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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
One of the faculty at my university has conducted some detailed analysis on the practice of electronic voting in the US. I believe this is the most up-to-date publication on the subject: https://cse.sc.edu/~buell/Public
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
That would suggest that there is such a thing as a "good" analytics company. From my perspective as and end user, why would it be desirable for me to facilitate the "analytics companies" business model? Sure, far-reachin
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
As someone who has tried various Linux distros, switched to Mac, switched back to Linux, and finally settled on OpenBSD, I will weigh in. I moved away from Mac due to issues with hardware quality, and also the poor quality of recent macOS r
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
I agree with the general sentiment in the comments that this is good -- fingerprinting in particular is something browser vendors should be trying to combat. I am concerned about the approach however; a simple blacklist of fingerprinting sc
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
A lot of other people have made some fantastic points here, so I won't harp on "putting random crap in ~/ bad!" any further. However, since it has not been mentioned, I would like to shout out to the Python "appdirs
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
I think everyone who become proficient in shell tries to implement something large in it, gets burned, and realizes that it’s a bad idea. I certainly had that experience.
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
It depends. I don’t think there is a language which is categorically the best. The solution to a given problem may be harder or easier to express in different languages. Some problems are better solved in C, some in Python, ..., and some in
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
Yeah, I did not include anything without at least some recent development. AROS and plan9 both got cut for that reason. I was on the fence about including ReactOS but wound up not including that either.
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
If you're doing it right, you are solving very different problems with shell vs any other language. Shell is best used as a tool for orchestrating other programs, you should not be implementing your programs in shell. Syscalls, in gene
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
This reminds me a lot of fsn[1] (the file manager shown in Jurassic park in the classic "It's a UNIX system" scene). There is also a clone for more modern systems called fsv[2]. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
Depending on what type of diagram I need, I use one of: 1. LaTeX + TikZ - if my diagram is simple or lends itself well to the TikZ syntax, I can usually get it done quickly and have it look professional. 2. Graphviz - if I'm drawing an
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
Looks like a great idea. However as someone who spends all day in vim, I wish it had an option for vim bindings or at least some kind of modal interface.
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
> how about using any static site generator you want? That would be excellent. I have my own solution[1]... being able to have everything built with a CI job on one platform would be great! 1 - http://cdaniels.net//2
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
Thanks for the response! I would definitely imagine a feature like this coming later on. Just signed up at $20/yr, and I hope everyone reading this does too... sr.ht is something that desperately needs to exist! Drew, please keep doing
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
This looks fantastic! One feature I would like to see in a service like this would be support for custom domains. Personally, I would be willing to pay extra for such a feature. It’s nice to have control of the domain for personal work, but
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by charlesdaniels 8y ago
I’m in a somewhat unique position of being a current undergraduate student, but also a TA, so I can somewhat comment from both the student and the teacher side of things. * Making the lectures available in an accessible format (I have a sli
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by charlesdaniels 9y ago
This is very impressive, and definitely more elegant than my approach. Getting make -j for free was definitely a major plus; before I started using a Python script to syntax highlight inline code, my site built in under a second... now it t
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by charlesdaniels 9y ago
Since I may not have time to update my article for a while, here is a link to the script[1]. I am unclear on your dnt script? What does it do? I don't have any facilities on my site to track users at all as it stands. I will probably b
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by charlesdaniels 9y ago
Personally, I used Jekyll for a while before switching to a simple Makefile based approach. I write everything in Markdown, which gets compiled via Pandoc, concatenated with a header and footer. I also recently started using pygments to gen