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by reidrac 11y ago
Fedora is a nice desktop distro, but the versions are supported for 18 months and that's really inconvenient. Upgrades to the next version have improved, but is not as smooth as Debian/Ubuntu (in my experience). For my mom, I use
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by reidrac 11y ago
I guess we could argue that if you get security seriously enough you don't get hacked. EDIT: I was being sarcastic. This is a good read: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2000/04/the_process..
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by reidrac 11y ago
It is interesting how different perception was 20 years ago. My cousin had a Sinclair PC200 back then, that IIRC was Amstrad's poor attempt to get in to the PC market. That was a 8086 based PC with CGA card, and it came with DOS 3-some
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by reidrac 11y ago
I was expecting an explanation of what deep linking is, the way the article is written it lacks context: if you don't know what is "deep linking", it doesn't make much sense. OK, closes tab .
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by reidrac 11y ago
Looking at the stack manipulation examples I had a terrible flashback of the time when I had to program in Postscript to print (generate?) labels with barcodes :S It is a quite interesting approach, and probably simpler than porting an exis
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by reidrac 11y ago
Just run "ssh-keygen -R whoami.filippo.io".
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by reidrac 11y ago
But if I want to release a wheel package for my software I do need a Windows and a Mac OS machine to build the packages. Depending on your resources that may be possible or not; personally I can't provide them as I only use Linux.
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by reidrac 11y ago
So far my experience with Docker has been quite exciting, but I'm still to find a real good use case for it. Also moving around a 700MB+ image when you can deploy some Debian package (or even setup a virtualenv, I do mostly Python), so
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by reidrac 11y ago
I find amusing that visiting that same page triggers the 'Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on support.mozilla.org.' warning.
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by reidrac 11y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9189937 The final design uses 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0, which makes sense but I kind of liked the old prototype that was AVR based.
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by reidrac 11y ago
Then how can be that an incentive for Docker's adoption? Honest question; if, as you say, this is a solved problem thanks to package managers. I can't even remember the last time I had a real dependency problem deploying an applic
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by reidrac 11y ago
I liked reading it but I think I made a mistake getting it for Kindle instead the paper version; I'm not good using the ebook reader for reference material. The projects are OK-ish, though. Still a good book.
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by reidrac 11y ago
I don't think it is that similar, in this case Linux distro model of distributing software makes much more sense. You can get pretty much all you need in a desktop install of any Linux distribution, or you can ship a DVD or an USB dong
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by reidrac 11y ago
Not sure, all modern Lisp implementations require more RAM than I had available. The closest I've found was things like Lisp implementations for 8-bit microcomputers of the 80s, eg. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/info
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by reidrac 11y ago
The paper refers to an ARM Cortex M4 with around a MB of flash and and few hundreds of KB of RAM; well that's perhaps a MCU, but to be honest that's quite powerful. Micropython[1] targets that type of MCU, and even runs in a PIC16
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by reidrac 11y ago
His preference is probably "pyglet" :)
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by reidrac 11y ago
They have permission as long as they comply with the license (GNU GPL v3+) and the author can't revoke a license already granted unless the license allows to do so, and the GPL doesn't allow it. See: "The Non-Revocable GPL&qu
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by reidrac 11y ago
Also if you contribute to a clone, it won't show in the stats. It is a metric for self-motivation, but I guess it can be wrongly used for other things. Is like the "GH is your CV" thing, ignoring that there are other code hos
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by reidrac 11y ago
I'm running Fedora 20 as my main home desktop/dev platform (upgraded from Fedora 19, it worked just fine this time!). Fedora 22 means 20 will be EOL soon and I've been thinking what to do next. I've realized that I don&#
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by reidrac 11y ago
EU VAT doesn't work like that, Estonia is in the EU sigle market (and the Euro). http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_ta... You may be right in the income and social tax, but I suspect establi
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by reidrac 11y ago
I've been doing this for ~15 years too, but things have changed enough over the time (and I've changed too!) so it still feels fresh. I guess the way technology changes can be a two edge sword, as in you're always catching up
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by reidrac 11y ago
It's more than that... even if you want to use it, you may not be able to do it. See: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Windows IoT requires Visual Studio and Windows (eg, Wi
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by reidrac 12y ago
Sorry, it wasn't Python. It was a system component that crashed as consequence of my Python code using DBUS.
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by reidrac 12y ago
I didn't mean to say my Python code was the one crashing with a segfault. Apologies if my comment wasn't clear enough. I just did a search in my bugzilla account at Red Hat (Fedora distro) but I couldn't find a report for tha
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by reidrac 12y ago
I made a silly desktop app some time ago and it used DBUS to get notifications from NetworkMonitor when the system went online/offline. Nothing too fancy, very few lines of code. When I was implementing that, I managed to get several s
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by reidrac 12y ago
Looks pretty close to the MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT And using an existing widely known license has benefits, as in what is unlicense? This is the first time I hear from this, but I'm pretty u
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by reidrac 12y ago
Apparently -Wall and -Wextra is believed to be enough; not sure what to expect with -Weverything but I'm intrigued :) EDIT: interesting indeed. Thanks for the pointer! (Add warning levels) https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla&#
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by reidrac 12y ago
You can also: a = 4 'A is: %(a)d' % locals() Perhaps is my experience programming in C, but "format" looks lees familiar and I tend to use the old style formatting.
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by reidrac 12y ago
My windows knowledge is rusty and outdated but... do you mean that code runs in ring 0? that "kernel space"?
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by reidrac 12y ago
So far I've focused on making new projects both Python 2 and 3 compatible, but "new stuff" in Python 3 is not always available when: - Laptop running Ubuntu Trusty: Python 3.4 - Production servers with Debian Wheezy: Python 3

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