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by cstrahan 9y ago
If you think those are great, check out Facebook’s watchman: https://facebook.github.io/watchman/ It’s a cross platform file monitoring daemon with a json (and bser) querying API, with support for opaque cursors so you
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> How can you do a compile time check on data that has not entered the system? You would have to supply proof that your types are correct; when you have a value who's type you'll only know at run time, you'll need to perfo
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Sadly, flat-earth believers will then claim that the ships aren’t being obscured by the curvature of the earth - rather, supposedly, it’s just that one needs to use a lens to zoom in due to the vanishing point: http://www.ign.com
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Or go with a distribution that makes it trivial to make drive-by contributions, like NixOS for example. Updating a package is a simple as bumping two lines and sending a pull request here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpk
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Chemotherapeutic agents are poisonous, and yet they’re administered to cancer patients. What is deletarious at a granular level is not necessarily deletarious for the system as a whole. A worker might be occasionally distracted in an open o
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> maybe I should change over but then I potentially have to maintain two sets of plugins, one for nvim and one for vim I use this in my ~/.config/nvim/init.vim: set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim&#x2
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Absolutely. I considered going that route, but went with Let’s Encrypt on principle, rather than practicality.
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S3 and Cloudfront, with recurring Lambda to update Let’s Encrypt TLS certs.
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I saw the film on one of those tiny in-flight screens (maybe 9 inches diagonal?) and even there it was painfully obvious.
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In popular OOP languages (C#, Java, etc), interfaces give you a way to state that some existentially quantified type implements some set of common methods. Here's what I mean by "existentially quantified": Let's say you
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For a short while, we had some of those bars on sale at our local Trader Joe’s grocery store in Brooklyn, New York. They were pretty good. I have a friend that runs a coffee shop, where he also makes chocolate. The 100% chocolate he made wa
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Can I ask what your UEFI problem was? I run NixOS on a couple MacBook Pros using UEFI with systemd-boot (née gummiboot), and I haven't had any problems yet.
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> Sounds like this solves a similar problem to Docker. Can you comment on what the differences are, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach? NixOS committer here. Docker attempts to achieve reproducibility by capturing
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A copy of what I commented on the blog: Nice post, and I'm glad you're enjoying NixOS! I'm a NixOS contributor/committer, and the principle author (and co-maintainer) of the Bundler-based packaging integration. If you or
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A potential solution that would allow you to have your cake (SSH into wherever) and eat it too (have your favorite tools on hand) would be: use a package manager on your hosts that allows for safe installation of per-user packages (that is,
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> Depression is an extremely narcissistic condition, being stuck in your mind with countless loops of thoughts about you that are unrealistically negative. I’m sure there’s some appropriate label for this behavior, but “depression” isn’t
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FWIW, I packaged Envoy for NixOS in an evening: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/dab3272f47f13c2a7442e3... That nets you $ nix-build -A envoy ... and then you're done. Of course, we have a C
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> Your still missing the point. No, I'm not missing the point. > Your example shows a simple hello world and doesn't speak to the point being made. Hmm... Let's do an analysis: * My example demonstrates reading from a
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It should also be noted that there's another statically typed language that provides multiplexed M:N threading (aka "green threads") and a programming style that looks synchronous while actually using asynchronous file and ne
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I'm afraid you're mistaken. Taken directly from https://reproducible-builds.org/ : "Second, the set of tools used to perform the build and more generally the build environment should either be recorded or pre-
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Efficacy aside, electroshock therapy is intended to treat a given disorder, not to induce some disorder. Any pain or side effects of being shocked is separate from the underlying disorder. So "Bob was given electroshock therapy for
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I'll let the parent answer you (though I have similar sentiments as someone with language implementation experience, and FWIW, I have professional experience with Go, Ruby, JavaScript, Clojure, C#, and I've used Haskell, F#, and m
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Regarding the supposed discriminatory hiring practices, I discovered a video where Damore mentions two scenarios: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engin... 1. Giving multiple attempts at
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> There is a near-0% chance that this is the case, because this is illegal (to say nothing of unethical). Outside of a +1 tiebreaker when all else is equal between two candidates, no HR/Legal team worth their salt would ever create
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Thanks a ton for the response! Just to be clear to anyone stumbling along this: I don't necessarily agree with what the author of the memo wrote, and I think he should have anticipated backlash and hurt feelings that resulted; howeve
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> You likely feel that your capability is more in question, that you have to prove yourself more than the men on the team, and that this person you work next to (or for) starts out with an assumption that you're less capable. I have
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I've seen plenty of this. The most common offenders are junior to mid-level developers who, in the pursuit of attaining the trappings of sophistication, cargo cult various patterns without understanding the original rationale behind th
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Maybe something like this: Equivalence: unification of types (can't make I'll-typed substitutions) Output only effects: have your language define only one such monad About to depart on a flight, so can't elaborate further.
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That's my thinking, too! If Haskell's Template Haskell + cross compilation woes can be avoided (ideally cross compilation should be as easy as in Go's tool chain), while retaining all the other goodies, I'll have a new f
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Eli Bandersky wrote an excellent series on load-time relocation and position independent code (PIC), including details regarding PLT/GOT: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/08/25/load-time-relocation...

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