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by blasdel 16y ago
My problem was that the records really were purely newline-delimited, but I needed to process them using information from their context in the stream.
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A user’s guide to websites, part 1: If it wasn’t broken why fix it?(revdancatt.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Spite is an incredibly powerful motivator, only outclassed by survival.
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by blasdel 16y ago
On the contrary — it's enterely because of the graphics style and atomically destructible environment. Voxels are hard.
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by blasdel 16y ago
The cost of pulling over cars in city traffic is incredibly high. In downtown Seattle the police ignore automobile moving violations as a matter of policy. I've seen a guy with a car full of rowdy passengers turn the wrong way down a 4 lane
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by blasdel 16y ago
On the other hand, both awk and sed quickly spiral out of control if you need to do anything nontrivial that spans newlines. If the unit of input in this kind of stream processing system doesn't match the problem domain exactly, things get
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by blasdel 16y ago
One marketer, one gun, and one engineer is better than having a team of dozens of PR flacks compiling a dossier on an interviewer and debriefing all interviewees: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2007/03/enough_about_me/
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by blasdel 16y ago
On Metafilter, making a front page post that links to your own stuff is the only %100 banworthy offense. It's all the more important there because the front page is reverse chronological and anyone who's been there a week can post to it.
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by blasdel 16y ago
That they shouldn't be lumped in with the binary distros driven by release cycles and package freezes — they're the least likely to need an intervention from upstream.
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by blasdel 16y ago
import awesomelib >= 2.10 import specialsauce == 1.58 Is precisely the feature I love most about rubygems, and would love to have in Python. It's also a feature that Debian goes out of their way to eliminate because it violates
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by blasdel 16y ago
To be fair, both Gentoo Portage and FreeBSD Ports pride themselves on shipping the upstream's software verbatim wherever possible (though on Gentoo the upstream ./configure options are exposed to users, occasionally causing grief).
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by blasdel 16y ago
Gentoo Portage is much better technically. It needs to be, because it uses a pure rolling-release model with no package freezes. Arch Linux has a similar model, but they did it more conservatively to make binary packages useful.
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by blasdel 16y ago
I know you exist, I've met you :) He exists too, but his name isn't Max Klein, and 'parable' is the most charitable reading of most of what he posts under that persona.
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by blasdel 16y ago
A thousand times no! That's the only way any non-groupthink content gets to the front page, and most of the time it fails anyway because a dozen submission-upvotes were spread out over a day or two. If anything more weight should be applied
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by blasdel 16y ago
So who else is out there doing the work of enforcing American software patents on the users of the world? Even the BSA doesn't do that! Apple isn't out there enforcing their patent on the truetype hinting bytecode interpreter, but Debian re
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by blasdel 16y ago
Red Hat backports new drivers and features to ancient kernels because their customers use binary drivers, and Linux does not maintain a stable ABI. It's a shitty but completely respectable position to be in. Canonical forks Gnome because No
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by blasdel 16y ago
Did you read it?: " (the GPL does not place restrictions on using libraries that are part of the normal operating system distribution) " Even Debian is not jackass enough to patch SSH to link with NSS or GnuTLS instead.
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by blasdel 16y ago
We're not going to cripple our modern programming language environments to suit an outdated system designed around mutually-exclusive soname dependencies, and we sure as hell aren't going to prostrate ourselves as a community before your ba
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by blasdel 16y ago
Only Debian considers it to be a problem for GPL software to dynamically link with system versions of OpenSSL. They be loud and obnoxious about it, but they really are the only ones who are stirring up shit. It's only possible to be incompa
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by blasdel 16y ago
Max Klein applies your take as religion, trolling HN with emphatic claims of personal experience. And he doesn't even exist: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353050
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by blasdel 16y ago
While "police officers knocking down doors" over crypto export restrictions do not exist, that's not what Debian's wankfest over OpenSSL is about. They think that the advertising clause in the OpenSSL license makes it impossible to use with
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by blasdel 16y ago
But they don't call it "Knifecrime Island" for nothing.
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by blasdel 16y ago
He didn't just stumble upon an overlooked dependency bug — the Debian maintainers intentionally broke their Ruby package years ago because of the legal problems they imagine to exist with using OpenSSL. I don't think it's so out of bounds
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by blasdel 16y ago
The naive way will just load the highest-numbered version you have installed: require 'rack' When you have rubygems loaded, this is equivalent to: gem 'rack', '>=0' You can specify exact and relative dependencies easily. T
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by blasdel 16y ago
And after that he can explain how the freedom is really for the source code and not for her!
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by blasdel 16y ago
Gentoo avoids making patches specific to itself wherever possible, when it does it's generally just to make it compile+work, the changes are straightforward, and they are applied live on your machine in a self-documenting way. The build p
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's like the mainstream news media — anytime they report on a subject you know anything about, it's riddled with obvious errors. After this happens enough times, you know enough not to trust them about other subjects…
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by blasdel 16y ago
> I still have gcc-2.95 installed and that hasn't been available in the Debian archive for years. It is named properly and doesn't conflict with any of the newer gccs. So it is possible to make parallel installs. It is NOT named pro
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by blasdel 16y ago
The efforts of both Zed and Debian are based on the same corrupt motive: self-satisfaction As the upstream developer, Zed wants to make sure that his software is distributed in a manner that is useful to people and actually works and shit
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by blasdel 16y ago
You're right that a bunch of what's broken in Debian stems from how naïve APT is — especially the lack of a slots mechanism (they just mangle the package names when there's no way to excuse it). But the fundamental problem is purely social,

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