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by saidajigumi 14y ago
Yes. Canonical clearly lays out the project motivations, including not choosing to use Wayland, on the Mir wiki page[1]. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec#Why_Not_Wayland_.2BAC8_Westo...
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
No, it isn't, and that's the major underlying theme of Drew's writings on vim. This article is no exception. By learning to use the power of the tool, you work fluidly with the structure of the text, not just the characters/lines. That i
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
Hm, Rust keeps hitting my radar with interesting attributes like this. Time to go have a look see. Thanks!
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
I occasionally hear this kind of complaint, but I've yet to see any silver-bullet memory management system. AFAICT, the best we've been able to accomplish is to provide a easier path to correctness with decent overall performance. Also, G
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
The latest research on this front really doesn't do much "blaming the victim", which seems to be the default mindset when someone avoids a food or food ingredient. IMO, it's almost certainly not "something wrong with your gut", but rather
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First off, while some sharing between client and server happens, that tends to be an edge case in my experience. The roles of client and server, and APIs available to each, are rather different. I.e. the environment of the browser and nod
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The latter is perhaps overly condensed, but there seem to be folks who never progress beyond a dogmatic phase of applying agile techniques. I.e. using feedback to apply the correct tools to the problem instead of forcing a static approach
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Hive is not particularly fast in and of itself; it just has horizontal scaling and a SQL-ish front-end. Looking at AWS RedShift's homepage[1] (emphasis added): > Amazon Redshift delivers fast query and I/O performance for virtually any
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SSD write fear is kinda nuts, IMO. It's a device subject to wear, tear, and catastrophic failure -- just like HDDs. Keep backups (three for important data; a cloud copy is only one copy), enjoy the performance, and don't sweat it. If you
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Handwaving, much? There's no universal and objective measurement for "government not serving its people." If there were, many problems of government and politics would be a heck of a lot easier. I don't disagree with the sentiments about
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Personal observation: data makes history much more interesting. FDR's big lead compared to other presidents among them. Quick searching turns up only minimal information on the context surrounding FDR's vetoes (e.g. Wikipedia[1]), but Goo
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The web is brimming with examples, here are a few: 1) You can only do a mod 10 check (aka the Luhn algorithm) for client-side credit card validation. Beyond that, you'll need to hit a server to run a CC authorization. 2) In the email check
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Great! Next step, programming in the Diwali style of Arabic script[1]. This is one of the amazing forms of Arabic calligraphy that often graces classical Arabic architecture and other works of art. Because really, don't we all want softwar
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
Fine, that solves the problem for exactly one ephemeral correlate of power consumption surges. What about the next one? If we're talking armchair first-stabs at automation, I'd much rather have 1) a large set of historical data from distri
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
> If Vigil fails to punish a function, does it delete itself? 1. It is wrong not to punish immoral code. 2. You cannot punish all immoral code without a solution to the Halting Problem. 3. You cannot solve the Halting Problem. ∴ Vigi
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Wow. Vigil needs its own LLVM compiler. We'll call it House of Cards. :-P
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Folks have been musing along these lines for decades. There have been a few attempts. To date, they've almost all failed. The problem domain here is a lot more complex than anything we'd normally call a "plugin architecture". IMO, t
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, Apple has just removed the "unforseen issues; we can't ship" excuse that might have gotten Kickstarter to refund its fees. At this point they can 1) just keep on with the existing Kickstarter project or 2) suck up Ki
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
I'll agree that good comments don't reiterate what is plain from the code. Truly clear, self-explanatory code is a joy to read. But the process of coding usually boils away any notion of why, leaving only the brain-compiled machine that
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This and other products roughly similar to Brita filters all seem a bit ridiculous and wasteful. At least this one is glass and so free of plasticizers[1]. A simple drip-through filter isn't going to do that much to improve most U.S. wate
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> A process that is incredibly fast and decisive in order to get double digits done per day. Because, y'know, having officials crank through tons of difficult decisions per day is such a supremely effective[1] and corruption-free way to
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One external online provider really only counts as "one copy", ever. This is primarily because you cannot audit the ongoing storage architecture and processes of any given provider. You're looking for SPOFs, not how many disks may hold da
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Yeah. This company was about to distribute GNU grep, meaning that they would be obligated to provide source for that version of grep, and likewise for any modifications to grep they've made. Yawn.
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
Given that TermKit's last commit was nine months ago, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting. TermKit was a good, thought-provoking design prototype but I don't think it really nailed the next-gen-terminal sweet spot.
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by saidajigumi 14y ago
As another (rather skilled) inline skater, I'll second the ideas in the above post. When I was a newb, rocks were Teh Evil. Now rocks just spit away, if I don't just avoid 'em in the first place. Physical skills have a learning curve. Wh
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It's vim, so no need for a hardware mod. Here's a trick that several vim writers recommend; add this to your .vimrc: " Disable arrow keys noremap <Up> <nop> noremap <Down> <nop> noremap <Left&#