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by gcv 17y ago
Subversion is much easier to start out with. False. 1. Subversion requires you to use tools which are Subversion-aware. If happen to delete or rename a file from the Finder, Windows Explorer without Tortoise, or the command line without u
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by gcv 17y ago
It got replaced with the Cocoa/GnuStep port. Maybe this is a good place to ask: any idea how to make the Cocoa 23.1 port behave like the 22.x Carbon port for dragging files from Finder windows into Emacs? Under 22.x, that would open a new
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by gcv 17y ago
Fascinating; kill -9 is now the official way to terminate an application. To support improved shutdown, your application needs to mark itself as “dirty” or “clean,” depending on whether it has unsaved changes and needs to do work before qu
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by gcv 17y ago
MacPorts Snow Leopard compatibility list: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/snc/snowleopard I'm pleasantly surprised that, of all the things I care about, only ghc is broken.
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by gcv 17y ago
I'm interested, too. Reading the documentation now ( http://search.cpan.org/dist/Prophet/lib/Prophet/Manual.pod ). I must say, the linked presentation on how Prophet came about is hilarious ( http://www.slideshare.net/obrajesse/web-20-is-sh
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by gcv 17y ago
It runs on an iPhone? Odd; last I checked, the SDK's license forbade compilers and interpreters.
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by gcv 17y ago
I wouldn't mind seeing the author's code. I decided to use Clojure for a project, and while it has generally been a good experience, I do miss the ability to strategically apply CLOS in places.
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by gcv 17y ago
One more tip, this one perhaps more focused on the sales side: find a manager in this big company who will lose his job unless he solves the problem your software purports to solve. This is doable, although you need to have a little inside
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by gcv 17y ago
Yes, this article is very outdated. With regard to the documentation concern, Odersky's Scala book has been out for a while, and I have been skimming it. It seems very thorough and easy to read, full of good examples.
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by gcv 17y ago
Why doesn't Oracle Coherence ever come up in these discussions of RDBMS alternatives? I've been going over its documentation, and it looks like the cat's meow in getting rid of the database scalability bottleneck. Think of it as memcached d
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by gcv 17y ago
That's a tough one. I have many interests outside of computers. I think the top two to decide between would be: 1. Alpine skiing instructor, while training to eventually become a mountain guide. 2. Chef. Probably specializing in pastries. I
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by gcv 17y ago
Commits happen Subversion-style. Yes, this is a feature! No need to add files before every commit or use a flag. Please, Git maintainers, don't listen to this guy and don't ever change the current behavior. I've come to rely on staging my
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by gcv 17y ago
Take up a (slightly) risky sport. I was getting into rock climbing a few years ago (gave up for logistical reasons), and I can just about guarantee that when you're on a route, with your forearms burning and no obvious next move, that your
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by gcv 17y ago
I agree that it's very cool to transform your display code using macros, but it's a non-starter on many projects, because you can't farm out the HTML/CSS work to a designer.
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by gcv 17y ago
You could have also used GWT. The few Cappuccino apps I have seen are more attractive, but that might just be because GWT apps tend to be written by Java people and Cappuccino apps by Mac people. Hate to make a gross generalization like tha
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by gcv 17y ago
I've been interested in learning Seaside for some time, but the one time I downloaded and looked at Squeak, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I know I should probably have made more effort to sit down and plough through documentation in
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by gcv 17y ago
That's a fair point, but let me ask you: if you learned to write webapps Struts running on WebLogic back in 2000, would you still be using it today? By some measures, they also "work fabulously."
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by gcv 17y ago
I'm not well-versed in crypto libraries, but is there any reason not to use OpenSSL? That's where I turned when I needed a SHA256 implementation (for a C program), and it worked like a charm. Didn't seem too convoluted to use, either. It ha
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by gcv 17y ago
I signed up for the service, and noticed a couple of things. First, even though I chose 24-hour notification, I seem to have been getting emails every hour. Feature or bug? :) Second, it seems that the NYT feed reposts its full content in e
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by gcv 17y ago
Nice. I'd been looking for some way to consolidate information gathering into one app (email), and tried feedmyinbox at one point (ended up giving up on it because, at the time, it could not do digests). With regard to the UI, I'd appreciat
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by gcv 17y ago
Fascinating. I haven't finished reading the entire presentation yet, but I already stumbled on something. The author lists a drawback of the first antipattern ("metadata tribbles"): a table split into multiples to keep its size down require
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by gcv 17y ago
I'm about to look into somewhat similar requirements for an app I'm consulting on, and I plan to research GlusterFS first.
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by gcv 17y ago
This quote stands out: Although most of you call these sites "social networking sites," there's almost no networking going on. People use these sites to connect to the people they know. In other words, even if they could talk across the di
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by gcv 17y ago
Have you (or anyone) compared VirtualBox to a desktop virtualization package, such as VMware Fusion? How does it stack up?
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by gcv 17y ago
The best food for founders is probably rice and beans. I disagree with this suggestion. One, the human body does not readily digest beans. Two, rice is a pretty heavily refined food, and white rice especially has been stripped of most of
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by gcv 17y ago
Since is this repost made #1 on the front page, two other links are worth noting. The newline-mangled, and more fun free-verse version: http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html The Wikipedia article about Mel: http://en.wikipedia.or
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by gcv 17y ago
It sounds like the author works on Unangband full-time. I can't help wondering how he can afford that with a free niche product.
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by gcv 17y ago
Pretty interesting. I never heard of db4o before. I'm skimming the tutorial ( http://www.db4o.com/about/productinformation/resources/db4o-... ), and it looks fairly nice. It seems that db4o supports some pretty flexible query mechanisms. Th
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by gcv 17y ago
(or that the problem you were trying to solve changed along the way) All non-trivial problems change along the way.
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by gcv 17y ago
(I didn't downvote you, but I'll try to answer). I lurked on comp.lang.lisp quite a lot in 1999-2002, and I made a point of reading Erik Naggum's posts on technical topics. Those posts made me feel that I learned something. When I had time,

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