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by chubot 3y ago
If you want to maintain an information advantage, you should definitely not rely solely on the web. Simply reading a book is often 10x better. Comment from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369583
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by chubot 3y ago
Which hosting do you use? I use fastcgi with python on Dreamhost and it works fine, but I’m sorta worried that they’ll turn it off because it seems kind of niche and under-documented
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by chubot 3y ago
I think it depends on what your expectations are. From one perspective, it's a big success in that it's deployed "everywhere", has multiple implementations, and seems to work the same way everywhere. Many language toolc
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by chubot 3y ago
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS - https://www.oilshell.org/ - https://github.com/oilshell/oil/ I'm looking for people to help fill out the "standard library" for Oils/YSH. We're imple
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by chubot 3y ago
Part of it is probably that smart people want to work on harder and more ambitious problems, which YC advisors seem to say a lot. And also smart people want to work together As I understand it, fly.io built a cloud from scratch, from the h
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by chubot 3y ago
I looked this up in a database after being credited on a paper: a co-author Li Zhang has an Erdos number of 2, which puts me at 3. If you count video games, I have a Bacon number of 3 because I was credited on Tiger Woods 2003-2005 with an
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by chubot 3y ago
This response seems misleading, the "fix your code" reply isn't from the author of sqlite. He considers it a bug (in an EARLIER version of having unspecified behavior, not a later version, but there's no difference in pr
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by chubot 3y ago
I don't see that this is something to "love", and what you describe doesn't capture the full extent of the approximation. What scared me off of Boehm GC is that there a bazillion config options -- e.g. it requires tuning
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by chubot 3y ago
I would like to see some real examples too, but I think a pretty common thing is bypassing URL deny-lists with different representations of the same string, or any kind of ACL e.g. the developer might either deny or allow /admin/,
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by chubot 3y ago
FWIW this survey links to ~10 articles on Pratt Parsing, including the featured article - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/03/31.html - Pratt Parsing Index and Updates I wrote it several years ago and upd
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by chubot 3y ago
Wow very interesting! This is what I come to Hacker News for
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by chubot 3y ago
Yup, the "Everything is an X" link is in the appendix to the second post :) https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html#wiki... I call it the Perlis-Thompson Principle, after Perlis: It
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by chubot 3y ago
FWIW this is highly related to what I think of as the "narrow waist" architectural principle. You may like these articles I wrote: The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist - https://www.oilshell.org/blog&#x
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by chubot 3y ago
Vi and Vim seem a bit under-represented PG uses vi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14573802 Roberto Ierusalimschy, creator of Lua, uses vim - https://usesthis.com/interviews/roberto.ierusalimschy
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by chubot 3y ago
This is true, but then the corrollary is that new PRs need to come with this higher, rigorous level of test coverage. And then that becomes a bit of a barrier to contribution -- it's a tradeoff I often write an entirely new test harnes
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by chubot 3y ago
That's a very cool fact! Whenever I read these stories, I kinda wish I grew up ~one generation earlier in computing. It seems like the industry was smaller and more exciting Although probably Microsoft made the industry worse for a lo
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by chubot 3y ago
I think you have to take a pay cut regardless I worked in games ~20 years ago at my first job, and then got a huge increase when I moved outside the games industry Games just don't pay well. I respect people who do it for the love and
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by chubot 3y ago
I've maintained my own hosted wiki since 2004, and yeah I'm glad I didn't completely outsource information management. It's definitely getting hard to find certain things I know I've seen. Now I just need some kind
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by chubot 3y ago
citation? I never heard of Speed Queen, or even seen one, but someone recommended them on here a few weeks ago
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by chubot 3y ago
Holy crap! I watched the YouTube documentary a couple years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw Something definitely felt "off" about it ... but they seemed to show that this wasn't a crazy lone
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by chubot 3y ago
What's that? What's good about it? :)
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by chubot 3y ago
Something like this should definitely exist, just not with Docker! Podman is better but it's also a bit coupled to a distro - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38981844 The problem is the Linux kernel container prim
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by chubot 3y ago
I think of file descriptors as a void* across address spaces In C you often use void* for opaque handles. But you can't have a user space pointer into the kernel, since it's in a different address space. So you instead have an in
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by chubot 3y ago
Hm I’d like a house where everything is as easy to assemble / repair / replace as IKEA furniture, and where you can run cables, and install builtins
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by chubot 3y ago
Off the top of my head… Tools for transclusion, inserting parts of other docs and rich references to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion i.e. I refer to lobste.rs and Hacker news stories in posts like this
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by chubot 3y ago
John Ousterhout had famously written that threads were bad, and many people agreed with him because they seemed to be very hard to use. Google software avoided them almost always, pretty much banning them outright, and the engineers doin
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by chubot 3y ago
This is a great video! I’ve been writing about UTF-8 on my blog and I noticed that many programmers don’t understand it, after 10 or 20 years The main impediment seems to be that languages like Java, JavaScript, and Python treat UTF-8 as j
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by chubot 3y ago
I didn't know about the tomatoes, but it doesn't surprise me anymore. I think I learned about Salmon being artifically pink from Hacker News several years ago https://qz.com/358811/heres-why-your-farmed-salmon
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by chubot 3y ago
Heirlooms are less consistent for sure. They can be more sensitive to their growing conditions too. But IMO commodity tomatoes are some of the "easiest" things to improve upon. Regular supermarket tomatoes are often flavorless,
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by chubot 3y ago
I looked through the instructions I guess I'll just say "meh" -- it doesn't negate the main point, which is that Apple spent a lot of money and time to acquire rights, and they have a music store. It is gated by iTunes,

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