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31.
by latitude 12y ago
No, Russians don't require a permission to leave the country. You are just babbling some made-up factoids. Sincerely, A Russian citizen
32.
by latitude 12y ago
Twitter should really allow advertising to your existing following . I have an account for one of my projects that I use to announce new releases and updates. This happens once every few weeks, so I would pay for an option to stick my twee
33.
by latitude 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027854
34.
by latitude 12y ago
* Whoops, thanks, my brother's tablet :-/ No, sorry, don't blog and can't mentor you. I just don't have time for either.
35.
by latitude 12y ago
It's not a theme, just some basic color palette with green for preprocessor, yellow for keywords, cyan for string and numbers and white for the rest. Dark gray for the comments. Re: animations - yeah, they are all custom, but there&#x2
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by latitude 12y ago
It's C++ on top of raw Win32 API with very light use of actual ++ features and no external dependencies except for Windows SDK. About 75KLoC in libraries (UI, RPC, event loop, tasklets, etc) and 90KLoC in the app itself. The IDE font i
37.
by latitude 12y ago
It was an exercise in quirky branding on my part - http://bvckup.tumblr.com/post/3283335299/how-bvckup-got-its-... . To my excuse it was almost 5 years ago, long before using "V" in place of a vowel becam
38.
by latitude 12y ago
Thanks, and, no, I don't, sorry. It's just a matter of observing how other people do it and then improving upon it by good old trial and error.
39.
by latitude 12y ago
Per install, with progressive discounts based on total volume.
40.
by latitude 12y ago
Yes, it is faster.
41.
by latitude 12y ago
This - backup verification - is one of few outstanding features that I will be adding shortly.
42.
by latitude 12y ago
Yes, this works just fine.
43.
by latitude 12y ago
Can you elaborate?
44.
by latitude 12y ago
It's former. It splits files into blocks (defaulting to 32KB, but that's configurable), computes hashes (two separate hashes per block) and stores them in a file in the backup config directory. These are used to detect modified bl
45.
by latitude 12y ago
Yes, I know how doctorate degrees work and what they mean. It was a joke (as indicated by a smiley) and as with every joke there's a grain of joke in it. Not all PhDs are created equal.
46.
by latitude 12y ago
To be fair, if someone casually links to a HowTo for rsync-based snapshots, saying that he can't understand how a mirroring app can be used for setting up rolling backups is a pretense modesty.
47.
by latitude 12y ago
Re: dry runs - my bad, I should've checked more carefully. Re: copying changed portions only - yes, http://bvckup2.com/#delta Re: compare file contents - not for deciding if the file was modified or not, no. There was
48.
by latitude 12y ago
It's a file-level replicator, it is just not meant for system/image backups, because those need to be aware of MBRs, partition tables and other non-FS elements.
49.
by latitude 12y ago
Oh, good point. I totally missed that, thanks. (Edit) Better now?
50.
by latitude 12y ago
No, that's the actual app. As it says right under the button - Two-week unrestricted trial Anytime upgrade to paid status
51.
by latitude 12y ago
If you are referring to the "last beta", then it's just what it says on the tin - it's the last of beta releases, meaning that it's unsupported and it's the end of the line, feature-frozen since mid May, no upd
52.
by latitude 12y ago
From what I've read persistent volume snapshots has been removed from W8 and replaced with File History. You can still use VSS to make temporary snapshots though (and that's what allows backup apps to process locked files).
53.
by latitude 12y ago
> We're trying to narrow the range of things that people consider a "backup" so that they don't get wildly disappointed in the future Aye, I totally hear you.
54.
by latitude 12y ago
It's in C++, but closer to the C than to ++. The UI is done in a thin wrapper framework that runs directly over Win32 API. Custom controls, animations, etc. - all's from scratch. It's all much easier than it looks, just need
55.
by latitude 12y ago
Care to show some examples?
56.
by latitude 12y ago
Because things happen. Like bad sectors leading to internal CRC failures, network drives disappearing, WiFi getting saturated, etc.
57.
by latitude 12y ago
This reminds me how every time someone posts a salad recipe to /r/cooking the whole discussion inevitably converges to the topic of a salad without a mayo not being a real salad ... just as it is not a salad with the mayo :) Eve
58.
by latitude 12y ago
Erm ... it's an installable standalone program. The price is for lifetime. I thought it was obvious.
59.
by latitude 12y ago
Why is it that you are surprised to see it marketed as a backup tool? I know about bup , thanks.
60.
by latitude 12y ago
Faster bulk copying, lighter build, lighter on resource usage, removable device tracking, much better UI (it's subjective, of course, but just try it out and see for yourself). Formal backup planner, dry runs, native support for runnin

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