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by senko 17y ago
When I see link to TC or CodingHorror (and a few other sites') post, I first read all the comments here on HN. Even if the story is complete garbage, one can find good insights in the discussion inspired by it; often with enough data so tha
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by senko 18y ago
From the Twitter user standpoint, I think the change is +-0 (no noise I'm not interested in is down, but potentially interesting conversations/information by my friends is not easily discoverable any more). From API standpoint, this will fo
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The History of OS Migration(pagetable.com)
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by senko 18y ago
Interesting that it supports Skype, which is the only protocol in the list that doesn't have third party clients (afaik; if I'm mistaken, please correct me). That'd mean they either partnered with Skype (which would be a first, so I don't t
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by senko 18y ago
I don't know if the pattern has a name, but equivalent of this in GTK+ (and QT, IIRC) desktop world would be called an idle callback (function scheduled to be run at the next iteration of the event loop). More info here: http://developer.g
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by senko 18y ago
With git, you can use combination of GIT_WORK_TREE and GIT_DIR environment variables (or the equivalent params to git command) to specify where the work tree and the .git dir reside. Downside of this is that you have to set up env separatel
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by senko 18y ago
By default it does deferred transactions (exclusive lock is only acquired when you need to commit), but if you use insert/update/delete outside a transaction, each statement is it's own transaction. Locking is database-wide, although IIRC t
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by senko 18y ago
Yeah, there's two different things you could call defensive programming: first is asserting that code assumptions are true (and crashing loudly when they're not), second is trying to work properly with bad data. I find the former really use
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by senko 18y ago
The difference in number of comments here (17 at the time of writing this) and on the article itself (0) shows a nice example of (lack of) usability. I'm guessing a number of people thought about commenting on the post, then found out they
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by senko 18y ago
Heh. Got a side project that does exactly that (twitter-forum, NOT a chat room), and everyone that saw it first thought it was a (lousy) chat room. I believe there is use in micro-forums (or group-twitters) different than chats; it's a grou
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by senko 18y ago
What this blog post doesnt say, is that google completely ignored the perfectly valid current Jingle draft for RTP video (XEP-0167) and instead invented their own (and doing very weird things like signalling audio+video streams together, al