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by catwell 9y ago
Apple doesn't really appeat to care about backward compatibility though. They break lots of things with every release of the OS. I would give that excuse to Microsoft, but not Apple.
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by catwell 9y ago
I concur, macOS is a nightmare. I didn't think so before I had to write code for it, but I am currently writing code that runs on 5 OSs (Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS) and macOS is by far the worst of all. In particular, every
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Lua 5.4.0 (work1) is now available
13 points by catwell 9y ago|4 comments
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by catwell 9y ago
Yes, an octet is basically a byte (B) (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing) ). Note that it's less easy to confuse it with bit this way...
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by catwell 9y ago
AFAIK Cardano (ADA), which is booming (passed IOTA and became the 6th largest coin this week), is implemented in Haskell.
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by catwell 9y ago
It would be interesting to have a line or two about the differences and potential synergies with Upspin ( https://upspin.io ).
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by catwell 9y ago
Apparently it is a bug. It works for search engines shipped with Firefox (such as DuckSuckGo) but not for others (such as StartPage of Qwant). See https://twitter.com/gchampeau/status/938757076213518336
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by catwell 9y ago
The author of PingFS is actually the same as iodine (IP over DNS: http://code.kryo.se/iodine/ ).
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by catwell 9y ago
... and the Linux kernel itself. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=509072 I learned about this when I added cloning the Linux kernel repository to an integration test suite for a cross-platform filesystem.
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by catwell 9y ago
It is if you sell software to people outside the EU.
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by catwell 9y ago
That's what electro-build does by default. It's a terrible solution for end users, because it results in huge bloated statically-linked images, but at least it works everywhere. I do prefer what Sublime Text is doing here though.
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by catwell 9y ago
It is certainly something Rob Pike wants. Read the "What would be your dream setup?" paragraph here: https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/ A lot of people have had that idea over the years (remember
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by catwell 9y ago
Apache 2 is probably the best choice here to avoid potential future issues related to patents.
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by catwell 9y ago
I lived in England for about a year in 2009 - 2010 and I never had a bank account there. I was willing to open one, but a law (which probably existed to prevent fraud and laundering) made it very hard to do so without proof of permanent res
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Point Nine Capital's early stage founders guide to working with VCs(medium.com)
1 points by catwell 9y ago|0 comments
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by catwell 9y ago
Yes. Pressurized water reactors are very old, they were developed around the same time as boiling water reactors, in the 50s. Their superior safety has been known for a long time as well, which is why all 58 French reactors active today are
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by catwell 9y ago
The Python ecosystem is basically irrelevant to embedded programming. What you need is things like [1] or maybe [2]. Lua has them because it's been the dynamic language of choice for this domain for years (with Lisps and Forths as its
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by catwell 9y ago
Nobody has the same definition for the CTO / VPE split. If I search "CTO VP Engineering" on Google the first result is https://www.ivyexec.com/executive-insights/2015/cto-versus-v... which defines t
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by catwell 9y ago
Normalization is very expensive and does not belong at the FS level. This kills performance for some classes of applications. The comparison with other filesystems does not hold since applications for other OSs have always been developed wi
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by catwell 9y ago
You can certainly improve some of your skills working on terrible code bases. For instance, you should become much better at debugging. You will have to learn debugging techniques and tools that you may never have had to use in other code b
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by catwell 9y ago
There is divergence, it's been a known issue in the community for years. I already had that slide in my 2013 "state of the Lua ecosystem" talk: http://files.catwell.info/presentations/2013-11-lua-workshop
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by catwell 9y ago
Voronoi tesselation is also a step in K-Means, which is one of the most well-known clustering algorithms (typically used for quantization). Here is a page with an interactive visual example for it: https://www.naftaliharris.com&#
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by catwell 9y ago
I started being involved with Open Source in the early 00s. For source code, people typically used CVS or (later) SVN. The repos were hosted by platforms like SourceForge, berliOS or Savannah, or on the projects' own servers. Releases
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by catwell 9y ago
- What rhubarbcustard said: get interested in the business. This is especially important if you work at the bottom of the stack. You must understand what you users (higher-level developers) want, what the company's customers want, and
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by catwell 10y ago
This brings me way back. I used to play drums, and I used Hydrogen to help with drums patterns practice. I translated the manual and tutorial in French back in 2004, and 13 years later my name is still there in the changelog :)
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by catwell 10y ago
The actual Google Play Services or microG? Last time I checked the solution was microG but it requires you to root your phone, which on Sailfish basically means you don't care about security at all.
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by catwell 10y ago
Few people use phones without Google Play Services. Because of that, it doesn't make sense for application developers to support the use case. Because of that, lots of applications don't work without Google Play Services. Because
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by catwell 10y ago
France has historically been a country with some small, associative ISPs. The oldest ISP in France, FDN (French Data Network) is an association. In 2011 they created a federation of such ISPs, FFDN. Check out their home page if you are inte
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by catwell 10y ago
For those who are interested in synchronous reactive programming and speak French, Gérard Berry gave lectures about it (and time-related topics in general) at Collège de France, along with other teachers including M. Pouzet. Videos are publ
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by catwell 10y ago
Great operations teams have incident response procedures based on checklists and clear communication channels like that as well. If this interests you I recommend David Mytton's talk at dotScale 2015: https://www.youtube.com

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