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by cmccabe 14y ago
dhissami is actually correct that more expensive teas are lower in fluoride than cheap ones. However, it's because of an accident of biology, not because anyone designed it that way. Higher quality teas tend to be made from younger leaves
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by cmccabe 14y ago
And I can't figure out why either of you two posted. Or why I'm posting. I guess it is what it is.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
If people want something like Rails in Golang, it probably makes more sense to point them at Revel. Gorilla is more like Sinatra, for better or for worse.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
tl;dr * horrible chiclet keyboard * tap to click (no physical trackpad buttons) * very few USB ports * no CD/DVD drive * no screen latch
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Because those areas are owned by other people, who probably don't want you taking over their land? Because any catastrophe that would destroy earth probably would destroy your desert too?
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by cmccabe 14y ago
An "application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet." RSS? No. That's a description of Gopher, from Wikipedia. I just realized something... RSS is the new Gopher.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
No, he means they print out the email in and drop it on your head.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Do you feel comfortable ripping out a shared library used by many different binaries on a production system and replacing it with a new one? I would be pretty scared to do that. I would rather replace all the binaries separately. If one o
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Honestly, I expect there to be far fewer security vulnerabilities in Go than in C/C++ code, simply because it's a managed language. I'm sure there will be some at some point, but it should be at least an order of magnitude less. I also don
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by cmccabe 14y ago
> If you are doing it by accident, or aren't > doing it on a commercial scale, you're perfectly safe. Sigh. I wish people would stop repeating this. It's not true. If you infringe a patent "willfully" (i.e., you know about it, an
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Guys, the cause of security is not helped by speculating wildly. First of all, the Sun JVM is written in C++, not C. Second of all, the recent security problems are not the result of buffer overflows or other C++ coding problems, but desig
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by cmccabe 14y ago
It makes me sad that Canonical is doing so many things to split the community. First they stuck to upstart, after everyone else moved over to systemd. Then, they decided to snub GNOME3 in order to create a new windowing environment called
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Indeed. Gandalf was more interested in guaranteeing the supply of "pipe-weed," an addictive drug transported and sold throughout Middle Earth for great profit. Gandalf is smoking it constantly. The whole ring story is just an imperialist
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Actually, that patent was held by Trolls.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
It's really depressing to see so many comments about HTML in this thread. Seriously... who cares?
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I'm sorry, but your comment does not make much sense to me. autotools is mostly written in m4, with some shell snippets. Those are macro languages. If you don't like macro languages, logically you should not like autotools. CMake is not
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by cmccabe 14y ago
CMake honors the same environment variables as Make. Just set them before running CMake. CMake also supports cross-compiling. www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Oh, look. One very recent study, cherry-picked because it goes against the prevailing wisdom. Someone does not understand science. Try loading up on more healing crystals until you do. Or try sprinkling salt over your shoulder; I hear t
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by cmccabe 14y ago
If you're not celiac, gluten can't hurt you. I am so tired of this quackery.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Well yes, but then you're de-facto maintainer of that package, you might not have permission to do that, etc - this point though I feel is less important than versioning, it's more an argument for central package control, which has pros an
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Can you outline the law a company or individual would be breaking if you pretended to sell something to someone and didn't charge them for it without giving a solid reason? Probably section 17200 and 17500 of the California code. If you
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Java and C++ never developed package management at all, but have been used in production for years. Golang is already ahead of those languages here.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
it'll be interesting to see how go manages this when go packages become more complex and widely used, start to be removed by maintainers, and start to have complex chains of dependencies on specific versions "Complex chains of dependencie
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Go's package manager does have version control. It looks for specially named branches (different ones depending on the version of go you have). The upstream authors can provide a different version of the software for different releases of
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by cmccabe 14y ago
std::vector isn't "safe." If you're using a std::vector::iterator and someone appends to the end of the vector, your iterator may be invalidated. std::string isn't safe either. It's easy to create references to strings that don't exist a
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I think entire giant essays have been written about this topic. However, it boils down to a few things. Mercurial tends to choke on large repositories. Git doesn't. A lot of people know git. Not many people know mercurial. People like
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Anyone interested in SQL queries on Hadoop should be checking out Cloudera Impala. It's open source.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I bet you really wish HN comments allowed images.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Ways to boost MSFT stock in 1 hour... Announce that Ballmer is leaving. That would be the _real_ "Ballmer peak."
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by cmccabe 14y ago
So what I really meant to say is that the compilers end up supporting each others bugs for compatibility reasons. Example?

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