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by metabrew 16y ago
We're essentially a nicely designed web-based irc interface with integrated hosted bouncer. You don't usually get that for free afaik, you'd have to run a bouncer yourself on a vps or something, or attach to screen and use irssi. Plenty of
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by metabrew 16y ago
My favourite prompt-hack is to colourise the $ when the previous command exits non-zero, here's how I have my bash PS1 set up: http://www.metabrew.com/article/updated-bash-ps1 If you exit `top` by pressing q, it exits with non-zero - who
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by metabrew 16y ago
Seems like everyone trying out node.js for the first time wants to make chat-room apps. At least this one doesn't have an immediately obvious script injection vulnerability :) Interestingly, none of the chat apps I've really used are built
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by metabrew 16y ago
fwiw, I've had a good experience with yajl in the past. http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/
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by metabrew 16y ago
Cool. There are a few disparate erlang implementation right now. Misultin has one, zotonic has one, I patched mochiweb to support websockets on the same port too: https://github.com/RJ/mochiweb
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by metabrew 16y ago
Nice writeup - what websocket implementation are you using?
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Kinect-controlled tesla coils: Evil Genius Simulator(tomscott.com)
74 points by metabrew 16y ago|18 comments
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by metabrew 16y ago
C1M is the new C10K. C10K is not even close to being a real problem any more. I expect my phone can handle 10K connections. Making a million outbound connections, on the other hand, requires a little more care. Mostly because you need 16+ I
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by metabrew 16y ago
I'm the one quoted there (RJ). It's worth pointing out that I've not worked at Last.fm for a couple of years, and the chat log (which I posted) doesn't mention Last.fm at all. That said, I still think my analysis is bang on. What Apple have
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Man places his genome in public domain, on Github(manu.sporny.org)
125 points by metabrew 16y ago|24 comments
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by metabrew 16y ago
Absolutely no content, sources, or anything new whatsoever. Not news.
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by metabrew 16y ago
This is insane and should be cause for extreme suspicion.. As a sysadmin if someone asks you to do this, the correct response is "haha not likely", and at the very least confirm their identity - call them or something. Don't sent the passwo
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by metabrew 16y ago
Prescient - I read this right after patching [1] jekyll (static site generator) and sending mojombo a pull request on github without any mailing list or other discussion. For quick/simple patches, I find the pull-request approach to be way
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by metabrew 16y ago
This must be an amazingly fun AI competition :) Would be great if Blizzard officially opened up a bot api for SC2 and made a special league for people to compete with them. I expect blizzard have a lot of data mined from ladder games that
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by metabrew 16y ago
I would love to encrypt my phone, I hope Android gets full disk encryption soon.
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by metabrew 16y ago
That's a pretty good idea - you could probably recreate the delicious network feed by federating couches. I could replicate my friends' couchdbs into mine in a mesh network topology and create my own network feed.
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by metabrew 16y ago
It works because the translator can write template code that is executed by the templating engine at runtime, so the translator can write something like this as the translation: {switch $d} {case 1} foo {$d}... {case 2} {$d} bar..
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by metabrew 16y ago
At Last.fm we used PHP+Smarty with a gettext-esque pre-compilation step (a bit like IntSmarty) for templates that allowed translators to embed smarty templating code, so you could write this in smarty: {l}Found {$d} directories{/l} a
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by metabrew 16y ago
Riak has "windowed merges", ie you can schedule compaction at your off-peak times. Or not at all, I guess, if you never delete or modify existing data.
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by metabrew 16y ago
Perhaps during the transition we would have automated-car lanes, like we have carpool lanes today.
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by metabrew 16y ago
http://www.delicious.com/tags/richardjones
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by metabrew 16y ago
or <ESC>-. if you recently got a macbook and can't figure out how to remap the silly keyboard defaults and make alt work properly in a terminal..
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by metabrew 16y ago
there are some hipe_bifs that let you do naughty and unpure things like destructive modification of arrays and what-not.
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by metabrew 16y ago
Just watched the video of the talk, "the reason we didn't use the otp release process is that the documentation was very obscure at the time..".
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by metabrew 16y ago
Yes you can trigger updates just by doing this in most cases: sys:suspend(Pid), {module, my_module} = code:load_file(my_module), sys:change_code(Pid, my_module, undefined, [], 10000), sys:resume(Pid); But you still need a way to do that for
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by metabrew 16y ago
Interesting to see that they mention loving the hot code reloading/upgrades, but also that they don't use the OTP release/upgrade functionality. I wonder what their process is.. Just coping over new .beams and loading them is fine for funct
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by metabrew 16y ago
Hell yes, my number one most desired feature for android is proper strong encryption of the whole system. I'm reticent to cache any passwords on there or store useful but sensitive data on my phone since I can't easily encrypt it (unlike my
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by metabrew 16y ago
On my macbook (with intel/nvidia auto switching graphics) chrome will grab the nvidia card and never release it. If i force it to use the onboard intel card it works fine, and doesn't get insanely hot running flash videos. That hurts batter
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by metabrew 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.net/lists
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by metabrew 16y ago
I love how he describes it as "a mass of granular material encased in a latex membrane". I bet that looks really nice when typeset with latex :)

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