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by obtu 15y ago
'𝌆'.length == 2 ಠ_ಠ They did the same kludge as the old narrow builds of Python.
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by obtu 15y ago
> I wonder how many of these sites are just reporting UTF-8 or something because their web server defaults to it, and not actually encoding special characters properly? I think they are measuring the encoding that is picked before addin
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by obtu 15y ago
Ryan and Isaac were both hired by Joyent after becoming established in the node community. Everyone seems happy with this being an open-source project.
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by obtu 15y ago
That happens when google groups detects a cookie indicating someone logged in to google at some point in the past.
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by obtu 15y ago
Terabytes is starting to be expensive to mirror, in terms of bandwidth and storage.
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by obtu 15y ago
My favourite feature is the search capabilities, which are well integrated and extremely powerful. # installed packages with yaml in the name aptitude search '~i yaml' # installed packages requiring yaml # (~D means depen
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by obtu 15y ago
On Debian, I definitely use aptitude. However it hasn't been updated for Ubuntu's recent work on multiarch, and thus actions requiring dependency resolution are not usable anymore on many Oneiric installs (those that are amd64 with a few i5
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by obtu 15y ago
I assume you are referring to the same thing as canop_fr, https://github.com/ndbroadbent/scm_breeze ?
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by obtu 15y ago
I was just commenting on the existing open access policy (edit: I noticed you opened the subthread by prescribing, sorry for derailing). Open science/sharing the data can work as a voluntary movement, it has not been captured by private int
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by obtu 15y ago
Plumbr uses heuristics but no feedback from the user, thus it can't learn: this will give bogus results beyond some project complexity threshold.
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by obtu 15y ago
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/pseudonyms-on-google-pl... (fixing the link)
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by obtu 15y ago
Then Google will be happy to tell us users don't care about privacy: > The vast majority of users sail through our signup process -- in fact, only about 0.1% submit name appeals.
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by obtu 15y ago
> If we challenge the name you intend to use, you will be asked to submit proof that this is an established identity with a meaningful following. You can do so by providing links to other social networking sites, news articles, or offic
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by obtu 15y ago
This is about setting the tone. Real-sounding fake identities may be tolerated because Google currently can't/won't check every user, but Yonatan Zunger isn't speaking for the company, especially when he disagrees with their official policy
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by obtu 15y ago
Code that is exercised once in a century (see: y2k and similar timestamp problems) is buggier than code that is exercised once every six months (leap seconds) or in real time (NTP, which given the poor precision of internal clocks, everyone
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by obtu 15y ago
Impressive. The general approach seems similar to guestfish, is there anything you'd like to do better? Which version of the kernel do you use? I recall Fabrice Bellard didn't use the latest due to a bootloader hack.
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by obtu 15y ago
My ISP (Free) is participating, and the timeline went: opt-in IPv6 in 2007, IPv6-enabled Google in 2009, enabled by default for new subscribers in 2011. The 1% requirement is pretty weak, I'm more excited by the web companies flipping the s
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by obtu 15y ago
Supporting Quotes from World IPv6 Launch Participants Akamai "Web-enabled businesses will need to ensure their applications are available over IPv6 in order to keep pace with the Internet's ever-expanding audience. Akamai is committed to he
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by obtu 15y ago
Here is the press release: WASHINGTON & GENEVA, Jan 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enab
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by obtu 15y ago
This https://gist.github.com/1522657 has the slight advantage of working on comment pages as well.
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by obtu 15y ago
Here is an in-depth report on how the Netherlands is a tax-haven for multinationals: http://somo.nl/html/paginas/pdf/netherlands_tax_haven_2006_N... . IKEA (the world's largest charity) is an egregious example. A participation exemption a
352.
by obtu 15y ago
“no later than twelve months” means publishers can still get rewarded for rent-seeking.
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by obtu 15y ago
Researchers are already paying to get their articles published. Given how much journal subscription costs, that cost is a fraction of the taxpayer money that is spent buying back the articles for the university libraries the same researcher
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by obtu 15y ago
Their approach looks a lot like BtrFS: everything in a BTree, append-only, with checksums.
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by obtu 15y ago
Grub can boot off BtrFS filesystems. There is one caveat remaining (bug 759772: grub's core.img needs to be embedded in the correct part of the btrfs partition). When using GPT (required with large disks) that part is already safely located
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by obtu 15y ago
As a MeFite: even the favouriting isn't necessary. It can polarise discussions and turn them into a back and forth where each side tries to get higher scores. I'm hiding those, and idly wish they hadn't been introduced.
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by obtu 15y ago
The development model has various people being responsible for integrating patches in various subsystems, with integration done in a tree-like fashion. A lot of people are contributing reviews. To get acquainted, there are some tutorials ab
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by obtu 15y ago
On the other end of the scale, the Debian lenny archive (released in 2009, superseded by squeeze) totals about 324M lines of non-comment code: http://gsyc.es/~frivas/paper.pdf
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by obtu 15y ago
That line felt dismissive. The news tidbit is interesting, and that kind of loaded message tacked at the end takes away from it. She is succeeding despite stacked odds, and her situation isn't something that can be brushed off.
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by obtu 15y ago
The commit graph (gitk --all if you are using plain decentralised git, GiHub's network graph for the convenient everyone-github-knows online version) makes it quite obvious which author is good at reviewing and integrating patches. With a l

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