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by m_sahaf 7y ago
And if you disagree with him, he'll reach for his ad homonym stash (mostly calling others "imbecile"), which is why I stopped following him in social media. Read his books, but stay away from everything else he produces.
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by m_sahaf 7y ago
This reminds me of a mean prank the cast of Mythbusters pulled on Adam Savage[0]. According to Adam, the team was forced into doing this by someone who wasn't with the show anymore (2015)[1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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Joe Armstrong on “Rhetorical Structure of Code”(erlang.org)
23 points by m_sahaf 7y ago|2 comments
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
It might help that Microsoft has already abandoned the stack ranking process[0]. [0] https://hbr.org/2013/11/dont-rate-your-employees-on-a-curve
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
A few years ago I had a personal project where I needed to load some of Wikipedia's tables into MySQL on a cheap computer. On my first attempt to just load the downloaded SQL scripts, the computer churned for 3 days before I called it
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
Just no. Don't think about this. It's not just headaches that come with caffeine withdrawal. The muscle pain is real, very real. Taper it off.
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
They published an article elaborating why they went with Dart: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
Use NSSM (the Non-Sucking Service Manager)[0] in combination with CoreDNS[1] and the configuration I posted. [0] https://nssm.cc/ [1] https://coredns.io/
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
I've been running a local DNS to DNS-over-TLS proxy on my machine for quite awhile using CoreDNS. The entire Corefile is: # Capture plain DNS requests and proxy them to DNS-over-TLS .:53 { forward . 127.0.0.1:5301 127.0.0.
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SQLite Database Catalog(filesig.co.uk)
2 points by m_sahaf 8y ago|0 comments
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
I've been using the Unpaywall[0] extension, and it's been a godsend. It'll detect if the webpage is about an academic paper, and it'll display a green icon on the side to click on which will take you to a free, legally o
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
I've probably said this around here before, but I wish people trade SQLite files instead of Excel workbooks. Excel (and the like) can operate on top of SQLite. This way we have data portability, data integrity, and ease of data access.
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Tpn/pdfs: Technically-Oriented PDF Collection (Papers, Textbooks, Manuals, Etc)(github.com)
3 points by m_sahaf 8y ago|0 comments
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
You were probably thinking of GWT and/or Closure-Compiler
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
Counter-example: Dart. If corporate support is a definite factor, Dart would have taken off way earlier than now. A bigger factor in TypeScript's success would be the ability to gradually migrate the projects as it's a superset of
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
Nothing changed. It wasn't off the table to begin with. See: https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
The pattern is the programmer's choice. Here's a contrary example/approach: https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
I believe the solution you're looking for is Athens[0], right? [0] https://github.com/gomods/athens
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" ~ Linus Torvalds
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
I keep saying this to my friends: I dream of the day when people exchange SQLite files instead of XLS(X), and Excel, and the like, are just an interface to that database. This way you get data integrity (Excel randomly truncating digits or
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
There are also two Bitwarden-compatible API implementations in Rust[0] and Ruby[1]. Their main advantage, IMO, is them doing away with the requirement of Microsoft SQL Server. [0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarde
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
I've used neither, but Qor looks like it's of the same family: https://github.com/qor/qor
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
To add to your comment, here are Russ Cox's comments on why the toolchain is custom and they didn't use LLVM: - (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1509700 - (2014) https://news.ycombinator.co
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Evidence points to OOP being bullshit (2013)(content.pivotal.io)
38 points by m_sahaf 8y ago|26 comments
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
This approach is probably an overkill, but this project called Cothority[0] can be used to verify binaries by semi-independent authorities to be released. One of the applications referenced in their dotSecurity talk[1] was this usecase. [0]
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by m_sahaf 8y ago
I had to transfer domains once (from WordPress to Namecheap) and the instructions explicitly required disabling the privacy guard. It was only needed for the transfer period, which was about 3 days. I would love to know why the process requ
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
On my first year of college at home (Saudi Arabia), we had what they call orientation year which consists of intensive English and math courses. I talked to our English instructor asking him if I could stop by his office everyday during his
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Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
9 points by m_sahaf 9y ago|0 comments
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
We all can memorize a handful, but not 50 of them. That approach is cute, but it doesn't scale.
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Kill the Password: A String of Characters Won’t Protect You(wired.com)
3 points by m_sahaf 9y ago|5 comments

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