, it will swap the (idle) daemon to disk. If the kernel receives an
531.
by astine 12y ago
Which also happens to be the default or expected shell in the majority of sysv installs on Linux. '/bin/sh' symlinks to bash, shell scripts specify '/bin/sh' So it's another example of a distinc
532.
by astine 12y ago
I don't know about the author, but I've found MongoDB to have very poor performance compared to Postgres.
533.
by astine 12y ago
One thing to think about is that my adding complexity in the beginning, you can avoid complexity in long run. Imagine a Unix shell without pipes. That would certainly be simpler in a sense, but the ability for programmers to write simple pr
534.
by astine 12y ago
No, he said that there should be an official GUI because the ecosystem of competitive GUIs, free and paid, might be affected. That is, a single official one might discourage people from making their own.
535.
by astine 12y ago
Marmelade is my favorite Emacs package archive and I had no idea it was having such trouble. I wonder what an ordinary programmer can do to help.
536.
by astine 12y ago
"I just think a lot of what we call social skills really comes down to, frankly, giving a shit about the person in front of you." Honestly, I don't think that that is always true. It's possible to have great social skill
537.
Russia Calls for Ban of US Military Launches Using Russian Rocket Engines(space.com)
3 points by astine 12y ago|0 comments
538.
by astine 12y ago
The color of the light is much more visually distinctive than the position of the light. If you can't see the colors, you might be able to tell which light it is, but this will take longer for your brain to process, and thus slow you d
539.
by astine 12y ago
In 2014, how many of us are doing backend/service development in java and not deploying to Linux machines? Among silicon valley webstartups? Not many. But there still are a lot of Windows based installs large megacorps and sm
540.
by astine 12y ago
cscope and ctags are language syntax dependent searching tools for c-like programming languages. They let you search specifically for all instances of a function names 'foo' for example. Ack is instead just a normal pattern matche

More ›