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by p9idf 15y ago
Excel vs SQL or awk. Because Lynx (except for its dump mode) and Pine address characters on the screen in two dimensions, I consider them to be graphical programs. They are just very limited graphics. There is a difference between a program
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by p9idf 15y ago
"memcpy(&v, video_loc_in_memory, sizeof(struct video_file)); "Well, here's the problem: if padding bytes are involved, you could be entering a world of pain and not even know it. [...] The solution is to use a compiler switch or a #prag
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by p9idf 15y ago
"I have no argument in principle for the idea that you should restructure your whole program's control flow with transparent cooperative scheduling" Maintaining any kind of long-term state for the functions which the event loop calls can be
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by p9idf 15y ago
You wouldn't put those sorts of things in /proc, but that's basically how things work. And since it's a filesystem, you can export your API effortlessly over the network. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/upasfs http://plan9.be
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by p9idf 15y ago
The problem is that he thought the "regular users" referred to people who use the operating system itself rather than your iPad users. Do your regular iPad users understand Unix, iOS, BeOS, or OS/2? No, they don't. They understand point and
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by p9idf 15y ago
Plan 9 uses a system called notes in place of Unix signals. It's pretty much the same idea, but instead of sending an integer you can send arbitrary strings by writing to /proc/n/note. Non-trappable messages are sent to /proc/n/ctl. This is
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by p9idf 15y ago
You are begging the question. You can't just say that CoffeeScript provides a real choice without explaining what differentiates CoffeeScript from Javascript and makes the choice viable.
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by p9idf 15y ago
The answers which the question received, in addition to an insult, were that CoffeeScript removes bugs and mis-features, "is a breath of fresh air", and delights programmers by letting "the underlying awesomeness of Javascript shine through
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by p9idf 15y ago
What his rant literally suggested what to "flush boost and glib and autoconf down the toilet and never think of them again" when "the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one." It
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by p9idf 15y ago
Why were they all trying to draw conclusions without any hard data? They were guessing based upon the offhand observation that the program "just thrashed." The first step should have been to profile the program.
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by p9idf 15y ago
"Java prints a stack trace by default to help correct the mistake, a huge step forward from C's generic segfault." A segfaulting program will dump core, which the programmer can use to get the stack trace. I consider this to be better UI th
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by p9idf 15y ago
"How many Mac applications still support OS X 10.2? 10.3? 10.4? Half of the web doesn’t work anymore on KDE 3.5′s Konqueror." I'm not familiar with the author's product and can't say whether C++11 is the right choice for him, but I wouldn't
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by p9idf 15y ago
Click on the A in Acid3. It will show a dialogue box which will tell you if the animation lagged.
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by p9idf 15y ago
As with all of their other products, Google is in the process of breaking the Groups UI by adding useless frames and whitespace. Try this instead: http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/msg/7030eaf21d3a0...
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by p9idf 15y ago
Militaries commonly use giant, easily-hit vehicles. Aircraft carriers and cargo planes are obvious examples. Militaries find practical use for such vehicles by defending them against attacks.
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by p9idf 15y ago
What are Google people working on besides Go that is Plan 9-ish?
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by p9idf 15y ago
Sure you can. Turn on rio's hold mode.
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by p9idf 15y ago
the author doesn't capitalize his sentences. i didn't find it difficult to read and only noticed halfway through the article. supposedly, capitalized sentences are easier to read, so i wonder if i've been conditioned by the internet to find
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by p9idf 15y ago
State clearly the problem that you are solving. As it is, you're assuming I already know.
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by p9idf 15y ago
I make silly knick-knacks by swirling paint around in bottles and I've been thinking about selling them. Will you tell me if you find them attractive, if you would like one, what swirl and color patterns you think would be neat, and what yo
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by p9idf 15y ago
This probably isn't the opinion that you're looking for, but I like the look of it. Make the space between posts larger. Your CamelCase clashes with the 90's vibe. A well placed tacky gif wouldn't hurt.
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by p9idf 15y ago
"Stevens has worked out you’d require a 227kg, 250MW thorium engine in order to power a typical road car." 250MW is around 333,333 horsepower. A 250kW, 333 horsepower, engine seems more likely to me.
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by p9idf 15y ago
; grep --version GNU grep 2.5.3 ; time LANG=C grep asdf < lesms10.txt > /dev/null real 0m0.025s user 0m0.011s sys 0m0.014s ; time /usr/local/plan9/bin/grep asdf < lesms10.txt > /dev/null real 0m0.082s us
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by p9idf 15y ago
The rumor is that Gnu grep does a slow conversion of each input character into a wchar_t. I haven't personally read the code and verified it, but I consider the following sources reliable enough to believe it. http://9fans.net/archive/?q=%
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by p9idf 15y ago
Fun fact: Gnu grep is slow at UTF8. Try time LANG=C grep asdf < les_misérables.txt > /dev/null versus time LANG=en_US.UTF-8 grep asdf < les_misérables.txt > /dev/null
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by p9idf 15y ago
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_operating_system
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by p9idf 15y ago
The logic here is that your opinion on the value of the Hurd isn't objective and that there's no accounting for taste. The Hurd authors know the fruits of their labor far better than you do. If they don't consider their effort wasted and ar
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by p9idf 15y ago
What do you care what other programmers do with their time? The ideas in Hurd are particularly interesting enough to those who work on it. That alone justifies its continued development.
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by p9idf 15y ago
Yes. Gnu cat is slow. http://hnwriteup.blogspot.com/2011/07/gnu-cat-vs-plan-9-cat....
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by p9idf 15y ago
Please point out the plentiful opportunities for off-by-one errors in Plan 9's echo.c. If you send me a copy of Plan 9's echo.c using stdio I will run it and benchmark it for you.

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