chrisdew

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by chrisdew 13y ago
That's odd - a question I asked in 2010 has now made it to the front page.
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by chrisdew 13y ago
What's the font used in the top-right image (begins "db 'MZ'")?
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by chrisdew 13y ago
I built http://www.virtsync.com to allow me to backup sparse virtual machine disk images to other servers across the internet. I've only sold around $1,000 of licenses so far, so maybe this post will help...
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by chrisdew 13y ago
+1 for open sourcing
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by chrisdew 13y ago
Thanks, I don't want to go to the effort of cleaning up the code unless there's significant interest. Is there an "ashamed" open source license, which forbids anyone from associating some code with your name, as a condit
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Holographic Views of Data(chrisdew.com)
2 points by chrisdew 13y ago|4 comments
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by chrisdew 13y ago
Yes, it is. Can you suggest a better design?
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Suppress, an HA component.(github.com)
1 points by chrisdew 13y ago|2 comments
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by chrisdew 13y ago
I'm doing all three types of dev work, so there isn't an 'other side'.
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Ask HN: Do others find Android work a bore compared to Web and/or C coding?
2 points by chrisdew 13y ago|5 comments
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Tenacious vs Stubborn(chrisdew.com)
1 points by chrisdew 13y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdew 13y ago
You can still accept multi-line JSON with line delimited JSON. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Delimited_JSON
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Dates are Time Intervals(chrisdew.com)
1 points by chrisdew 13y ago|0 comments
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UPDATE considered harmful(chrisdew.com)
4 points by chrisdew 13y ago|4 comments
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by chrisdew 13y ago
I also switched from Knockout.js to AngularJS - my code's so much cleaner now, without having to wrap my model in functions.
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by chrisdew 13y ago
Be careful of Stripe, if you're in the UK. You currently need a US bank account to charge in dollars. They are looking at multi-currency, but it's not available yet. You can charge in multiple currencies - they advised setting up multiple
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Event Sourcing with MySQL(barricane.com)
1 points by chrisdew 13y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdew 13y ago
Interesting thoughts. Perhaps I should change the interface so that it is drop in replacement for scp?
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by chrisdew 13y ago
No, virtsync creates sparse files The difference is important when you have many 50GB VM disk images with just 2-3GB occupied (as I have). Rsync doesn't support --sparse --inplace. Also the virtsync command line is more similar to scp than
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by chrisdew 13y ago
Thanks, do you think the price is a problem? Is everyone conditioned to not realise that $10/mo for ever is more than $50 one-off. Yes, sysadmins are the target market.
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Ask HN: Scratched my own itch. Is one week too soon to pivot?
8 points by chrisdew 13y ago|17 comments
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by chrisdew 14y ago
asprintf already relieves this headache... http://linux.die.net/man/3/asprintf
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by chrisdew 14y ago
Do you think "phoning-home" would be considered bad behaviour? Are there other applications which already do this?
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Ask HN: Should I enforce software licensing, and if so, how?
1 points by chrisdew 14y ago|2 comments
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Composibility of obtaining a value.(barricane.com)
1 points by chrisdew 14y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdew 14y ago
http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php http://hackaday.com/2012/06/11/programming-fpgas-with-python...
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by chrisdew 14y ago
This is the same as the design of Chicken Scheme's implementation (on top of C). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(Scheme_implementation)...
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Don't let your servers stay panicked.(barricane.com)
1 points by chrisdew 14y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdew 14y ago
https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom
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DerbyJS - a better realtime web framework?(sink.derbyjs.com)
1 points by chrisdew 14y ago|0 comments

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