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by honr 9y ago
Some of us do not subscribe to the "ends justify the means" theory. And with that, I'd consider this example a form of failed journalism. Regardless of whether or not there is actually an underlying point, this particular p
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by honr 9y ago
I have used ports (if that is what you are referring to) albeit on a mac. It is very basic, without any of the interesting properties that make nix interesting. It essentially feels like a slightly improved "download && .&#x2
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by honr 9y ago
As someone who hasn't actively used nixos (yet), only nix (the package manager) for a while: I have always been curious and dumbfounded why he (Eelco) abandoned Maak (his build system, that I thought, would go together with nix). I th
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by honr 9y ago
This sounds like a much better approach than our current "No V-Tech". Thanks for posting.
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by honr 9y ago
As I mentioned, I AM already using Google Fi on my iPhone. What does not work is the hardware feature of handing off between providers mid-flight. With my [now deceased] Nexus X, a call would seamlessly [to me, anyways] switch between pro
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by honr 9y ago
I have to research deeper to be sure (there is some FAQ at https://fi.google.com/about/faq/#supported-devices-7 ). But skimming through that page, I suspect this is a new-ish feature not available on most smartpho
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by honr 9y ago
This sounds a bit misguided. IIUC, Google Fi is really a mechanism of accessing two carriers from the same device. It consists of 1. A partnership between Google Fi (the cellular provider), T Mobile, and Sprint, and 2. A special radio har
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by honr 9y ago
I believe that is only in passing. I honestly think the majority of laptop manufacturers are not visionaries when it comes to product specs. Only Apple and a couple of niche ones truly seem to know what they are doing. The rest will have
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by honr 12y ago
I agree with most [1] of the issues he is aiming to solve. But the approach would have been useful if he would have built it on top a superior existing system which is Nix & NixOS. Docker is increasing popular while missing most of t
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by honr 12y ago
You should probably do some research and find out what language(s) you like (note: there are many languages and stacks outside the MS ecosystem, some of them might be far more fulfilling than what you have experienced so far). In particula
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by honr 12y ago
Awesome dashboard and project! Bookmarked to come back to it and use it :-) P.S.: Wish the title was not so poorly chosen. Remember that title really does matter when submitting anything to Hacker News.
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by honr 13y ago
The regulation you mention here is certainly outdated NOW, but when it was passed it was a very pragmatic decision. The anti-bloatware law is more than welcome, because competition keeps failing to reach the desired outcome. Regulations ar
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by honr 13y ago
I have yet to find a useful feature that I don't already get in bash (assuming you are capable of sudo apt-get install bash-completion). Fish (that I don't use regularly), however, has useful features.
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by honr 14y ago
> If/when viable alternatives to petroleum fuels are available, the transition will happen. "Are available"? You seem to misunderstand how things become available. Usually people spend time and effort to make them available. Financia
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by honr 14y ago
I agree. C is outdated and does not represent current machines very well. Nor does it benefit from fruits of years of programming language research. Different layers of cache? Multiple cores? Stream processing? A type-system that is the
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by honr 14y ago
They do slightly different things. I think each can benefit by incorporating the main idea of the other: - Working on multiple projects who need different JVMs running at the same time can be a hassle in clove (you have to create a service
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by honr 14y ago
Interesting idea (especially, hashing based on command line options, and probably also the libraries in the classpath); I should add this to Clove ( http://hovel.ca/clove : a small persistent-jvm that I wrote for *nix, with VERY fast conn
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by honr 14y ago
Yes, Like IntegerFloatAdding. If a programming language needs a pattern for adding an integer and a float, well, you have to call this pattern something. Until such a language is made, we can forget about "IntegerFloatAdding Pattern".
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by honr 14y ago
I think wise people prefer programming in good languages that enjoy the benefit of hindsight. Common Lisp does not have the luxury of hindsight, and can hardly change its specification to reflect modern theoretical and practical PL results
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by honr 14y ago
I think tools that generate or pass records or rows of data should certainly have the option of providing a schema based output as well. In addition to "find ... -print0" providing either of "find ... -proto" or "find ... -json", assuming