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by vog 9y ago
The takeaway is: If you are to judge LaTeX, judge its whole ecosystem. Otherwise, this is like saying Python is not suitable as HTTP client because "urllib" has too many quirk - ignoring the fact everyone else uses the excellent &
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by vog 9y ago
Why not AGPL + Commercial? To me this sounds like an even better option, as it closes some GPL loopholes such as "hiding" modified GPL code behind a service.
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by vog 9y ago
Recently I had a similar wrote a library that creates (and dumps) your typed NamedTuples, datetimes and similar objects from simple JSON, using type annotations: "JSON support for named tuples, datetime and other objects, preventing am
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Base-emoji: Output a buffer in emojis(github.com)
2 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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by vog 9y ago
Or, at least give the SI unit first, then a day-to-day formulation in parentheses. The SI units are not just more useful for scientific minded readers, but also for international readers in general, who don't share the same cultural ba
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Pyramid – The Start Small, Finish Big, Stay Finished Framework(trypyramid.com)
2 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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by vog 9y ago
If they are not, how can I trust anything written on that page about quality and security?
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by vog 9y ago
Moreover, their whole website is not accessible when JavaScript is blocked, leaving the impression that security-minded people are not their target audience at all - which is really a pity!
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by vog 9y ago
This is still more combersome yet less precise than a straight greater-than check.
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by vog 9y ago
Oh, you are right! However, my point still stands that this is not about prefixes, but about a less-than comparison.
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by vog 9y ago
Note that "the first X characters" is kind of misleading, because it is usually more fine grained. It is better (and IMHO even simpler!) to think of the hash as a large integer, not a string. Then you want that integer to be small
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by vog 9y ago
Sorry for the nitpick, but: Why do you present the height-based wage gap as a fact, while presenting the gender-based wage gap merely as "perceived"? Is there more evidence for the former wage gap than for the latter? Or, is the o
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by vog 9y ago
Here in Germany libgen is not blocked.
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by vog 9y ago
Speaking of Fabian Giesen, his whole blog is worth a read: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/ This is one of the very few blogs where I enjoyed reading every single article.
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by vog 9y ago
Same with C. However, the binaries are then architecture dependent, so not really portable either. Nevertheless, statically linked binaries are indeed a good alternative, and provide good-enough portability in a wide range of cases.
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by vog 9y ago
I had the impression that more an more system/initialization scripts are written in Python, at places where shell and perl were used in the past. And having a system using Python on startup is a pretty good indicator that Python will b
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by vog 9y ago
Although these tools are great, I'm afraid these are of limited use, as these aren't preinstalled but must be explicitly installed. For personal use these are great. But if you write a shell script to be executed on different mach
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An Atomic Hash Table(ticki.github.io)
14 points by vog 9y ago|4 comments
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TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability(github.com)
281 points by vog 9y ago|116 comments
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by vog 9y ago
What exactly do you mean by the "one true strategy"?
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by vog 9y ago
Just curious: Are there also attempts in the reverse direction? That is, are there attempts to improve the Rust language and/or optimizer such that more and more "unsafe" sections can be replaced by safe code that has the sam
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by vog 9y ago
You mean, like JSON schema? http://json-schema.org/ Not sure why you want to emulate XML namespaces in JSON, but JSON schemas can include other JSON schemas and extend upon other JSON schemas. That accounts for 99.9% of the
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by vog 9y ago
You usually don't have to go that far. Why don't we talk about the elephant in the room, that is, Sci-Hub?
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by vog 9y ago
From what I've heard of lawyers in the Free Software world, they most applauf AGPLv3 for its clarity and precision. Maybe it just seems imprecise to a layperson because they don't know the well-defined meaning of various legal t
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by vog 9y ago
Why all these downvotes? What's wrong with criticizing ambiguous references?
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by vog 9y ago
> The top-rated answer is ... Please use absolute references (a link to the specific answer) instead of fuzzy references that change over time. Currently, your answer is the top-rated, so which one did you mean? (And even if your ans
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by vog 9y ago
Three separate points here: 1) copyleft versus non-copyleft 2) which copyleft license to choose 3) the strategy of the dgraph Regarding 1), non-copyleft leads to higher short-term adoption, but copyleft is often the better choice long-term.
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by vog 9y ago
This was a common workaround, so that customers don't get nervous, as some browsers showed an increasing number in a red circle at the top right. (i.e. the number of JavaScript errors)
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by vog 9y ago
Why waiting so long? Move now and give yourself a smoother transition.
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by vog 9y ago
> I can't use [mutt] as my daily email client [...] now that HTML emails are so prevalent. Whats the problem? What prevents you from viewing HTML emails as plain text? Often, that's more readable anyway. Just put the followin

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