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by gcv 15y ago
Suppose I'm on a team with Alice, and I share a folder with her. Bob is not on our team. Alice can share one of my folders with Bob without my consent. This is a problem (consider dealing with temporary employees, contractors, and so on). I
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by gcv 15y ago
One of Dropbox's biggest disadvantages for "teams" is the way it handles transitive sharing. If I share "Folder A" with Alice, then she can re-share it with Bob without my permission. I can see that she has done this through the web UI, but
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by gcv 15y ago
Oh, chill out. The article says the car was leased. He probably had to pay some kind of premium to keep his leases down to six months at a time, but it's not like he was buying a new $120k car twice a year.
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by gcv 15y ago
This device looks great, but might not be usable in some municipalities. Some building codes mandate that a thermostat must be individually programmable for a different temperature for each of 7 days a week, and specify an energy-saving min
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by gcv 15y ago
In this particular case, at least, the video is short, informative, and well-made — a great way to introduce the product.
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by gcv 15y ago
Nice, a dependency graph library for JavaScript. I wrote something similar for Clojure: https://github.com/gcv/dgraph
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by gcv 15y ago
TrueCrypt works. The client program needs polish (and I wish it could resize on the fly), but it once it mounts an encrypted volume, that's that. Even Dropbox's incremental sync works with TrueCrypt.
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by gcv 15y ago
I think even "pure" sysadmins will have jobs until the cloud providers figure out how to solve their IO bottlenecks. I keep hearing horror stories about database performance and how people are forced to go back to good ol' dedicated hardwar
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by gcv 15y ago
I'd love to see an iOS port of the original Prince of Persia.
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by gcv 15y ago
Gnus makes Emacs unresponsive while it performs network IO. Threads would solve this problem, and salvage the usability of a really nice piece of software.
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by gcv 15y ago
I think you missed the point. Ruby and Python syntax conjoins two concepts: variable declaration and variable binding. This increases the likelihood of subtle naming errors, e.g.: my_variable = 10 # a few lines later... my_var
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by gcv 15y ago
Others have mentioned Compojure, Moustache, and Noir. There's also Conjure ( https://github.com/macourtney/Conjure ), which tries to operate at a higher level, and has been around for quite some time.
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by gcv 15y ago
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw works fine for me. (Running OS X 10.7.1 with Emacs 23.3.1 I compiled when it came out on OS X 10.6.something.)
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by gcv 15y ago
Building GNU Emacs 23 on OS X is trivial. ./configure --with-ns && make && make install This builds an Emacs.app, which you can then drag into /Applications. Nothing goes into /usr/local.
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by gcv 15y ago
Only if you actually want to rebase! While rebasing is great, it rewrites history and should not be done lightly.
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by gcv 15y ago
Agreed. After a fetch, I always review the changes on the remote branch. Depending on the circumstances, I can then make an informed decision about my own code, with the following possible outcomes: 1. I might choose not to merge. The upstr
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by gcv 15y ago
Enforcing password strength makes sense for a site which stores sensitive data. That said, some simple math suggests that length, not character complexity, should be required. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/xkcd-936-sh...
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by gcv 15y ago
I agree that the author should've been committing far more regularly than he apparently does. In addition, "git pull" is a bad idea (you never know what nastiness someone else might have committed — "git fetch" + "git merge" is a far saner
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by gcv 15y ago
I wonder if future versions of Emacs will eventually support some kind of threading. Seems reasonable, considering that 24 is introducing real lexical scope. Just have to make sure that legacy dynamically-scoped code doesn't trip on the thr
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by gcv 15y ago
My response to the poll: * I oppose the proposed change of deleting the entire region on a single delete command. * I feel fairly strongly about this (4 on a 1-5 scale). * I have been using Emacs for 15 years. This behavior is unhelpful for
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Proposed delete behavior changes in Emacs(lists.gnu.org)
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by gcv 15y ago
Sprawl reduces traffic only along the leaves of the commuting graph: few people live there, and no one commutes through the leaves to reach inner hubs. When a node stops being a leaf, more and more vehicles travel through it, which means in
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by gcv 15y ago
Oooh, a pen thread on HN. How fun. :) The best pen in the world is not at all obscure. It's the "aerometric"-fill Parker 51 made from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Costs between $100 and $200 today on the vintage market, depending on c
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by gcv 15y ago
Honestly, most of the concepts you listed are fairly easy. They mostly apply to the mechanics of writing code, so they just require a bit of thought. Problem solving is difficult. Recognizing how to apply dynamic programming is difficult. N
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by gcv 15y ago
What? No mention of Lois McMaster Bujold and her excellent Vorkosigan series? Bujold won four Hugo awards for her work, just behind Heinlein (who won five), and I'm always surprised that she isn't better known.
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by gcv 15y ago
Indeed! Try writing a Windows file system driver sometime; I hear it's truly a lovely experience. The other irony is that the HP48 graphing calculator, originally introduced in 1990, had a user-facing filesystem with full support for long f
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by gcv 15y ago
(Lots of great comments in this thread, on all sides of the issue. Bravo, HN!) One thing to keep in mind when comparing programming to law and medicine: a high-school dropout can be an adequate programmer and earn a good living writing Rail
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by gcv 15y ago
I loved the HP48 series in high school and college, and m48+ brings it to my iPhone. For the rare times I feel the need for something more powerful than the calculator built into Spotlight, and something less powerful than Clojure, I reach
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by gcv 15y ago
Could someone more familiar with the effort comment on whether Google realistically solved the security and trust problems inherent in the approach? I'm assuming that while(1) fork(); is somehow blocked, but native code is a bonanz
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by gcv 15y ago
I have taught short programming classes for total beginners, and had the most success by following the first chapter of SICP. 1. It explains what computation is. Total beginners generally have no idea how a program executes and what it does

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