haileys

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by haileys 4y ago
> Would you automate your Linux build using VB Script? Why not? No but Windows builds are automated with Unix tools like Perl and Make :)
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by haileys 4y ago
I feel you. My macbooks have always reached the point of feeling very cramped for storage and I find myself juggling for disk space more often than I'd like. This is mostly because I simply won't pay an extra thousand dollars - wh
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by haileys 4y ago
Ruby?
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by haileys 4y ago
There are no laws in Australia requiring cookie banners, and yet I get hit with them constantly. So the law is clearly not the reason for these annoying banners.
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by haileys 4y ago
> If someone malicious can make commits to your repo, you have a much worse problem than a possible hash collision. This is exactly how GitHub works though: all repositories in a fork network share a single underlying repository, only th
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by haileys 5y ago
I find most of the web utterly unusable without uBlock Origin installed.
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by haileys 5y ago
I've been using a Magic Trackpad 2 on my Linux desktop for a year now and it's great. Two finger scroll and right click works, but it also does three finger middle click which is super convenient for opening and closing tabs in Fi
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by haileys 5y ago
What happens when turning a bike while riding with no hands? Does the lean induce the handlebars to counter-steer briefly, or is the counter-steer not necessarily because the lean is already happening?
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by haileys 5y ago
SQL is just a language. Any techniques which can be used scalably (client-side joins for instance) could also be used by an implementation supporting the SQL language. Perhaps your argument holds for some of the more well-known RDBMSes out
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by haileys 5y ago
It's strange that on a site like Hacker News people are so averse to learning new things. We seem to have no problem learning other kinds of symbol languages. These are standard symbols - you can search Google for "laundry symbols
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by haileys 6y ago
Implementing my own extended memory support in the supervisor is indeed an interesting idea, I might try it out :) Another idea I had after reading the dosemu source is implementing a DPMI server to allow protected mode DOS apps to run. It
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by haileys 6y ago
Author here. I am planning to do an in depth write up of how this works, but it seems Hacker News found it sooner :) When DSL is first invoked at the command line it boots up the Linux kernel which takes over control of the computer from DO
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My journey to the International Olympiad in Informatics(sirupsen.com)
46 points by haileys 14y ago|10 comments
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by haileys 15y ago
Twostroke is also capable enough to run the CoffeeScript compiler: http://github.com/charliesome/coffee-script-pure
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Show HN: A JavaScript interpreter written in Ruby(github.com)
75 points by haileys 15y ago|27 comments
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Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo(lists.freebsd.org)
169 points by haileys 15y ago|132 comments