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by vegai 17y ago
My sup (on ruby 1.9) just crashed on me because I dared to try to write a mail with UTF8 in it. This is not a trivial screwup! This is the sort of screwup that should make everybody who's using that wretched platform think thrice before c
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by vegai 17y ago
For what it's worth, I've just been looking at an LG sound system that, by the specifications, supports MKV.
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by vegai 17y ago
"even Ruby's creators, who are extremely bright people" There's a hidden "it turns out that" in this sentence.
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by vegai 17y ago
I've been looking at beanstalk, and I like what I see. Simple protocol, main implementation 6000 lines of non-awful C, libevent... What's not to like? http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/
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by vegai 17y ago
Would H264 that mean the end of all non-major browsers?
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by vegai 17y ago
Perhaps you should give it one more chance; I've been using chromium for months now, and so have gotten used to the better performance, compared to firefox-3.5. With 3.6, I don't see the difference anymore. On Linux.
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by vegai 17y ago
That's not syntax.
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by vegai 17y ago
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2188-i... Still broken, I guess? This is a show-stopper for ruby-1.9 & rails-2 deployments.
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by vegai 17y ago
Problem with such design is that when it does not work, it's very hard to figure out why. Douglas Adams comes to mind.
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by vegai 17y ago
A good game should be comparable to a good book or movie. Nearly all modern games are like Dan Brown pieces. I'm 29 and get off my lawn!
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by vegai 17y ago
Chrome's TOS states that Google retains the right to uninstall any extensions in the clients' computers.
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by vegai 17y ago
Generally speaking, anything the C++ guys don't like is good.
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by vegai 17y ago
"Good coders code, great - reuse." This would work if the reusable stuff had been made by good coders.
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by vegai 17y ago
In some pics from 2008, he's playing with Nokia N810. But perhaps that went to hell after they embraced QT. Too bad, I always felt that the N-series and E17 would've been a perfect match.
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by vegai 17y ago
This is as flawed as the stackless python guy's tests, aren't they? The haskell program's threads can block other threads (unless you build with -threaded, which will change the results surely).
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by vegai 17y ago
yes
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by vegai 17y ago
The difference is how early you get bitten. With a stronger language, your ass would be full of bitemarks weeks before you went to production.
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by vegai 17y ago
I bet somewhere, people are laughing at perfectly nice pieces of python, lisp, or even Java. Just because it's new to them. What did Gandhi say...
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by vegai 17y ago
Or perhaps start with something simple, like Arch's 'pacman'...
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by vegai 17y ago
> and if you've been using Linux since 1996 Not exclusively.
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by vegai 17y ago
As a Linux users from 1996, Macs seem all the time more enticing. But, but... the interface still sucks -- in comparison to modern X11 window managers such as awesome and xmonad -- and what's worst, it's not so easily replaceable. Besides,
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by vegai 17y ago
http://www.rabbitmq.com/faq.html#performance "From our testing, we expect easily-achievable throughputs of 4000 persistent, non-transacted one-kilobyte messages per second (Intel Pentium D, 2.8GHz, dual core, gigabit ethernet) from a sing
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by vegai 17y ago
Perhaps the price of LCDs is about to drop sharply?
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by vegai 17y ago
Didn't do backups when I was about 16yrs old. One dark and stormy night, I was experimenting on Stacker or Doublespace or some such, and ended up losing all my files. All my files in this case included every single song (tracker/module) I m
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by vegai 17y ago
What's the point?
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by vegai 17y ago
Anyone want the.hn? I'm feeling bored with it, and it's about to expire
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by vegai 17y ago
RRiiight. Ever been to India?
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by vegai 17y ago
Command-line interface and/or API for making such.
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by vegai 17y ago
> Java with .... never mind Creating jobs.
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by vegai 17y ago
http://remix.kwed.org for us c64 grandpas

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