j-kidd

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by j-kidd 14y ago
But I can have an OS with wonderful package management, developer tools, endless configurability AND a desktop Aaron Seigo and friends created.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
As someone who uses the shell all day, I found that there is no alternative for portage and Konsole. And since most things are web-based now, a vanilla KDE setup + Icon-Only Task Manager is awesome enough for me.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Personally, I think ticket description is more important than code, so I always create a ticket first. Unfortunately, github's issue tracker doesn't allow attachment, and thus it inadvertently promotes this "pull requests from out of nowher
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by j-kidd 14y ago
That sounds like a weird example. I have never associated the gaming demographics with Christmas shopping.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Thanks for sharing. The first article is really interesting. The author worked 3 months as an intern at Google, and his much under-appreciated works saved Steve Yegge's Grok team that has been struggling for years. EDIT: Found another gem f
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by j-kidd 14y ago
> You can certainly use it the same way you'd use Subversion and it's not any harder - it'll just behave as a version control system that can buffer commits offline with two "levels" of commit - local and remote. That's hg. With git, yo
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by j-kidd 14y ago
That's exactly the problem, i.e. those people who endlessly promoting git so that they can be seen as elite developer. Their favorite past time is to share their "get it" stories with the rest of the world. Not unlike the "Are You There God
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Check out this long thread on WHT, started 2 months ago: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1151090 From my limited testing, a 1 Node instance from GridVirt at $30/month can compile gcc-4.6.3 within 15 minutes (not exactly an
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by j-kidd 14y ago
It says 3Gbps here: http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/CuBox_hardware_specifi... I am just about to place an order. They finally have stocks, though the current price is 10 USD more compared to the pre-order price.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Yea, I am not sure if "quad-core Raspberry Pi" is that much of a selling point. CuBox is much more interesting with: - gigabit ethernet - e-sata port (with port multiplier) - infrared receiver - out of the box, already comes with a box - co
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Pip is great for many many use cases, but I think it kind of get overhyped as a replacement for easy_install. People just get upset when they encounter situation where it doesn't live up to the hype.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Self hosted PyPI (with eggbasket or even a static dir listing), combined with easy_install, is an old and unsexy solution that just works. Instead of saying we are limited to easy_install on Windows, I say we are embraced by setuptools on a
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Make donation here to add unofficial support for Asus RT-N66U in OpenWrt: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=37069 By the way, I think most TP-Link products are using an Atheros chipset. Very affordable and really well supported b
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by j-kidd 14y ago
I think both TP-Link and OpenWrt are very much under-appreciated. Glad to see their names appear here. By the way, anyone who is using Gentoo should really try to compile your own OpenWrt images. It is a fun exercise (if using Gentoo is fun
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Good points. The changing keyboard layout can definitely be a source of frustration. My current Edge 11 has Insert/Delete/Home/End at the upper right corner. In the latest refresh, Lenovo changed the order to be Home/End/Insert/Delete, whic
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by j-kidd 14y ago
What problem do you have with the chiclet keyboard on Thinkpad? For me, it is awesome, and ever since I started using one 18 months ago, my laptop buying criteria became "Is it a Thinkpad with chiclet keyboard?" I am glad Lenovo switched al
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by j-kidd 14y ago
If you don't need to run cmd.exe, then this is likely not for you. On Windows, I deploy native 64-bit Python, and the application has quite a few command line pyramid scripts, which works perfectly fine with grep, cut, sed, sort, etc from g
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by j-kidd 14y ago
I thought the same. Then I found that Gow is shipping way older versions for many binaries compared to GNU-Win32, and its patch.exe causes UAC prompt for non-administrators. GNU-Win32 is solid, integrates natively, and is good enough for de
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Or unbound's python scripting. Or if GeoScaling slightly improves its excellent smart subdomain service, 2 lines of php script.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Or you can add rebind-domain-ok=xip.io to dnsmasq.conf. Not that I would do that myself, as I still don't see what value it provides.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Perhaps the commands renaming was done to make TortoiseGit more consistent with TortoiseHg and TortoiseBzr?
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Yeah, this is another big one. I first came across the temporal project [1] in year 2008. Glad to see that it finally makes it to release. [1] http://pgfoundry.org/projects/temporal/
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by j-kidd 14y ago
The title of the linked article is actually "PostgreSQL 9.2 beta improves scalability, adds JSON". Not sure why it get truncated. I, for one, am not excited by the JSON addition at all. On the other hand, index-only scanning, scalability im
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by j-kidd 14y ago
> We're sort of destined to hate ORM, because the people who love databases aren't going to love ORM no matter what, and people who hate databases will resent how much effort they require to use properly. Speak for yourself. I love data
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Well, SQLAlchemy is designed just for that. In the words of the author: > Like "power steering" for SQL. Doesn't teach you how to drive!
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by j-kidd 14y ago
The problem with SQL is that everyone thinks they know SQL. So, on one hand, you have a group of people who think they know SQL well enough and dismiss it as inadequate. These are people who build schema without foreign key and run queries
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by j-kidd 14y ago
That is exactly my point - you have to build multiple packages for the same app, even for the same version (app1_venv_a-1.0, app1_venv_b-1.0), if there is a need to have more than one instances of it running on the same machine. Until emerg
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Of course, it has always been possible to have multiple versions installed with native packages. Gentoo supports that since day 1. What I was talking about though (and I didn't make it clear), is having the same version installed multiple t
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by j-kidd 14y ago
I think native packages make things too rigid. A private PyPI server hits the sweet spot for us. The steps to deploy an update is as simple as: 1. activate virtualenv 2. run `easy_install -U app` and no root permission is required. It also
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by j-kidd 15y ago
> For example if the code is buggy and shared, odds might be higher that the bugs will never be found because nobody will bother trying to write the code again. Your reasoning is a bit odd. It's a good thing that nobody will bother tryi

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