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by ralph 18y ago
1Gb is 1000Mb. 1Gib is 1024Mib.
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by ralph 18y ago
What kind of binary files do you put under SCM?
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by ralph 18y ago
"We have persistent objects, they're called files." -- Ken Thompson.
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by ralph 18y ago
Can people submitting posts please take the time to give a few words of description if the title doesn't explain. It would save lots of others reading posts they've no interest in. Some of us use RSS to follow the site and having to pick
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by ralph 19y ago
"The files are kept forever as long as they are being downloaded". Do they say how long after the last download the files are kept? Else they could always free up some disc space by removing the least recently downloaded files.
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by ralph 19y ago
Very handy, and an improvement on how I remember it. It would be nice to be able to search for "that post foo made to which bar replied". Often you remember the structure of the conversation rather than a unique word or two.
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by ralph 19y ago
Here's the last time I pointed it out. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083 pg made the post dead and emailed me about publishing a DDoS. Yet here we still are, using a broken concept.
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by ralph 19y ago
The posts on this thread show how news.yc has gone down the tubes.
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by ralph 19y ago
No, it doesn't. The cheatsheet doesn't allow !^ and !$ to be constructed. The closest would be !!:^ and !!:$.
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by ralph 19y ago
Let's take http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg as an example. When I visit that I get dealt 75 fnids. They're different every time I go to the page. So I'm using a new 75 slots in the cache every time. It's little overhead in CP
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by ralph 19y ago
Continuations used to be used more on news.yc but it was trivial to flush the cache by making a few requests from a single client causing everyone's sessions to be hosed. That causes a switch to URL parameters for lots of things; why not
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by ralph 19y ago
Yawn. Not definitive. Nothing that reading bash(1) wouldn't tell you. And bash(1) at least covers the useful !^ and !$ which this doesn't.
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by ralph 19y ago
If I search for "ralph dos" I seem to get results from all over the place. One nice feature would just be able to get a list of a user's posts.
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by ralph 19y ago
It's being done. It's called LLVM. Apple have been sponsoring it.
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by ralph 19y ago
South African Mark Shuttleworth's Canonical Ltd., you know, that does a lot of work on Ubuntu, is registered in the Isle of Man, a UK tax haven. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_man
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by ralph 19y ago
bzr is a far nicer RCS. http://bazaar-vcs.org/ And the next Unix, Plan 9 from Outer Space, but really from Bell Labs, had already implemented the ideas in its Venti filesystem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti
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by ralph 19y ago
Is it continuations you don't understand or their use in web apps? If the latter then you can see them in use on this site when you click "reply". You get a URL ending /x?fnid=bU389jXsk2. That's a FuNction ID that allows the continuation
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by ralph 19y ago
Interesting to see they had the same problems in using continuations that bit pg with news.yc; you garbage collect them too early and the links in someone's browser stops working, too late and your server exhausts memory. Plus, it's trivi
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by ralph 19y ago
The example was using awk to pick "Dec" out in the month column whilst pointing out a grep for "Dec" would also match the filename "December " which didn't have "Dec" in the month column. awk's clearly better than grep in this case. It's n
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by ralph 19y ago
> How often will I need to make a directory structure that is several levels deep, but only one directory at each level? When you want to put a file into a directory structure where theres several levels of directories to avoid one dire
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by ralph 19y ago
"It is generally a good idea to enclose variable calls in double quotation marks". No, it's generally a good idea to learn what quotes do and use the appropriate kind when required. Else you're just adding noise to your code. The backslas
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by ralph 19y ago
Now fixed. $ date 2008-01-24 12:35:00 +0000 Thu $ wget -qO- http://news.ycombinator.com/rss | > tr \> \\012 | > grep -c comitem 0 $
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by ralph 19y ago
Still broken. $ date 2008-01-23 12:21:20 +0000 Wed $ wget -qO- http://news.ycombinator.com/rss | > tr \> \\012 | > grep -c comitem 27 $
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RSS feed still broken. Thought pg said it was fixed?
2 points by ralph 19y ago|2 comments
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by ralph 19y ago
Not CSP, no, but libraries that bolt onto existing languages, e.g. C, Python. I'd love to see it become more of a mainstream technique in Python than `import threading', etc. For those that wonder what we're wittering on about, visit http
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by ralph 19y ago
Yep, the CSP style of channel communication is great. Those thinking Erlang is better than sliced bread need to make sure they're up on what came before and after; http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/ Personally, I find Erlang to be too clunk
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by ralph 19y ago
This site has never made clear what the voting is for. I used to use it for strongly agree/disagree. Then it was changed because someone complained they'd been downvoted on all their previous posts so only up arrows exist on old posts. S
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by ralph 19y ago
In the past, * was a star, obtained by entering `&#42;'.
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by ralph 19y ago
> Did you feel like you could have been more productive if you had be more solitary? Yes.
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by ralph 19y ago
Occam is yet another thing with its roots in Hoare's CSP. See my posts elsewhere on this story.

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