madhouse

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by madhouse 13y ago
I wanted to learn a functional language, because I was frustrated with C, and none of the OO languages I could use at the time (C++, Java or Python. These were the languages used at work, so I was restricted to these) filled me with confide
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by madhouse 13y ago
Coding in C is, in my experience, a terrible, terrible thing. There are part of it that are interesting, for a while, but every time I have to touch C, I get frustrated, because I have to run long laps to get anything meaningful done in a s
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by madhouse 13y ago
Never said it would be leading. But more distributions switching to journal-only is a good thing, because that makes it that much easier for the rest to follow suit.
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by madhouse 13y ago
While I'm not a Fedora user, I wish them good luck, and hope the change goes through. It would be of great benefit for other distributions aswell, and perhaps we could get rid of traditional syslog for good at some point... (wishful th
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by madhouse 13y ago
No, it is not. It's a "code hosting" thing, which is semi-official, but is more like a code dump than a repository used for development.
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by madhouse 15y ago
You can pretty easily get a list of SOPA supporters (eg, from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_supp... ). Good luck boycotting them all! However, I didn't say the boycott wasn't OK, either. It sure is, and
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by madhouse 15y ago
It isn't a clear choice, because the service they provide is something I didn't have a problem with, and moving would mean extra work and effort I'm not willing to pay. Why am I not willing to pay the price? Because, as I wrote, I'd have
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by madhouse 15y ago
A lot of other companies were involved in writing SOPA, and even more support it still, that are not treated the same way GoDaddy is. There are a lot of other CEOs who did very bad things - but I don't see people boycotting them, either. Ju
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by madhouse 15y ago
No, for multiple reasons: * I never had problems with it. * I registered my domains via google, I have no idea how to move to a different registrar, and I'm not motivated enough to find out. * If I started to stop using services where I don
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by madhouse 15y ago
I played with Haskell, to the point of being able to read and understand larger chunks of Haskell code - but I haven't written anything of note in it yet. Not sure I ever will, either. I started playing with it due to git-annex (which was w
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by madhouse 15y ago
A jumping man, in C+4 BASIC: clear screen, draw an ASCII stick figure, for loop to wait, clear screen, draw stick figure in different position, for loop to wait, goto 10. I still know it by heart, though it was written more than two decades
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by madhouse 15y ago
As far as I see (with my limited Haskell and Clojure knowledge), Haskell, being pure functional, has a much steeper learning curve than Clojure, which while mostly functional, focuses a bit more on being practical. Furthermore, Clojure can
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by madhouse 15y ago
Flot ( http://code.google.com/p/flot/ ) is missing from that list.
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by madhouse 15y ago
Convenient dates. Now I only need to convince $work to sponsor my trip, yes, yes.
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by madhouse 15y ago
Most of the time, by looking at a backtrace (I primarly debug C stuff, by the way), I already have a good idea what the problem might be. Tracking that down in a debugger is horribly inefficient, especially if optimisations are involved (ho
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by madhouse 15y ago
target="_blank" is horrible. It was a stupid thing in the beginning, and remains to be awful to this day. If I want to open something in a new tab or window, I will do so, no website should tinker with my tabs and windows, be it opening new
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by madhouse 15y ago
The only stupid thing you did is feeling down about a single wrong decision made very early in your life. Don't worry, you'll make much more of those in the next 60 years, and this one will pale in comparsion. And anyway, the latest one wil
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by madhouse 15y ago
The things you shouldn't leave in your blog post: 8) auto-converted to a smiley image (well, any kind of automatic conversion to a graphical smiley face is generally a bad idea, but this blog post only has 8) :P). It kinda destroys every bi
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by madhouse 15y ago
In the best case, you can look at their contribution to open source software (their github/bitbucket/google code/etc profile). Those are, in most cases, very telling. Sadly, it's not always an option.
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by madhouse 15y ago
Would running Windows in Virtualbox be an option? Then you have the full power of a unix-like system, yet, you still have access to windows. If not, and you really wish to go the other way around, then Debian is the distribution you're look
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by madhouse 15y ago
nginx supports FastCGI, and CGIs can be supported via fcgiwrap and similar tools, it works remarkably well, and configuration's easy.
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by madhouse 15y ago
My experience shows otherwise. When I listen to some deep, gloomy metal, that's a far higher diversion than listening to, say, some ambient music with a female singer. Even though the latter has far more high notes.
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by madhouse 15y ago
Why does 1.8->2.0 break their own stated versioning scheme? It just says that the major will rarely change - and that is correct. The major changed only once so far, since 2009. One major version bump in two years isn't that bad, and ca
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by madhouse 15y ago
Depends on the situation. If it makes sense to improve my code (it's still actively developed or maintained, and changing the implementation does not introduce incompability (or if it does, then it outweights the trouble of updating depende
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by madhouse 15y ago
Gee, what a sensationalist title. Luckily, only the title, but still.
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by madhouse 15y ago
Personally, I find most of facebook and the rest of its ilk nothing more than noise. Nevertheless, I don't mind their existence: its users usually yell their noises within the boundaries of these sites, which in turn decreases noise elsewhe
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by madhouse 15y ago
I found that in the vast majority of cases, just opening in a new tab if I want to be sure not to leave the page will do the right thing. When it doesn't, well.. that's one more broken UI I'm not going to use again. Thus, I always assume th
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by madhouse 15y ago
Please don't. If I want to open a link in a new tab or window, I'll use the appropriate key and/or mouse magic to do so. If I click on a link without modifiers, I want to leave the current page, thank you very much. I usually stop visiting
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by madhouse 15y ago
As long as disks can be manufactured, and data centers can be built, we're not going to run out of storage space.
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by madhouse 15y ago
You need as much space (as in, disk space) as there is content to server, plus a bit more. It's not the disk space you should worry about, though. (Even an entry level server at whatever hosting company will have plenty of space to host pre

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