frodwith

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by frodwith 8y ago
> Do you mind if I include your language on the experiments list? Not at all! Thanks for the advice, and I'll take you up on the invitation to come chat before too long.
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by frodwith 8y ago
Hi, author of jaque here. I've been working on some other things for a little while, but I'll be getting back to jaque soon. It's quite out of date and needs to be brought up to 1.0 and cleaned up a bit before I start grousin
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by frodwith 15y ago
I've recently realized that most of the enjoyment I derive from building things comes from the process (figuring out neat / new ways to do things, debugging, thinking). Shipping is a necessary tedium for me. Maybe people like me have more f
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by frodwith 15y ago
"There is no equivalent in any other language." I don't know, LWP is pretty easy to use.
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by frodwith 15y ago
You'd probably need a lot more oomph to render even moderate resolutions of compressed video.
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by frodwith 15y ago
I didn't, but that's really good news :)
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by frodwith 15y ago
Chrome's killer feature for me is still process separation. Slow pages kill my entire browsing experience in firefox, and when I have 20+ tabs open, that can be really annoying.
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by frodwith 15y ago
My point isn't that there aren't competent replacements. Obviously the BSDs in general have different userlands, as does Solaris, and so forth. But those things -are- the userland on a Linux system.
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by frodwith 15y ago
If the point is supposed to be "why insist on calling it GNU/Linux when xx% of it isn't even produced by GNU?", it's an ill-made point. Most of the userland (and certainly what we could call the "core" userland, especially in terms of devel
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by frodwith 16y ago
Dunno about you, but I know it because I did those things and now I'm fat. >_>
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by frodwith 16y ago
He tosses a few others languages out on very similar grounds. I confess to not finishing the article out of disgust after he did this several times.
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Ask HN: What should I learn to become a computer scientist?
11 points by frodwith 16y ago|16 comments
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by frodwith 16y ago
In that case, use an ssh-agent and agent forwarding. Then you only need your private key on the box you're actually sitting at.
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by frodwith 17y ago
"It turns out that..."
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by frodwith 17y ago
You're either trolling or you haven't paid any real attention to the perl community. Your comments are simply inaccurate, which is probably why they were downvoted (not out of some weird fanboyism).
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by frodwith 17y ago
I'm really beginning to hate this terminology (virality). It just sounds retarded.
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by frodwith 17y ago
Right, because the SUCKERS like me who spend far less than they earn and keep their money in a savings account with the highest interest rate they can find (at essentially NO risk) were hurt so badly last time the economy crashed. Right?
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by frodwith 17y ago
I wrote a little libevent-based webserver (bush-league stuff) that embeds V8 to do its request handling over a weekend not too long ago. You could start doing this today with very little effort.
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by frodwith 17y ago
First class continuations in Javascript would be a godsend.
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by frodwith 17y ago
At least for me, usability isn't the point of free software. I want my free software to be usable, yes, and usability should be a goal for the development teams, but the overriding benefit of free software is that it is free. It puts the
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by frodwith 17y ago
Classic case of overengineering the problem. I'd venture that it's a common enough class of mistake for those who have recently learned the hip/new/cool way of doing a thing. Thing = scaling a webservice in this example.
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by frodwith 17y ago
I have wondered lately if living in the weird information landscape of modern communication isn't sucking the joy out of my life to some degree. I think next time I am unemployed, I'm going to take a few months and similarly pull the plug,