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by joeyh 15y ago
Well, it seems that Google thinks "Poettering" must be a made up last name. Guess whatever they er, googled doesn't know who wrote that avahi code they're surely running. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name....
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by joeyh 15y ago
quickcheck is running makeChange with an arbitrary Int. maxBound :: Int here is 2147483647. When given a number that large, makeChange recurses a lot, subtracting one two-dollar coin at a time, so you blow the stack. This is where you need
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by joeyh 15y ago
I've been meaning to blog about that sometime soon. (Edit: I did write this post earlier http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/happy_haskell_hacker/ ) Also been meaning to do a screencast showing what I think of as type driven refactoring, s
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by joeyh 15y ago
I've only written two notable haskell programs. One (git-annex) is a large-ish, serious work, and I have been very pleased with how haskell has made it better, even though there was a learning curve (took me two weeks to write the first pro
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by joeyh 15y ago
I put the first Shakespearean insult generator CGI up on the web in 1994, so I heartily endorse this!
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by joeyh 15y ago
"Sorry, we could not find any information on research!dmr." -- google Well then, here are some of his first usenet posts: http://olduse.net/blog/Dennis_Ritchie/ The one on dsw is especially good. SYNOPSIS (put number in con
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by joeyh 15y ago
This is a really amusing comment if you read it w/o knowing where he worked.
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by joeyh 15y ago
Or just add an archival tarball to your 410 page.
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by joeyh 15y ago
Yes, it would be nice to have the assurance that the WC state was stored in the reflog before every git command that could possibly change it. This would probably be a relatively easy patch to write, although it could also slow git down too
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by joeyh 15y ago
A picture of a smiley face in a folder does not relate to photography. But that's only one of the ways this is ill thought out.
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HN comments more than a day old cannot be downvoted
2 points by joeyh 15y ago|3 comments
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by joeyh 15y ago
This was useful back before known_hosts got obfuscated for security. Now not so much.
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by joeyh 15y ago
It's sort of an in joke. Freax is what Linus originally called Linux. Probably it was also intended to not make the book age too badly if Linux cratered?
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by joeyh 15y ago
Anathem's first few chapters require the reader to learn about 100 made-up words via immersion. Throughout the book major points hinge on various scientific and philosophic theories, which are given different names (like Hylaean Theoric Wor
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by joeyh 15y ago
Yes, the thing to do would be to archive it, and then delete the contact. Similar to taking the love letters out of the desk drawer and moving them up to a trunk in the attic. Also has the added benefit of not being dependent on gmail retai
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by joeyh 15y ago
So, being aquired by google seems to involve being kept in the dark and fed, well, free food.
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by joeyh 15y ago
This kind of list makes me sad, because I've read every book on it (except the classic military SF one).
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by joeyh 15y ago
If you wanted to use git in this situation, rather than svn, I'd recommend using git-annex ( http://git-annex.branchable.com/ ). It avoids those binaries bloating the history while still letting branches "contain" specific versions of them.
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Git User's Survey 2011(survs.com)
4 points by joeyh 15y ago|0 comments
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by joeyh 15y ago
In my experience, EU borders are very easy to go thru without declaring anything. If you really want to there is IIRC someplace to go at HEL after the passport stamp to do it.. but it's very easy to miss.
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by joeyh 15y ago
The link pointed to an IP address that appeared to be a wikileaks mirror; the z.gpg file was buried deep in the mirror in a directory that also, interestingly had a large x.gpg and a y.gpg.
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by joeyh 15y ago
Cryptome has the password and a link to the leaked file at the top of their page.
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by joeyh 15y ago
If the airlines cared about this problem, they could eliminate much of it by dropping the checked baggage surcharges. Enormous bags that barely fit or whose owners can't lift them was IIRC not as much a problem 12 years ago, when checked lu
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by joeyh 15y ago
I always board last. I'm going to be spending too many hours on the plane anyway, why would I want to spend yet another hour sitting motionless on the tarmac when I could be out where there's power and wifi and restrooms? So I book an aisle
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by joeyh 15y ago
The reason it's a mailing list: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2010-March/0... Also touches on the discoverability problems with using mailing lists like this. I wish I'd been reading this list thirteen years ago when it
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by joeyh 15y ago
"Someone managed to hack in by brute force anyway. I only noticed because of the _millions_ of automated replies that were coming in every day from dead email accounts or people that were out of office." This is not a description of your
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by joeyh 15y ago
Seems like there are fewer haskell talks going out now on the net than there were in '09 or '07. Though the older talks as collected at < http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Video_presentations&#62 ; are a great resource still. Or are they j
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by joeyh 15y ago
I played it, but my laptop does not have flash installed, so nyah.
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by joeyh 15y ago
For debugging my haskell code I first determine if the bug is in a pure function or IO. If it's in IO I use typical print type debugging (either running the IO action in ghci or just rerunning my program repeatedly). If it's in a pure funct
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by joeyh 15y ago
Why leave out "Progress" from the title of the article here? (I noticed NPR doing the same thing on the radio which told me that some Russian spaceship without, apparently, a name, was lost. Sort of as if, since it's Russian, we shouldn't c

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