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by vog 9y ago
This would have been a great bookmarklet, no need for a browser extension. Unfortunately, bookmarklets no longer work as easily and as reliably as they used to work.
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by vog 9y ago
Nice hack, I like it! Small proposal for improvement: Instead of N * "gzip -9" + (100-N) * "cat" I would have used N * "gzip -9" + (100-N) * "gzip -1" because "gzip -1"
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by vog 9y ago
Link to the documentary videos (available as soon as they fill up): https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary
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The Full BBS Documentary Interviews Are Going Online(ascii.textfiles.com)
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by vog 9y ago
Please respect the context of a comment, and refrain from strawman arguments. This was not about whether or not this feature is good for the Google repo (of course it is, nobody disputed that!). This was about whether and how to apply thi
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by vog 9y ago
This is not so much an argument for a Web IDE. It is an argument against the cumbersome Git workflows, and the even more cumbersome GitHub Pull Request workflow on top of that. Why can't I fix the typo in my editor, hit "upload&qu
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by vog 9y ago
I'd rather ask: Is space discrete? We know there are discrete particles, but AFAIR they can potentially move to any position in the continuum, i.e. for each particle, x, y and z are in the domain of reals (or some huge real interval),
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by vog 9y ago
> This may be true, but FOSS does not magically make it happen So what? Nobody said that. This is a strawman. Of course FOSS is not sufficient . Look at any homework-style GitHub repo. Nobody disputes that. All that is said is that FO
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by vog 9y ago
> As an individual, I can't realistically set up a mail server to send email to anyone, like I could in 1995, since Gmail will reject it. I'm an individual who runs his own mailserver and all emails are accepted by Gmail. Su
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by vog 9y ago
So you demote FOSS from "important" to "nice" just because it isn't a silver bullet? (which does not exist, anyway) That doesn't make any sense. This is a strawman argument. Nobody ever said that FOSS is a silv
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by vog 9y ago
> No need to print anything related to programming on high quality paper Why print anything related to programming at all? What's wrong with opening the PDF on your computer and putting it side-by-side to your IDE? Isn't this
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by vog 9y ago
Why do you need to kill trees just because the internet is down?
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by vog 9y ago
> great effort to compile relevant answers into a narrative Don't confuse "StackOverflow Question&Answers" with "StackOverflow Documentation": https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/
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Papers I like (part 7)(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
1 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Generating PDF directly in the PostgreSQL database(vog.github.io)
2 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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by vog 9y ago
There's also a nice Open Source project which implements that using a proxy: https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/miniwebproxy
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by vog 9y ago
> I think Google has stopped indexing the older parts of the Web. I think I can prove it. Google’s competition is doing better. If this about finding older parts of the web, don't forget to use the Wayback Machine of ar
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by vog 9y ago
> happen to be in the shared library code, so to get that fix to production, you need to redeploy all apps after the library change Doesn't this simply mean that the deployment process is somewhat broken? On a typical Linux distro
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by vog 9y ago
> Of course, the real question here is whether productivity is what one should be ultimately aiming at. This is a very good question also for the society as a whole. We are technically able to sustain the whole population with a fewer
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by vog 9y ago
> Microservices are about organisational structure, not performance The above statement is also not about performance. (It is about keeping "consistency by default" even if you do have performance critical areas.)
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by vog 9y ago
From the article: > To quote the original Spanner paper, “we believe it is better to have application programmers deal with performance problems due to overuse of transactions as bottlenecks arise, rather than always coding around the l
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by vog 9y ago
Impressive! How did you get all that done without any "public deadline" and "sharing your work" with the rest of the world? Also, I guess there was only few "supportive feedback for what you’re doing" (perhaps
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by vog 9y ago
> you really need a cdn service for static sites that take a lot of hits No, you don't. HN traffic isn't that large. Even a Raspberry Pie should be sufficient (with good internet connection, though). See the above link. Yo
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by vog 9y ago
> Either I'm too old or I don't get how to use Emojis It depends on "where" in the internet you were socialized. Filling posts with small icons was popular since the very beginning of web forums and (propietary) ins
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by vog 9y ago
 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16060256
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by vog 9y ago
Nice write-up! I find it interesting that the original LISP had commas between list entries, while all "real" LISPs use spaces. I also like how they introduce lists straight away, rather that starting with pairs and constructing l
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by vog 9y ago
I was just making fun of freedomben's overexaggerated phrases "highly recommend ... It may change your mind" bla bla stuff.
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by vog 9y ago
> I highly recommend reading up on what Cory has to say on DRM and the war on general purpose computing. It may change your mind. Does he argue convincingly in favour of DRM? Otherwise, I don't see how he would change my mind abou
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by vog 9y ago
Do you care to elaborate? That doesn't make any sense to me, as the advice given above is exactly what you should do in a company, if I understood it correctly. (Higher risk on a simple project, because that's the only opportunity
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by vog 9y ago
> Note that GPL advocates spread FUD about the BSD license. In my experience the GPL advocates completely ignore the concerns of the BSD people Um ... people who advocate for GPL are not a uniform group. > Calling the concerns of t

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