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by jfb 10y ago
Internal politics.
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by jfb 10y ago
mbsync [0]. It is a great example of blue-collar software. Unshowy, unfeatureful, it Just Works. Combine with mu and mu4e [1] and my mail situation is pretty much just fixed. [0] http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html [1]
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by jfb 10y ago
I used to work on the largest HFS+ installation in the world; and we saw data corruption all the time . Mostly large media files with block sized sequences of zero'd data; we were lucky in that we had non-HFS+ file systems backing us
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by jfb 10y ago
Overclocking. And wank.
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by jfb 10y ago
The same as the relationship between OCaml and JavaScript, plus some braces.
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by jfb 10y ago
Think of the poor inodes!
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by jfb 10y ago
No, the Unix security model is insufficient .
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by jfb 10y ago
When fast jet pilots run the procurement, fast jets get bought.
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by jfb 11y ago
Of course, Darwin is a perfectly cromulent POSIX system.
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by jfb 11y ago
It's a good idea to install elsewhere, because there are other packages that install into /usr/local (TeX, for example) that aren't in homebrew. I like having my homebrew installation totally separate -- I feel significa
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by jfb 11y ago
I enjoyed this a great deal, but one thing that I don't see touched on in any of these package management posts is the difference between system-level and user-level package management. Maybe it's because I use a Macintosh, and th
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by jfb 11y ago
Not necessary, still less sufficient.
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by jfb 11y ago
Ownership means something different when you charge for it, however.
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by jfb 11y ago
Except that there's apparently a lot of bespoke engineering in the X that isn't in the S. And the X5 was built on the 7 chassis, at least initially. I don't think it shares much with the 5.
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by jfb 11y ago
I mean, talking your own book is a thing. Did anybody really think that the money hovering over Silicon Valley wouldn't do this? I am put in mind of the parable of the scorpion and the frog.
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by jfb 11y ago
Or else there's some new language called ''.
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by jfb 11y ago
"I ended up sifting out the 5 most interesting in my not so humble opinion - Go, Rust, Dart and Julia." Five?
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by jfb 11y ago
The method of loci are the jumping off point in Jonathan Spence's marvelous The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci .
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by jfb 11y ago
Sure. But there's a whole world of non-LOB software out there. I think the OP is trying to figure out how to tap into the pipelines for them.
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by jfb 11y ago
They're both great books, though, and I encourage everyone to read all of Gibson.
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by jfb 11y ago
I think you meant to link to Idoru .
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by jfb 11y ago
In my experience, having worked at many "tech companies" as well as "square-job companies", there is no great difference in how software engineering types are treated.
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by jfb 11y ago
But I really, really, really doubt you're going to find that same sense of alienation, underappreciation, etc. at a tech company. How many tech companies have you worked at?
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by jfb 11y ago
What a surprise: Zappos, as a division of Amazon and not a profit-seeking free-standing company, has plenty of capital to waste on humoring their sales-hustling CEO's lunatic ideas about human potential.
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by jfb 11y ago
True. It's probably the screen, and the lack of active radios.
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by jfb 11y ago
The Newton was much, much larger than a 2011 cellphone, let alone a modern one.
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by jfb 11y ago
Some people hate web apps.
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by jfb 11y ago
sql-mode works great for me?
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by jfb 11y ago
I don't know if the problem is text as much as it is the pissweak type system that the whole POSIX environment supports. The other big beef I have is with the total donkey circus that are the interfaces to the various tools. They'
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by jfb 11y ago
> Check out the UNIX man for tail, grep, ... to see how strange above quote about 'unix philosophy' is. I wish someone would take that hoary old meme out behind the barn and put it out of our collective misery.

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