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by gecko 13y ago
The Linux kernel is used in a lot of different devices, this is true, but it's also a lot leaner than the Windows one. Although efforts have been made to pare down what Windows is, it's still got a footprint
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by gecko 13y ago
You answered your own question the second after you asked it. Look at Linux first. Note that it happily goes from cell phones to supercomputers. The reason that works is because "Linux" doesn't actually that much. Really,
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by gecko 13y ago
Having plenty of experience both with languages that do and do not allow "operators" in variable names, it's not actually confusing in practice. You quickly learn that whitespace is very significant in those languages, and t
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by gecko 13y ago
I'm a Windows dev at build, but I know nothing about 3D printing. If you can you give me an idea what G-code is, then I'll ask or look at the SDK.
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by gecko 13y ago
I actually get where the author's coming from. While it's tempting to think of Racket as a Scheme implementation, and that was at one time true, the situation these days is quite different. It's a lot more accurate to say th
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by gecko 13y ago
SaltStack ( http://saltstack.com/community.html ) and Ansible ( http://ansible.cc ) would be your two closest options. Of the two, I prefer Ansible for its simplicity and the fact that it can be extended in any la
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by gecko 13y ago
I think the idea here is that, between plentiful Firewire 2 and Thunderbolt 2, you now have enough external bandwidth that you shouldn't need internal cards. When given the choice, I prefer this route, since it means I can transport m
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by gecko 13y ago
hg-git and Kiln Harmony serve different, though overlapping, purposes. hg-git allows people who know both Git and Mercurial, but who prefer Mercurial, to work with Git repositories from Mercurial. No effort is made to hide the Git model ,
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by gecko 13y ago
You're aware you can configure your PATH trivially from fish, right? The preferred way to do that would be something like if status --is-interactive set PATH ~/.local/bin /opt/local/bin $PATH end in your ~/.config/fish
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by gecko 13y ago
Why does PowerShell not qualify? Or are you merging cmd.exe with the Windows console subsystem?
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by gecko 13y ago
Once they're polished, you can just make sure it runs on your local copy of Hyper-V, then upload a VHD yourself. Azure's underrated on things like this.
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by gecko 13y ago
The original title of this was correct, guys; the product is named CHICKEN. I'm not sure why the casing got altered.
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by gecko 13y ago
That's what they are doing. This is the first power-up.
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by gecko 13y ago
Microsoft's prices for Azure are actually very reasonable, and I generally find their tools easier to configure and use in real life. Microsoft makes some horrible products, but I actually really like Azure a lot.
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by gecko 13y ago
Thanks! Perfect. That's enough of a tutorial I can poke around.
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by gecko 13y ago
If you just want to do low-level coding in a language other than those, the Free Pascal project ( http://www.freepascal.org/ ) is very much alive, and very much none of the above. It's a nice, low-level language that also has a very nice,
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by gecko 13y ago
The 68000 was a wonderful CPU, and the last one that I genuinely enjoyed writing assembler for. A sane number of registers, a very orthogonal instruction set, good performance, non-segmented RAM, and high-level. If we had to have a 1980s
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by gecko 13y ago
So, let's say I wanted to take a spin in Oberon today. Is that even still feasible, or is it just dead? I can't tell what I'd download to get started from the ETH Oberon page, nor do I have any idea what the library and development commun
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by gecko 13y ago
It fails because it's not actually anonymous; the government knows with cryptographic certainty how you voted.
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by gecko 14y ago
Recently: x64 support, Bluetooth support, WiFi improvements, and a package manager and porting tools. In answer to your questions: Python definitely works just fine on it, as do Vim and the terminal emulator. I have no idea about Ruby, but
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by gecko 14y ago
Haiku also, far more than BeOS ever did, follows POSIX. Porting Unix applications to Haiku is actually fairly easy these days.
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by gecko 14y ago
Sorry; the "he was wrong" applied purely to FogBugz' situation due to the Jira price cap, which is really not clear in my comment. That'll teach me to bang out a response on my iPhone in answer to a tweet when I ought to be reading a book.
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by gecko 14y ago
He was wrong; Atlassian's pricing cut the floor out from the market, so Fog Creek changed our pricing to stay competitive. I've watched some SCMs change their pricing in response to Kiln's downward force, too, and I expect that Trello's co
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by gecko 14y ago
That's not what he's suggesting. Rather, he's suggesting that the schools separate teaching how to communicate amongst themselves v. how to communicate in a middle-class manner, and not label the former "wrong" and the latter "right," but
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by gecko 14y ago
Okay, I'll write that review: No. It's unstable, it lacks support for any filesystem but FAT32, it lacks meaningful driver compatibility with Windows, it doesn't support multiple users, it doesn't support major APIs like thread pools/WMI/WD
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by gecko 14y ago
We've been on HN a half dozen times, been featured in some trade magazines, have been a gold Mercurial sponsor, and have built-in support in competitor's products (e.g. SourceTree). We're also the second link if you google for "Kiln". I
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by gecko 14y ago
Huh? Sparse files are used extensively by Hyper-V for disk images. You really want them--especially on Windows Server, which is the only platform with ReFS right now. The base Windows install uses symbolic links to unify things like "Docume
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by gecko 14y ago
Unless I'm really mistaken, NTFS, as a file system, can delete an open file; Windows' Win32 subsystem simply forbids it. You should get the same behavior when mounting ext2 from Windows, and you should be able to delete open files when mou
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by gecko 14y ago
Here's what I do not understand: Every last tool I have ever worked with has trade-offs. I don't have any problem with that; I've sometimes even gone as far as phrasing it as, "If you don't hate your tech stack, you aren't really using it.
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by gecko 14y ago
I think, in my head, I implicitly also had "open-source" in that list. There are several open-source Smalltalks that have some of these things, but I believe that Pharo is the only one that does all of them. For example, GNU Smalltalk

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