lil1729

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by lil1729 6y ago
Same here Mark. Thanks for putting these words so nicely. I have also stopped using commercial social network like Twitter. People do not even know that their brains are being manipulated. And people who had nothing to do with Free Software
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by lil1729 6y ago
Oh, he wants poor students who write free software in their free time and give it away to emulate DJB and also offer $500 for bugs others found in their software.
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by lil1729 10y ago
Yes, totally agree with your observations. I am also hoping to eventually move into the "everyone is remote" model. Minority remote model just does not work for me. I consistently get rated less in performance appraisals despite d
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by lil1729 10y ago
+1 to all the points made. I have been working remotely for a while now. These are the things I learned. - time difference matters. It is better if there is some overlap with at least some people in the team. - "showing up" (via v
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by lil1729 10y ago
I have only looked at the slides, but sorry to say, I find it very "hand wavy". Don't mistake me. I love Julia's work and her enthusiasm.
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Torvalds credits the GPLv2 license for preventing fragmentation of Linux(twitter.com)
1 points by lil1729 10y ago|0 comments
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by lil1729 10y ago
Yes. But the amount of information in the debian/copyright file is a lot more than just one scalar flag. I think that level of detail on the licenses is extremely important.
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by lil1729 10y ago
I think using same field names in multiple records is possible with a GHC extension in GHC 8.0.1. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/OverloadedReco... https://ghc.haskell.org/t
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by lil1729 10y ago
Thank you.
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by lil1729 10y ago
Thanks for educating me. I was totally mistaken. Thanks.
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by lil1729 10y ago
btrfs perhaps? or zfs?
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by lil1729 10y ago
Thanks.
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by lil1729 10y ago
I think I should have been clear. It does not make Unix single user machine but it is more useful for cases where a single user is the main user of a machine like the laptop user. My reasoning was very simple. Nixos makes it easy to install
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by lil1729 10y ago
http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html Yes, I know it is fixed. But who knows what one runs into! And this: http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2005-08-22-how-to-change-symli...
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by lil1729 10y ago
I used nixos for a few weeks and then went back to Debian. * I share the concern of the author on symlinks farm. It is scary! I would like it to be dealt with in the filesystem layer (Plan 9 had a snapshot based filesystem - fossil - years
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by lil1729 10y ago
Appreciate the great work! British did a lot of nasty killings in India as well, for instance the Jalianwala Bagh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
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by lil1729 10y ago
I didn't say it is commendable work. SIP is what we have at the moment as a standard and is being used by a lot of products out there and it was written by a Cisco employee. That is all I said. I am not intimately familiar with SIP to
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by lil1729 10y ago
The Stanford/Coursera course on algorithms part 1 is a good resource for Big O. Knuth's "Concrete mathematics", 9th chapter (I think) has some good coverage on Big-O/Omega notation.
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by lil1729 10y ago
I have looked at Android code. It is awful. Now, I don't form opinions about Google engineers based just on that code. I meant to say, generalizations don't always work well. They may have bad engineers. But they have great engine
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by lil1729 10y ago
Or in other words, how to "parameterise" a container. An interesting idea.
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by lil1729 10y ago
Thanks for saying this. Or in other words, there are two steps: 1. Make git aware of your signing key git config user.signingkey "..." 2. Sign the commit git commit -S ... That's it.
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Code inflation [pdf](spinroot.com)
3 points by lil1729 10y ago|0 comments
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by lil1729 10y ago
"unprofessional"? really? I have been reading lwn since 2000 and it is the single most important site when it comes to general Free Software news and in depth information. Jon is a kernel developer and not a web programmer, still
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Yesterday’s NeWS(medium.com)
3 points by lil1729 10y ago|0 comments
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by lil1729 10y ago
https://medium.com/@slavapestov/yesterdays-news-c52f2be95205... "Unlike X11, where the graphics primitives were rather low-level and all input event handling involved round-trips to the client, NeWS was advanced e
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by lil1729 10y ago
"Long term" and "cloud" in one sentence! Isn't "long term cloud" an oxymoron? There is no cloud, only other person's computers.
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by lil1729 10y ago
yep, I have done that too, with a third hand and a lens, as I have a bad eye sight.
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by lil1729 10y ago
http://www.piclist.com/techref/pcb/manhattan.htm
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by lil1729 10y ago
A lot of amateur radio HF range projects use what is known as the "manhattan style" construction where, a copper clad board is used as a ground plane, so to speak and then tiny round pads are glued to it, which act as islands. The
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by lil1729 10y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I practice. My "breadwinner" language is C/Java/C++ at the moment because that is what others in the project know and that is what makes sense in the ecosystem the project is in, my sideproj

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