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Show HN: Unicode Trust on First Use(github.com)
6 points by begriffs 8y ago|0 comments
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by begriffs 8y ago
In a real scenario gitftp would be run remotely. If you're hosting your own git server then you could host the ftp interface too. It won't work with e.g. Github.
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by begriffs 8y ago
You have strong opinions about this, which makes me think maybe you can tell me details I didn't know about FTP. > It's an archaic protocol built around the limitations of early-1980s systems. What were the limitations, and how
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by begriffs 8y ago
(Author here) Thanks for reporting this. It looks ok for me in Safari 12.0.3, what version are you on? The bulk of the work is done by Video.js 5.0.2. Perhaps your browser or plugins are blocking the script? Can you send me an email with a
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by begriffs 8y ago
Yeah, in this server's case it would respond "502 Unimplemented"
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by begriffs 8y ago
One factor that mitigates this a little is the "SYST" command. When a client sends it to gitftp, I have it reply with "215 UNIX" to give them a clue about the format. I also browsed a few of the FTP mirrors for OpenBSD a
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by begriffs 8y ago
Author here. I did aim to write the code carefully, for instance doing bounded reads like `fgets(cmd, CLIENT_BUFSZ, conn)` to prevent overflowing my buffer. Also ran the program in Valgrind and exercised different code paths to detect memor
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Show HN: Git via FTP Interface(begriffs.com)
3 points by begriffs 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Browsing a Remote Git Repo(begriffs.com)
9 points by begriffs 8y ago|1 comments
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Demo of using Haskell in a C project(github.com)
3 points by begriffs 8y ago|0 comments
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by begriffs 8y ago
> until you mentioned it here there was no indication in the document that you were aware of it Good point, and thanks for pointing it out. People can't read my mind and the example might give people the wrong idea. I'll add a
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by begriffs 8y ago
You mean where I'm comparing whether the character is between 'a' and 'z'? Yeah I'm aware that's an ASCII thing, and that the standard was designed to accommodate other encodings such as EBCDIC. My `isalp
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by begriffs 8y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. Can you give an example of the strncpy problem? Also is there a precaution programs can take to use memset more safely?
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C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines(begriffs.com)
270 points by begriffs 8y ago|117 comments
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by begriffs 8y ago
> a huge headache to set up OK, but "huge headache" is somewhat exaggerated. For many clients, gmail connection settings are a preset option, where you enter a username and application password. It's a one-time configurati
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by begriffs 8y ago
Why not use a desktop/mobile mail client of your choice to access gmail over open protocols? Then they can clown up the web UI all they want and it won't matter to you.
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by begriffs 8y ago
I had a variation of that mini phone you linked to (the internals get repackaged by various manufacturers). Mine was exactly the height and width of a credit card, and not very thick. It was lovely in my pocket, so unobtrusive. Everyone tho
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by begriffs 8y ago
OpenBSD https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
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Actually, DMARC works fine with mailing lists(begriffs.com)
1 points by begriffs 8y ago|0 comments
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by begriffs 8y ago
Oh, well of course it's because: "From opening the heavy lid to placing your phone in the cradle, each analog movement becomes an intentional affirmation of the digital sacrifice you are about to make. To complete the gesture, clo
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by begriffs 8y ago
I wasn't going to jump into this because arguing tabs vs spaces feels like a parody at this point, but I think you're correct. I started using spaces for indentation just because I worked with people who did that. I kind of forgot
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by begriffs 8y ago
> The article describes a lot about the workflow, but only two sentences about the advantages The article is a good complement to one that I wrote about specifically the advantages - https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-0
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by begriffs 8y ago
> but perhaps not at the expense of keeping business logic in separate places Perhaps the answer is to consolidate business logic in the database with constraints. This also protects data from manipulation outside of an app, like with sc
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by begriffs 8y ago
Why has this become so complicated? I use Newsboat https://newsboat.org/ to read RSS, and follow about 100 very interesting authors that way. I just put the RSS urls into a text file and the self-contained 1.7mb program doe
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by begriffs 9y ago
> Now go build something. Want to do something with chat? Sure, go read up on IRC and XMPP and Signal and Wire and all that. Totally. I guess I should have mentioned that for me, at least, the books will be paired with hands-on hacking.
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by begriffs 9y ago
That's really interesting. I used Delphi back in the day to build little Windows GUI programs for personal projects, and it seemed fine. Subsequently haven't thought of Pascal much, so I guess I simply overlooked it while making T
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by begriffs 9y ago
(Author here) sorry, I should work on my tone. Sometimes it feels fun to write strong statements, knowing in your own mind that you're just trying them on. Then when other people read the stuff I realize it doesn't sound daring, i
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by begriffs 9y ago
You're right, I made a mistake. Just reviewed the table of contents on Amazon and it looks pretty short, and not particularly theoretical. Also poorly reviewed. I don't remember how it got on my list but I'm removing it.
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by begriffs 9y ago
I think the book you're talking about is Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right." I worked through the problems in this book with some friends, and it is a very good presentation. After doing that book I wanted to see what o
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by begriffs 9y ago
You can jump to it by typing /EXAMPLES<enter> Or if that seems like a lot of keystrokes, /EX<enter> will probably jump to what you want most of the time too.

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