leif

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by leif 15y ago
Character delay is an issue over a sufficiently long distance network cable, forget mobile connections. Good thing I have tramp, and it doesn't ship it's own crypto....
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by leif 15y ago
writing math in this has got to be hell...especially when 'sup' is a typesetting keyword
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by leif 15y ago
Ubuntu is not a good example of a UNIX environment. That said, really? It doesn't come with gcc anymore? I find this offensive.
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by leif 15y ago
Ubuntu is a pretty weak unix. How do you really go about this? Where did you get your compiler? Where did you get autotools? My point is that OSX doesn't contain the basic requirements for bootstrapping by default anymore.
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by leif 15y ago
I contend that those are not traditional unices either. This is a very personal definition, but I think a useful one for most that are interested in the distinction.
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by leif 15y ago
I don't. Then again, I write systems C, so I don't really need to keep up with technology much. If anything, I keep up by reading the emails intel sends me. This is very domain-specific.
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by leif 15y ago
Today, it comes without a compiler. Getting one, and finding out where it got installed, is non-trivial. I don't like that.
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by leif 15y ago
Whoever downvoted me, please say why. If I'm wrong, I'm very curious to know why (because I work on a macbook and I'd like my life to be easier).
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by leif 15y ago
Wrong. They are a stripped, gutted, non-traditional UNIX with a really nice windowing system on top.
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by leif 15y ago
Installing a large number of useful unix programs is difficult or impossible. This is getting worse (see the recent changes that came with Xcode 4.3). Fink/MacPorts/Homebrew are horrible kludges when compared to what can be done with a fu
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by leif 15y ago
Macs do not have the same power as a traditional unix. They are a lot nicer to work on once you get them set up properly though.
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by leif 15y ago
I use ido-mode for file browsing, and semantic for code browsing. etags will get you quite far, semantic-symref gets you the rest of the way (though you can use cscope instead, through xcscope.el). ECB can be helpful but I don't find I ne
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by leif 15y ago
> Also I feel that this discussion is somewhat misplaced. Yeah, probably. :)
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by leif 15y ago
Why do you think dropbox is unlikely to find an acquirer? Because they're too proud to get absorbed into Apple? I can easily see them being a massive acqui-hire, as they've solved the problems Apple, Google, and Microsoft (lexicographical
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by leif 15y ago
You could not be more wrong. I have probably worked more for my fonts than for anything else about my system, on any linux distro I've tried (on OSX, the rendering's fine but the actual font choices kind of blow...there I have other problem
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by leif 15y ago
My company doesn't produce a website, but we run a large suite of tests nightly, and before every release.
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by leif 15y ago
What do you think gentoo was? When I used it (2005-7ish), I think it was a toy for brat haxxors. At the time, I was a brat haxxor, so it worked well.
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by leif 15y ago
I have seen arch break pretty spectacularly, but only on systems where i did some, to put it delicately, unadvisable things (put /tmp, /var/tmp on tmpfs, put /usr on unionfs over squashfs, etc). Where I have avoided breaking standard practi
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by leif 15y ago
I have had the best font experience on arch, out of gentoo, debian, Ubuntu, fedora, centos, and FreeBSD. It wasn't straight out of the box, but it was easier to make happen than on any of the others.
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by leif 15y ago
I didn't know about this (on and off, but current and likely more consistent in the future arch user). From me, and anyone in my position, thank you.
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by leif 15y ago
Also, you can do a lot (relative to where you started) in 1 year or 5 (depending on your market), as compared to where you started. 10 years after you start though, you had better have something globally significant to show for it, or you
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by leif 15y ago
Also http://www.metacrawler.com/ This was my go-to search engine before I knew that URLs could be saved and loaded in another place to the same effect.
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by leif 15y ago
I've also heard of people getting other carriers to buy them out of their existing contract. No idea how to approach this though.
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by leif 15y ago
> It is understandable that the group wishes to remain anonymous (excuse the pun) This is the most offensive thing in the article.
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by leif 15y ago
I don't know of any to point you to. They probably exist, but I haven't read them. Let me know if you stir some up.
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by leif 15y ago
1: You're still wrong. One person's typo is not a slight against physics. 2: That's what "sarcastic quotes" are for.
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by leif 15y ago
You clearly have little to no musical background, and think that your basic math skills are a substitute. The overtones present in a cymbal or triangle are not straight multiples of the fundamental, they are chaotic, and are very important
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by leif 15y ago
Even if it's not write-infrequent, you can still try these ideas in SQL if you use a write-optimized database like tokudb (the one I work on).
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by leif 15y ago
Does anyone know where distcc+bonjour support went? This existed in 4.2.
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by leif 15y ago
learning math

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