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by reidrac 14y ago
I don't know if it's crazy, but I wouldn't say that site is the answer. Yes, it has the open source word all over it, but have you spent two minutes to look at the content? Most of the "relevant" stuff is just to comply with third party OSS
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by reidrac 14y ago
I don't think it's about "rejection" but a practical thing. When starting a project you may need some 3rd party stuff (library, framework, etc) that doesn't support Python 3 (yet; for different reasons, sometimes the project is unmaintained
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by reidrac 14y ago
You're partially right. For a beginner a classical guitar is definitely better (more space in the neck to put the fingers, the nylon strings in 1-3 are easier/less painful for untrained fingers, no need to plug it in an amp, etc), but the g
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by reidrac 14y ago
So they're going to move to OpenStack Compute but... which supervisor are they going to use? I guess is not VMware (KVM? Xen?), but I still find the article a little bit confusing. Besides the quotes suck ("OpenStack is not really free"; we
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by reidrac 14y ago
Sorry, it's just a demo and not a real game :)
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by reidrac 14y ago
I guess it depends on how the DNS server deals with the wildcard domain. I can tell you that djbdns doesn't care about the part covered by the wildcard, it will happily resolve _!test.domain (although it is an invalid name according to the
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by reidrac 14y ago
I actually hosted a demo for that repo in a different server. I'm not saying it's useful to host your own demo (although it could be a temporarily demo deployed on demand). I think 5minfork is cool if you want to try a project and the repo
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by reidrac 14y ago
Tried it with the only repo I have with plain html/js* and works like a charm. Pretty neat! * http://5minfork.com/reidrac/canvas-raycasting
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by reidrac 14y ago
Liferea supports Tiny Tiny RSS sync, so that could be it. You can host http://tt-rss.org/ and use Liferea as desktop app (and may be the web interface for mobile). In fact that's the only part that I really liked of Google Reader: it was
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by reidrac 14y ago
FYI: http://undoc.in/subscription.html#edit
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by reidrac 14y ago
Missing: Thunderbird I've discovered recently that Thunderbird includes a feed reader and it's not too bad, although I'm not sure I like the idea of showing feed entries as mail. https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-
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by reidrac 14y ago
Firefox is great, but I think is a unfair comparison Chrome vs Firefox as he's talking about freedom and Chrome is not free software[1]. He may want to try Chromium instead. I know is supposed to be the same source code, but it gives me som
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by reidrac 14y ago
Yes, I agree. In fact I can't see how distro incompatibilities or fragmentation affects a desktop user when you're using one distro. Icaza use case is far for the average desktop use case I think. I'm both Ubuntu (Dell) and Fedora (Dell)
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by reidrac 14y ago
I don't know if it is a valid argument or not, but according to Bazaar docs it's one of Bazaar's strong points. AFAIK the official Lanuchpad FAQ says Bazaar is the best VCS for the project: https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/37
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by reidrac 14y ago
Launchpad supports Bazaar only. That's one of the "top ten reasons" to switch to Bazaar according to the docs [1]. That said, I don't really think Canonical is "forcing" anyone besides playing the "defaults" card in the distribution they co
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by reidrac 14y ago
I agree that, in general, you don't want to maintain a fork because that's a lot of work (or more work than contributing the changes so they're included and maintained upstream), but I don't like the idea of losing the benefits of open sour
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by reidrac 14y ago
It could mean that you need more C++ to do stuff (or less Python code to do stuff, whatever your like). What I'm saying is that "amount of code" is not a valid magnitude when comparing different languages. In my experience converting some u
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by reidrac 14y ago
I think so. Besides the computers we had access in the laboratory were limited in resources so a smaller code base I guess had its benefits in compile time.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Circa 1999 I studied Minix in a operating design course, but in the same way we studied Amoeba or Mach; in fact we used a pre 1.0 Linux kernel for practice (I don't remember the distro, it could be custom), and it was small enough to unders
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by reidrac 14y ago
I agree. Besides they are doing it "secretly" in a public repository.
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by reidrac 14y ago
I've never had problems to get my email accepted by gmail, but well... I don't think Google gets a 100% either. There must be a checklist somewhere, but off the top of my head: - Your server's IP must be static and must have a reverse map (
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by reidrac 14y ago
I totally agree. I started on the Internet circa 1998 and I've always regretted using popular free services back then, because most of them didn't survive to our days (the popular "X got acquired by Y, X was closed"). I got a domain in 2002
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by reidrac 14y ago
Re: releases; GiHub used to have a cool feature that was removed* (and I deeply miss): they removed the file uploads. * https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads You know, the code distribution can be different to the code you have in
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by reidrac 14y ago
Very nice site. It asked me for my location and... emptiness. Well, I guess Tech Britain needs to be more popular to be useful because I believe there are start-ups in Guildford.
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by reidrac 14y ago
Yes, it is very frustrating indeed; specially if I can't fix the problem myself. My favourite situation is when I submit a bug with all the information I can gather and after a year (or even more) a developer updates the ticket asking if I
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by reidrac 14y ago
Yes, it's a good idea and I like it too. It's OSS but you may pay for the convenience of getting the app perfectly packaged for your OS. Other OSS projects use that model (I can think of Todo.txt Android app, for example). But I'm not sure
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by reidrac 14y ago
Further info: http://treitter.livejournal.com/14871.html In fact I recommend reading the comments. EDIT: ah, I didn't notice the reg linked to the blog post (I got distracted by the inaccurate title). Well, that's the source anyway and
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by reidrac 14y ago
I'm not sure if we're talking about a language problem here. The tools are there for you to use them in the proper way and there's always a chance that someone misunderstands how things work. Perl Data::Dumper can be used with eval for seri
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by reidrac 14y ago
Did you save it? (CTRL+S)
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by reidrac 14y ago
What about EU companies? Is the cloud just a US thing? Related: http://www.katescomment.com/is-cloud-safe/

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