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by ralph 20y ago
Have a personal Bookmarklet to do that so every page isn't cluttered with such links. Digg this, Reddit that, etc. Bah, humbug.
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by ralph 20y ago
Thanks, I've read that and will continue through the others. One of the cases given could fit all the data in core, the other used BerkeleyDB for its smallish "database" data, cutting out SQL, and a GFS-like system for the large amount of B
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by ralph 20y ago
MogileFS looks interesting. If a class of files requests N>1 copies, at what point after the HTTP PUT can the application be happy that N copies exist? It seems fine to think I've three copies of that file but what if machine failure oc
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by ralph 20y ago
You're fortunate your data fits in RAM. And it seems you don't have to worry about machine failure causing unwritten data to be lost despite having accepted it from the user? Cheers, Ralph.
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by ralph 20y ago
I'm in favour of a low barrier to dabble; we all sometimes think "I can't be bothered" and go after the next thing that wants our attention. But not requiring registration seems to translate more easily to some sites than others. Say a re
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by ralph 20y ago
Anyone know of detailed write-ups by people that didn't use a database. I too dislike the overhead of SQL as an interface. How did they cope with the problems that DBs solve? Did they ever have to scale to more than one "DB server"? Chee
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by ralph 20y ago
How about * yielding *. Cheers, Ralph.
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by ralph 20y ago
Using character entities, e.g. & to give an &, works on submitting the comment, but editing the comment populates the form's area with an unescaped ampersand causing corruption on submitting the form. Encoding and decoding need
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by ralph 20y ago
At the risk of looking stupid, do you mean "mode" rather than "median"? I thought median was the middle element of an ordered sample, and mode the most common. Also, any Python in there? Cheers, Ralph.
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by ralph 20y ago
https://sourceforge.net/index.php ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Neither are turned into links. >=> <=< &=&
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by ralph 20y ago
You wrote: The titles are "user", "# of posts", "karma" & "karma/# of posts" ? Yes, that's right. It's clear that "# of posts" is never over 50. I suppose some readers here know Ruby, Perl, or Python, but haven't come through _The Unix Pro
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by ralph 20y ago
I've added a post in the "improvements" thread. Please vote up if you think it's useful. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13271 Cheers, Ralph.
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by ralph 20y ago
The page showing the comments of a user should only show each post once. At the moment, if I have a conversation, me1 - you1 - me2 - you2 - me3, then m3 appears first as the most recent, then later me2 downwards, then later still me1 downw
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by ralph 20y ago
The HTML header's title should have more page context in it so the browser's Back menu isn't a list of identical titles making selection difficult. Cheers, Ralph.
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by ralph 20y ago
Documentation on the mark-up allowed, e.g. italic , some way to post normal ASCII characters for code snippets, which in turn require line breaks. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13261
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by ralph 20y ago
If you mean the trailing comma to the print statement, that's intended and required to stop an extra ASCII LF in addition to the hex-encoded one being printed. I did python -c '...' | cmp - orig to test it. Cheers, Ralph.
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by ralph 20y ago
Hmm. It seems some italic text slipped in there. What other mark-up works ? _Software Tools_ is an excellent book. The /leaning/ /tower/ of /Pisa/. Disappearing: lt= amp=& star= (becomes italic) question=? hash=#. Recognised: r
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by ralph 20y ago
And the same code as hex-encoded above but with various missing characters, etc., introduced by the posting system. wget -qO - http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders | tr '"' '\n\n' | sed -n 's/^user?id=//p' | xargs -ri wget -qO - ' http://n
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by ralph 20y ago
It looks to me like the submitted page lists at most 50 posts. Here's my script which shows the problem. I've hex-encoded it to get it through the posting system unbuggered. python -c 'print "77676574202d714f202d20687474 703a2f2f6e6577732
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by ralph 20y ago
You're right, network sockets should be part of the filesystem. Arnold Robbins, author of GNU awk, is a fan of Plan 9 which did this the right way. It was probably the motivation for him adding special files to awk, e.g. "/inet/tcp/0/loca
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by ralph 20y ago
Vote: -1. It would just clutter the normal display. I'm not interested in your web site unless I'm interested in you based on your comments in which case I'm more than happy to click on your username to find out more about you. Next it'l
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by ralph 20y ago
Dismay or joy?
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by ralph 20y ago
If you had to reimplement in C then it suggests that whatever non-C language the original was in, e.g. Python, you would have had to re-write it in C. Otherwise, you would have had the choice to reimplement your Lisp in a more suitable lan
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by ralph 20y ago
If you look at the PyPy project you'll see that it's possible with Python to spot that foo is always an integer within a certain scope, thereby allowing short-cuts when dealing with it. They're also using the excellent LLVM framework to JI
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by ralph 20y ago
I think a bigger problem than not being smart is having more than one idea over time; the new one supplants the old. I once struggled to explain to a top-notch guy what I did for the company we knew. "Ah", he said, "you're a problem solve
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by ralph 20y ago
Any takers? I'm not after names, but numbers.
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by ralph 20y ago
Good points, but I'd urge paying off the mortgage before (4). Paying it off twenty years early saves a wad in the long run. And not having mortgage payments as a recurring monthly drain makes (4) easier.