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by mackwic 12y ago
The question is not if Placebo is an efficient method. We know for sure that it is. The question is if training and practicing meditation is better than doing nothing. If you don't beat the placebo, it could mean that there's noth
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by mackwic 12y ago
AH ! That was a nice joke, have my upvote. :) For the curious: http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autoto... (tldr: autotools won't work on windows, you need a shell emulator, like
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by mackwic 12y ago
I don't think so, the windows manager is also in userland. It's not the most documented thing, and it depends on what are "the things" of windows, there are many. :)
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by mackwic 12y ago
The open-source academical licences are a good example. For example, part of the Win32 kernel are open for academic and are heavily share between the classes, but the limitations are here. For instance, this licence: http://opens
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by mackwic 12y ago
They are divorced from the core os. Windows is a microkernel and the drivers run in userland since vista. It's a completely different matters.
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by mackwic 12y ago
Already submitted: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=lodash&sort=byPopularity&prefi... Seems like no one cares. Strange.
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by mackwic 12y ago
I don't understand. Ruby on rails is still one of the (if not the most) advanced web framework available. Mind to develop your point ?
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by mackwic 12y ago
As a startup entrepreneur which don't doubt about success and growth -- how could I ? ;) -- I am very interested in the work invested by the whole team in a sane and enjoyable workspace. What are the trade-offs ? I always feel like o
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by mackwic 12y ago
It's easier than emit obligation on the market, I guess. See it as a long-term shot. No doubt that 40M in recruitment will pay if the SO team continue to be half as good as they seems to be today (which is one of the challenges).
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by mackwic 12y ago
YES ! Definitely. Soylent is not available in Europe, so if you are OK to fedex them, I buy them all. My mail is on my profile.
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by mackwic 12y ago
Seems like it is. We use nwjs with lot of files + sqlite3[1] + bluetooth + http + child synchronization for tasks in other languages[2]. It works well, scale well, is cross-platform with changing very few of the application code (the build
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by mackwic 12y ago
Especially the full compatibility with all the HTML/CSS/JS widgets for UI, and the npm packages for computing/interfacing. I have a lot of pleasure to ship software developed with nwjs, there's plenty of choice and the i
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by mackwic 12y ago
Basically, it's a scriptable desktop application derived from a browser. Nothing to do with a server framework as it's at the other end of the pipe. ;)
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by mackwic 12y ago
By the way, who use nw here ? How ?
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by mackwic 12y ago
Agreed, but still. I don't understand what this app exactly do.
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by mackwic 12y ago
I don't think so, check what ActiveSupport brings to ruby ( http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_support_core_extensions... ). TLDR: with RoR, things like `[1,2,3].third` or `foo.present?` is highly encouraged.
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by mackwic 12y ago
Thanks for your deep explanation ! That's very refreshing ! Do you have any clue why SRV is not more widely used ?
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by mackwic 12y ago
Thank you for your kind and complete answer. Awesome and scary is exactly what we're feeling now. The end-of-day status email is a really nice advice.
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Ask HN: We're spliting our team. Any advice?
5 points by mackwic 12y ago|4 comments
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by mackwic 12y ago
Not true. It's very difficult to unlock a big budget when you have a small team. And with Coq or Haskell, you team won't be very big... Also, ADA is _a bit_ popular, but not too much. Most of the code is still done in C because of
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by mackwic 12y ago
A fairly bad answer, we can all admit that.
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by mackwic 12y ago
Every n boot (n usually around 30) is scheduled a fsck at boot. It is more a legacy thing as ext4 is really robust. I remember checking my /home/lost+founds regularly in this time and often finding random stuff, music, documents w
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by mackwic 12y ago
Well, your opinion is well informed. Please accept my apologies for answering so lightly. I was also thinking you were a troll. So, very quick points before going into the core of the discussion: > finit and initng are examples of plugin
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by mackwic 12y ago
> Not at all. Emacs is significantly extensible. systemd has no notion of a plugin or module system, or anything like that rolling eyes Please, stop doing your karma bitch. 1. Systemd is far more than an init system, it has 69 binaries
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by mackwic 12y ago
Well, sorry but sed _is_ cryptic. Let me quote an exemple for you (squeezing blank lines): >leaves a blank line at the beginning and end if there are some already. #!/usr/bin/sed -f # on empty lines, join with
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by mackwic 12y ago
Yeah yeah, of course. The hacked syntax showed by GP made me really think of sed. :)
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by mackwic 12y ago
I think that stream-oriented languages are doomed to have an arcanic syntax. Streams are a non-trivial construction, after all.
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by mackwic 12y ago
Awesome ! Let's call it sed ! Reference: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#Examples Sorry, I couldn't miss that one. :) Really, check the example. Sed is most powerful tool and can do
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by mackwic 12y ago
And, like always, there is a relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1172/ Moreover, there is no reason to use vendor-prefixed css without the soon-to-become standard css property. Bad code is bad code, Mozilla is not responsib
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by mackwic 12y ago
I really don't understand this thing about charging bandwidth. In France we are used to the free and unlimited bandwidth for all providers and hosters (see OVH, Gandi, Dedibox... but also all ISP), and the rare cases when I had to pay

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