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by npsimons 12y ago
It's actually a good idea. People often don't bother version-controlling simple stuff because it's a hassle. Here's the thing that's funny to me: git is easy . Everyone (especially mercurial users) goes on about
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by npsimons 12y ago
There are many different things you can do, but it all comes down to: do your programmers care? If they don't at all, it will be impossible to make them improve. If they care a lot, they will improve themselves. If they care a little,
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by npsimons 12y ago
I was wondering why this guy's github account sounded familiar - he's the yasnippet guy (if you're an emacs user, it's worth checking out yasnippet). Good stuff: https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasni
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by npsimons 12y ago
It's odd, but I feel almost exactly the opposite to you and GP - I hate shopping. I hate having to drive through traffic, I hate looking for something for even five minutes and not finding it, and I hate dealing with people (
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by npsimons 12y ago
Agreed. My first thought when I saw this is that I hope people don't use it. I know that many people developing sites for a living can't afford to ignore IE, but I really think that IE incompatibility is MS's problem that t
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by npsimons 12y ago
All bodies are different; I read the GP and thought, "yeah, no, I'm in fairly decent shape, and I have to work really hard for a good long while to break a sweat". I never have to use chalk while rock climbing, for instance
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by npsimons 12y ago
I can easily pack a change of "work clothes" (used to include dress shoes), toiletries, camp towel and lunch in a small backpack or largish messenger bag. Having a shower available is strongly recommended, however. Built-in in hyd
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by npsimons 12y ago
http://www.icebike.org
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by npsimons 12y ago
My point about running on microcontrollers is that the Linux kernel (and oom-killer in particular) has been tested on more use cases than most developers usually consider. This testing/usage has revealed mistaken design decisions and b
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by npsimons 12y ago
This is fixed in the kernel; the fix is called "oom-killer". You turn it off and write your own, you take your chances.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Basically, the question is this: is it possible to develop a process manager that would do the job of oomkiller that has as high code quality as the Linux kernel. I am guessing the answer is yes I'm not trying to put the kernel devs
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by npsimons 12y ago
The oom-killer is the kernel devs solution; if you're disabling it, you should know better, and more importantly, you're on your own. Also, the kind of people who would disable the oom-killer are probably the same kind who wouldn&
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by npsimons 12y ago
This is interesting, but not nearly as bad as it sounds: No, the problems start when you disable the kernel's OOM killer and try to act on your own. Surprise, surprise: when you disable the time-tested built-in mechanisms that have b
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by npsimons 12y ago
Where I live, if you let your cat(s) outside, sooner or later they will be eaten by coyote or mountain lion. I am not exaggerating. There's also the issue of cats decimating the local bird population: http://theoatmeal.com&#
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by npsimons 12y ago
On top of this, consider allowing remote workers - it seems to be working well for Github and others, and honestly some people really like where they live.
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by npsimons 12y ago
We're talking about bricking a serial to USB chip, not something worth shedding blood really. We're talking infrastructure: if this was a civil engineer designing a road to spontaneously create potholes that would flatten tires
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by npsimons 12y ago
Try "The Stars my Destination". A quick, enjoyable (IMHO) read, where the protagonist starts off unlikable and quite literally "The stereotype Common Man", but transforms into interesting. Many Great books have character
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by npsimons 12y ago
We need YA fiction of dubious literary value in the same way that we need minor league baseball. This really hit me, because while I believe that most of the YA fiction is crap that at least adults should try to move on from, I also firml
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by npsimons 12y ago
I agree that most arguments against "juvenile" reading are poorly stated; I think it might be because it's a hard thing to put into words, perhaps ironically because so many people don't read great literature any more. I
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by npsimons 12y ago
But that's not being locked out of Java. On the contrary, it's the exact opposite and business as usual for Microsoft: take a perfectly good cross-platform, open standard, and mess with it until it locks out everyone else, so your
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by npsimons 12y ago
I hope this causes a major and publicly visible malfunction in some important device/installation/machinery, of course with no harm done to any persons I actually hope that this does cause an event drastic enough so that FTDI
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by npsimons 12y ago
Case in point, being locked out of Java, Microsoft Was this really the case? As I understood it, Microsoft created C# because Java was too open and wouldn't keep people locked in to Windows. Especially since even GNU got Java, I don&
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by npsimons 12y ago
I've never really gotten this - it's like smoking crack as an alternative to cigarettes. Tea and coffee actually have other things in them that are good for you, and you don't have to add sugar or cream to them, so there
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by npsimons 12y ago
This. I also very much get the feeling that if people weren't being kept so busy trying to pay their bills, they might actually have time to pause and reflect on the current state of the world, and the powers that be don't want th
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by npsimons 12y ago
Ah, I see I've found yet another person who only reads the inflammatory email by Torvalds, but doesn't bother to read the preceding thread where the person Torvalds is addressing refused to admit his mistake, and further, insisted
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by npsimons 12y ago
Death threats are never justified. But I was paraphrasing Poettering's responses to perfectly valid criticism. He did basically say "fuck off", just sugar coated it, which doesn't make it any better. It's just reall
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by npsimons 12y ago
Every single time someone brings up Linus' "abrasiveness", they never fail to leave out the thread preceding it, where the target of Linus' ire inevitably was being obtuse or childish. How long would it take you to stop
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by npsimons 12y ago
This coming from the man who, when people point out flaws in his design of systemd, says basically "too bad, I'm doing it anyway, and if you don't like it, you can take a hike."
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by npsimons 12y ago
Because general purpose package managers suck at dealing with the concerns of individual programming languages. E.g. installation paths, virtual environments, different compilation methods, etc. And yet all these nifty package managers ca
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by npsimons 12y ago
As someone who has tried to compile pandoc from source, I welcome this.

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