basilgohar

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by basilgohar 8y ago
There's a reason "Byzantine" when used as an adjective also has the negative connotation of "Overly complex or intricate." [1] It was not really a good successor in terms of success for the Roman Empire. [1] https
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by basilgohar 8y ago
There's a little bit about this on the Wikipedia page for LaserDiscs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc#MUSE_LD
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by basilgohar 8y ago
It's truly a blessing to be able to have this kind of perspective. I think a lot of frustration with one's current situation has little to do with the situation and much more to do with the perspective applied to the situation.
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by basilgohar 8y ago
I upvoted this comment not because I agree with this viewpoint, but specifically because I don't, and I want this to be seen by more people. Whether this is an attempt at trolling or not, I am not sure, but I believe many people, espec
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by basilgohar 8y ago
Note the second comment in the following thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12739771 quinthar posted in quite a lot of detail there as well, so it may provide some context.
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by basilgohar 8y ago
A lot of this is due to misunderstanding the quote and knowing the bounds where it applies. Premature optimization being the root of all evil means those misapplying the addage are using it as a crutch. Good code is both performant and
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by basilgohar 8y ago
It sounds to me like this reflects more on the startup's sloppy practices than anything else. Prevalence of this bad practice shouldn't be an excuse for it.
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by basilgohar 9y ago
Or better yet, people learn how to once again learn to live within their means and not spend money they don't have for things they don't need.
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by basilgohar 9y ago
The genius of this comment is hidden by the fact that you didn't capitalize "Moore".
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by basilgohar 10y ago
The fact that "free and open source" was in the title was the primary reason I looked into this plugin.
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by basilgohar 12y ago
Thanks. I was pleasantly surprised that I was the first to note it. I figured it was appropriate for our community, but I got nervous when there was little uptake at first. Thankfully, after a few hours, it was on the front page, which r
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by basilgohar 12y ago
It's definitely a problem for some where such expectations do not yet exist in their fields. They may be willing, but do not have the wherewithal by which to find a place to put them. The IT requirements for what is simple for tech f
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by basilgohar 12y ago
As opposed to the current state of things, where there is basically no requirement to publish freely whatsoever?
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by basilgohar 12y ago
I just saw this announced at work and it was just too good not to share. It's my first submission.
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NSF announces plan for comprehensive public access to research results(nsf.gov)
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by basilgohar 14y ago
Looking at the featureset of these frontends, my own implementation pales in comparison. It would need a lot of work before matching the features these offer.
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by basilgohar 14y ago
I've rolled my own very basic PHP frontend to my own SQLite-backended self-hosted PowerDNS setup. If there is serious interest, I might just throw it up on Gitorious or Github as I've always intended.
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by basilgohar 14y ago
Fedora ships with support for several desktop environments, which are easily installable, such as XFCE, LXDE, Sugar, and several others (including, of course, KDE as well!). Fedora's default is Gnome 3, but that doesn't mean it's your only
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by basilgohar 14y ago
I believe yum, Fedora's package manager, is the one with the RAM requirement. Packages are represented in Python (the language in which yum is implemented) as objects, which take up a chunk of memory per instance. EDIT: Explained what yum