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721.
by zimbatm 11y ago
It's bound to happen but like with cigarettes it takes time. Personally I'm looking forward to horrible picture on the morning cereals.
722.
by zimbatm 11y ago
I agree with the timestamp argument for storage but you might also want to keep the timezone/locale along. Operation like "1 day from this timestamp" is locale-dependent. And SECONDS_PER_DAY is not a constant.
723.
by zimbatm 11y ago
> If an interval time needs to be measured, then rdtsc, or a library wrapped around it, is the best solution, whereas getting the system time for use in log files probably ought to be carried out using clock_gettime()with a FAST option;
724.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Or everyone got used to it and don't consider it being an issue. I believe that the filesystem layering feature in Docker is an anti-feature. It depends on unstable kernel features to work properly and doesn't really address the c
725.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Just on SIGUSR1 would be good enough to get an idea where dd is at. And it would be on stderr, not stdout.
726.
by zimbatm 11y ago
But surely if you could send a SIGUSR1 and get the progress it would be useful. I won't always have the foresight to put the progress argument. Maybe I expected the task to be quick but it's not.
727.
by zimbatm 11y ago
The main concern is that the Internet.org organization becomes the gatekeeper of the Internet for a part of the population. Talking about redesigning the app and "allowing" apps to be submitted doesn't fix that. It's jus
728.
by zimbatm 11y ago
dd was always a big special to me. It's the only command-line utility that I know that takes the simple approach to argument parsing. I don't know why everyone wants to prefix their arguments with --
729.
by zimbatm 11y ago
What if you started dd without status=progress ?
730.
by zimbatm 11y ago
We should just remove the reporting of User-Agent in browsers. All they do is encourage user tracking a building half-baked heuristics.
731.
by zimbatm 11y ago
This is a tutorial for building quick one-off packages that won't ever be accepted by debian but that you can use with your own servers. If you want to do that, you will be better off using Jordan Sissel's fpm tool: https:/&
732.
by zimbatm 11y ago
It's fine. Consumers are basically going to pay for the technology that is going to be needed for high-quality VR displays (at least resolution-wise), other other applications we haven't thought of. Some things are only possible u
733.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Is it possible to reproduce the user experience on the homepage without installing the extension ? Instead of showing an animation of a user highlighting some text, let the user highlight any text on the homepage and experience the magic.
734.
by zimbatm 11y ago
It's a good example. It also makes me think of "users" tables instead of "accounts".
735.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Picking the proper names for software constructs is also part of that category. I'm always impressed at how choosing a slightly wrong-one can have a huge impact down the line. Somehow the brain doesn't map the name exactly to the
736.
by zimbatm 11y ago
You can't, image urls on github are rewritten to be fetched trough a proxy.
737.
by zimbatm 11y ago
All these points don't seem unsolvable problems to me. The only failure was to abandon the project before it had it's chance out in the world.
738.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Threat your database like an API and only introduce backward-compatible changes. For example if you want to rename a column, make a new column with the target name and a trigger that keeps both columns in sync. Once the new code is deployed
739.
by zimbatm 11y ago
One nice hack would be to make the base app free and allow to purchase additional slots for $99.- each. The idea would be to forces user to evaluate whenever the added items is really necessary or not while still giving the impression of ch
740.
by zimbatm 11y ago
TODO apps should have an upper-bound on the number of items to force the user to prioritize his tasks. I noticed a pattern where the new shiny TODO app is adopted. Then it gets filled-up until it becomes depressing to open. Then the new-
741.
by zimbatm 11y ago
WebKit was open from the start because they forked KHTML which was licensed under the LGPL.
742.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Want to remember a nice song ? Thanks to DRM 5.0 implants only licensed persons will be humming away. In release 6.0 non-licensed songs will also be cut from the audio feed automatically. Haaaapy b.. what, how did that go again ?
743.
by zimbatm 11y ago
A number that I've seen thrown around: it takes 5 years to create a language. Probably less nowadays since we have all the tooling. It might make sense to wait until the language has settled-down before open-sourcing.
744.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Then don't be. There is room for one more transportation system. Money is not a single pot which gets distributed to a number of things. It's a fallacy to think that if hyperloop didn't happen more money would go to other tra
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Hostnames and usernames to reserve (GH edition)(zimbatm.github.io)
2 points by zimbatm 11y ago|0 comments
746.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Just compiled the list and added a few others: https://zimbatm.github.io/hostnames-and-usernames-to-reserve... Feel free to use for your next PaaS !
747.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Thank you
748.
by zimbatm 11y ago
Does Perl 6 have fundamental features that don't exist in other languages ? Just curious.
749.
by zimbatm 11y ago
When github used to host "pages" under github.com I remember registering "blog.github.com" (and reporting obviously). If you take the social-engineering into account the list should be made long: login, support, status,
750.
by zimbatm 11y ago
I wonder why. Lion farms for the sole benefit of hunters exist, why not other species.

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