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by mjw1007 8y ago
PL/I, ML, Ada, ...
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I've always assumed that PuTTY used its own private key format because the OpenSSH one was terrible until about 2013. See eg https://latacora.singles/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh.html (which is from 20
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Looks to me like the world had mostly settled on types-on-the-right already in the 1970s, except C was an anomaly and languages which imitated its syntax in other ways often imitated that too.
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IE6 wasn't at the forefront of standards compliance when it was released. Mozilla (then at 0.9.x) and Internet Explorer 5 for Mac were both significantly better.
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I'd like to see Apple split apart the two things it's doing with app review. There's value in Apple forbidding installation of apps that might contain malicious code (or just drain your battery). There's also value in Ap
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Well, it was the journalist who brought up Apple, not Warren. If "breaking up Apple" in this context turns out to mean "make Apple spin off a very small part of their business", there's no reason to suppose Warren w
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One place where this can fall down is when the cost is along the lines of "if we do X then we're closing down the option of doing Y" later. Unless the business/management/client is better than average, there's
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And in this case even if this was a reliable source there's nothing there to undermine Cadwalladr's credibility: it's accusing her of being impolite, not incompetent or dishonest.
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Two main things, I think: - coping with the variety of different patch systems used in Debian packages - an integrated way of keeping track of which locally-built packages have been installed Also of course getting pbuilder set up, and know
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I think the gripe is that it's never been as easy as it could be to say "OK, I'm going to make a change in this here source file, then run the result on my machine while keeping everything else the same". For example if
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Interesting that in 2007 he thought FB-DRAM was going to win. That seems to have been about the time it dropped dead.
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Spectre is another mode of interference, and perhaps one which means we're going to have to give up altogether on running untrusted code without at least a process boundary.
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The Linux project takes the view « We don't attempt to rigorously document our API; instead we promise that if your program worked yesterday it will continue to work in the future. » I think this story shows a weakness in that approach
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There were some people who thought that trying to bolt a type system on to Python was a bad idea. A common response to them was "you don't have to use it; you can ignore it and you're no worse off than you were before".
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Right now I'm on a 16GB machine that says it's using 3849MB of swap (to SSD). I'm not noticing any slowdown. I'm happy to let the kernel decide whether it wants to use some of the RAM for disk buffer rather than committe
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Multiple people on this thread have expressed the opinion that the patch was "too perfect" or that the only reason that the patch wasn't simply accepted was that the maintainers "feel weird when there's nothing to c
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Yes, they're selling a variety of extras and kit parts. And soldering irons.
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Python 2019 Steering Council Election Results(discuss.python.org)
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Note Guido hasn't left Python. He just didn't want to be the sole final-decision-maker any more. (In fact he's just been elected to the five-member council that has taken over that role.)
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The author evidently didn't find that option attractive: « To run curl under strace from Emacs, I’d have to modify Emacs’ behavior to do so. With DTrace I can instrument every curl process without making a single change to Emacs, and w
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If you have a traditional server-rendered web application and you want to add a little bit of scripting on the client side, it can be nice to be able to share pieces of domain-specific code (for example, you might want the client and server
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If this ended up making it possible to run Python in the web browser, that might be interesting to a fair number of people. (There are advantages to running the same language on the server and client, and there's plenty of server-side
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According to the story, Apple have stopped Google employees running Google's "Gbus app for transportation". So yes, it's about what Apple allows people to run on their own devices.
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Random iPhone-using Google employees who use Google's internal cafe app are Apple customers, and they're directly affected. Clearly that's not a terribly big deal, and you'd imagine that Google has a lower proportion of
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I would bet good money that the large majority of iPhone users don't know that Apple has this much control (ie, that they can decide whether you're allowed to install custom apps provided by your employer).
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The difference is that Apple are controlling what software individuals can run on their own phones that they paid good money for. The problem isn't that Apple are allowed to throw Google out of the enterprise program; the problem is th
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While I have no sympathy at all for Facebook, this is a rather chilling reminder of Apple's ability to decide what you're allowed to run on your own phone.
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I don't think anyone should expect acquihiring an expert Postgres team to work on a proprietary product to work well, because the programmers' skills are eminently transferrable. Half the team would probably wander off to work for
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From this comment of the author's, it seems plausible things are different in the UK. https://prisonuk.blogspot.com/2016/03/preparing-for-prison.h...
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Maybe one lesson is just that hardware companies often radically underestimate how much effort will need putting into the complementary software. Compare the start of the touchscreen phone era: it looks to me like companies like Nokia lost

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