benhoyt

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by benhoyt 17y ago
Yes, agreed. I've got very good eyes, but the text on the sub-pages (like the about one) was too tiny for me to read. Screenshot in Firefox 3.5: http://i27.tinypic.com/ws7eip.png Edit: they've fixed the text size now (see below) -- good w
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web.py
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Maybe it's just me (Firefox 3.5.2 on WinXP), but the plus key ('+' and '=') doesn't seem to work, so I can't type 1+2 or x=1. Just tried it in Chrome, and that works fine. IE8 does too (though it's very slow). Anyway, very neat project! How
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by benhoyt 17y ago
In the blog post he didn't, though it looks like the HN user (intregus) who submitted the link is the author of the post.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Wow, I bet you're one of very few eight-child fathers on HN -- good going! I'm one of eight, but father of two. I haven't read any other Sayers, but intend to now.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
My wife and I are thinking about how to educate our daughter, so I've been doing some reading. I found this essay by Sayers very compelling: use a child's built-in stages of learning for what they're worth. Our daughter is only 2.5, but she
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by benhoyt 17y ago
It depends what you mean -- for me (Christchurch, New Zealand) it took about 5-7 seconds just to get the page up, then 2-3 seconds after that to load the plant images. The 2-3 seconds wouldn't bother me much, but the 5-7 before anything sho
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The Lost Tools of Learning: Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric (1947)(gbt.org)
21 points by benhoyt 17y ago|8 comments
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by benhoyt 17y ago
You're right -- DecentURL is not a shortener. You can do some shortening with it, but its main goal is to make decent URLs, not tiny ones. So ctxt.us has it's place -- I stand corrected. :-)
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Guess you didn't know about my http://DecentURL.com -- which does more or less the same thing. Though that was inspired by a comment on reddit, not so much by a real need. :-) DecentURL gives even more context -- it inserts the domain lik
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Here's a version of strace for Windows: http://www.intellectualheaven.com/default.asp?BH=projects&#3... I've hacked it to print the actual file names on CreateFile() calls, but it's failing because it doesn't recurse and trace sub-process
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Sure is. This will do it: setup(runner='strace_runner')
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Well, our experience says that as soon as you step outside that "minimal amount" you have to write all the build steps explicitly anyway, so we're specifically avoiding implicit rules. And we end up being explicit pretty quickly in all our
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by benhoyt 17y ago
True, one normally doesn't -- and shouldn't. But I saw a surprising number of Makefiles on Google Code Search done this way.
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by benhoyt 17y ago
Fair call. So far that hasn't been a problem for us -- but if you want to make it one, please donate us some cores! :-) Seriously, as vr said, Python's not stopping us. And I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to add code to spawn off a few ba
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by benhoyt 17y ago
To be fair, the equivalent Makefile with autodeps generation (using gcc's -M options) is about the same length. However, as soon as you start adding more complex stuff the fabricate gets much easier to work with and maintain. Make's $&#60
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No, it defaults to recursively scanning the current directory, but you can easily override this if you want, eg: setup(dirs=['.', '../lib'])
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by benhoyt 17y ago
We've been using memoize to build stuff for a while now, but we needed something that worked under Windows too. So here's our "fabricate" build tool. It's BSD licensed -- enjoy!
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fabricate: The better "make". Finds dependencies automatically for any language.(code.google.com)
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Oops, thanks! (Can't edit the post anymore.)
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ZFS
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UFS2
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Poll: which file system(s) do you use?
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NTFS
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FAT32
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ext2
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ext3
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ext4
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XFS
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JFS

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