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by vasi 16y ago
TextWrangler is available, but has removed the command-line 'edit' command, and the ability to authenticate to edit root-owned files. So it begins...
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by vasi 16y ago
Filelight has also been doing this in KDE since about 2003. I still think it's slightly easier to use than DaisyDisk, since the labels actually point to the sunburst chart. But DaisyDisk does look much spiffier.
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by vasi 16y ago
I think the article vastly overstates its case. Nobody disputes that it's possible to have more-or-less working memory management in ref-counted Objective-C. But it's clearly harder than in a GC language, else it wouldn't need seven pages w
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by vasi 16y ago
Right-clicking seems to unselect a build order.
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by vasi 16y ago
It says it supports Adium (Sparkle) updates, but Adium definitely uses digital signatures, see /Applications/Adium.app/Contents/Resources/dsa_pub.pem . So...is there something I'm missing? Has anybody tested this?
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by vasi 16y ago
In the spirit of evidence-based reasoning, why don't we look at what happens where political parties are absent or weak? This includes the new Afghanistan parliament, Colombia before 2005, Liberia, the Philippines, the Thai senate, and nume
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by vasi 16y ago
The reason package management works better on Linux is not because there's a better package manager program. Rather, it's because there are hundreds of developers for Debian, Fedora, et al who put serious time into making sure the packages
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by vasi 16y ago
Not faceBOOK, faceTIME.
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by vasi 16y ago
How about half the population of China? http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-200909... Plus folks at many organizations with conservative IT policies.
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by vasi 16y ago
Sounds interesting, do you happen to know if any Kahl is in translation? A quick google picks up nothing. I'm curious how he would explain the success of schools in places such as Eastern Europe and China. More testing, regimented learning,
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by vasi 16y ago
It may be instructive to note that Finland is another country with a school system that seems to do particularly well, and that is held in high regard by other countries. In contrast with China, their system discourages standardized testing
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by vasi 16y ago
Seems to me that AJAX before document-ready could get complicated once you want to actually do something with the response. Normally one would do something like this: $(document).ready(function(){ $.getJSON(my_url, function(data) {
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by vasi 16y ago
He also did the first port of X11 to Mac OS X, see Xquartz(1).
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by vasi 16y ago
I wrote a tool, pixz, that does xz compression in parallel to take advantage of multiple cores. It also indexes xz-compressed tarballs, so you can extract an individual file very quickly instead of needing to decompress the entire tarball.
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by vasi 17y ago
Some other nice things: • Offlineimap uses maildir format, used by some IMAP servers like Dovecot. So if Google ever goes evil and locks you out, you can just use your own server instead. • Theoretically you can use Offlineimap to reproduce
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by vasi 17y ago
XCode and it’s associated tools (debugger) like to open lots of windows. Want to open a file? How about a new window for you! Er...Preferences -> General -> Layout -> All-in-one?
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by vasi 17y ago
Err...this works fine for me if I use UTF-8 rather than wide strings, eg: std::string s("foo\u203D"); std::cout << s << std::endl; Also, he's completely wrong about the program terminating on output of a wide string, it's j
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by vasi 17y ago
AFAIK, Ruby marks I/O blocked threads and does not schedule them. However, if you have a native extension that's blocked on I/O, it may be scheduled--so there is a potential problem.