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by jff 13y ago
What would you prefer? "I swear to uphold an ethical course of behavior as defined by the current zeitgeist of Hacker News"? It's clear that in delivering a sub-standard project, you're acting badly. But when you make a
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by jff 13y ago
Assume I type 80 wpm A word is standardized as 5 keystrokes 80 wpm is therefore 400 keystrokes per minute. Divide by 60 to get about 6.6 keystrokes per second, or about 0.15 seconds per keystroke. Therefore it would take about 0.6 seconds t
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by jff 13y ago
The kernel could start 100 processes in the time it takes me to type those extra four characters. We won't run out of processes. I did a test, finding .txt files in /usr/share, it took about .25 seconds longer with du and gre
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by jff 13y ago
I'll point out that the find command is 21 characters, while mine is only 17. Efficiency!
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by jff 13y ago
I remain convinced that "find" also contains a text editor and a Pacman game, but I've never cared enough to read the damn enormous man page. Also, not every system has "find", but everything I've used has &quo
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by jff 13y ago
The explanation for "du" and its -a flag make it sound like I'm trying to find out how much disk space my files are using. Fine, that's the usual usage, but the point here is that it lists out every file under the curren
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by jff 13y ago
I don't know what I was expecting, but one of my most-used command lines, "du -a | grep foo" is pretty uninformative.
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by jff 13y ago
Seems like he wants to eradicate diseases, which is a pretty great plan. Polio, malaria, and now presumably AIDS and other STDs.
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by jff 13y ago
It may not have been intended, but it came off as a damn fine parody of the idiot "pick up artists".
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by jff 13y ago
I've heard that people who have served in the armed forces tend to say "male" and "female", presumably because those are the terms in official use.
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by jff 13y ago
I brought up the Mediterranean specifically because of the news reports I have heard about all the people dying while trying to cross. If "many unfortunately die", it sure as fuck seems to be keeping some people away, by killing t
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by jff 13y ago
None of the things you cited really have anything to do with freedom? You listed education, justice, wealth, and welfare. All the literacy in the world won't help you if you're not allowed to talk about the government--but maybe t
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by jff 13y ago
Perhaps the Mediterranean? They call it a "sea" if you want to be pedantic.
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by jff 13y ago
> it's like running eighty concurrent webserver processes and killing them 100 times per second round-robin because if you don't kill them constantly they will bring down the whole system Ruby on Rails?
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by jff 13y ago
Ender's Game is 30 years old. Additional spoilers for you: * Vader is Luke's father * Frodo makes it to Mt Doom * Rosebud was the sled
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by jff 13y ago
I think it's a pretty nice RPi starter kit. Speaker, wifi, keyboard, great! I just don't like the bullshit marketing they've put on it. The kids will probably enjoy snapping together the parts, but then you're done. Now
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by jff 13y ago
This is like copy-pasting commands from the Gentoo wiki so you "learn Linux". You don't learn shit, you just insert tab A into slot B, then play Minecraft. Look at the list of things you can "build". You don't
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by jff 13y ago
It was Python trying to figure out where its modules and such were. It would try a bunch of likely-seeming directories and get ENOENT until it finally hit the right place. Most HPC systems are kind of expecting that you'll ship a singl
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by jff 13y ago
Python: How to bring your supercomputer to a crawl as 1,000 nodes all try to access hundreds of non-existent files on the same network share.
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by jff 13y ago
Both this and Youtube's own Feather beta seem to lack support for playlists. I like playlists for listening to music at work, for example Brad Neely's "America, Now" videos ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by jff 13y ago
We use a combination of tmux and mumble to get multiple remote-working coders all looking at one screen. It's very useful, even if we sometimes type over each other. It's also great when somebody has to give a demo but only the gu
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by jff 13y ago
That's what I mean, I'm pretty sure you can disable comments and it will hide all the existing comments.
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by jff 13y ago
"Boy I'd sure love to see the pictures from Dan's wedding, but his desktop got a virus so he's offline." You could use a little Pogoplug-style appliance, but you're still placing usability at the mercy of Comca
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by jff 13y ago
Comments generally get disabled because people were Saying Mean Things. Next time you see that, look at how many likes/dislikes the video has--odds are it may have a lot of dislikes. Or the owner could just be taking a stand against th
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by jff 13y ago
Seems like coastal tech types are more judgmental than these people living in the sneered-at "flyover states". The amount of contempt you see out here in the bay area is just staggering.
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by jff 13y ago
> open and free video sharing site > the users of the site are actually the customers Well which is it? Do you want it to be free, or do you want to be treated like a customer? Because you don't store and serve millions of videos
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by jff 13y ago
Oh come the fuck on. At least to anyone who's written a C program, using "s" for a string argument is absolutely clear. Read the man pages for pretty much every goddamn string function in the standard library; strlen, strcmp,
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by jff 13y ago
Ah yes, I must be careful as an American, because my employer and everyone I work with is literally this guy: http://wikihistoria.wikispaces.com/file/view/purtian_pic_2.j...
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by jff 13y ago
Google's a big company with lots of fiefdoms, and Go is one of the smallest; I'm not sure it even counts as a fiefdom. Android is heavily invested in Java/C++ and those types don't like to admit that you can do anything
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by jff 13y ago
I think what you're running into is the shallow knowledge of people on forums/mailing lists. With a few exceptions, the people who actually know the most about the Linux kernel, glibc internals, etc. do not frequently post on Stac

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