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by dfboyd 7y ago
Slack is working hard to prevent this kind of interoperability; the incentive for them is to push ahead on features, and being abstract-able behind bitlbee or libpurple impairs that. They have deprecated the API token (called a "Legac
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by dfboyd 7y ago
WTF is an "alimentation cable"?
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by dfboyd 7y ago
Isn't the VMS x86 port called "Windows NT"?
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by dfboyd 7y ago
If you have commits: (start) <- A <- B <- C <- D <- E and you want to see the combined effect of, say, A C D: 1. make a branch at "start", i.e. at the previous of A 2. cherrypick A C D onto it 3. diff your br
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by dfboyd 7y ago
I looked at the guy's pie charts of working time, and unless I'm reading them wrong, he _never sleeps_. He has all 24 hours of the day marked as mostly work.
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by dfboyd 7y ago
Creationist rubbish wrapped in lots of waffling.
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by dfboyd 7y ago
About halfway down there's something that looks like the Iron Throne, but made out of cheese.
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by dfboyd 7y ago
"OpenBSD is very secure, so install it and then extract this tarfile full of unknown stuff onto your system"
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by dfboyd 8y ago
Isn't this a step back from curses? It only works on vt100-compatible terminals? ...or is this an indication that vt100-compatible terminals are all that's left?
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by dfboyd 8y ago
Zipkin. You've reinvented zipkin.
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by dfboyd 8y ago
This article about the same occurrence is better constructed, because it doesn't start with the perpetrators; it starts with the bomb. https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
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by dfboyd 8y ago
The Kindle version of "A Game Of Thrones" (first book in the series) has "Dome" everywhere instead of "Dorne" (the name of the kingdom in the south). Apparently it was OCR'ed from the printed book.
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by dfboyd 9y ago
Splunk and Sumologic both have query languages, and store the raw log lines now, and let you parse and analyze them later. ELK doesn't have anything like that; you have to configure ELK to understand the logs before it can index and st
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by dfboyd 9y ago
There is a small mistake in the talk: they say all the AGCs are either crashed onto the earth, crashed onto the moon, not flown, or returned (and in museums). There is still one AGC out there in space: the lunar module for Apollo 10 was put
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by dfboyd 9y ago
From a Clojure standpoint, I don't think there's much going on here beyond comparing this: (defn at-least-two [x] (max x 2)) with this: (def at-least-two (partial max 2))
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by dfboyd 9y ago
The story says George Plimpton bought the tablet in 1922. George Plimpton (I assume it's the same one) was born in 1927. I admit he was awesome enough that Jonathan Coulton wrote a song about him, but could he buy a tablet five years
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by dfboyd 9y ago
The article is unreadable on Chrome on Android; after load is complete, the related-articles div fights with a pop-in div for control, both of them rendering repeatedly on top of each other and continually yanking the scroll to the bottom o
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by dfboyd 9y ago
(ns fourmls.core (:gen-class)) (defn csv-line-to-doubles [line] (map #(Double. %) (clojure.string/split line #","))) (defn barf-if-different-lengths [s1 s2] (if (not= (count s1)
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by dfboyd 9y ago
I originally wrote this text on an internal wiki page at Google. It was short-linked to "go/nohello" and sparked a fair bit of discussion, including another page with exactly the opposite viewpoint. I have no idea who Brand
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by dfboyd 11y ago
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080