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   Ask YC: Have you ever used an embedded web server C library?

   2 points by gcv 19y ago|2 comments
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   by gcv 19y ago

   I want to work on two things. 1. Technological improvements for human vision. I have a very special friend who lost vision in one eye because of a detached retina and the failure of ophthalmology to repair it and rewire it to the optic nerv
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   by gcv 19y ago

   Not every site. The Ars Technica forums have maintained a surprisingly high level of quality discussion over the years. Ars uses human moderators who read every post and enforce the rules.
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   by gcv 19y ago

   I stopped reading at this sentence: "Ruby itself uses 'green threads,' which is basically faking it." Erlang has green threads, too, and it has excellent threading performance and ease of use.
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   by gcv 19y ago

   It's easy to write horrific code in any language, high or low level. From what I've seen, both the Linux kernel and git are clean and very readable. In general, I'll take well-written C over poorly-written Python (I'm not implying anything
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   by gcv 19y ago

   The Keyboard prefpane trivially lets you map the Caps Lock key to Control. I used that setup for a long time. Are you actually asking to keep Caps Lock around but map it to Control? I guess that really is tricky, but it never occurred to me
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   by gcv 19y ago

   Thanks, will definitely give it a shot.
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   by gcv 19y ago

   Sure. Two problems with it: 1. Still fairly bad video hardware support. I spent two hours helping a buddy set up a mid-range ATI card recently, and we couldn't get full acceleration to work. The configuration just plain sucked. 2. Fonts in
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   by gcv 19y ago

   I don't know what article you mean, but read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html?p... Long, but fascinating. The rampages you're talking about have been linked to elephant culling. Elephants grow up in structu
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    by gcv 19y ago

    So was mine with while(fork()); :) Seriously, very very cool app!
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    The USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US is today(energybulletin.net)

    5 points by gcv 19y ago|3 comments
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    by gcv 19y ago

    Fascinating stuff. I wish a northern state, like Montana, would try a similar experiment in half of its counties, and ditch daylight saving time for a year and see what happens. I suspect it would save money, too. On a slightly more hackeri
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    by gcv 19y ago

    I only use the left Control key, and I remapped Caps Lock to Control in the Mac OS preferences panel. Works very well for me.
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    by gcv 19y ago

    All the time, believe it or not. For example, in one class, I learned about garbage collection algorithms, which I used to explain to a coworker why he was seeing a certain memory usage pattern in the JVM. I'm also glad I learned about DFAs
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    by gcv 19y ago

    I think TextMate's Rails mode came before emacs-rails and inspired it. That's probably part of the reason. Another part is that TextMate behaves much more like a Mac app, and Rails was started by Mac users. So it's partly history, partly mo