georgebashi

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by georgebashi 15y ago
I've seen this tip a few times before, but have always wondered: isn't this what the OS disk cache should do? One of the "possible uses" is: What if you're an internet host and you want to show off your massive bandwidth by having users do
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by georgebashi 15y ago
While it would mean an easy transition, I'm not sure this is the best way either. As others have noted, I've seen odd cases of things performing extremely poorly or failing in strange ways under OpenJDK 6. Remember, if people have Sun's Jav
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by georgebashi 15y ago
I find GitPop to be really useful for finding the most popular fork. It shows you the number of watchers, forks and issues for each fork, which makes spotting the "best" one a lot easier. It even has a handy bookmarklet! http://gitpop.hero
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by georgebashi 15y ago
Cherokee is a fantastic server, especially for beginners. The documentation is much more thorough than nginx, which can be confusing at times. That said, the downside is that cherokee uses a weird config format that isn't very human readabl
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by georgebashi 15y ago
Because these work out-of-the-box on an installation of Snow Leopard or Lion - or in fact, any machine with python 2.6 and/or libxml2, which includes the latest Ubuntu LTS release. There's definitely better tools out there if you're willing
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by georgebashi 15y ago
The github.user and github.token settings aren't used by git, by the way - they're used by any tools you might use that can use the github API. They aren't required for pushing or pulling over ssh.
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by georgebashi 15y ago
Which do you use? I've had a quick google and only found Guilt as a serious contender, and that doesn't seem to quite do what hg patch queues do (especially wrt publishing queues). I'm interested as it seems like quite a common workflow (fo
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by georgebashi 15y ago
Because vim's paste command, p, will paste what was last removed with a command (such as d or c). Although you're not explicitly told that d and y are analogous to cut and copy, after learning the mechanics of p, each command you learn adds
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by georgebashi 15y ago
I think Jon Markwell's comment on Twitter sums it up really: "Something that's been on my mind for a while: Feels like the values of Twitter the company have moved away from those of the product we love" ( http://twitter.com/#!/jot/status/8
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by georgebashi 15y ago
That'll definitely give you a speed boost, as the interpreter doesn't have to get involved (if configured right). However, this article is talking about IO clogging apache workers. The issue is that the worker must do two jobs: generate the