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by slobotron 8y ago
iPhones of similar vintage* (1, 3G, 3GS) looked somewhat similar IMO. (* Technically I guess it's the iPhone 4 that came out same year as Defy, but arguably close enough)
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Speeding up object creation (Perl6)(6guts.wordpress.com)
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by slobotron 8y ago
Windows 98 you could also bypass Novell NetWare login by clicking 'Help' and then finding a File Open dialog in there
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by slobotron 8y ago
Say two PRs get sent in by two different developers. CI builds both, passes them. Reviewer comes and approves PR#1, it is merged into master. Depending how much CI power you have, PR#2 (and any other PR in queue) can be automatically built
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by slobotron 8y ago
Hm, I thought the idea is that the only way something will land in master is if it reviews OK and CI passes all the tests on top of the current master?
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by slobotron 8y ago
I do this fairly often. I find it can aid communication and recall. Few examples: Say we have a parser and we discover that it chokes on certain input. I'll start a new branch and first commit will be "Failing test case for XXX&qu
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by slobotron 8y ago
AvE's gonna have a field day...
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by slobotron 8y ago
Do what downtown Vancouver, BC did - take out a travel lane and/or parking spots and create dedicated bike lane. Sure, some businesses complain, but overall number of bikes on the road seems to have increased. https://cyclin
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by slobotron 8y ago
Yes. Years back we moved from Elavon to Stripe since 2.9% on each transaction sure beat uncertain 1.9-5% we were getting based on what card customer was using (corporate and point cards carried bigger fee).
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by slobotron 8y ago
Perhaps there is even an analogy with Sony delivering a lot of the sensors, and Tesla turning into a major battery supplier?
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by slobotron 8y ago
Always loved the IRIX Motif and 4dwm aesthetics, and was lucky to have had access to some Indigo machine in school. Was really impressed by how responsive the file manager was wrt. the immediate appearance of icons for files created from te
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by slobotron 8y ago
Perl6 has nice builtin cli construction from method definitions and doc comments cat > cli.pl6 #| Duplicates without frobnication multi sub MAIN( 'duplicate', Int $times, Str $text ) { say $text x $times;
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by slobotron 8y ago
You can get dynamic scoping in perl by prefixing things with `local`. $ENV{BLAH} = 'hi'; $Some::Package::Var = 'there'; { local $ENV{BLAH} = 'hello'; local $Some::Package::Var = &#x
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by slobotron 8y ago
You can use Dockerfile (easy to start, large ecosystem) to build and launch a VM (presumably more secure).
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by slobotron 8y ago
Checkout Dr Racket, I believe you can have images in the comments and even as part of code. https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/
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by slobotron 8y ago
Our merge strategy with SourceSafe was to always do a 3 way merge (using Araxis) between: - your latest changes - version of the code before you made changes - latest version of the code on the server So yes, would have 3 full checkouts of
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by slobotron 8y ago
Sony phones have dedicated button (hold down to enter camera app, by the time phone is out of pocket you are ready to press it again to take the photo). On Pixel 2, double press Power button to start the camera app; then use volume buttons
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by slobotron 8y ago
Interesting tidbit: > The developers making Microsoft Windows use Git
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by slobotron 8y ago
Some would argue that OOP and class hierarchies are orthogonal concepts, so any analogy with biological taxonomies is bound to leave you unenlightened for a long time.
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by slobotron 8y ago
We need AMP/PWA for PDFs!
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by slobotron 8y ago
There is at least this comment in the docs: > Zig is taking cues from Jai's stance on allocators, since that language is being developed by a high-performance game designer for the usecase of high-performance games." https:&#x
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by slobotron 8y ago
For free CAD, checkout OnShape if you don't mind all your drawings to be public. https://www.onshape.com/
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by slobotron 8y ago
Baby boomers were/are a large economic force due to sheer numbers and similar age related needs as they progress down the histogram. But it probably doesn't often make sense to keep arbitrary grouping of generations after them, as
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by slobotron 8y ago
Really enjoyed hearing you talk on the Knowledge Project Interview: Earning your Stripes [0]. 0: http://theknowledgeproject.libsyn.com/earning-your-stripes-m...
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by slobotron 8y ago
I find "[Table]ID" to be bit more readable in joins. I.e. SELECT * FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 USING (table1_id); vs SELECT * FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON (table2.table1_id = table1.id);
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by slobotron 9y ago
An excellent profiler for perl, NYTProf [0], came out of New York Times. It's still actively developed and still kicks ass - outputs easy to grok flame graphs that you can click around on to zero into any statement. More than just fin
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by slobotron 9y ago
Awesome, thanks for the pointer! CPAN still has lots of tricks up its sleeve, eh :)
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by slobotron 9y ago
Can of course still do this with FatPacker: https://metacpan.org/pod/App::FatPacker But, AFAIK, only supports Pure Perl code, so one is SOL for most database drivers etc...
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by slobotron 9y ago
Would you recommend "Software Tools in Pascal" vs the original?
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by slobotron 9y ago
Does not seem obvious to me at all. First thought I had when hearing of the accident was "how come Volvo didn't break, they advertised the tech quite a bit few years back?"

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