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by nas 10y ago
The Android open source community is deeply unhealthy, IMHO. Compare the pile of shit that is XDA vs a well run open source project. Most of the stuff posted there has no way to verify the source code, binaries download from sketchy sites
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by nas 10y ago
It's not immediately clear to me if there is source code published for these projects. EtherScope looks to have source code available. To me, having source code for the projects would be effective for promoting the language.
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by nas 10y ago
It's great that these bugs have been found and fixed. I'm frightened by this report however. If a well managed open-source project like Curl has this number of pretty serious bugs that can be found by skilled auditors, what hope
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by nas 10y ago
For the vast majority of a language users, the community and the libraries matter a lot more than the merits of the core language. Look at R. I'm not sure anyone would hold it up as a great core language. However, it is very success
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by nas 10y ago
> what's happening to Python? Great things, IMHO. Now that the painful changes of 2 to 3 are done (or nearly so), recent releases have focused on incremental and steady progress. Take a look at the "What's New" docu
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by nas 10y ago
Not me. However, I starting planning for a new product that needs to scale to reliably hold a lot of measurement data. I initially was thinking Cassandra might be a good fit. After doing some research, I like the design of CockroachDB be
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by nas 10y ago
Their command window annoys the hell out of me as well. How many years did it take for them to get working tab complete by default? Another annoying thing is Notepad. Would it kill them to give it the ability to handle different line end
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by nas 10y ago
Yes they are. For military and commercial aircraft.
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by nas 10y ago
I usually use Darktable. RawTherapee, Lightroom and even the in camera processing seem to have color issues with certain photos. Maybe it is not xtrans but my old Nikon DSLR and my new d750 don't have these issues.
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by nas 10y ago
I have an X-100s. I really like the physical design of the camera. The fact that they did firmware updates that gave new features was also great. However, I shoot RAW and x-trans seems to be an issue. I noticed quite a few of my photos h
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by nas 10y ago
As someone theoretically interested in investing in things governed by Ethereum "smart" contracts, what the rules of how the contracts are executed? Obviously it is no longer just computer code that rules. There is some, to my m
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by nas 10y ago
It certainly did. The code was the terms of the contract. From Slock.it: """ The terms of The DAO Creation are set forth in the smart contract code existing on the Ethereum blockchain at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c1
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by nas 10y ago
So what happens when new bugs are found in contracts controlling a lot of money? Fork again or let the buggy code run?
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by nas 10y ago
Writing bug free software is extremely difficult, as anyone who knows a little about software can tell you. When software bugs can cost people millions and your system is built on the idea of people writing lots of software contracts, ther
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by nas 10y ago
My ScanSnap S1500 works like a treat in Linux. I wrote my own scripts to scan, straighten, compress and put the documents into a databases. I should probably upload the scripts somewhere. They work better than anything else I found.
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by nas 10y ago
The unicode/bytes change it the most time consuming in my experience. Second comes the fact that you can't sort arbitrary types anymore and that None is no longer smaller than any other value. In order to ease porting, I've
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by nas 10y ago
That's not much of an argument. There has to be a standard where you consider the new and imperfect technology "good enough". Is Telsa's auto-pilot good enough? I don't know. My perception is that since Telsa is
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by nas 10y ago
Add up the hours spent by people waiting in security lines and divide by the number of hours in an average life. How many person lives have been wasted by this bullshit?
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by nas 10y ago
I really thought Microsoft put that kind of sleazy behavior behind them. Guess old habits die hard.
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by nas 10y ago
I've had exactly this experience multiple times. Having nice logical commits makes it a heck of a lot easier to port features around to different branches later on (if you decide you want to). It makes 'git annotate' much m
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by nas 10y ago
If you think Python 2.x support ends when the core team stops supporting it, you haven't been studying history. Programming platforms with large code bases (e.g. Cobol, Fortran) have extremely long lifetimes. What's more expensi
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by nas 10y ago
I'm redirected too. I'm not signing up with Linked-In, agreeing to their policies, letting them spam me, etc just so I can read this article.
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by nas 11y ago
Contrast with the Scheme Request for Implementation (SRFI) process, see < http://srfi.schemers.org/> .
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by nas 11y ago
react_demo$ du -sh node_modules/ 25M node_modules/ react_demo$ ls node_modules/|wc -l 79 react_demo$ cat $(find node_modules/ -type f ) | wc -l 287767 I think I installed react, react-do
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by nas 11y ago
I don't want to sound like a old grumpy man but here goes anyhow. I was looking into using node.js, react, etc after many years of writing web apps using Python and Quixote (obscure web framework like Flask). The whole Javascript tec
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by nas 11y ago
Look at the iOS and Android market. What a utopia of high quality content. /s
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by nas 11y ago
I don't see how it helps his point, maybe I don't understand his argument. The iOS and Android game market had payment built into the system very early, unlike the web. Given the quality of the average mobile game, I don't s
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by nas 11y ago
It is such a terrible comparison, I'm surprised he used it. People who buy €25 PC games have very little in common with people who buy mobile games for $2 or buy gems or whatever for pennies.
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by nas 11y ago
Things are a lot easier with recent versions of Python 3. Not spending more time on supporting 2/3 compatible codebases was a big mistake in my opinion. I think Guido had the idea that everyone was eventually going to run 2to3 and th
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by nas 11y ago
I figured this out quite a few years ago. The first time they spammed me, I signed in and turned off anything that said they would send me email. The next time they spammed I deleted my account and black-holed the email address I used to

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