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by wendroid 17y ago
There's also the argument about debugging, one can insert a tee in any stage of cat file | xargs foo | grep bar | sort | wc -l
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by wendroid 17y ago
You get mostly both with xargs foo < file | grep bar | sort | wc -l
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by wendroid 17y ago
zsh and rc provide primitives for this, this is rc diff <{ps} <{sleep 3; ps}
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by wendroid 17y ago
> if someone gets in jail for being part of anonymous .... one is all it takes apparently
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by wendroid 17y ago
You should bye them all. Hackers hack
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by wendroid 17y ago
Can you name the US Anonymous member that was imprisoned for a year and fined $37,500 for DDoS ing the Scientology website ?
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by wendroid 17y ago
>It would be like punching mist. Ask Dmitriy Guzner his opinion on that, though you'll have to wait until he's released from prison. You might help him with his $37,500 fine too. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/17/scientology_ddos
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by wendroid 17y ago
It's turd polish, that doesn't make anything shiny. If your code looks anything like that, or the examples on the Facebook page, you're doing it wrong.
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by wendroid 17y ago
So they just degrade once opened and don't end up in the Pacific Gyre ?
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by wendroid 17y ago
I think the paradigm you're looking for is CSP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces... described in 1978 by C.A.R. Haore in the now eBook http://www.usingcsp.com/
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by wendroid 17y ago
er ZFS not NFS
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by wendroid 17y ago
You don't need NFS to run a de-deuping file system. PLan9's Venti has been ported to unix based user mode plan9 http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/venti.html I use it as a generale backup mechanism. I can save file systems from inside Qe
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by wendroid 17y ago
losing not loosing
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by wendroid 17y ago
"n is usually small" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
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by wendroid 17y ago
Forth is in the same boat, no-one is going to make C based Plan9 libs for it. The one I use 4th only has file ops anyway so I plan9 to do something with it but it is the perennial todo list problem :)
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by wendroid 17y ago
I don't know mcuh about LISP. But what I know about OSes means I know the advantage of Everything is a File. On Plan9 if you can open / read / write / close / remove you can do almost anything : networking, graphics, serial, debugging, mous
197.
by wendroid 17y ago
s/though/through/
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by wendroid 17y ago
Indeed. And while OSX might have a BSD heritage the command line isn't exactly where it's at with OSX. Strikes me as being written by someone that does more reading than building.
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by wendroid 17y ago
> Those skeptical of man-made global warming say the temperature anomaly supports their case. Others say it is merely a blip, and that warming remains the long-term trend. Are they the only two options? What about "natural systems will
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by wendroid 17y ago
Does this sound like thumbing one's nose ? In the Summer of 1997 my friend Randy Chapman invited me to interview at the Microsoft Internet Explorer for Solaris on the SPARC (because of my background in the Linux/SPARC port). I went to in
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by wendroid 17y ago
I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave a few moments ago :)
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by wendroid 17y ago
> All the benchmarks were run 5x each on the same Debian machine I refer the honourable gentlman to Zed Shaw's "Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All" http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
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by wendroid 17y ago
> Apple is announcing its first true tablet ... and it’s just about the only outfit in the business that abstained until now Hello ? What was the Apple Messagepad Series including the Newton all about then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by wendroid 17y ago
Indeed, because they do work quite well. I have a CD case sized panel and I charge my phone with it in normal daylight. It pumps out about 500ma in bright sun so takes about 2 hours to charge my G1. For better utility these are cool too ht
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by wendroid 17y ago
cor, what a lot of nonsense % aux/vga -l 1024x768x16 % exec acme # instead of rio all done
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by wendroid 17y ago
But the viewers want them to cut to the streaker
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by wendroid 17y ago
Mor elike the oppsoite. Ireland is the whole island and Eire is the Republic of Ireland. It also depends on one's politics. Londonderry or Derry ? My t-shirt says "People's Republic of Derry", though round here it gets mis-read as "People's
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by wendroid 17y ago
scene == London
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by wendroid 17y ago
There is a lot of doubt surrounding the suicide verdict.
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by wendroid 17y ago
Being technically correct is all I hope for. As an Englishman I always write Eire but say Ireland.

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