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by ta0967 12y ago
i just spotted "GitLab is build to handle very large repositories." there. someone should proof-read it all i guess. :)
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by ta0967 12y ago
Forums, or message boards, were a big part of why, growing up, the Internet was such a magical place to me. It was a place that existed next to the real world; one where I was able to be different versions of myself (depending on what I wa
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by ta0967 12y ago
then why the campaign to scare people away from ghostery?
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by ta0967 12y ago
you should publish a Rust version of Ntimed, then its advantages would be obvious and nobody would touch C again. while i'm here, compare the tone of your comment with that of the following (lifted from somebody's comment in anoth
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by ta0967 12y ago
it's disconcerting how the PC movement in the west converges with the talliban movement in the middle east.
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by ta0967 12y ago
why, the goal and purpose of the FreeBSD Unix is to agitate 1600s-style cavemen of course.
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by ta0967 12y ago
> Probably an artifact of the fact git was originally designed to be a kit others could use to make a DVCS with a nice interface. as someone who's been tinkering in that space: it falls flat in that regard as well. it's hard t
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by ta0967 12y ago
hey, i have another great idea combining two wonderful things: children (wonderful) and sex. Awesome! I'm off to email you some offers...
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by ta0967 12y ago
check out C. J. Date's Tutorial D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification...
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by ta0967 12y ago
> I think we tend to overrate inconveniences that affect us personally and underrate inconveniences that affect everyone else. that's true (everywhere). > A place that caters to slow walkers and cyclists sounds worse to me. and y
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by ta0967 12y ago
> You want to build an X, you work out a deal with UW's patent office and they give you the information. AFAIK, the US patent law says that you can receive a time-limited monopoly for your invention in exchange for describing it in
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by ta0967 12y ago
CCs are not popular in my part of Europe because they're effectively shark loans. you get smacked by the bank for withdrawing money (high interest rates), you get smacked by the bank for not withdrawing money (high fees that only go
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by ta0967 12y ago
the little known ssh -t option is not documented to take an argument, i'm not sure this works the way you think it does.
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by ta0967 12y ago
"Mutt 1.5.20 was released on June 14, 2009." but seriously, "19 years old Mutt" rings hollow. Linux is 23 years old, BSDs are older still, etc etc. software age in itself means little. Edit: "Mutt 1.5.23 was relea
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by ta0967 12y ago
GCC stagnated until it received competition froom LLVM (clang). something similar seems to have happened to C++ the language itself, and i think viability of competing languages has played a large role.
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by ta0967 12y ago
looking at this whole thread starting with lifeisstillgood's comment ("[...] what we want from government (and yes Americans, that means healthcare)") at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8214708 it would
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by ta0967 12y ago
you just made it into one!
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by ta0967 12y ago
as mentioned by others, the double hyphen makes all the difference, since `foo -flags` is the same as `foo -f -l -a -g -s`. if you allow single-dash long options you'll lose the appeal of short options. my favorite example is `grep
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by ta0967 13y ago
maybe if you keep your projects in the "really small" size bin you can actually finish them before the boredom sets in. and the positive feedback loop might even prop you up to see a bit bigger projects through.
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by ta0967 13y ago
Whether they import a module or not is - IMO - irrelevant. I was responding to this claim: In Python, side-effects are simply not acceptable at all. One should instead put the code with the side-effect in a function and call it. `__futu
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by ta0967 13y ago
from __future__ import print_function