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by beefsack 10y ago
It's not only functional updates in the software, but MySQL server tends to benefit from better defaults between major versions. If you already have a well configured server you tend to see smaller performance improvements between vers
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by beefsack 10y ago
If you want something like this, you'd usually use your own error type to wrap the errors returned from the functions you call. You can implicitly do the conversions and keep the code the same if you implement `From` or `Into` for the
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by beefsack 10y ago
I started writing a terminal multiplexer in Rust, partially because I wanted to fix clearing ANSI escape codes to EOL, but also because I wanted to try and come up with a multiplexer that had very similar shortcuts and commands to Vim.
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by beefsack 10y ago
Using system fonts becomes a minefield once you realise they tend to be unique to each platform.
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by beefsack 10y ago
Critical comments are fantastic when they add insight to the conversation, but all you seem to be adding is cynicism.
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by beefsack 10y ago
I'm having a little trouble figuring out if this comment was sarcastic or not. Regardless, I think it illustrates pretty clearly why a lot of us are really uninterested in the TouchBar.
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by beefsack 10y ago
This would actually be a more appropriate URL for the story.
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by beefsack 10y ago
Something needs to exist before you can improve it. Continuing along those lines, the initial innovation to bring unique products to market is at least as important as polishing it.
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by beefsack 10y ago
You talk about JSX as if it is some sort of standard. A significant number of people aren't interested in compiling to JS or language extensions for a number of reasons. I appreciate what Facebook were trying to achieve with JSX, but
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by beefsack 10y ago
Same re: the Linux version, though I believe it's still up in the air whether it'll even be released.
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by beefsack 10y ago
For those interested in the editor, keeping an eye on the subreddit is worthwhile too: https://www.reddit.com/r/xi_editor
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by beefsack 10y ago
One trend I've really not appreciated in recent years is neglecting man pages for command line utilities. Having a `--help` option is great as a cheat sheet, but nowadays these help outputs are much too large and hard to navigate becau
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by beefsack 10y ago
Is it just me, or does Facebook seem to create new competing tools and technologies more often than the other majors? My inner-cynic makes me feel like everyone at Facebook is really young, as I've noticed a trait of inexperienced deve
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by beefsack 10y ago
> And unix can never be a very good IDE, comparatively, because "text streams" are not a sufficiently good data structure for representing program structure. This is a simplistic view of the system; you essentially have binary
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by beefsack 10y ago
Sony provides official AOSP builds for a number of their Xperia phones, I'm very close to getting one because of that. http://developer.sonymobile.com/open-devices/ https://github.com/sonyxperiadev
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by beefsack 10y ago
I accepted a counter-offer which contained a significant amount of equity, and has now paid itself off multiple times over. I feel you can't give black-and-white advice on this.
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by beefsack 10y ago
Apples and oranges, I'm not sure people who enjoy Mini Metro would automatically take to TTD. Mini Metro is a fun little abstract puzzler, wheras TTD is a fairly complex simulation.
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by beefsack 10y ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to acknowledge what I feel is the greatest FOSS reimplementation of a game engine: OpenTTD[1]. I'm sure many here fondly remember Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but for those who don't know it, ima
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by beefsack 10y ago
The more proprietary chat platforms that arise, the more I want to see Matrix[1] / Riot[2] succeed. Communication networks should not be corporate controlled walled gardens. [1]: https://matrix.org [2]: https://m
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by beefsack 10y ago
I'm writing a text-rendered board games by email service and this would have been a perfect format for me. If only.
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by beefsack 10y ago
It's interesting that a large amount of churn seems to be an unfortunately common trait of frontend libraries.
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by beefsack 10y ago
The template vs. JSX argument is highly subjective; a lot of people go the other way because language extensions break existing plugins, require extra build tooling, and add complexity.
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by beefsack 10y ago
You need to run separate GPUs to achieve this though don't you?
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by beefsack 10y ago
All the effort put into Babili could have gone into that branch though, either through feature implementation or polishing so it's production ready. It's a wrong assumption to make that free software can only be developed centrall
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by beefsack 10y ago
I don't think serious conversation like this is a place for reaction GIFs.
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by beefsack 10y ago
This article is interesting, but it alludes to the level of profiling they do on their user-base, and that part is scary.
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by beefsack 10y ago
I wonder how many people are on Facebook without even knowing they're being profiled like this. Sure, this is an interesting article, but this minuscule piece alludes to how much they know about the people on their platform.
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Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust(medium.com)
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by beefsack 10y ago
It's trivial to open luggage with zippers without disturbing the lock, just by jamming a pen directly into the zipper and opening it from there. Your bag could likely be opened without even touching the zip tie.
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by beefsack 10y ago
In Australia, I've signed up my numbers to the Do Not Call Register[1] and it's actually been pretty effective. I actually couldn't tell you the last time I had an unsolicited call like that. [1] https://www.donot

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