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by papaf 16y ago
Why should the author report a bug when it's the incompetence of the Debian maintainer? 1. Its the polite thing to do. 2. The bug can be tracked and commented on. 3. The bug is more likely to be fixed. 4. Thats how most
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by papaf 16y ago
I keep having trouble thinking of Java as "fast" When it first came out it was an absolute dog. Then Sun kept promising "faster than C" performance because of VM optimisation. The reality was that desktop apps were barely usable and the H
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by papaf 16y ago
Except that, historically, the internet has been all about getting something for nothing. This is why were using complex modern web browsers for free to view a site that doesn't charge us. Also, Scribd would be nothing without the thousands
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by papaf 16y ago
I think the unique point about VCL is that it compiles down to machine code. Varnish makes a big thing about doing things the fastest way possible.
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by papaf 16y ago
I'd be interested in a discussion of using hooks to order tasks where conventionally dependants or, in the case of maven, lifecycle is used. Leiningen seems to be breaking new ground in this area and it would be interesting to see the advan
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by papaf 16y ago
I gave a homeless guy accommodation once. People at the time thought that I was stupid and that he was manipulating me. However, nothing bad happened and I look back on it as one of the more useful things I have done in my life. He left abo
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by papaf 16y ago
I went the other way this year and am now almost totally in Emacs. I recommend trying the vimpulse package for Emacs if you ever want to come back to the dark side.
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by papaf 16y ago
Its a good point that NT was a successful rewrite. However, its worth noting how this was done. NT was originally aimed at a different market, there was a overlap of several years where the old system was still available AND NT ran Windows
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by papaf 16y ago
I've not done it myself, but once when I thought I'd need such a queue I found this pseudo code and references: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/synchronization/pseudoc...
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by papaf 16y ago
(require 'zencoding-mode) (add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook 'zencoding-mode) http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ZenCoding
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by papaf 16y ago
I got over a dip - about 10 minutes ago. For the last 2 months I had what seemed like an unsurmountable technical problem. Well, it was surmountable but I really didn't believe in the business enough to go through all the steps to fix the p
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by papaf 16y ago
I haven't used or been excited by Node.js but after hearing about the dnode library they used I can see the attraction of having the same language on both the client and server: http://github.com/substack/dnode The examples are really coo
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by papaf 16y ago
Orwells Animal Farm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZldlyeR8DU
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by papaf 16y ago
I've just started working on my own and I feel the same way when people ask me to do things. However, I have found that taking a forced break from problems helps me to come up with better solutions to them. I think its important to not get
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by papaf 16y ago
I am developing a website that provides Maven microrepositories at http://repo.si . I found this both cheering and depressing. Cheering because it seems other people are also not happy with the current status quo when it comes to Maven rep
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by papaf 16y ago
I really liked Inception but wanted Mal to be right too. There is a similar film called Avalon which isn't half as entertaining: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267287/ However, the ending in Avalon is mind blowing and makes the film worth s
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A micro-manual for Lisp implemented in C(nakkaya.com)
78 points by papaf 16y ago|6 comments
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by papaf 16y ago
This is similar to my experience - a paypal alternative that doesn't suck would be awesome. One problem they have is being Dutch and not being supported by many services because of that. I believe anybody in the EU can start a UK company (c
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by papaf 16y ago
If it gets some momentum behind it then I feel GO could be that language.
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Visualising the Wikileaks war logs using Clojure(nakkaya.com)
69 points by papaf 16y ago|0 comments
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by papaf 16y ago
I think this is an unfair comment. Weby templates are a different approach to Jinja (which is a conventional templating language) and its like comparing apples and oranges. Automatically generating HTML from code has many advantages (and so
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by papaf 16y ago
I really like the approach which is similar to the Clojure library called Hiccup. Generating HTML in this way is very productive if you're doing the layout and backend coding yourself. Traditional templating languages are a better fit when
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by papaf 16y ago
As a software developer, there isn't a single programming concept / architecture / algorithm / etc that I can't learn in less than a day. The following algorithms have beaten me totally and I wasn't able to implement them: Bochs multiple
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by papaf 16y ago
This is an interesting article but one thing I don't yet understand (which may become clear in part 2) is why both Nginx and Varnish are needed. Nginx can certainly do this on its own, and as far as I know, so can Varnish which has been des
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by papaf 16y ago
Just a question of personal taste but I'd have the conditions as functions and have search return a list if I was using clojure... (braintree/search (starts-with :order-id "a2d") (ends-with :customer-website ".com") (equa
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by papaf 16y ago
This is really cool, especially with companies now providing CouchDB hosting. The article says that writes can be validated so only authorised users may write. Does anybody know if its possible to limit read access to certain users? If so,
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by papaf 16y ago
If the problem is the overhead of making HTTP connections, surely having a pool of open connections with keepalive solves the problem in a much more durable way? This is a setup I've seen in a telecom environment that supported a good throu
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by papaf 16y ago
That's a short and inspiring talk. I found myself at http://golang.org/ for the first time after seeing it.
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by papaf 16y ago
Essentials of Game Theory (Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham) is a good introduction to the mathematics -- enough to scare me away from going any deeper and made me appreciate why people get Nobel prizes in this field.
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by papaf 16y ago
Nginx (static content + page caching) and Jetty make a good pair on a virtual server. H2 is a fast and lightweight database server and can also go on the same VS. I've had no problems with this technology stack at all - it should be fine un

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