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by cstrahan 10y ago
Among other things: They ought to have a clear indicator of thumbs up/down ratio on each video thumbnail (a couple pixel bar at the bottom colored green/red would easily do the trick). That would save plenty of time that would oth
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by cstrahan 10y ago
As another use points out, there was some relevant discussion earlier on HN about using Nix+Docker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11502989 Copying a comment I left on that blog post: --- Q: "What does building a
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by cstrahan 10y ago
Ooh, that's an excellent point -- thanks for bringing it up. I've had Nix installed since early 2014, so I haven't run into any trouble with SIP yet. Looks like we might need to update our docs, and maybe have the installer g
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by cstrahan 10y ago
You're very welcome -- thanks for raising the question :)
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by cstrahan 10y ago
It would appear that your primary takeaway is that we put stuff in a different directory, for an apparently arbitrary reason. I agree, that would be silly -- if it were the case. With /usr/local/{bin,lib,include}, how would y
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by cstrahan 10y ago
Yes, this is what Nix offers. You can trivially have have multiple versions of stuff installed without conflicts. Personally, I have multiple versions of the GHC Haskell compiler, Clang/LLVM, Go, Node, etc. In fact, I keep shell.nix
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by cstrahan 10y ago
Hi, I'm a NixOS/Nixpkgs comitter and package maintainer for plenty of stuff -- including X11/XQuartz for OSX. Nope. They both do package management, but that's where the similarities end. Homebrew packages are not patche
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by cstrahan 10y ago
Nix uses rpaths on Linux (install names on OSX) to fix the precise location of dynamically linked dependencies, and it also patches the paths to executables (e.g. In string laterals or shebangs) needed at run time. To change the location of
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by cstrahan 10y ago
> Did you mean you actually type out mask values in base 10? I believe that's what they meant. I worked in C# for many years, and many, many places wrote out bit masts in base 10 literals as no one realized they could just left-shif
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by cstrahan 10y ago
> That's the purpose of /usr/local. I think you must have ignored a substantial portion of my comment. Let's take a look at what (part of) my Nix store looks like (you'll see it fundamentally looks nothing like &
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by cstrahan 10y ago
> In particular, we have implemented a new "osxfs" ... Are we going to see these changes rolled back upstream in xhyve?
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by cstrahan 10y ago
I would bet money that it does not. The Virtualbox based solutions all create one VM and run all containers there -- why would they stop doing that just because they're using a different means of virtualization?
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by cstrahan 10y ago
> Remember when everyone switched to Homebrew because Fink/macports were "antiquated", a.k.a. not written in Ruby? Yes, I must admit I chose the word "antiquated" quite intentionally, as Homebrew seems to get so
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by cstrahan 10y ago
Here's why I don't like Homebrew, and why I believe Nix is (almost) strictly an improvement over it: 1. Updating packages is not safe. If I update openssl and the ABI changes, all of my currently installed packages that depend on
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by cstrahan 10y ago
Yes, Nix works on Mac OS X. (I packaged X11/XQuartz, MacVim, and a few other things for OS X)
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by cstrahan 10y ago
See me where? I don't follow.
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by cstrahan 10y ago
Yet another reason to ditch the antiquated Homebrew, and switch to the cross platform Nix: http://nixos.org/nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs https://blog.errright.com/switching-from
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by cstrahan 11y ago
"You must run a stock kernel from RHEL 7.2+, or Ubuntu 14.04+ LTS" Are there any particular features or patches that are required? I maintain the Mesos package in NixOS, along with our patches for Ubuntu Fan Networking, and I woul
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by cstrahan 11y ago
Regarding packaging, I mostly agree. However, I would highly recommend looking into the Nix package manager and our packages (and packaging infrastructure). Updating one of our go packages is sufficient for all other go packages to be built
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by cstrahan 11y ago
For reference, I left a comment further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509065
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by cstrahan 11y ago
Here's a copy of a comment I left on the post: 1. Better abstraction (e.g. the example of a function that produces docker images). 2. The Hydra build/CI server obviates the need for paying for (or administering a self hosted) dock
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by cstrahan 11y ago
> You make it sound like this is a positive thing Meaning only exists between our ears -- it's not some intrinsic attribute of reality. I, for example, experience bouts of depression, where nothing about the world around me has chan
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by cstrahan 11y ago
I would recommend looking at NixOS. We're not perfect either, but we generally do a much better job at keeping our shit up to date: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/sc
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by cstrahan 11y ago
I think you misunderstand what WebAssembly is about. As I understand it, it's little more than a binary serialization of JavaScript ASTs. In which case, no, you don't need to ship your own GC with it. I mean, you could always writ
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by cstrahan 11y ago
What are some examples of sites that use this template? This is the first time I've ever seen it. Granted, I don't browse the web (just use email, GitHub, Hacker News and Haskell subreddit and the random stuff those link to... and
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by cstrahan 11y ago
If it's that or be fired, I think most people would do what they're told. There are some people, however, that will, in sheer determination to do what is expected of them, stare anxiously at their screen, hoping to focus their att
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by cstrahan 11y ago
They're using kinetic/smooth scrolling, which is included in theme they're using from Okler. If you look in the JS, you'll see: Plugin Name: smoothScroll for jQuery. Written by: Okler Themes - (http://w
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by cstrahan 11y ago
> Yes, this is the way that Guix and Leiningen and rebar3 and a bunch of other things work, and it is wonderful. Even in Nix/Guix, it's still ideal for upstream projects to express their dependencies in terms of ranges (semver-
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by cstrahan 11y ago
Some people like to do cutesy things like this: http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/02/23/how-to-apply-to-a-job...
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by cstrahan 11y ago
I actually like that it's "red-ish all the time" because I'd prefer that my circadian rhythm match the outside lighting conditions. My eyes (and most others I know) adjust, and it no longer looks orange (in fact, non-adj

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