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by nieve 14y ago
https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/12/welcome-guido/ Or do you mean what he's going to be doing at a Python-heavy company like Dropbox that's trying to scale hugely performance-wise while building a lot of new features? (And yes, the link is
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by nieve 14y ago
Ah, but much of the original source and documentation for Ruby had Japanese section or was much more comprehensive in Japanese. This was even more true for early Ruby libraries - I can testify to it as of 2001-2003 when I was maintaining s
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by nieve 14y ago
The section titled "Pre-built font binaries" in the README links to the download location, but it's also the standard download location on github (right-hand side, below the clone URL and above the last commit box): https://github.com/adob
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by nieve 14y ago
You can tunnel out that way just fine, but even with setting up dynamic SOCKS forwarding (ssh -D [bind_address:]port) it's less effective and more work. You're dependent on being able to set proxies per-application, the applications suppor
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by nieve 14y ago
Note that the firmware password can be bypassed by any Apple tech who calls into their call center, identifies themselves, and requests it. It's defense against a casual thief, but not someone with Apple connections, LEA, or any of thousan
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by nieve 14y ago
Despite your assertion that the "grandma" mode of knitting isn't programming and mostly doesn't innovate, that (rather more diverse than assumed) community is responsible for the vast majority of new patterns and often experiments extensive
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by nieve 14y ago
[Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lacemaker, but my very geeky SO is (and a knitter and weaver and so on and so forth) and often delivers discourses on the subject and several of my friends have been similarly inclined math geeks who knit
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by nieve 15y ago
I think you're missing Unimpressive's point that if something can be run virtualized we don't cease to refer to it as an operating system. If Linux had been (perversely, ahistorically) developed as jslinux first before the bare-metal interf
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by nieve 15y ago
Thanks, I'd completely forgotten about Armed Bear as an option. Would you recommend it in preference to something like SBCL for deployment to Heroku or DotCloud?
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by nieve 15y ago
I'm somewhat confused why you think this is contrived. Clojure isn't a Common Lisp implementation and the ecosystem around each is very different, Heroku is a nice platform for cloud hosting and there are very few (possibly no) good option
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by nieve 15y ago
Ah, the classic "If you knew what we knew, you'd be okay with torturing terrorism suspects" argument popularized by multiple US administrations. A blanket assertion that due to your secret knowledge of the situation you can declare that al
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by nieve 15y ago
I'm sorry to hear that any Touchpad + ICS users have been so frustrating for you. In general I've been very happy with the Cyanogenmod on Touchpad community, but with the huge number of TPs that got dumped into the market there are some pe
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by nieve 15y ago
For anyone else who's looking it's actually "Bigger Active Screen when minimized" and also moves the cards closer together. It's marked as 3.0.2-3.0.4, but installs and works fine for me on 3.0.5: http://patches.webos-internals.org/?do=b
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by nieve 15y ago
The live update is good enough & the viewing quality sufficient that with the homebrew patch for larger active cards (and the patching is another feature I miss on ICS) I'll flick up, drag over slightly to read a number or address off a
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by nieve 15y ago
Org-mode is a big stumbling block for me as well and it seems like most of its features would be possible in Sublime Text 2, but the sheer degree of integration that it's managed with Emacs' various hooks and processes might be much harder.
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by nieve 15y ago
HP just released the source code for their Isis browser for webOS on GitHub and their comments about it all trumpet its use of Javascriptcore (and QtWebKit). They appear to be using code from around r104935 and it's likely they'll want to
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by nieve 15y ago
I think it should have been prominently labelled as a referral link, but in GilK's defense the URL shortener is Dropbox's own one and that's what all their referral links look like. I don't think you can visually distinguish a referral l
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by nieve 15y ago
I'm interested by what seems to attract people to a VM/runtime enough to re-implement another language on top of it while preferring a new language to whatever the VM's flagship is. Sticking just to Joxa and the more common ones showing up
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by nieve 15y ago
http://www.womendontask.com I second the recommendation, the books are both driven by the authors' research & real-world efforts (Babcock is an economics professor at Carnegie-Mellon, Laschever was a research associate for Harvard's P
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by nieve 15y ago
I have TeX Live available in the Ubuntu chroot on my HP TouchPad, so you're right that it's not a resource thing. Admittedly in this case webOS provides a pretty standard Linux environment under the hood, so it falls pretty firmly outside
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by nieve 15y ago
It seems like it might be a a good low-tech way (and possibly even with modern battlefield GIS available) to thoroughly familiarize mid-level and lower officers with the terrain. It's hard to overestimate the value of a good, physical sens
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by nieve 15y ago
I largely agree with your points, but you picked one of the least relevant distros for your example? One of the things I've always liked about SuSE/openSUSE is that it's actually very friendly to people who want to configure at different l
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by nieve 15y ago
The word you want is transphobia (for the generic fear, hatred or contempt) or cissexism for the more general "it's your choice but it's weird and unnatural and I don't believe you actually are that way" sort of bigotry. The cis/trans cons
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by nieve 15y ago
I saw a very similar bug with my Motorola Cliq (which eventually, half-heartedly got updates) using the stock T-Mobile ROMs and Cyanogen Mod. Though I didn't track it down to that specific case I actually tended to use it while charging pr
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by nieve 15y ago
Interesting idea and possibly worth tossing out to the World of Warcraft addons/scripting community (single largest Lua end-user install base in the world, I believe) as well? BTW, the name seems a bit tacky for a language developed in Braz
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by nieve 15y ago
This was the last straw for me as a Twitter user - I noticed that I'd stopped clicking on links since I had no idea where they went, knew that they'd often get mangled & require manual adjustment, and didn't want to give Twitter more ad
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by nieve 15y ago
Good point, though that leads to a really simple hack to see part of what gets sent to facebook - just hook up something listening on those two and look at the logs? I like ngrep for that kind of thing, but it's perhaps perverse overkill.
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by nieve 15y ago
I'm surprised that you'd say that if you actually understand what sshuttle does and you've read the tsocks (8) manpage. The ssh -D/tsocks combination is significantly more fragile due it how SOCKS proxying works & potential LD_PRELOAD
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by nieve 15y ago
I don't know if it's a fish thing, but it's a semi-popular bit of randomness in Seattle - we've also got an ad agency named the "Wexley School for Girls".
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by nieve 15y ago
Here you go: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-notify.htm... I can't vouch for the performance characteristics, but it's got some nice features around how notification delivery interacts with transactions (notifications wi

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