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by m_sahaf 9y ago
And he did spell it with an e afterall :) https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/897555509141794817
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
It's been a while since I used it, but Revel[0] is almost within the same family as Rails. The developers of Revel say they're inspired by the Play Framework. Another option that looks nice is the Buffalo[1]. It's a collectio
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Oddly, no one here linked to Gary Bernhardt's talk: The Birth & Death of JavaScript (YavaScript) [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Here are the slides for the talk: https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide#39 The particular slide linked above answers the question "what are the advantages of having their own assembler." Turns out, they&#x2
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
I had a Java II professor who often said in class something along the lines of "between speed and memory, use more memory. Memory is cheap." So it's, somewhat, passed attitude through academia to students.
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On the (Perceived) Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt(troyhunt.com)
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I Shall Call It.. SomethingManager (2006)(blog.codinghorror.com)
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Looks interesting. I probably need to get my hands dirty to understand how it's different from Hashicorp's Vault. A quick glance says it's a cloud-based solution with simpler UX. I see only client binaries and sign-up instruc
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
To be fair to the author, the paragraph immediately following that code snippet says: "However, this approach has several flaws and should not be used. It is given here only to illustrate the theory with a practical example. The next s
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Many banks in Saudi Arabia have changed their standard for PIN length from 6 digits to 4 digits. I cannot comprehend why would anyone make such decision.
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Actually, the "Go and Simplicity Debt Redux" is not the same as the one you referenced. The current post is part 2.
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
For what it's worth, there isn't a single line of Java in the source code. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Sorry, I don't know about running it in docker. My usecase is personal lightweight repos management, so I just download the binary and run it backed by SQLite. Never faced any issues with that. I never needed to go fancy with docker.
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
I've played with Pla9 a bit and I find it overall interesting. Here are the things from the top of my head that are improvements over Unix: - Truly everything is a file. No exceptions; no special cases. - Symlinks do not feel like a ha
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Someone has a solution to your problem: https://github.com/tschottdorf/bikesheddb
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Thanks for mentioning that. It seems like this bug wasn't reported yet, so I have filed a bug report.
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
Gitea[0] is extremely simple to host, if you want a self-hosted solution that's not as heavy as gitlab. [0] https://gitea.io
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
There was Oden[0], which is supposed to be a functional programming language inspired by/and written in Go. That, until a few months ago when the author stepped down. [0] https://github.com/oden-lang/oden
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by m_sahaf 9y ago
> I also don't know how an ISP would get your actual internet history if the website uses HTTPS. Until the world switches to DNSCrypt, DNS-over-HTTPS, or DNS-over-TLS and while most Internet users are using ISP provided DNS resolve
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Essence of Calculus [Videos](youtube.com)
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by m_sahaf 10y ago
Someone managed to have emacs standalone on the Linux kernel.[0] Maybe it will be possible to run it on bare metal with the help of Mezzano or Yalo.[1] [0] http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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On the Foolishness of Natural Language Programming – Dijkstra (1978)(cs.utexas.edu)
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by m_sahaf 10y ago
I didn't even get that far with Scaleway. Their lack of two-factor authentication is a major turn-off.
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics (2013)(feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
143 points by m_sahaf 10y ago|38 comments
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by m_sahaf 10y ago
Everyone else is suggesting goimports, but here's another trick: import _ "unused/package" This is usually used to benefit from the packages' side-effects (e.g. trigger init() - mostly used in SQL drivers
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by m_sahaf 10y ago
I used to think, like you, that Fortran is a dead language. Later I learned that it's still used in SciPy[1] (and I believe NumPy, but can't find a reference). [1] https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/faq.html#how-c
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by m_sahaf 10y ago
I don't understand why everyone complains about Google+ being a "ghost town." Google+ has become a vibrant social network for individuals of common interest, cliques if you may. Vibrant, active, and engaging communities of sc
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Why Watson and Siri Are Not Real AI(popularmechanics.com)
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by m_sahaf 11y ago
Sure I cron, but only if I knew it'll be a common occurrence. The first time he faced it, I was in town, so I just dropped by, did it, and thought it's an anomaly. The other times I was in another city, so I walked him through the
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by m_sahaf 11y ago
To add to you, I present my mere anecdote: I have an uncle who, somehow, manages to get all kinds of adware and whatnot on his computer no matter what antivirus/internet security/voltron PC protection suit. Then comes me periodica

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