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by pconf 15y ago
The premise is flawed. Robustness requires a shell that works the same across platforms and across time, and that means /bin/sh. Most of the people reading this article, IME, are not familiar with /bin/sh, or its differences from /{bin,usr
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by pconf 15y ago
I wonder why none of these benchmarks measure the performance of _optimized_ Java? All of our builds use Proguard optimization and some of the resulting bytecode is noticeably faster.
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by pconf 15y ago
I largely agree with your points about branching but less so about modification. It's easy to submit patches though they do go through a sometimes rigorous code review. Does github have a formal mechanism for code reviews? Does that diff
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by pconf 15y ago
Real, normal people? I wish it were true but in my experience github is just another source code repository. As for BSD a search of my (partial) ports tree finds 19326 Makefiles of which 102 contain the string github. Thats 0.5 percent, w
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by pconf 15y ago
Sad to see points of fact downmodded, no doubt by GNU fanboys. Wonder if we should also start calling Emacs' Windows port "Microsoft EMACS"?
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by pconf 15y ago
What exactly has github contributed to code accessibility? (that FreeBSD's ports system didn't do 15 years ago)
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by pconf 15y ago
Still my most used piece of software ever. No other text editor comes close in efficiency. Let those who can't learn vi remain tethered by the mouse, they'll never be able to write or edit text as quickly. Now if only the sc spreadsheet c
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by pconf 15y ago
This title is misleading. 'ed' was written long before GNU existed. Should probably read "GNU revision 1.6 of the Unix' ed command has been released".
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by pconf 15y ago
Apple's claims of "look and feel" were absurd on their face as anyone comparing Windows 3 and MacOS can plainly see. Any an all existing licensing agreement were immaterial as the technology wasn't owned by Apple in the first place. That'
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by pconf 15y ago
Before the Mac there was the Lisa, also an Apple product, which had a GUI. Before the Lisa there was Sun (suntools, sunview). Nobody except Apple sued another company claiming ownership of the GUI and when Apple sued Microsoft the judge t
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by pconf 15y ago
What you say is true but since it applies to a relatively small percentage of the population the energy savings of year-round DST would be negative. We know this because that is what happened when there was year-round DST, during Jimmy Car
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by pconf 15y ago
Sure it does. If you get off of work at 5:00 year-round then DST give you an extra hour of daylight where you can use it. In the winter it gets dark too early to use that hour so it switches back. Winter's non-DST clocks also save energy
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by pconf 15y ago
Government-bias may well be more common than not, or than commercial advertiser-biased. The difference between those countries and the US is consumer education. At least outside of the US the viewers / listeners / readers know they're not
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by pconf 15y ago
I can see how someone who has not spent significant time living outside of the US could be of this opinion, but every US resident I know who has lived outside of the country for any significant period of time is also of this opinion. You d
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by pconf 15y ago
Also impresses me by how many posts here believe the media coverage of Assange. Just goes to show, Americans are the most naive consumers of commercial news on the planet, by a considerable margin. All I want to know is where I can send a
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by pconf 15y ago
It is an awesome OS except for one significant drawback: javascript. If not for the dependency on js these phones and tablets wouldn't lock-up hard so often or hang for several seconds after touching the screen more often than not. I know
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by pconf 15y ago
Another problem with Paypal.com and 2Checkout.com is the amount of data they require to charge my card. There's no way they need to know my home address, phone number, email address, etc. I feel sorry for those who will post PII to some s
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by pconf 15y ago
Stock is reportedly up ~6% on the news. Too bad the board couldn't have figured this out months ago. All she did was sell search to Microsoft. More or less the same as here modus operandi at Autodesk. At least that MS sellout gave ProEn
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by pconf 15y ago
This isn't the first extortion attempt we've read about over the past few years, and Yelp's excuse is always their so called impartial "algorithm". Google, for their part, extorts Yelp in much the same way, as they used to do with Experts-
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by pconf 16y ago
What I'd like to know is how does EE always show up so well in Google search results? Even when there are several better results to a particular technical search query EE always shows up near the top of Google's results. I can't speak for
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by pconf 16y ago
Sorry for missing the point but this all seems like a lot of money for email. 100K/day outgoing is nothing that should tax a dual core CPU w/ SCSI disks and 100Mbps connectivity. Are we talking about emails that aren't 100% legit? If so t
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by pconf 16y ago
Your best bet IME, other than word of mouth, is to query Indeed(.com)'s job search engine using your favorite RSS reader.
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by pconf 16y ago
Amazon, Paypal, EveryDNS, and now Wells Fargo. Tried to make a credit card donation this morning after hearing about the mafia-style business tactics and Wells put a block on my card! I called and had the block lifted, then asked to file
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by pconf 16y ago
For our webapp the sweet spot has been Java/Tomcat for it's stability and security with python methods compiled into Java bytecode for regex and other methods that are cumbersome in Java. The downside is that Jython throws more runtime exce