cben

16 ms·

91.
by cben 9y ago
Shells are supposed to inherit a ton of state from their parent — [e]uid, groups, working dir, env vars, nice, umask, chroot, ... This takes zero effort in unix, but would all have to be (securely!) re-implemented to be able to send code
92.
by cben 9y ago
termbin seems to be a classical pastebin. it only gives you a URL after it received all input. seashells gives URL immediately, and streams the terminal in real-time.
93.
by cben 9y ago
Emacs cua-mode is not bad. It does create some confusion with C-x shortcuts, eg. C-x C-s when typed too slowly will cut selected text and enter search, instead of saving :-( But I'd love a more total conversion to CUA... E.g. I have C
94.
by cben 9y ago
Nice article covering both tagged integers and pointers in NaN: https://nikic.github.io/2012/02/02/Pointer-magic-for-efficie... Copy of Mozilla's article presenting their switch to NaN tagging: https:&#
95.
by cben 9y ago
When you commit your changes, it's similarly easy to inspect package.json changes, and only commit the lines you want [1]. This change increases the chance that what you have working locally is reproducible from "source". IM
96.
by cben 9y ago
I wonder: did you spend much of this time on math formulas, or on "regular" typography like lists & headings? TeX math notation is the pretty much only game in town, and worth learning, but there are many ways to skip/eas
97.
by cben 9y ago
The sync to GitHub is not part of the AGPL source. (Giant kudos still for most of it being FOSS)
98.
by cben 10y ago
Yeah, TeX name autocomplete or better yet free unicode description search triggered by \ is the obvious direction. (think github emoji search, like how :ship also offers :anchor: and :package:) https://kasperpeulen.github.io&#x2F
99.
by cben 10y ago
Another case where git uses SHA1 is submodules. You audit libfoo's well-regarded v1.3.3.7 release, commit badc00fee, decide it's suits your need and use that commit as a submodule in your project. You assume resolving the submodu
100.
by cben 10y ago
This specific question formulation suffers from too vague terminology. If you asked me, I wouldn't even be sure what "C++-style arrays" means. IMHO, the most important part of the (imprecise) answer about "pointer vs s
101.
by cben 10y ago
Yeah, one of the motivations for adding namedtuple to stdlib was a drop-in compatible upgrade of existing interfaces returning tuples. Notable atrocities included `time.localtime()` returning a 9-tuple, and `os.stat()` returning a 10-tuple.
102.
by cben 10y ago
If we'll use them as "self-driving taxis" more than personal cars — if you're not attached to a specific "your" car — some nice things might start happening: (1) multi-modal mass transit/car mixing becomes
103.
by cben 10y ago
IIUC the Yoga Book keyboard is fixed QWERTY image that can be backlit. And it's a flat touch surface, no moving keys. The Sonder keyboard has the holy grail combination* of movable keys and ability to change their labels. Others hav
104.
by cben 10y ago
But that source would also be AGPL and a buyer could share it with the rest of the world. But the odds of someone except the original developer wanting to work on a paid version are low anyway.
105.
by cben 10y ago
If look at it the other way around: burning the reaction mass is the only source of energy you use to accelerate the reaction mass — it doesn't sound obviously optimal. Nuclear thermal, and nuclear/solar electric (aka ion) rockets
106.
by cben 10y ago
awk is a full blown scripting language too. It has a versatile implied top-level control structure + code golf qualities (which is a plus for livecoding). But it's also crazy that we switch a language when its top-level structure is
107.
by cben 10y ago
Yes. letsencrypt.sh is a nice case study, spending a lot of effort to parse json with essentially bash & grep. It works now but is full of assumptions ("this array of hashes will not contain [ anywhere"). There is nothing in
108.
by cben 10y ago
OpenShift 3 also provides deploy-on-git-push on top of Kubernetes, HTTP[S] routing (uses Haproxy), and a not-bad web console. https://github.com/openshift/origin , https://docs.openshift.org/latest/
109.
by cben 11y ago
It won't. http://stackoverflow.com/a/28457335/239657 (1) Last I checked, cloudflare's "Strict SSL" mode only accepts from the backend a cert for the custom domain you're trying to serve
110.
by cben 11y ago
So appimage becomes yet another distro? (with the somewhat unique property that you can overlay it over other distros)
111.
by cben 11y ago
The model CodeMirror edits is flat text. It can apply styles (including variable fonts) that are a pure function of the text, and there are APIs to imperatively apply extra styling and even insert "widgets" (arbitrary DOM element
112.
by cben 11y ago
1(a). A thing inside which you write notes. Plus the document model used — a mix of different kinds of "cells" — has a history of being called a "notebook interface" (cf. Mathematica, IPython/Jupyter notebook, ht
113.
by cben 11y ago
I don't think this editor requires subscription? You can skip login ("not now" or something like that at the bottom), and work with local git repos; I suspect you can also use coax it to work with private remote repos (Book -
114.
by cben 11y ago
Nice tip, thanks. But in this case it's wrapped in a destop app runtime distinct from my browser (Electron?), so there is no way to be already logged into Github/Google. In an ideal world auth flows would always open in my system
115.
by cben 11y ago
Yep. For notes there is little justification for the full complexity of LaTeX, the most one needs is islands of LaTeX math. And you don't even need TeX installed — html with mathjax/katex is more flexible most of the time (but P
116.
by cben 11y ago
They also have a native Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visionobje...
117.
by cben 11y ago
Real life example of similar bug: https://github.com/firebase/firepad/issues/167#issuecomment-... => https://github.com/firebase/firepad/commit/e732e6124c56ac056...
118.
by cben 11y ago
I wonder how much of that is simply npm duplicating libraries (at slighly different versions) due to its no-shared-dependencies approach? https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/blob/master/package... u
119.
by cben 11y ago
github's Graphs -> Network diagram is very useful for that. (shortcut: click the count near the Fork button.) Doesn't show PRs but all PRs come from commits on some fork/branch and those you can see.
120.
by cben 11y ago
Have you looked at http://penflip.com/ or https://draftin.com/ ?

More ›