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azakus
16y ago
Since btrfs is an Oracle funded project, I'm real interested to see what happens to both of these filesystems going forward.
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azakus
16y ago
It certainly is when the startup time and general memory usage of the JVM is taken into account.
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azakus
16y ago
Did since 1.0
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azakus
16y ago
- Javascript for APIs and backend frameworks (work & fun) - Perl for scripts and a documentation tool (work) - Scala for fun little projects (fun) - C/C++/C# for small things just to keep my skills up (fun) - Shell for portable scripts
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azakus
16y ago
This would actually be a terrible idea. Imagine all the rewriting of every little business app people have written for their blackberries, and the instant obsolescence of BES servers. No, RIM just needs to innovate in a way that doesn't see
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azakus
16y ago
Wouldn't increase productivity if I'm allergic to dogs and it causes me to sneeze instead of think.
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azakus
16y ago
OpenSolaris had a GNU userland. The BSD ancestry of the Solaris userland isn't the problem. The problem was the senseless defaults and cryptic command structures ("shutdown -g0 -i5 -y" instead of "shutdown")
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azakus
16y ago
http://www.qingting.biz/index.php?action=page&pid=16 Well, they certainly aren't trying to have Apple level laptop hardware, or even asus level. Their Q Pro thing has an nvidia ion 2 chipset with an Atom D520 in a 14 inch body.
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azakus
16y ago
This had better not turn out like "Legend of the Seeker". I had so much hope for the adaptation of one of my favorite book series.
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azakus
17y ago
Some of his arguments are crap. How is extensive platform support a detractor? Wouldn't you want your language to work on as many platforms as possible? I'm not sure how "outdated" stdlib is, but just because the code was written years ago,
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azakus
17y ago
Good for him. It's sad that he felt he had to wait this long.
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azakus
17y ago
I find that the largest problem about this competition is that the people who can actually do this probably have no motivation to compete. We all have jobs, lives, and cool stuff to hack on in languages we actually like using.
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azakus
17y ago
Check out some of his other projects: http://quadpoint.org/projects Also, pastee is by far my favorite pastebin (also by him): https://pastee.org/
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azakus
17y ago
Isn't the default for ssh-keygen RSA 2048? That should be safe for a little while longer.
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azakus
17y ago
I've always found pwgen to provide usefully memorable passwords. Just have to run it a few times and find one I like.
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azakus
17y ago
From what I remember of middle school, they DID teach us a little comp sci. They taught LOGO for about a week. Seemed pretty fun. It was at least mostly competent from what I can remember.
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azakus
17y ago
The only small problem I would have with it is the inability to be in multiple chatrooms at once. Very nice though.
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azakus
17y ago
There is Vimperator, a plugin that applies vim keybindings.
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azakus
17y ago
Aww, what a bait and switch.