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by gecko 10y ago
Yes—in the sense that they told everyone over a year ago that they were mothballing Google Code[1]. So yes, it's "down", permanently. At some point, people may start rediscovering that you want everything to reproduce the b
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by gecko 10y ago
In all seriousness, ever since SQLite got WAL support, it's been fine for light multiuser systems. I would define "multiuser" as "around ten or fewer concurrent users", and I think there are some major backup consid
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by gecko 10y ago
Through things like this library, which, combined with a Sufficiently Smart Compiler (SBCL qualifies as one for this purpose), produces C++-like static dispatch for cases such as the one you're proposing. https://github.com&
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by gecko 10y ago
It's honestly already pretty freaking good. If you allow for the fact that Go is a less rich language (syntactically) than Java, I'd even suggest that VSC for Go is on par with IDEA products for their respective languages. There&#
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by gecko 11y ago
> I read the law, and I don't see where it does that. That's okay; a lot of people have reading deficits, and in fact my company works a lot to help people with them. One thing we've found helps with reading deficits is br
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by gecko 11y ago
McCrory campaigned as a middle-of-the-road moderate Republican. He immediately instead delivered on Tea Party values, and once the Republicans won a narrow majority in 2012, they gerrymandered the crap out of the state to cement their contr
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by gecko 11y ago
There is a difference here, which I think you're aware of, but ignoring. The legal concept that we're discussing here is something called a protected class. Protected classes are generally things that are intrinsic to who you are-
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by gecko 11y ago
The law also bars cities from protecting LGBT rights, and bars individuals of any of the remaining protected classes for suing if they're discriminated against in the first place--effectively gutting the entire antidiscrimination law.
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by gecko 11y ago
The POWER line, and all PowerPCs except the G5, are actually bi-endian, and quite a few operating systems run in little-endian mode (including all vaguely recent Linux releases I know). The G5's lack of a bi-endian mode is why VirtualP
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by gecko 11y ago
This is obviously a fine route to go if you want, but I've found simply booting into a text-mode Linux on its own partition (or something equivalent) gets the job done just as well, and means I don't have to have a bulky out-of-da
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Separate, support, serve(bitquabit.com)
3 points by gecko 11y ago|0 comments
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by gecko 11y ago
I love Emacs, and I've used it for years, but this is an insanely unfair summary. NeoVim can be trivially extended in any language. They're putting a lot of effort into making sure that the msgpack protocol supports basically ev
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by gecko 11y ago
I get why you say they're evil, but their existence meant that moving from Win16 to Win32 to Win64 with minimal code changes was actually feasible without major rewrites. If those had instead been e.g. "static pascal MCIWndProc16(
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by gecko 11y ago
You're misinformed, I suspect because you are conflating .NET programs being distributed as bytecode with .NET programs being interpreted. It is true that .NET programs are traditionally distributed as CLR bytecode. This is similar to
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by gecko 11y ago
Quite awhile ago, not too long after Kickstarter became a thing, I really wanted to do a modern, professional, warm, heartfelt video proposing a cloud-connected turboencabulator. I was going to post it to Kickstarter to see if I could raise
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by gecko 11y ago
Oh, that's awesome! I'd never actually looked carefully at the sync layer, but that seems like a really direct equivalent.
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by gecko 11y ago
Lots of databases are open by default, especially in this space (Mongo, RethinkDB, Redis, Riak, and I believe Cassandra), and Fauxton has huge warnings that you've got access turned on globally if you haven't adjusted the setting,
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by gecko 11y ago
CouchDB is so underrated in this space. I get it: CouchDB was a very early (the first real?) document-based database, and it got some things wrong, or at least weird early on (e.g. map/reduce queries, a reduce step to the map/redu
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by gecko 11y ago
…who are paid to work full-time on it. How does that not count as Google investing in it? What else would investing even mean?
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by gecko 11y ago
That's not what that document says. iMessage has a design flaw (which is pretty obvious if you think about how it works) that allows it to theoretically be backdoored. In other words, they made a trade-off between usability and securit
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by gecko 11y ago
It's worth remembering that OpenBSD does less--by design. There is no ZFS/Btrfs; there is no LVM; there is no SEOpenBSD, there is no support for mobile phone drivers, and so on. Linux can do many, many things that OpenBSD cannot d
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by gecko 11y ago
It's still not kosher/halal if its made from the cells of a treyf animal. Both religions already have a concept of how pork-derived things aren't religiously acceptable, and pork-derived cultured meat would obviously be an ex
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by gecko 11y ago
Note that, while SpiderOak is arguably more secure than Dropbox, they rely on a hybrid security model wherein they still have your encryption key on their server, but encrypted with your local password. This matters because if your password
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Android, Project Fi, and Updates(bitquabit.com)
2 points by gecko 11y ago|0 comments
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by gecko 11y ago
Nothing has to be wrong with CL for me to prefer Schemes or vice-versa, and nothing has to be wrong with OCaml for me to prefer F# or vice-versa. My preference for Chicken Scheme over CL historically has been: * Chicken has always bee
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by gecko 11y ago
If you're interested in web programming in Scheme, but not interested in using Guile for some reason, you might also be interested in Awful ( http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/awful ), which is Chicken Scheme&#x
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by gecko 11y ago
Eh, I get why my phrasing might make it sound like they had a totally separate collections hierarchy; you're right, they don't. But I'd count the changes you list--especially the extension methods, which basically provide an
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by gecko 11y ago
Kotlin has a much simpler syntax, and much simpler semantics, than Scala. Specifically, it's largely a very, very good syntax, and small class library extension, for otherwise-vanilla alternative syntax to Java. This is the whole reaso
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by gecko 11y ago
I give git training at work with some frequency. I now briefly discuss this sort of patch-based workflow, explicitly so I can tell people it's not how git works, because in my experience, it's what most people naiv
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by gecko 11y ago
Git is the most pervasive implementation of distributed snapshot version control. That model existed for a long time; Git was just the first version that was free (Monotone and tla beat it), fast (Monotone used to be comparable), and had a

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