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by burke 12y ago
> The license… will terminate… for anyone that [claims] infringement of any patent… by Facebook… whether or not such claim is related to the Software. > The license… will terminate… for anyone that [claims] infringement of any paten
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by burke 12y ago
It's easy to believe. Haskell has a much steeper learning curve than... well, really any other (even remotely practical) language. I put in a fairly concerted effort a few years back and didn't make it over the first productivity
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by burke 12y ago
This actually makes me pretty sad. FoundationDB was the best shot the world-at-large had at a decent distributed database .
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by burke 12y ago
That's really what munificent was arguing too though -- that the long-form options are preferable for scripting, but that no one prefers "tar --extract --verbose --compressed --file" to "tar -xzvf" when you just hav
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by burke 12y ago
> It's not clear to me what is "ugly" about not having to keep alternating between - and -- as you spell out options on the command line. It's about the principle of least surprise. Regardless of whether double-dash o
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by burke 12y ago
It scares me a bit that it has 4.15 times the codebase size of OpenVPN, but was only released 2 years ago. I already think of OpenVPN as not being simple enough.
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by burke 12y ago
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” — Terry Pratchett
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by burke 12y ago
> Honeybees and wild bees alike are mysteriously dying off all over the world. And scientists have long struggled to pinpoint why, exactly, that is. I really don't understand why there's debate over the notion that insecticide
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by burke 12y ago
Interesting that there's mention of JSON and YAML, but no mention of TOML. I'm more interested in hearing why TOML wasn't an adequate solution.
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by burke 12y ago
You can test whether a font is installed with any number of tricks. For example, render white text on a white background with "sans". Then, change the font to the candidate font, with a fallback of sans. If the width of the text c
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by burke 12y ago
I'm wondering if this is partially a play by Apple to sway Irish public opinion away from the notion of putting a stop to these manipulations of International tax law.
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by burke 12y ago
It's a lot better than no attempt at sandboxing, but ultimately you're still at the mercy of a late addition to the linux kernel (cgroups), which isn't exactly the safest codebase to make major changes like this in. Denial of
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by burke 12y ago
I can't speak for panarky, but there are two separate issues here: 1. Rocket implementing the docker image format 2. Rocket PR'ing the rocket image format to docker. It is 100% reasonable and likely a good business move to reject
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by burke 12y ago
Yup. They're pretty open about that in some presentations I've seen.
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by burke 12y ago
I think I tried a blog engine once that did this. Maybe it was https://movabletype.org/ ? In any case, I really wish more people/tools employed this strategy.
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by burke 12y ago
We didn't really go to war because of 9/11. It was a direct result of existing interventionist foreign policy. 9/11 just escalated an ongoing conflict. You're right, though, the impact of each successive event is less.
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by burke 12y ago
Further, even assuming that number is correct, how many people do you figure die in the average successful terrorist plot? Let's say 100 as a high average. That means 300,000,000 Americans (and billions of foreigners) are having their
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by burke 12y ago
We use errcheck for all the Go code we write at Shopify. In many cases, we compile the project using a script that fails if errcheck isn't clean, effectively turning into a "you are forced to catch the exception" sort of idea
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by burke 12y ago
It's not a bug, strictly speaking; it's just a feature that's really easy to misunderstand. The `syscall` package in Go tends to be logic-less wrappers around the raw syscalls, and that's what happens here. Linux actuall
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by burke 12y ago
Probably meant 'PMs', not 'PMS', heh.
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by burke 12y ago
Yes, exactly. I mostly love OS X in that it gives me nearly everything I love about Linux with almost none of the hassle. The window management story is terrible though. Wmii really clicked for me, and OS X really pales in comparison on tha
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by burke 12y ago
I've been winning that game for over a year now. Damn it.
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by burke 12y ago
I love wmii. It's the primary reason I resent OS X.
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by burke 12y ago
> a 1kg object heading at speed towards your head has the potential for serious injury. I'm not sure sure about this. Most drones are made of such low-density material (and obviously have some large aerodynamic components) that I ha
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by burke 12y ago
Yes, if you ignore pull requests, it does mean you're doing a pretty bad job of maintaining the project. But what's so wrong with that? Where does this entitlement mindset come from, where as soon as someone has posted code on g
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by burke 12y ago
What the hell does "complete" even mean? No software is ever "complete". Literally every open source license says something along the lines of "there are probably bugs and stuff; it's not my problem". I re
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by burke 12y ago
Likely my problem is that I really like tiling WMs, so end up trying to make my world work with something like xmonad or even dwm. It's entirely possible multimonitor is satisfactory with KDE, and maybe I should give that another shot.
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by burke 12y ago
Go has a couple wonky conventions, but it's a very very simple system. Once you accept and learn to deal with the GOPATH quirks, that's pretty much the only tooling weirdness in the whole ecosystem.
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by burke 12y ago
Yeah, I was also about to post a comment recommending Go. It's not completely immune to tooling bloat, but it's actively reductionist in that respect. It's relatively pleasant.
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by burke 12y ago
There are exactly two things that always dissuade me from using desktop linux: 1. The font rendering is bad on linux. Especially non-anti-aliased monospace fonts, for some reason, which is what I spend 90% of my day looking at. 2. Multimoni

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