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by jolan 16y ago
It also requires filesystem support. ext4 was the first support it. I believe btrfs, nilfs2, and xfs support it now as well.
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by jolan 16y ago
To be fair he did write something in response to his rant: http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/Agglomerated_SSL
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by jolan 16y ago
I just got an error trying to sign up: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 511, in __call__ handler.get(*groups) File "
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by jolan 16y ago
GeoIP is fast and there's free versions of the database. http://www.maxmind.com/app/benchmark http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity
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by jolan 16y ago
> I initially try to accomplish X in the simplest way possible by breaking it down into trivial steps. I know there is a famous programming quote that pertains to this process, but I can't find it right now Maybe this is it? A program s
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by jolan 16y ago
A group of accounts used to upvote a submission.
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by jolan 16y ago
No one on their death bed ever said "I wish I'd spent more time alone with my computer." - D. Bunten (creator of M.U.L.E.)
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by jolan 16y ago
I have C Primer Plus and it's a good companion to K&R. It's very thorough and verbose (~1000 pages). Anything in K&R that needs more explanation should be in it.
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by jolan 16y ago
Nike+ does monitoring of running and Pedalbrain does monitoring of cycling. Apple/Nike may have patents on "exercise monitors".
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by jolan 16y ago
My guess is Nike+ infringement of some sort?
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by jolan 16y ago
That's why the nickname for stable is stale.
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by jolan 16y ago
and http://www.dotdeb.org/ for php/mysql and http://debian.dc-uoit.net/debian-multimedia/ for an ffmpeg that has modernish codecs
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by jolan 16y ago
Complete secrecy is the typical modus operandi of companies. You'd probably be paying extra for SSL telnet.
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by jolan 16y ago
> Intel was telling customers they didn't need it. They were telling customers if they did need it they should buy Itanium.
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by jolan 16y ago
Wow, 215,000 users @ $9.99 per month and they still need to raise money for sending large files? I find it laughable that a service like Gmail can handle so much mail volume and provide 7GB of space but the attachment size is still limited
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by jolan 16y ago
Imagine if OpenSSH were GPL'd and every vendor who implemented it got sued for not releasing a few patch files specific to their product.
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by jolan 16y ago
Here's a couple flattr invites if anyone wants 'em: both have been used 0bff0372ffa0ed106 6860b41d1b04b64c6
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by jolan 16y ago
My takeaway was that you should use what you're most productive in; even if there happens to be some inconsequential warts.
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by jolan 16y ago
He made a good point about using HipHop for static analysis though. The weird code he found in WordPress via HipHop was a bit disconcerting considering how many copies of it are running. The performance stuff was pretty boring. 30 minutes
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by jolan 16y ago
I really like his rant that starts at the ~62 minute mark and ends with this: "PHP is just a damn tool. It's just a hammer; it's boring. It's not that interesting. I'm not that interested in it. But I need a working tool to solve problems.
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by jolan 16y ago
I've hosted my own email for 6+ years now. It's a useful skill to learn if you ever want to incorporate email features into your app. It's easy to get started and it's rather inexpensive thanks to budget VPS providers. Webmail: http://rou
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by jolan 16y ago
Canonical also ships KDE/XFCE derivatives. I don't hear those camps whinging on about this. Canonical packages the Linux kernel along with other F/OSS software and ships an ISO and some updated packages. It's not their responsibility to m
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by jolan 16y ago
> Apache has a habit of taking down memory-constrained VPSes when hit by large amounts of traffic Give Nginx a spin if you can. I use 300MB VPSes running Nginx + PHP and have memory to spare to run the dropbox daemon, lightly loaded my
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by jolan 16y ago
I'm using web-app-theme to tide me over until I'm done with coding. http://pilu.github.com/web-app-theme/
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by jolan 16y ago
It's a shame this is for webpages only. I would very much like "focus follows eyes" in my window manager.
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by jolan 16y ago
I've always wanted a(n unlimited) data-only iPhone plan and it looks like this is as close as I'll get. Hopefully Sprint prices the service reasonably.
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by jolan 16y ago
Awesome! Finally an easy way to bootstrap my startup.
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by jolan 16y ago
> How do I keep the server up to date? sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
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by jolan 16y ago
Much ado about nothing. The incompatibilities between 5.2 and 5.3 are few and solving them even on a large scale project would take all of 5 minutes.
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by jolan 16y ago
I switched to an e-cigarette All the sensation of smoking without the carcinogens and smell. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette And here's where I order my gear from: http://www.puresmoker.com/

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