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by cwp 9y ago
Nix + Nixops gives him everything he wants. He'd have to learn to write nix expressions, which does put people off. Containers are great if you've got racks full of actual, physical servers and want to use them efficiently. Most p
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by cwp 9y ago
I'll often say something like "I don't know off the top of my head, but if you want I can get back to you with an estimate." Once it's clear that I'm going to spend some non-trivial amount of time working on th
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by cwp 9y ago
Ok, if the article is right, then: - our minds don't bother to remember things when we know the information is stored externally and easy to access - given the aggressive way our minds exploit this, remembering must be expensive
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by cwp 9y ago
Right. It's not a peer-reviewed, replicated, double-blind study using a large, stratified sample of the population of Earth, so it's meaningless.
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by cwp 10y ago
I did just that move when I realized that I was doing a lot of work so impose schemas on my "schemaless" data and another bunch of work to implement joins in my application. I found the best way to do migrations is with vanilla SQ
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by cwp 10y ago
I think this definitely qualifies as a new OS. It's true that not everything is completely reimagined compared to what has come before. So what? Great artists steal.
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by cwp 10y ago
For me the take away to this podcast was not that Harari spends a lot of time meditating. It's that he's good at it . He's learned how to distinguish what is real from what is not, and how to focus his attention for long per
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by cwp 10y ago
I don't feel Lyft is some paragon of virtue. AFAICT they're a regular Silicon Valley tech company with all of the usual tensions associated with that. The service they provide is a huge improvement on what came before, but there a
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by cwp 10y ago
I'd tell her to do some work on her own before signing up. The internet is jam packed with courses, guides, tutorials and references for all the skills needed for web dev, for free. Pick a tutorial and work through it. Then dream up a
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by cwp 10y ago
Give me a break. It's just as accurate to say "Dart is an open standard, Javascript is owned by Mozilla". There may be valid technical, pragmatic or moral reasons to prefer Javascript, but this is just FUD. (See http:/&
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by cwp 10y ago
The objection is that she was not "on the team". The ran the team and wrote the papers. It was her project, and she deserves credit for more than merely being present.
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by cwp 10y ago
No. That's why mentioning his death is significant. It wasn't just sometime during his life, but at the very end, days before he died.
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by cwp 10y ago
They double the content because they still have all the shows they made last year. That's what makes this model so powerful: new subscribers haven't seen House Of Cards, season 1 yet, so the value proposition keeps getting better.
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by cwp 10y ago
Nice, I guess. I have to wonder if this sort of thing matters. If Trump fails to live up to his promises, Trump fans will love him anyway, and Clinton fans will think that's just dandy and hate him anyway.
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by cwp 10y ago
Probably the worst (best) bit of future-past in Neuromancer is that it starts with the main character trying to fence "three megabytes of hot RAM". That seemed like a ludicrously large amount when it was written.
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by cwp 10y ago
Bad timing. Yosemite broke basically everything in nixpkgs-darwin, and it took a long time to get everything fixed. I think that was mainly due to the switch from GCC to Clang and the accompanying toolchain, library and runtime changes. The
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by cwp 10y ago
It violates assumption #4. With nix, you can have multiple versions of a package installed.
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by cwp 10y ago
You'd like Nix. It does just this. Each package declares dependencies on specific versions of other packages. That dependency is expressed as a hash of the inputs to the package, not a semver number. This means that multiple versions
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by cwp 10y ago
If by "dependency resolution" you mean solving the SAT-equivalent constraint problem the article talks about, then yes, Nix does not do that. But, it does solve the simpler problem of installing a package along with the all of i
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by cwp 10y ago
Yes. Exactly right.
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Thoughts on “Dependency hell is NP-complete”(thefeedbackloop.xyz)
95 points by cwp 10y ago|30 comments
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by cwp 10y ago
That all sounds great, but... modules. The biggest thing they could do is natively support ES6 modules.
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by cwp 10y ago
The great thing about Quicksilver is the grammar - it's actually object, verb, indirect object. That lets you do things like <file>, <email to>, <person>. Alfred didn't have that basic structure when I tried it.
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by cwp 10y ago
I tried Alfred when it came out. Then, it didn't support that object, verb grammar that Quicksilver did. Does it do that now?
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by cwp 10y ago
> Kakoune’s grammar is object followed by verb This is so important. It's the reason I've stuck by Quicksilver all these years, and avoided Spotlight and whatever Google's search bar thingy is called. I've never been
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by cwp 10y ago
Absolutely. There's no point in wasting either side's time applying to a company that can't afford me. On the flip side, if they're got very nitpicky requirements and are offering a huge salary, that's a good signal
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by cwp 10y ago
Not at all. When you put some words inside quotes, you're saying you want to talk about those words, without using them yourself. I can say, for example, that I've never heard anyone claim, "The sun is made of purple gumdro
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by cwp 10y ago
Yes and no. Yes, I'm aware of history. But no, I'm not suggesting a return to city-states as they existed in the ancient world. Rural areas should not be uncivilized anarchistic backwaters, nor subjugated territories under the c
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by cwp 10y ago
This sort of thing is fascinating to me. I think that somehow, humanity needs to transition to a political structure where cities are the primary unit of governance, rather than nations. That won't happen quickly or soon, but someday..
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by cwp 10y ago
But... quote marks are grammatically correct. They're the only way to mention words and phrases you're not actually using them. Yes, the things we write are subject to misinterpretation, particularly when stripped of the their con

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