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by satyenr 7y ago
Except, you won’t see files, just photos, movies, documents, etc.
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by satyenr 7y ago
> What if I don't desire a gui application store or desire a different one or switch application stores or move a dir with executable files from one machine to another? What does any of this have to do with a GUI? And for transporti
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by satyenr 7y ago
Agreed.
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by satyenr 7y ago
On the disk, as usual. Files are, after all, an interface.
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by satyenr 7y ago
Again, why do you care about files? Logs have nothing to do with files. Files are just the interface used by filesystem to show the event stream that is logs so you can use file based tools to access the. I am not calling it a filesystem. L
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by satyenr 7y ago
By that logic, there is nothing wrong with having a flat memory address space. With access control, the OS can ensure that one application never access another’s memory area. Why do we need isolated virtual address spaces so that applicatio
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by satyenr 7y ago
It is meant to be more powerful and flexible than what iPad OS does, but somewhat similar.
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by satyenr 7y ago
Well, you can also use global variables safely with locks.
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by satyenr 7y ago
All of this can be implemented on top of a file system, of course. What do you think iPadOS does? We are talking about what the user/application sees and is capable of accessing.
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by satyenr 7y ago
Who says logs have to be written to a file — at least as far as the user is concerned? Logs are a series of events — a LogStore will let you read events as they are appended. And even if you do want to store logs in “files”, the solution pr
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by satyenr 7y ago
No, it is not reinventing the filesystem -- it's more like a file-vault or a file-bank. Anyone looking to operate on the files must either borrow (to read) or take ownership of (to write). The difference is that while a filesystem unli
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by satyenr 7y ago
That is where I got the idea. :-)
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by satyenr 7y ago
You don't use a photo management application because the file-system exposes photos as files. It is like saying -- in java parlance -- I am perfectly fine using object for everything -- I don't need any other data type. In the hyp
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by satyenr 7y ago
It doesn't have to be that way. Consider the following scenario: 1. Every file is owned by application. 2. A file-store application is the custodian of files meant to be used by multiple applications. 3. An application that needs to ed
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by satyenr 7y ago
> what should not be missing in my application? Details of relevant skills and experience. But do not go too detailed. There should be enough information to convey your competence without being overwhelming. The person reviewing your res
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by satyenr 7y ago
Will signal continue to be free if they have a billion users like WhatsApp? Who will fund the infrastructure and development?
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by satyenr 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that. * An iPhone 7 will likely receive timely updates for another 2-3 years, going by Apple's track record. Can the $450 Android phone guarantee that? * The $450 Android will likely have a mid range ch
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by satyenr 7y ago
> I don't think I've worked anywhere that's put more than $500M into a single software project. That is "huge" cost. It's not what they put on the project in one go. It is the accumulated cost of developers,
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by satyenr 7y ago
I disagree. Case in point -- Linux on Desktop. Despite being open source and privacy respecting, Linux never managed to make significant innards into the desktop market. And for good reason. Nobody, except for hardcore hackers, wants to pla
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by satyenr 7y ago
> They're pretty far behind with software Examples? They are a platform vendor and have done no worse than other companies when it comes to their platform. Sure macOS has stagnated somewhat, but so have nearly all desktop platforms.
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by satyenr 7y ago
I don’t necessarily agree. I have worked with financial analysts using Excel, SQL etc. quite proficiently. In fact, I am told that familiarity with DSLs used for data analysis/manipulation tools is considered a part of the job descript
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by satyenr 7y ago
IMO, boilerplate source code shouldn’t be generated at all — the tool chain should directly emit the required object code. And code generation shouldn’t require a different language — or special comment syntax.
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by satyenr 7y ago
I agree — and it’s not the new graduates. I have come across people with a couple of years (sometimes more) under their belts.
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by satyenr 7y ago
Err no.. I disagree. I’d rather hire someone with strong fundamentals but with minimal knowledge of the stack over someone who can cobble together a solution using the stack/framework but has unclear fundamentals.
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by satyenr 7y ago
Well said. I have come across candidates looking for engineering positions with a laundry list of fancy technologies they claim to have have worked on — yet can’t answer simplest questions about the fundamentals — way too often for my likin
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by satyenr 7y ago
Just use pandoc[1] — assuming the blog platform accepts a well known markup language. [1] https://pandoc.org
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by satyenr 8y ago
Is D being used/backed by a major software company or a major open source initiative? Looking at the trends so far, seems like it takes the backing of a giant for a programming language to succeed.
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by satyenr 8y ago
Remember when people were outraged when Apple decided to give in to the demands of the Chinese government rather than shut shop. They complained about Apple not taking the high road. Now people are complaining about Apple taking the high ro
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by satyenr 8y ago
> Next, strtok is not thread-safe. That's because it uses a static buffer internally. So, you should take care that only one thread in your program calls strtok at a time. I wonder why strtok() does not use an output parameter simil
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by satyenr 8y ago
To be honest, my experience with FF has not be been great in the recent years — although I do acknowledge that it has improved recently. I can’t point my finger at one thing — it was combination of little things that bothered me enough to

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