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by evangineer 15y ago
I have to say, F# and now F* are about the only languages that could tempt me to give Mono a try.
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by evangineer 15y ago
One of the features of the 4.0 release is Thrust which has recently featured on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658224
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by evangineer 15y ago
Could be quite useful with Amazon's AWS Cluster GPU instances: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/
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by evangineer 15y ago
Can't load the page, in the meantime you can find the codebase on Github: https://github.com/indutny/node-spdy
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by evangineer 15y ago
To be more explicit, Chromium has a large, but high quality codebase with a relatively low rate of errors.
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by evangineer 15y ago
Find other people's projects and/or ventures that you genuinely believe in and can honestly contribute and commit to. Then get stuck in. By doing this, you will build up your skills and more importantly build up your work habits.
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Keyboard-fu: Scriptable keyboard shortcuts for Google Chrome(chrome.google.com)
1 points by evangineer 15y ago|0 comments
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by evangineer 15y ago
For those wondering what is meant by Antidesktop in this context: http://freshmeat.net/articles/the-antidesktop I got pretty far down this path a few years ago with ruby-wmii & a careful selection of keyboard-driven apps including Vim
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Salix Ratpoison 13.37beta1 - A mouseless Linux desktop distro(salixos.org)
2 points by evangineer 15y ago|1 comments
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by evangineer 15y ago
I like how you think, at http://londoncreativelabs.com we're starting to do some of that with our Social Startup Labs. Check out http://londoncreativelabs.com/labs for the reports from a couple of prototype Social Startup Labs.
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by evangineer 15y ago
Related HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320207
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Qubes: an open source OS with strong security for desktop computing(qubes-os.org)
40 points by evangineer 15y ago|16 comments
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by evangineer 15y ago
After reading that last statement, I'm reminded about the days when http://www.osnews.com/ used to be full of stories about Open Source Desktops and more. EDIT: This is more like what I used to look for back in the day: http://www.osnews
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by evangineer 15y ago
I hear you regarding Shuttleworth & Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the GNOME developers don't seem to want to play ball & have seen Unity as a rival to GNOME Shell rather than as complementary or something to build on.
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by evangineer 15y ago
It's been a while since I used it in anger, but I would have imagined that the latest release of Slackware is in relatively good shape. Patrick's emphasis on pragmatism & performance means that he simply wouldn't have incorporated stuff
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The Lost Art of Threaded Discussions (2009)(cafbit.com)
10 points by evangineer 15y ago|3 comments
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by evangineer 15y ago
Nice job. This could be a workable interim solution until Mongrel2 gets native TLS/SSL support!
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by evangineer 15y ago
Good point. The flipside of that is that such a distro is less suitable for production servers. That said, a savvy sysadmin would be picky about the filesystem to use in production anyway and could easily use a non-default filesystem.
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Deputy is a C compiler that enforces stricter typing discipline on your programs(deputy.cs.berkeley.edu)
2 points by evangineer 15y ago|0 comments
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by evangineer 15y ago
Bloom HN discussion thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421636
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by evangineer 15y ago
Latest release is 1.3.2 which came out in August 2010.
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OpenTransact - The World's Simplest Spec for Financial Transactions(opentransact.org)
2 points by evangineer 15y ago|0 comments
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by evangineer 15y ago
The always-on home server solution is what FSF's Eben Moglen is promoting via the Freedom Box project: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
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by evangineer 15y ago
I disagree with your first point about Microsoft intentionally holding back the web. There has been at least one civil war inside Microsoft over whether or not to embrace the web. Breaking Windows is a book that documents this conflict:
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by evangineer 15y ago
A bunch of the other changes are about making CouchDB more suitable as a public-facing web server, hence the SSL support & improved ETag support for example.
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LivelyCouch: CouchDB 1.1.0-based web services using node.js(livelycouch.org)
1 points by evangineer 15y ago|0 comments
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by evangineer 15y ago
The biggies I've been personally waiting to see land in this release are: * Added OS Process module to manage daemons outside of CouchDB. * Added HTTP Proxy handler for more scalable externals. What these effectively mean is that you can wr
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by evangineer 15y ago
Thanks for the links. This actually relates to a paper that I've been collaborating on. BTW, Isaiah Berlin's concepts of liberty featured quite strongly in the Adam Curtis documentary series The Trap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap
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by evangineer 15y ago
I have JavaScript disabled by default, and selectively enable it for the sites where I feel it is worthwhile. I'm a longtime NoScript user, and these days I use NotScripts with Chrome.
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by evangineer 15y ago
Thanks for that, as a result I had a look at the GCC man page section re: Options Controlling C Dialect and also the one re: Options to Request or Suppress Warnings. Haven't done any real C coding in years, so it's good to know about those

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