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by sigil 15y ago
Just set up a "forward everything" rule from your apps account to your personal account. Then use labeling in your personal account if you need the separation. For outgoing mail, add your apps account under "Accounts and Settings > Send
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by sigil 15y ago
The author talks about conventions for C libraries in general. Among other things, it advocates not reinventing the wheel. All fine things. The author has some good points on C library design. I have no problem with C (which I use heavily
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by sigil 15y ago
> So because you don't use C commonly Where did you get that idea? The author talks about writing C libraries that depend on GTK+, GLib, APR, D-Bus, and the like. There's no way in hell I'd write a C library that depends on that stuff
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by sigil 15y ago
Or, instead of making C a more pleasant language for developing applications and middleware libraries, you could use a programming language better suited to those tasks. Call out to C only when necessary and at the lowest layers. Don't laye
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by sigil 15y ago
> I have yet to hear any of them put actual numbers to their assertions. If you have any, I would honestly love to hear them. As would I. Unfortunately, actual numbers seem hard to come by. Performance of CRA loans simply wasn't tracked
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by sigil 15y ago
Yes. I did an experiment to see just how much the diff was amplified by TrueCrypt. For a 1MB file change inside the TrueCrypt container, DropBox would have transferred 8x the normal amount. [1] Fine for scenarios like you mention, but the "
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by sigil 15y ago
So you avoid X altogether? How would there be updates without X? And if using X, why not use apps that have desktop update functionality (where that is important)? Not sure what you're asking here. I use X but switch between a fullscreen
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by sigil 15y ago
I noticed a few requests to fix HN's http parsing to allow the "Content-length" (lowercase l) header. This problem prevents users of the w3m web browser and emacs/w3m from logging in and posting. Although "Content-length" is actually legal
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Show HN: patch that lets w3m users login and post to HN(github.com)
2 points by sigil 15y ago|1 comments
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by sigil 15y ago
> Also, I use a Mac and Tmux doesn't work with the Mac's clipboard. Same story on Linux. Integrating the tmux or screen clipboards with the X clipboard is DIY. I get that it's annoying if you're frequently moving data back and forth bet
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by sigil 15y ago
If your creation is completely unprotected, there's less incentive to create it in the first place. Would you be as likely to put a year of your time and money into creating something, if you knew it would just be ripped off and profited fr
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by sigil 15y ago
This tip only applies to interactive shells: I often prefix potentially dangerous commands with '#' while I edit them. Tab-completion still works (with bash at least, so I assume also with certain other vastly superior shells). # rm -
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by sigil 15y ago
VMOD is to Varnish as loadable module is to a kernel. The new Varnish provides a programmable interface that enables expanding the VCL (Varnish Configuration Language). VCL is the only fault I can find with Varnish. Is a new language rea
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Dygraph.js - interactive charts for dense time series datasets(dygraphs.com)
3 points by sigil 15y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 15y ago
Given that Google recently hired the author [1] of a good Python implementation [2] of djb's redo [3], I'm hoping for a build tool along those lines, but in a compiled language. It's probably too much to ask for something that simple though
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by sigil 15y ago
So it's a space-filling curve with self-similarity across scales, but which one? Either showing the curve or defining the recurrence relation (or both) would be nice.
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by sigil 15y ago
A Netflix plugin for Linux Chrome is on the verge of being released. May be of interest. http://www.thechromesource.com/netflix-plug-in-for-chrome-an...
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by sigil 15y ago
Author submitted the post directly to HN a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639214
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Measuring the Measurers(acg.github.com)
1 points by sigil 15y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 15y ago
This is excellent! I read your posts a while back that inventoried the various libraries and algorithms for text extraction. Ever since, I've been wishing someone would actually measure and compare performance. Thanks so much. Readability’
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by sigil 15y ago
I have 500GB of tweets from the random sample stream, in raw json form, going back to August 2010. Aside from some very broad measures it hasn't been all that useful to us. I never considered distributing it until now, but the TOS clause fo
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by sigil 15y ago
There's an app for that...in fact, there's a YC S11 startup for that. http://www.taskforceapp.com/ Of course, the author's idea that email is isomorphic to a todo list is pretty ludicrous.
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by sigil 15y ago
This is better than TrueCrypt-on-Dropbox [1] in the sense that there's probably much less bandwidth inflation due to encryption, if any. However, with EncFS be warned: "Anyone having access to the source directory is able to see how many fi
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by sigil 15y ago
Bullfrog Carrier Bag from Brooklyn Industries: http://www.brooklynindustries.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/produ... Every day for the last 4 years, I've carried a Thinkpad around NYC in this thing. It quickly converts between two different con
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by sigil 15y ago
I thought you were referring to this one: http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/parallelism-...
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by sigil 15y ago
ThriftDB is the software they had to write to do Octopart's electronic parts searches; no existing software was up to the task. Can the Octopart guys comment on why no existing software was up to the task? Also, I'm curious if there's som
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by sigil 15y ago
Here are two alternative Python protobuf implementations. They're each about 15x faster than the pure Python implementation from Google. fast-python-pb - codegen wrapping Google's C++ protobuf implementation. https://github.com/Greplin/f
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by sigil 15y ago
So if there are changes I'd like to see in Python, I should lobby Guido in person? Yes I know, Python has a fairly decentralized control structure and a nice open process in the form of PEPs. There was just something about this post that ma
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by sigil 15y ago
It sounds like Colin is taking issue with openssl the implementation, while you're defending TLS the protocol. In that case, I agree with you both. (As an aside, it's great to see two of my favorite HN commenters in the security field engag
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by sigil 15y ago
Some of the libraries are [1]. Probably not the whole kit and caboodle. Interestingly, there was a focus on special purpose hardware that made convolutional network learning possible in realtime. One of the other demos was an autonomous dri

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