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by boris 10y ago
Mark & the gang thought they could build something better and so they went for it. Their ideas may be wrong, but they took a stab. Most of those criticizing Mir never go beyond mere talk. That's the main difference to me.
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by boris 10y ago
- Hey, Echo, send two thousand rand to Mike - Ok, sending twenty thousand rand to Mike - Noooooooo! Two thousand - Ok, also sending twenty thousand to Nolan
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by boris 10y ago
No, its like using a nailgun A with nails Y when it's only guaranteed to work with nails X. Or like using a chainsaw A with chain Y when it says you should use X. But hey, at least you are not trying to use nails on a chainsaw... ;-)
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by boris 10y ago
With one big limitation: they must all run the same os kernel (so you cannot run say a Windows or FreeBSD container on a Linux host). In fact, nobody guarantees that say Fedora will run on an Ubuntu-built kernel. Or even on a kernel from a
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by boris 10y ago
>Snapshot implementation has been started, but snapshots are by far the most complex of the remaining features to implement Snapshots are the #1 feature of COW filesystems. I've been using them for a bit in btrfs and this feature is
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by boris 10y ago
If you like this approach, you may like Testscript even better: https://build2.org/build2/doc/build2-testscript-manual.xhtml
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by boris 10y ago
Interesting to see complex pieces of software including features that are primarily used for testing. I guess this is a natural next step after having testing micro-formats[1]. One thing I don't like about GCC's testing framework
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by boris 10y ago
Which only has effect if you pass multiple files to compile.
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by boris 10y ago
A package manager for C++ wouldn't be that difficult if there was a sane, uniform build system available. But there is something actively developed in that direction: https://build2.org and https://cppget.org In
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by boris 10y ago
Microsoft had SQL Server Native Client (ODBC) driver for Linux available for a few years now. So your could develop/test on Linux with SQL Server running in a VM. This is how we have been doing it in ODB (C++ ORM) for years. Of course,
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by boris 10y ago
Cape Town, South Africa | UNIX Sys Admin | Full/part-time | Remote (but in CT) * GNU/Linux (.deb/.rpm), FreeBSD, Mac OS (virtually no Windows) * KVM-based virtualization (virsh, libvirt, bridging) * Network (ssh, rsync, OpenW
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by boris 10y ago
Check out https://build2.org
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by boris 10y ago
GNU make is a giant string-chopping hairball written in C over the past 30 years by numerous authors. Paul D. Smith (the current maintainer and the author of this article) has actually been doing a lot of codebase cleanup over the past year
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by boris 11y ago
Or not: https://build2.org
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by boris 11y ago
What exactly is missing in our setup that you think is critical? The reason we don't use GitHub is because we like to be in control of things rather than relaying on someone else's whim. Maybe we could setup a mirror?
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Build2 – C++ Build Toolchain(build2.org)
5 points by boris 11y ago|4 comments
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by boris 12y ago
Today I went to pick up two 100AH lead-crystal batteries for a long-run UPS (we now have regular load-shedding here in South Africa). If I believe all what I have read about them online, they are amazing, compared to lead-acid. Crazy heavy
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ODB C++ ORM Adds Bulk Operations Support for Oracle, SQL Server(codesynthesis.com)
1 points by boris 12y ago|0 comments
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by boris 12y ago
You should show the definition of 'foo'. That's where things get ugly.
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by boris 14y ago
The question, of course, is whether it will scale to more complex cases with more elaborate option documentation (i.e., multiple paragraphs, formatting, short version for usage, extended version for man/html, etc). For C++ there is the CLI
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by boris 15y ago
From experience, I would say #1 is to take a nice, long, no-emails vacation. Because once you start, you ain't gonna have one until you are done.
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by boris 15y ago
When I hear about such "MySQL replacement" databases built from grounds up by companies that are just a few months old, I always wonder how complete their support for MySQL feature set is. Do they support every SQL feature/quirk/misfeature
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by boris 15y ago
I switched to HP ZR30w (30" IPS panel) not long ago from an old 20" Dell. The text is super clear and the space is huge. Some people say that they use a 24" panel in the portrait mode for coding. I haven't tried it myself but one thing that
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by boris 15y ago
To be more precise, "a context-free parser has to receive a TYPE-NAME token...". A hand-coded parser would be able to parse things just fine if both XX and yy were IDENTIFIERs. Or, to put it another way, you resort to uglyfying the lexer to
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by boris 16y ago
I don't think there are many YC startups that can boast a few hundred grand per year in profit, as opposed to revenue or money they raised.
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by boris 16y ago
The code is fairly idiomatic C++, except maybe for the name of the class template (BST); hardly anybody names their classes in all capital letters (note that naming template parameters [T, MAXN in this case] in all capitals is quite common)
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by boris 16y ago
"The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand" It may look silly on the outset, but this is the book. Accounting is very idiomatic. If you are not "in", things just look backwards or outright idiotic, especially if
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by boris 16y ago
He doesn't have big enough patent warchest?
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by boris 16y ago
Sun to developers: "With Java you can write once and run anywhere!" Sun to OS vendors: "Hey, we just promised developers they can run Java on your platforms. Now you go make it happen!" Apple to Sun: "... you!"
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by boris 16y ago
Except that RapidXml is not a real XML parser. It is a parser that can only handle a subset of XML 1.0 language. See: http://www.codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog/2008/05/19/real-xml...

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