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by gcv 18y ago
I deployed one project by creating a completely separate deployment area, /opt/projectname, which contains a separate tree, /opt/projectname/sw, where I manually compiled all the dependencies: ./configure --prefix=/opt/projectname/sw. I ins
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by gcv 18y ago
Two questions for people who tried this feature: 1. Does this support syncing multiple Google Calendars? Last I checked, if you have multiple calendars, you had to set up multiple CalDAV connections. CalDAV itself supports multiple calendar
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by gcv 18y ago
This is precisely why I suggested doing a commit after every sequence of adds and removes.
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by gcv 18y ago
Agreed on both points, although 'git mv' is optional. As long as the old file is 'git rm'ed and the new file is 'git add'ed in the same commit, git detects the rename quite reliably.
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by gcv 18y ago
I thought github does allow private repositories on the free plan? Maybe something changed, but it used to allow a private repository, but you couldn't share it with anyone.
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by gcv 18y ago
If you really just want a minimal source control system, Git does the trick well enough. I don't think you need anything more than 'git init' (make a fresh project), 'git commit -a' (commit all new changes except for deleted or renamed file
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by gcv 18y ago
The new version of the SDK is now available for download. 1.56GB. I've never quite figured out why the SDK has to include a whole new version of the entire Apple developer toolchain with it, but there you have it.
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by gcv 18y ago
1. The interface is pretty disruptive, with the two large gray buttons on the same horizontal visual line as the header of the search result. I only managed to turn this off by opting in to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" Google Labs experiment, w
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by gcv 18y ago
Presidential email is a tough technical problem. The audit trail piece is easy enough, but there's also the problem of keeping the email account clean and secure. Somehow, it needs to provide relatively unfettered access to the president fr
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by gcv 18y ago
Tokyo Cabinet looks intriguing. One major limitation of Berkeley DB is that it cannot reliably store its files on a network filesystem (NFS or CIFS or what have you) because of unreliable POSIX semantics. It's a tough problem, but any idea
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by gcv 18y ago
I must be one of those people Linus wants to kick. Too bad for him. I love taking a break from staring at a screen, and I feel way better, physically and mentally, after a good run or a good rowing session. My lower back starts to feel stif
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by gcv 18y ago
I remember checking InTrade sometime in March, and it showed something like a 70%-chance that Hillary Clinton will be president. Guess that the gamblers become more accurate as time to election approaches zero.
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by gcv 18y ago
Are you sure? I don't have the numbers handy, but I dimly remember that, in around 1998-1999, the Alpha 21264 ran circles around Intel and AMD CPUs of the same era, in integer and especially floating-point performance. I'm not talking about
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by gcv 18y ago
Or you'll kick yourself when your picks tank. Feel free to buy individual stocks, but only with money you can afford to throw away. Picking stocks is gambling, pure and simple. Fun as it is, you should not expect to retire and live comforta
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by gcv 18y ago
Most useful stuff: OmniOutliner, Scrivener, OmniGraffle, OmniFocus, LaunchBar or Quicksilver, Path Finder, and VMware Fusion. Also terrific, but less focused on pure productivity: Adium, Colloquy, Fission. Great utilities for maintaining yo
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by gcv 18y ago
I thought the article said the engine doesn't have a casing, but in the picture, it does. Kind of makes sense though: if I understand jet engines, they must compress air, so the air must be compressed in some kind of container. This design
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by gcv 18y ago
Don't know if this will do what you want, but these two reader macros add syntactic sugar for Common Lisp's aref and gethash forms. You should put these definitions in an eval-when. Disclaimer: I haven't used these in a while (not programmi
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by gcv 18y ago
Very interesting. A couple of questions for you, in no particular order. 1. Have you used libev? I read that it's comparable, and in some ways superior to libevent, but I'm not sure why. I haven't found much documentation, though. Do you kn
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by gcv 18y ago
As everyone's pointing out, any exchange for trading securities falls under massive amounts of regulation. It's possible to navigate the legal morass, but will require a group of lawyers with vast experience in securities law and regulation
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by gcv 18y ago
Any reason you don't use Mint (haveamint.com)?
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by gcv 18y ago
"Lies, damn lies, and statistics." :) When someone says "the average employee" at an investment bank made 600K last year, or brought in 1.25M in profits, keep in mind the old joke about how, when Bill Gates walks into a bar, the average guy
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by gcv 18y ago
In the past, many notable thinkers worked in several fields at once. Pascal worked in math, philosophy, and theology; Descartes in math, philosophy, and the scientific method; Newton in physics, math, and theology. Leonardo da Vinci, of cou
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by gcv 18y ago
That's precisely the equivalent of putting a passphrase-protected ssh private key on Dropbox. Probably worse, since personal banking data is more valuable than any Unix box most people log into.
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by gcv 18y ago
Whatever happened to "release early, release often?" Or does that only apply to startups?
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Ask HN: Password managers?
4 points by gcv 18y ago|2 comments
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by gcv 18y ago
Since the author of this post is Jeremy Allison, a major Samba contributor, I also suggest reading the Samba code. I've been working with it, and have found it clean and well-structured. A great example of how to write a networked filesyste
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by gcv 18y ago
You're on to something, but I think there might be another factor at play: love of using the Internet. It sounds a bit silly, but I think people love going to sites and search engines and finding information. To make it more interesting, th
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by gcv 18y ago
It's a view with which I am familiar. In general, I agree that a programmer must reason about code execution, and that a debugger does not replace this process. However: with all due respect, a symbolic debugger is invaluable while trying t
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by gcv 18y ago
I would also like to see an informed comparison. In addition to cmake, scons, qmake, and boost, there is also omake, which has an OCaml background but supports C, and waf, another Python build system. After skimming some documentation, I fo
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by gcv 18y ago
Maybe instead of reading HN, you should go get some sleep. :)

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