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901.
by sspiff 13y ago
Not sure about Xen or VMWare, but I use their auto-installer for getting Ubuntu on their servers, after which you can just install KVM.
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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm not sure, but isn't the 920 also a lot more power hungry? That could explain the higher price. Or they just quickly whipped up some consumer-grade Haswell servers to offer while working on more reliable offerings of the higher
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by sspiff 13y ago
I would love to help, and I'm really interested in compiler development etc, but I have the habit of promising to help out and concluding that I don't have the time to follow through. I might have a few weeks between projects in A
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by sspiff 13y ago
Great pictures!
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by sspiff 13y ago
Point 1 & 3 are nice enough to convince me to try it out, but I kind of miss the bracey syntax. Is the backend of the compiler outputting C or native assembly? Is there a way to use Dylan on ARM/Linux?
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by sspiff 13y ago
I've been seeing OpenDylan pass by on /r/lisp and HN the past few months. I've installed it, and it looks nice, but it could use some maturing and I'm not sure what the advantage over other LISPs is. Can someone exp
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by sspiff 13y ago
Thanks for the link! That explains their sample size. I don't necessarily agree with using a single tester though, the numbers in this post speak only of averages, which means you can still get a bad seed.
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by sspiff 13y ago
I have the same problem with ctrl/shift Insert, but I'm very happy with select-to-copy, which on Linux doesn't conflict with the ctrl-c/ctrl-v content (they're separate clipboards). I miss middle-click to paste and
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by sspiff 13y ago
After reading the Nielsen' article [1] this page links to, I was wondering: this article keeps talking about "their user". Does that mean they tested this on one person, and then passed those findings as universal, or did the
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by sspiff 13y ago
The promotion of yes-men and buddies of leaders is something that happens just as well in structured organizations. I've seen incapable people promoted to a position of power, and talented, hard working people held back despite their m
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by sspiff 13y ago
Guilty of being leftist? Is this a crime in the US? Does being known as a "leftist" cause you to be shunned or looked down upon? Does leftist mean the same as in Europe? (We generally call them socialists, but socialism is not a d
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by sspiff 13y ago
I like a lot of the ideas, but I wish I could turn of the slow typing animation. Also, is there a way to have multiple tabs?
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by sspiff 13y ago
I agree with you completely. I've encountered a lot of architects and recruiters who seem to put a lot of focus on knowing design patterns, to a point where they seem to forget that you don't always need to employ a well known des
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by sspiff 13y ago
Try mintty[1], comes default with Cygwin these days. Not perfect, but a lot better than the alternatives I've tried. It supports select-to-copy and middle-mouse-to-paste, which is something that's very deeply embedded in my muscle
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by sspiff 13y ago
I've used Cygwin (with mintty and bash), and it's not terrible. Not as nice as on other platforms, but definitely better than the other things I've seen on Windows. Before mintty, I used Putty and connected to a local SSH ser
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by sspiff 13y ago
I had a similar experience in a Sony Center last year. I walked in to buy the most expensive and pimped out Sony Vaio S at the time, and the salesman tried to convince me that I didn't need the higher specs and could be fine with a che
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by sspiff 13y ago
Nobody is using this solution either, and setting it up is harder than setting up OTR (provided your conversation partner is already using an app for XMPP). I can explain my girlfriend and brother how to enable and configure OTR. I would ha
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by sspiff 13y ago
While this is a nice effort, why use Google Talk at all for chatting if you're going to do all this effort (per user configuration etc) if you could just use an XMPP client with OTR[1] support, or use an XMPP server you can trust? [1]
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by sspiff 13y ago
I don't fully understand what brought Sony down. They have a strong synergy between their markets (content production and consumption, for instance), and their electronic products are still high quality, well designed pieces of consumer ele
920.
by sspiff 13y ago
What's the value of this post on the front page of HN?
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by sspiff 13y ago
Why do you talk about cheap software or abandonware, like Windows XP, WSFTP etc, when there are so many truly free (in every meaning of the word) alternatives readily available? I would argue that for company that is going to be based of of
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by sspiff 13y ago
This is also the overall impression I got from the piece. I found the piece littered with shortcuts and empty, populist statements and arguments. To me, the article just seemed to like a cheap jab at Silicon Valley and tech firms in general
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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm not disputing that this information may be useful. I'm just saying it's poorly labeled to look more attractive to certain types of visitors. Replacing "startups" in the title with "(technology) companies" would be more accurate, but pro
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by sspiff 13y ago
He said many. I agree with him: Intuit, Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are hardly startups. And this list is by no means exhaustive. Sure, many others may be startups, perhaps even most. But since when do we generaliz
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by sspiff 13y ago
I agree. Calling Intuit a startup is like calling USPS an up and coming disrupting force in the mailing business.
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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm sorry, but can we stop calling these startups? Companies like Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are past the startup stage by now. Many of them have been market leaders for years. Calling Intuit a startup isn't even
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by sspiff 13y ago
Great, my employer switched to Microsoft Forefront as a firewall, and now this site is blocked because it has "dong" in the name.
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by sspiff 13y ago
I tested on two Ubuntu systems: * Linux beqbrgbrg1ux006.tpvision.com 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux * Linux DrinkCoffee 3.5.0-25-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 18 23:27:42 UTC 201
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by sspiff 13y ago
People are so predictable.
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by sspiff 14y ago
> 1. We have a little bit of text we can be reasonably sure voidnull wrote -- some sort of text-likeness algorithm might be able to give us some candidates -- pointed at newsgroups/forums/etc where SDF users might hang out. People call

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