carussell

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by carussell 8y ago
After the leader of a substantial project disappears, in the ~20 minutes of incidental contact you have with the issue after having only just been introduced to it having not stumbled over a particular discussion out of sheer dumb fucking l
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by carussell 8y ago
Did you fabricate a quote? (And if so, why?) Neither "innovation" nor any derivatives of "innovate" appear in this post.
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by carussell 8y ago
That's a strong claim. What led you to conclude that nobody asked any of those things?
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by carussell 8y ago
What's with all the legal bluster in your comments here? Not only do the liabilities you're trying to conjure up not exist, but this is not even the first occurrence of something like this happening with GitHub. They have a docu
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by carussell 8y ago
> I believe Clang et al are fast enough. This is a genuine case of survivorship bias in action. I guarantee you that there are people not using Clang or writing, let's say, C++ because of slow compile times. You just never hear abo
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by carussell 8y ago
From Yegge's "The Pinocchio Problem": > Great systems also have advice . There's no universally accepted name for this feature. Sometimes it's called hooks, or filters, or aspect-oriented programming. As far as
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by carussell 8y ago
A "Have you considered..." question asks for a "yes" or "no". A "Why[...]" question asks for why. Assuming that "Why didn't you just do X?" isn't really just a disingenuous way to
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by carussell 8y ago
Do you actually know this, or like most commenters here, was your introduction to this case the Washington Post that everyone else read?
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by carussell 8y ago
You could do secret splitting: http://www.moserware.com/2011/11/life-death-and-splitting-se... It's vulnerable in that whichever threshold N that you choose allows for N participants to conspire to publish ah
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by carussell 8y ago
The first link[1] in that post (for "searchable database") is a 404. 1. https://opentimestamps.org/internet-archive/
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by carussell 8y ago
How does the Glitch project-to-app mapping actually work? This is writt.glitch.me, so I'd expect it to be accessible at https://glitch.com/~writt and https://glitch.com/edit/#!/writt except
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by carussell 8y ago
Specifically? I don't think there were specifics. Just the familiar general anti-JS sentiment. I spent a few seconds looking through my feed of past Planet Gnome posts. It looks like the first announcement was here in 2013: http:&#
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by carussell 8y ago
Looks like this thing is derived from the work by Kinoma[1], who has/had a $25 micro with networking. The link to their retailer is dead, though. 1. http://kinoma.com/buy/
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by carussell 8y ago
GTK already has JS bindings. If you're running Gnome, then substantial parts of what you're seeing and interacting with on your desktop is JS. The Gnome folks tried anointing JS as the de jure development language across the Gnom
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by carussell 8y ago
(2016) Previously discussed here on HN back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425 The author has made some minor revisions since then. Here are the main differences to the page compared to when it was first d
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by carussell 8y ago
That's people doing margins wrong. They see a CSS property called 'margin' and go for that, which ends up only working well for displays and window sizes comparable to their own. What they should be using 'margin'
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by carussell 8y ago
The projects emerging to build a P2P Web bring an additional non-monetary reward system to this, which is that in return for publishing good content, you get readers/viewers who are willing to help offload server costs. The naive imple
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by carussell 8y ago
1. The ReactOS project's implementation of Windows APIs is purely for compatibility reasons; on the other hand, Android's implementation was not meant as a compatibility layer for existing apps. (In fact, that Android didn'
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by carussell 8y ago
So you've decided to double down on the not-knowing-what-you're-talking-about thing? It would have taken you less time to look up the relevant facts than typing out that comment. Besides that, the whole thing reeks of post-hoc a
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by carussell 8y ago
Literally untrue. If the facts aren't on your side, or you don't know them well enough to know whether they are or not, why even comment?
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by carussell 8y ago
It's possible (likely, even) that experience of using GitHub is the exact reason why someone has decided not to settle there. Keep in mind that the Linux kernel—the very project that Git owes its existence to—is itself developed by a
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by carussell 8y ago
For anyone in the Northern District of California at least, that's a pretty awful use case, for the reasons I mention above. You open yourself up to being culpable for the strongest hypothetical against you (versus just dealing with t
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by carussell 8y ago
In fact, it can lead to worse outcomes than if you simply did nothing. In Apple v Samsung, the judge instructed the jury to assume that relevant evidence was destroyed and that said evidence would have been "favorable to Apple"—a
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by carussell 8y ago
Hashbase exists, and in theory most Dat web apps could do a read-only version for legacy browsers, but since the tooling isn't there, you'd have to work out something by hand. The Dat ecosystem has pretty bad support for polyfill
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by carussell 8y ago
> in practice it creates a barrier to adoption and makes the social network kinda useless The main thing is that you're trying to bootstrap new cultural norms. If there weren't so much inertia around free services, people woul
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by carussell 8y ago
"Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" is an article by Brian Kernighan. Kernighan didn't create C. Dennis Ritchie did. And between Ken Thompson, Kernighan, and Ritchie, Kernighan had the least to do with t
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by carussell 8y ago
See, you're trying to foist a position on me that isn't mine—that I'm scared of the essential necessities of source control. And you act as if source control were invented with Git. Neither of these are true. > git/
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by carussell 8y ago
You're minimizing the overhead. `git commit -a` also won't help you with new or renamed files. So when you write about "the overhead of typing -a", what you really mean is the overhead of 1. typing `git commit`, checki
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by carussell 8y ago
Sure, and a piece table is a simple way to represent a file's contents. But if anyone wrote a shell or a text editor that required you to directly interact with the piece table to edit a file—instead of something sane—then they'd
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by carussell 8y ago
This workflow can be yours, in 10 easy * payments: $ git stash $ git checkout stash@{0} -- ./ $ $EDITOR # pare your changes down $ make runtests # let's assume they pass $ git add ./ $ git commit $ git checko

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