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by mjn 13y ago
> the severance and extended benefits are far more generous than any layoff I've been through here in the states Interesting. Are big tech companies less generous than big engineering firms in other fields? When companies like BP, B
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by mjn 13y ago
In userspace the Unix way is about disconnected utilities connected by pipes, but that hasn't been uniformly true at more of the "system" level (well, GNU did originally have that philosophy all the way through, even down t
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by mjn 13y ago
Rackspace, Linode, and prgmr.com all offer native IPv6 to the global IPv6 internet. You could set up one of your hosts as dual-stack running an IPv4/v6 gateway and then go IPv6-only within the rest of your network. I don't believe
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by mjn 13y ago
> macros are an ugly solution, but they are a solution Tangential, but a decent example of that sort of thing, a generic red-black tree written entirely in the C preprocessor: http://www.canonware.com/download/rb&#x2
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by mjn 13y ago
If you want to provide a redirected environment for a presumptively non-malicious process, fakeroot works fine. It's not a secure sandbox, though, because it's based on intercepting system calls with LD_PRELOAD, and a process that
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by mjn 13y ago
A bit of a complex question, depending on how you word it. The federal government cannot require a state's agents to affirmatively assist it in carrying out actions or duties that the state doesn't authorize. Broadly that's k
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by mjn 13y ago
Not exactly, from what I can tell. This lets you run an individual process in a host environment, but using fine-grained privilege restrictions, and some judicially inserted virtualization. LXC runs hosts in a complete OS-level virtualized
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by mjn 13y ago
I think this comes down to some historical baggage around the original idea that people would just use association lists ("alists") by default, while hashtables would be an advanced feature used mainly in the optimization phase, w
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by mjn 13y ago
I find that mildly annoying as well, though since I came to Lisp after Unix/C, it didn't make a huge impression on me. It's possibly more grating in CL just because it doesn't fit the rest of the aesthetic: in user-writt
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by mjn 13y ago
> when you go into a brick & mortar store to buy a digital object people get confused For some part of the market I think this was actually a strength, though perhaps not a big enough strength, or not exploited well enough. We got my
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by mjn 13y ago
Very nice initiative I hadn't run across before. Some of these are likely to be false positives, but it's definitely a good move to mass-check for this kind of thing— the Debian archive should be trustworthy, not something like th
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by mjn 13y ago
Given finite dollars to spend on healthcare, how to prioritize it is a fair question, though answering it ends up very emotionally and politically loaded. Just in terms of where the money goes, though, money spent on babies is not really a
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by mjn 13y ago
I feel the same way about Spanish, but I do think some of my current interest in computation is related to computers in the curriculum when I was younger (sometimes indirectly). Among other things I remember positively: playing with Logo wh
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by mjn 13y ago
I know less about the new Linux ones, but a brief summary of the two big "traditional" ones: Linux systems traditionally use "SysV Init", the init system from AT&T UNIX System V (1983). It's the one that has: 1)
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by mjn 13y ago
Fwiw, the only other vote that's been cast so far, which is in the other direction (3 people haven't yet voted): https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00288.html
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by mjn 13y ago
I believe IBM mainframes have traditionally used something like that: binary code is shipped for a general mainframe architecture, and on first execution is specialized to the hardware / performance characteristics of the particular mo
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by mjn 13y ago
Flash will honor browser proxies for HTTP connections initiated within an app (e.g. via getURL()), but Flash apps can also open arbitrary sockets, which go directly. For Flash video, recent versions will first try a direct RTMP connection,
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by mjn 13y ago
I wouldn't say it 'inherited', but the 'culture' was one of people willing to get rid of their old stable lives for one of 'unlimited' opportunity, freedom, risk and adventure. I actually see much of the
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by mjn 13y ago
It also doesn't explain why countries such as Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden are so successful. I'm sure you could pick something common to the history of all three and make a completely speculative story about why certain Europ
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by mjn 13y ago
This article is; I just meant that the magazine overall is not mainly about tech. Here's their latest ToC, for example: http://nplusonemag.com/print-issue-18/
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The Computer as a Communication Device [1968](cc.utexas.edu)
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by mjn 13y ago
I generally like the magazine. It isn't mainly about technology, though, if that's what you're looking for: it's more of a literature/theory/politics/arts/culture magazine. Articles mainly about scien
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by mjn 13y ago
That's one of the core high-level AI debates going back decades, whether a fundamentally different hardware substrate is needed for intelligent machines, or if it's instead more of a 'software' problem. Biologically-insp
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by mjn 13y ago
More detailed backstory: http://9ol.es/LoseThos.html
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Wikipedia had to go through a push around that time to excise any references to such books from Wikipedia itself, because some had crept in, mostly by unsuspecting users who believed they had found an actual third-party book on an obscure s
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by mjn 13y ago
If this is an argument against trusting the Linux's specific current implementation of OS-level containerization/resource-limiting, I can buy that. But I don't think full virtualization is the only or best answer. Solaris Zon
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by mjn 13y ago
One thing that's interestingly unixy about it is that all configuration/interaction is done via a CLI program, herbstclient, which interacts with herbstserver, rather than via config files or an embedded scripting language. So con
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by mjn 13y ago
Goddamn, there are places actually above the arctic circle with milder climates than this. Tromsø, Norway, has a low of -6 C (21 F) over the next week! And highs above freezing!
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by mjn 13y ago
I think it's mostly true that SAT-solvers are better because of decades of research/engineering on them. However there is some speculation that your observation that "you typically lose a lot of structure" is actually so
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by mjn 13y ago
> Amazon has not really made a serious effort to encroach on Heroku's profits Amazon hasn't, but there are a reasonable number of simple PaaS competitors these days: Microsoft's Azure ( http://www.windowsazure.co

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