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by martinced 14y ago
I understand he's a kernel developer but to me this sounds exactly the same as people who kept repeating, since years: "Don't create a ramdisk (a true, fixed size, one, that you prevent from ever getting to disk) because the (Linux) kernel
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by martinced 14y ago
How representative are the "160 million users" that Net Applications is using (yes, I did read TFA and I find it very light on their metodology and on what they're actually measuring) to produce these numbers? Last time I checked there was
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by martinced 14y ago
I kinda like the idea but... Coaches for online poker had that convenient that you could get a coach whose prices would always been within your reach: if you were a regular winner (or break even) at, say, $25NL then you probably had a few $
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by martinced 14y ago
The thing wrong with Emacs is that not enough people know Lisp / elisp / CL well enough to enhance Emacs and hence prefer to create new "non programmable editors" instead of enhancing Emacs : ( As a long time Emacs user this saddens me a lo
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by martinced 14y ago
Just as several users here: I have two dedicated Kimsufi (a word play on "qui me suffit" meaning: "which is enough for me") since years. One of them reached a 4 digits uptime (then there has been some modification on the bay and it got reb
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by martinced 14y ago
> I would imagine the Firefox developers spend their time optimizing the parts of their browser that users would most likely use. I suspect that they are not terribly worried about an action that users would take (at most) once every si
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by martinced 14y ago
Then you buy two books and put one in a safe at a bank and, once in a while, you keep it in sync with the one you keep at home / on the road. If a burglar steals it, you can run at the bank to take your 'backup list of passwords' and start
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by martinced 14y ago
Self-made Lisp, in-memory database and hacking the Linux kernel: what's not to like about it ; ) I'm wondering: how does one decide to change the TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN from 60 seconds to 20 seconds? 20 seems an arbitrary picked value: I underst
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by martinced 14y ago
A demo account would be nice...
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by martinced 14y ago
Way before I got into PC / Linux I was into C64 and Amiga piracy as a kid. When we had stuff that needed more than two or three disks we'd use additional disks as a redundancy method. I don't remember all the redundancy details but basica
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by martinced 14y ago
I disagree... Because of the tools we have! If only our regular diff tools were able to work on semantic units then we could maybe be laxer on coding standards. Once again Google got it right in their Go language: there's an official spe
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by martinced 14y ago
By your logic we'd still all be reading books as they were typeset hundreds years ago (hint: they're pretty dense and definitely not convenient to read) and we'd all be driving while trying to decipher poorly typeset roadsigns (which is ver
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by martinced 14y ago
Could Light Table, from the start, think about a "server mode"? Eclipse can be run in server mode (even headless if you want) and you can then connect to Eclipse using, say, vim + eclim or emacs + emacs-eclim. This would be great because I
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by martinced 14y ago
Exactly. I've played millions (!) of real-money online poker hands and won some money in the process (not anywhere near what most people who've played that many hands did). Most people don't understand that, when you're able to recognize p
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by martinced 14y ago
It could have easily been called "how i lost 500k with machine learning". If you've really worked in that field than it's very surprising you've never heard about what professional poker players call bankroll management (and they "stole"
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by martinced 14y ago
Can't find any of your "leavesofcode" links : ( I'm sorry but I've professionally worked in the mobile space for years and the idea that it is easy is simply false. I've done BREW and J2ME you know how hard it was. Devices weren't "spec c
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by martinced 14y ago
I'm a long time Java dev and lately it's been terrible, totally terrible, for Java from a security point of view. A gigantic fiasco. Flash's track record is very poor too. Saying that something is "less vulnerable" than these two really
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by martinced 14y ago
Why is it that nearly everytime some coding blog writes about something interesting you've got lots and lots of people criticizing the entry and saying, basically, that "the old way of doing thing is just fine, it's just you that are too st
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by martinced 14y ago
I've been using IntelliJ since version 4 or so. But there are just so many times where it simply doesn't cut it compare to Emacs that I've always been running both simultaneously, both configured to "re-synch upon file modification" :-/ Ric
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by martinced 14y ago
France is destroying its future wealth and its destroying it fast. It's already one of the country with the most obstacles when you want to create a business: there are laws at basically every "level of power" and because it's one of the mo
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by martinced 14y ago
This is so wrong. vim has eclim, which is a bridge to Eclipse (you can either run Eclipse visually or use Eclipse in server mode) and provides all the Eclipse auto-completion. It just works. It actually works so well that the "emacs eclim
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by martinced 14y ago
Editor war! You are confusing non-expressive languages like C# and Java which needs lots of "refactoring" and lots of boilerplate code (hence the need for code generators which understand "patterns" and refactoring tools etc.) with "product
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by martinced 14y ago
It's better than that: several quality keyboards do not even come with a CAPS LOCK key anymore. For example if you're into quality switches, rated for 50 millions keypresses and providing a better tactile feedback than the typical $5 chines
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by martinced 14y ago
/rant on I don't agree that the various EU governments are starting to "get it". It's the entire contrary for a lot of countries. There are very, very few, say, EU success software stories (SAP! Yeah. German. Not french). And it's not just
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by martinced 14y ago
"Thousands of people blocking access to a bunker containing gold is just as serious as someone breaking into the bunker and stealing the gold". Really?
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by martinced 14y ago
I think I've seen an Emacs video using the same "fake old retro" scanline look but I'm not sure how it was made. Could have been postprocessed on the whole video too. Does anyone know how this effect was achieved?
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by martinced 14y ago
(long rant but since you're asking ; ) No you're not the only one: I do the same since so many decades that I won't change anymore ; ) The '6' issue on split keyboard is a gigantic SNAFU. Contrarily to popular belief there's not "one true