swhipple

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by swhipple 11y ago
I pay shy of $5/mo for a VPS to run a BNC with my preferred config and serve a few files. If someone prefers IRCCloud or Slack's features and support, it can absolutely be worth more than the sum of bandwidth, storage, and CPU.
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by swhipple 11y ago
The author mentions that he believes the biggest problem of systemd is repeating some mistakes of SysV init, but I think it's actually pretty important that familiarity is preserved to help people upgrade. For example, the author menti
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by swhipple 11y ago
Both are answered in the first link.
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by swhipple 11y ago
P2P downloads would help cover some of the costs, but popular projects probably need a direct download link with load balancing as well. If the project doesn't want to manage their own infrastructure, they're probably going to wan
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by swhipple 11y ago
I agree that those are all methods of solving each issue -- but I think expecting each player to implement them (and correctly!) is the real problem. And when the standards don't support the feature they want, many developers would fa
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by swhipple 11y ago
I'm a bit less optimistic. Having different programs for each content type would restrict the developers' control into how they can interact with the users. Simple playback of video? Not so bad. But if you want to swap the source
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by swhipple 11y ago
Static typing is considered unpythonic, but the typecheck library is closer to a sanity-checking model (like using assert). The advantage is that instead of the checks being in the body, they can be moved to the function header. It supports
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by swhipple 12y ago
GNU make isn't part of the base system for the BSDs, but I've found that it is often installed on BSD systems anyways (as gmake), due to much software having a build dependency by using Makefiles with GNUisms. If your project is t
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by swhipple 12y ago
You're thinking of Lavabit, not TrueCrypt.
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by swhipple 12y ago
Pre-computed mappings of popular passwords (rainbow tables) aren't really used nowadays due to parallelization being more cost effective, but the idea in both cases is that you want collisions with known values: the popular password ha
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by swhipple 12y ago
The popularity of InspIRCd mostly comes from its modularity and out-of-the-box modules [1]. If you're looking for an ircd to replace Slack in terms of feature-parity, InspIRCd would probably give you the best start. I used ircu until
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by swhipple 12y ago
I'll be the first to agree with you that most 'minimal' lisp implementations are going to be missing important features (efficiency, memory management, ..), but is the parsing of s-exprs comparatively a difficult task? At jus
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by swhipple 12y ago
Why would you ever have a function with a name that long in the first place? Sometimes you might not have a say in how the function was named... having some practices to deal with the unruly code that hasn't been graced by one's
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by swhipple 12y ago
I think it's worth mentioning that software copyright licenses (like BSD) cover a particular implementation (a.k.a. "creative work") while U.S. patent licenses cover a design. The likely reason for Facebook including the expl
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by swhipple 12y ago
If you need the ability to run 32-bit binaries on an amd64 install or have Linux binary compatibility, FreeBSD has options to provide these while OpenBSD does not. I run OpenBSD on one of my laptops, but if performance or compatibility are
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by swhipple 12y ago
It isn't that he must protect Google from a sexual harassment lawsuit, but rather he needs to wait until a proper investigation is done to prevent publishing anything that might be considered libel on the part of himself or his employe
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by swhipple 12y ago
One point not mentioned in the article is that screen readers and other assistive technologies often produce better results when parsing words separated by underscores, so the code may be more accessible if it consistently uses an underscor
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by swhipple 12y ago
I think this would tremendously backfire. It wouldn't be too difficult to figure out which companies have leaked customer data, which is now being used for extortion, and they'd likely lose more money than they could gain from th
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by swhipple 12y ago
Fair point, I was mostly considering [deleted] since I think I've seen it in an HN thread that I came across while searching an old article. Numbers would work just as well. I wouldn't really consider the deleted accounts to have
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by swhipple 12y ago
Is there a difference between locking your account and just removing the email and keying in a random password? Once you've logged out, your account should be effectively locked permanently.
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by swhipple 12y ago
It is still pretty difficult to follow who is responding to whom if a bunch of users have deleted their accounts, making reply threads confusing.
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by swhipple 12y ago
Is this documented somewhere? I tried searching for a couple combinations of "linux mint dns ad injection", but couldn't find anything relevant.
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by swhipple 12y ago
Structure in streams seems to have suddenly added a whole lot of complexity and work, and for what? Being able to stream a collections of bytes (and collections of collections of bytes, recursively) is one case that I find myself wanting
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by swhipple 12y ago
So what do you propose? That I pretend it's really hard for me, even though it's not? What effect do you think that's going to have? Again, what do you propose? Lie and tell people that it's super hard, so I don'
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by swhipple 12y ago
I meant that when a user plugs a USB they probably want an immediate popup on the desktop and the ability to manage the files on the drive, or that they want to be able to see the wireless networks and configure them without switching to th
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by swhipple 12y ago
It's true that DBus is somewhat of a complex solution if you have a simple enough use case, and I think most of the criticism is the documentation rather than the design (or, rather, criticism of the design is mostly that it isn't
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by swhipple 12y ago
There are cases where you want to be notified when an event occurs or the success of your application's action (in more detail than the error codes from a write(2) to a FD). You can solve the problem by using socket FDs, but you have t
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by swhipple 12y ago
I used to be able to say Linux was clean, logical, well put-together, and organized. I don't think this was ever really the case, but I do think software is evolving to meet the list of constantly updating use cases. Of course managi
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by swhipple 12y ago
I see where you're coming from regarding ease of hiding/unhiding comments, but I think it'd be quite hard to do correctly in user configurable environments. In the article, I'm assuming the left column takes up a bit les
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by swhipple 12y ago
This article does a good job of explaining the choice of features to implement in GPL software as a political strategy rather than a religion. Especially good timing for this to be brought back up with the recent controversial request by R

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