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by shabbyrobe 8y ago
Firefox was the last of the players that mattered that could still be described as a "user agent". That's no longer true.
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by shabbyrobe 8y ago
Thank you! I had no idea about this package! I rolled my own similar thing, but I'd much rather be using something semi-blessed. Looks like I have some refactoring to do, but that's not always a bad thing.
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Yeah for sure, it's definitely got its warts. I suspect the import thing was far easier to code as an error than to compute whether they need to be pruned. Gotta love those go build times though! With vim-go and goimports, it's ha
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
I definitely see this with Go decisions too, but I think that same "pigheadedness" has also been a driving factor behind a lot of what makes Go so effective to work with. They've thrown out an awful lot of stuff, which someti
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Please be careful, this library has hidden GPL encumbrance issues. See my prior comment for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13556718
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23745
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Great to see the high-friction barriers falling. The move to Github for issues has been a massive improvement. Hopefully they can do something about getting rid of Google groups now. It's an extraordinarily poor organ of record. The lo
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
A lot of point-missing here about the example C program. Maybe everyone else in the world is a perfect C coder who never makes a mistake, but I've found every single one of those mistakes in my own code at one point or another (though
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Hehe yep but the major difference here is that I was chuckling the whole time I was typing. Can you imagine how bad chuckling would make the end result if you were speaking it? Chance of success: -1 billion.
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
> In the AR and VR future we won’t be typing. Oh please god no full stop imagine how hard it would be to even write a simple hello world program example ellipsis linebreak linebreak three backticks no not that delete word delete word bac
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
I've been using uMatrix for this job for a while now. I find it much better than I ever found RequestPolicy, but of course YMMV. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Channels can be really useful but are massively oversold. Fortunately it has cooled off a bit in recent years but I still see heaps of go code that bends over backwards to use channels because "share memory by communicating blah blah b
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Nice one! I'll keep my eyes peeled for a release and give it another crack. I think all those creaky old scripts still work.
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
I ran into some significant performance issues with Bleve during a weekend hackathon a few months ago. I was trying to index the stackoverflow data dump for fun and I couldn't get it to successfully complete. I'm guessing i was ru
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
This is encouraging! In my experience, getting to this stage - where you've actually seen the thing successfully hit a breakpoint - is 95% of the hard work with debugging. I'm not a heavy debugger user, I prefer trace logging, ric
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Awesome, do you have any more info about them you'd be willing to share? By the time my mate was around they weren't common enough in the humanities dept for him to have ever seen one before Manfred's. He's likely at lea
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
My mate has an awesome story about providing technical support to him on campus. I hope neither he nor the deceased mind me relating it. "Hello. Tech support? This is Manfred von Thun. My computer is not working." "OK, no pro
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Ubuntu 16.04 + Firefox 57, Ubuntu 16.04 + Chromium 62.0.3202.89, macOS Sierra + Firefox 57. Inaccessible to me on all - the font is too thin for me to read. I can't scale the font size up high enough either as the layout breaks. I used
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
I can't read the text on this site. Does anyone know a way to permanently disable "font-weight: <=300" for all websites in firefox without resorting to anything as heavy as Stylish, or will I need to write my own extension
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Alas, Manfred von Thun is no longer with us. Seems unlikely there will be another release.
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
That's a good point. It's more useful for config files than APIs I reckon. That's why I've been hanging for it.
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
You can have whatever default value you like by initialising the struct before you pass it to json.Unmarshal. If the key isn't present, it won't be set: type Test struct { Foo string Bar string } fun
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Looks like it was because an internal structure in the runtime had a fixed size, but that has changed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40943065/golang-why-runt... https://github.com/golang&#x2F
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
This release finally brings a way to raise an error when an unknown key is encountered in a JSON object: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/74830 The error's text is close to useless for even a mo
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Go 1.10 Beta 1 is released(groups.google.com)
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
It’s the way the wind is blowing. Even Firefox is infested with invasive, on-by-default telemetry now. The price of freedom from it is eternal vigilance. I’d very much prefer Canonical not to get it into their heads that it’s OK to do it ag
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Watch out! The "pure and perfect git history is more important than any other consideration" crowd are going to take you apart for this heretical notion!
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
It's uber slow for me too. Similar specs. Several hundred millisecond tab switches with a clean profile. Typing into slack is like typing into an SSH session over a bad dialup connection. Adding Tree Style Tabs kept my CPU over 20% and
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
Just installed it, looks like the update overrode my previously set default of a blank "new tab" page in favour of their overly fancy, ad infested "new tab experience" page. Looks like it's time for another scan of
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by shabbyrobe 9y ago
So that you can mostly avoid having to carefully avoid allocation!

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