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by bch 9y ago
> This is absolutely hilarious if your coworker happens to be using a graphical tool like vim... Don't get me wrong - I love the CLI. The vast majority of my time is spent there, and about the only reason I start X is for Firefox (i
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by bch 9y ago
Well, according to http://www.minix3.org , MINIXCon2017 is cancelled due to shortage of papers, so there won't be progress-triggering happening there... I hope you're right (and think that you are) that getting itself s
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by bch 9y ago
Now we just need Minix to start approaching the hardware portability that NetBSD has fought so hard for.
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by bch 9y ago
> Will you also call them lazy because... I said it's lazy resource management. I'm really not trying to condemn, here, just provoke questions.
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by bch 9y ago
> That's THEIR problem then. It is their problem, clearly. > Why should the original author care for that? That's the question. Don't you think it's easy to think of reasons, though? What if the person porting the
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by bch 9y ago
> As for the "memory leaks" --- I haven't looked at the source, but something whose runtime is very short-lived, like pkg-config, may be very well justified in allocating and never freeing, letting the process exit itself
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by bch 9y ago
I see there seems to be a dearth of common, easy o-names, but is the name that valuable, and they refused to punt to "orange _______"?
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by bch 9y ago
This is where I saw the beauty of including dependencies w a project. Even on my own systems, as environments change, things break, and having a stable in-tree reference had paid off. It's a tough situation, but I find myself leaning t
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by bch 9y ago
> it's not perfect I used to be so hopeful for cmake, but just grew to be sort of annoyed by it. Build systems are, however, perennial like the grass, so we'll see more.
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by bch 9y ago
I'm missing something. Are you saying you want to be able to compile either way /usr/include/stdio.h and /usr/local/include/stdio.h, but remember what the last compilation used and know what header wo
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by bch 9y ago
Research and development
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by bch 9y ago
This is where cmake missed the boat, imo. They were even using Tcl/Tk for a medical imaging project[0] when they decided they needed their own build system. Then when they needed an expressive embedded language, wrote an ad hoc one f
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by bch 9y ago
> Adam Savage is a compulsive knoller And is friends with another famous knoller - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLxwbm7FMA , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-CTkbHnpNQ
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by bch 9y ago
> For example, a “line number” isn’t much help if the “line” refers to 90% of the file and Tcl thinks all of that is essentially one statement I think this may have improved since you last looked: $ cat j #!/usr/bin/
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by bch 9y ago
Certainly debatable. For those interested, see a description/discussion here [0] and check it out in Tcl 8.6[1]. [0] http://wiki.tcl.tk/18152 [1] https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/download.htm
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by bch 9y ago
I can see that. There was (and is) a plethora of object systems, which could be seen as a double (triple?) edged sword. It provided choice, with many alternate features and methods (no pun intended), but perhaps at the expense of developer
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by bch 9y ago
Is this more advanced than just an Indiegogo pre-order?
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by bch 9y ago
I'd like a very large, performant-enough display for solely for editing in vi. Even that is still just a dream, as far as I can tell.
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by bch 9y ago
> CBC was pretty critical of the Conservatives while they ruled That relationship was pretty combative from both sides, though, no? http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-budget-cut-by-115m-over-... http:/&#
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by bch 9y ago
NetBSD, and also storage related[0], confusingly enough. Wasabi brought journaling (WAPBL[1]) to NetBSD. [0] http://www.wasabisystems.com/ [1] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wapbl++NetBSD-current
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by bch 9y ago
> IIRC, Gentoo still uses CVS... Somebody corrected this (Gentoo VC software) later, but NetBSD does also still use CVS. Repo conversions are indeed big, interesting projects. I've closely-witnessed/been-peripherally-involved i
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by bch 9y ago
There are env variables as others have mentioned, and additionally in NetBSD it's configurable in mk.conf[0]. I know, Net is not Open, but they look remarkably similar in this toolchain regard for system/package builds. Can't
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by bch 9y ago
NetBSD also supports clang/llvm. https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/pkgsrc/clang/
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by bch 9y ago
> With the exception of GNU Emacs none of the console clients I examined had any built in support for scripting with a real language. "mh"[0] might be interesting to some. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by bch 9y ago
For those seeing "Expect" and not knowing what's going on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect One of Tcl's first "killer apps". Don Libes' (creator of Expect) book "Exploring E
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by bch 9y ago
> “gearing up for 2017.” It's too late for that. 2017 bookings were completed last fall.
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by bch 10y ago
> All of that means you have to code to it differently. > That requires new coding, we're on it. Can you give a rough example to guide my thinking? I understand OSes are considering ways that this has both traditional disk and RA
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by bch 10y ago
This is excellent. Describes moral bankruptcy as well. Maybe perhaps not entirely malicious, but ultimately wrong and unmaintainable.
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by bch 10y ago
> This, also, by the way, is a great illustration of Elon Musk's contention that these technologies don't just keep working. Brilliant, competent engineers and scientists have to invest themselves in making them work. Is this
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by bch 10y ago
Why does it make you think of that ?

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