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There Is A Horse In The Apple Store(frankchimero.com)
2 points by lubutu 14y ago|0 comments
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by lubutu 14y ago
A meta-corollary: whenever a headline with a question mark appears on Hacker News, there will be at least one comment referring to Betteridge. (Please, can this stop?)
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by lubutu 14y ago
Analogously, "you don't need maths to tell you that one and one is two."
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by lubutu 14y ago
In POSIX -R is the recursion flag for ls, cp, rm, etc. So if you want to recurse, -R is probably a safer bet than -r. (ls -r just lists in reverse.)
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One Hundred Years of Laziness(lubutu.com)
1 points by lubutu 14y ago|0 comments
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by lubutu 14y ago
Some of those American massacres go back to the 14th century. It's quite possible that more have occurred in the USA than the UK, but that's hardly a fair comparison.
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by lubutu 14y ago
I'm not sure that's true. Though it obviously depends more on the programmer themself, the semantics of a language can make it easier, at least, to write higher quality code. For example, bounds checking removes a whole class of bugs (proba
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by lubutu 14y ago
I suppose what I'm trying to say is that for me it wasn't that there was "something I wanted to do and I used a programming language", but rather that I wanted to use a programming language so I found something to do. For me it was about th
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by lubutu 14y ago
I think the way that one learns to program says a lot about the programmer. I, like many people, started with games and websites, but although I understood conditionals and loops, and even glimpsed OO, I wasn't very good. My software sucked
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by lubutu 14y ago
Wayland may improve the speed of compositing on the Linux desktop, but it's very unlikely to improve consistency or reliability. Wayland applications draw their own window decorations (rather than a window manager), which obviously doesn't
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by lubutu 14y ago
'Conjecture' is a verb as well as a noun. But I'll admit it sounds weird — by French inflection one would expect "I conject", which seems to be obsolete...
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by lubutu 14y ago
The docopt documentation suggests that a lone "--", signifying the end of the command-line flags, is only supported if "[--]" is added explicitly to the syntax string. In my opinion this is a mistake, and may even break POSIX XBD §12 [1]. I
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by lubutu 14y ago
If anyone's interested, a while back I put together a table of commands available in various versions of ed, from 1st edition UNIX up to POSIX, as well as sam. It's largely academic, but I did find it interesting how features crept in. htt
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by lubutu 14y ago
You believe that text as a universal interface isn't a good design principle because it doesn't reflect how other UIs, built upon completely different principles, behave? Is it not possible that it remains a good principle that WIMP GUIs si
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by lubutu 14y ago
I would argue that very few of today's programmers really follow the Unix philosophy, but those I know who do would likely agree that our tools should be reassessed. But you seem to be conflating the idea of reassessing our tools and reas
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by lubutu 14y ago
You're looking for ctags or cscope, the first of which is mentioned in the blog. As for code analysis and warnings, surely that's a property of the compiler being used?
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by lubutu 14y ago
A slight tangent, but dmenu-4.5 uses token matching, which allows you to search somewhat fuzzily: "foo rb" will match "foobarbaz". How it looks compared to Alfred and co. is a matter of one's aesthetic... Disclosure: I'm a dmenu developer.
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by lubutu 14y ago
If all the non-volatile in-process data structures have the same semantics, with type annotations etc, one can imagine those structures being just as transparent and ready for inspection as modern filesystems are.
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by lubutu 14y ago
I don't want to be mean, but do you really feel the need to update us with who you've shown this to, and who liked whose tweet, every 5 minutes? The signal to noise ratio in your comment is pretty low... In future could you keep it a little
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by lubutu 14y ago
As I said, Coraid uses it for SANs. The question you're asking is equivalent to "Windows can play games, why doesn't Linux have any games?" Some of the things you might do with Unix Plan 9 cannot do. However, the reverse is also true. You s
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by lubutu 14y ago
It very much depends on what you want to do. But yes, you can certainly do things with Plan 9. Ruling out Plan 9 because it does run a certain language, or doesn't run Postgres, is like ruling out Linux because it can't run Microsoft Office
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by lubutu 14y ago
I think I agree with you, that it's (for those who actually do like Unix) a discoverability problem, but then I think that can be helped by simply reducing the number of command line tools. If you have a small set of tools you know extremel
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by lubutu 14y ago
I agree that programmers should learn the 'Unix philosophy', but lumping Perl in there doesn't make much sense. Perl is just a scripting language, like Python or Ruby, and one of which I'm not particularly fond. It does not espouse 'one too
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by lubutu 14y ago
That API is actually quite well designed, thanks. I don't really use Python anymore, but if I did I'd really consider using it. Although "bake" should really be "curry".
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by lubutu 14y ago
I agree. In Go break is the default, and there's an explicit 'fallthrough' statement.
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by lubutu 14y ago
Sudo has authentication timeouts built in, so you don't have to type in your password ( your password, not root's) every time you want to run an administrative program. Also, the fact that you have to sudo is one of the reasons why Unix is
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by lubutu 14y ago
As a vegetarian growing up in England, I remember having non-packed lunch at primary school only once: I was given a hamburger, and told to take the burger out. At the time I just took it in my stride, but on reflection...
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by lubutu 14y ago
I don't quite understand what the difference is between Light Table's modes and IDEs' plugins. Domain-specific components are exactly what make IDEs 'integrated'; without them they are generalised editors. But there is absolutely no differe
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by lubutu 14y ago
Brainfuck is almost 20 years old, and extremely well-known. Is this really worth a submission?
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by lubutu 14y ago
There is no reason to use clear during a terminal session. ^L (Ctrl-L) does this for you in one key press, without needing to clear your input or fill your history.

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