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by zvr 5y ago
Of course all these questions do not have a right or wrong answer and are highly dependent on one's values and ideology. As for me: yes, I believe in Free Software, I do not consider it a lost cause, and I'm in awe that Stallman h
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by zvr 5y ago
If you're looking for code in C, the implementation of Tcl is a wonderful code base. You can even focus on specific parts instead of the complete scripting language: how to create a hash table, for example.
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by zvr 5y ago
Back in the day, man(1), apropos(1) and whatis(1) were all links to the same executable, IIRC.
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by zvr 5y ago
Wow, that was you? I've heard the anecdote decades ago (probably read it on Usenet or in a book) but never thought I'd learn more nor find the person responsible for it... Thanks -- and you might be interested to know that the exa
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by zvr 5y ago
Oh, yes; highly recommended! Please note that, like many museums, it's closed on Mondays, so I usually go the day before FOSDEM instead of after.
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by zvr 5y ago
There are always different preferences on deciding when something needs to be run again. File modification time is a reasonable default that serves many (most?) cases pretty well. Yes, file hashes might be another way. On the other hand, if
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by zvr 5y ago
Needs a "(video)" in the title
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by zvr 5y ago
Already discussed a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135264
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by zvr 5y ago
Very impressive! Congratulations, it looks great and pretty complete. Any idea why the getch demo does not report the Escape key?
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by zvr 5y ago
Also related (learned this from HN a couple of weeks ago): SuperTag https://amoffat.github.io/supertag/
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by zvr 5y ago
If all the data labels are numeric (e.g., 1,2,4,7,10), it would be great if they are not all equidistant but actually on a numerical axis.
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by zvr 5y ago
I'd guess Cricket's book(s) published by O'Reilly can guide you deep enough. Of course, developments since their publication are not covered, but you can still learn a lot.
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by zvr 5y ago
Side-question, prompted by the site where the article appears: Does anyone have a suggestion for software for managing an org chart? If web-based, a requirement would be to be self-hosted. I'm currently using data in simple text files,
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by zvr 5y ago
Try oregano instead of basil next time!
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by zvr 5y ago
More than a decade ago, Diomidis Spinellis created an implementation running on the OLPC, written in Squeak: https://www.spinellis.gr/sw/ameso/
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by zvr 5y ago
That's OK, as long as they understand the issues and make an Informed Business Decision(TM) to accept the risk.
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by zvr 5y ago
It's nothing new, and yes, checking licenses is a usual task to have on your CI setup.
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by zvr 5y ago
In Rule 6 (Provide links to the original source of copied code) the article says: > People copy a lot of code from Stack Overflow questions and answers. That code falls under Creative Commons licenses requiring attribution. A reference c
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by zvr 5y ago
They sign a CLA that explicitly says > 2. [...] You hereby grant to [...] a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive , no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license [...] and > Except for the license granted herein to [...], You
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by zvr 5y ago
The blog post is misinformed; I have never seen a CLA granting an "exclusive" license. Of course it's true that CLAs are not symmetrical and when you sign one, you usually give more than you gain. That's why lots of proj
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by zvr 5y ago
If this is news to people, then: similar to https://github.com/${USER}.keys , there is https://github.com/${USER}.gpg that gets you to GPG key of a user. Not sure how you can get more than one key, in any of
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by zvr 5y ago
Repeating my comment from every time PyInstaller is being discussed: One issue with PyInstaller is that, by default, it includes all dynamic libraries that the Python interpreter has on your machine. It makes sense, it needs an interpreter
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by zvr 5y ago
And https://github.com/ncopa/lddtree is a single-file bash re-implementation.
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by zvr 5y ago
Ahem. €700 in Munich gets you a room in shared accommodation. €1200 would still be a pretty good deal.
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by zvr 5y ago
> I haven't read any of Knuth's stuff You're missing out on some of the best writing on any topic! Not all Knuth's books are the same: The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is his mangum opus, an ever-expanding en
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by zvr 5y ago
Kessler Syndrome is an important plot element of the Planetes (Πλάνητες) manga by Makoto Yukimura. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes Highly recommended!
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by zvr 5y ago
Yes, the Python standard library (like many other implementations) chose to do the "easy" way instead of the "correct" one. Correct case-folding in Greek is complicated, since it might introduce diaeresis in the next vow
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by zvr 5y ago
My prediction: most of the predictions will be wrong.
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by zvr 5y ago
Seems great! Ordered!
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by zvr 5y ago
CC-BY-SA, so Share-Alike; you have to share the derivative work produced (source code, in this case).

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