infraredcabbage

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by infraredcabbage 6y ago
This sort of attitude is the reason why the world doesn't move away from awful solutions. It is a testament to the lack of ability to see beyond your own nose. A lot of people who use Python, don't have the luxury of it being thei
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by infraredcabbage 6y ago
Because there are a lot of programmers that read Hacker News and some of them have interests in particular things. That's why you see titles such as "Learn polynomial regression with Tensorflow" or "How do do HFT with Py
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by infraredcabbage 6y ago
I don't see any reason why people who write these tools in Ada shouldn't add that to the headline as well. People who are interested in Ada would be even more likely to read the article then.
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by infraredcabbage 6y ago
Consider this. If a program is written in Python, and becomes popular, it is usually a matter of time before it gets rewritten in, and replaced by an implementation in a faster language. There are fast implementations (C) and there are some
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by infraredcabbage 7y ago
You're right, it is a BSD is dying post, only a decade later. I agree with everything that you said. In an ideal world, we could all convince our colleagues that Docker and SELinux and Apparmor and such things are crap, and that everyo
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by infraredcabbage 7y ago
1) Some random examples: Loading a kernel module: Linux: modprobe, NetBSD: modload, FreeBSD: kldload Seeing RX/TX information on an interface: Linux: ifconfig, NetBSD: netstat -b -I ale0 Change MAC address: Linux: ifconfig eth0 hw eth
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by infraredcabbage 7y ago
As much as I love OpenBSD, it's one of those things that doesn't work for enterprise. 1) Commands have different switches. This is really annoying since you're probably using GNU/Linux at your day job. 2) It doesn't