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by eekee 11y ago
The hard limit is to do with practicalities of low-volume production when you're not sure if enough people will buy them. All ten boards need to be funded (one way or another) for production to go ahead at all. Another practicality is
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by eekee 11y ago
The point was for this one guy (aiju) to see if he could design and build a whole working computer. If I could afford one, I'd get one as much for the purpose of supporting heroic individual effort -- I witnessed some of his struggles
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by eekee 12y ago
haha! I love this comment. I have to disagree with one point though, I use mouse-focus and I love Acme. I've written my own thoughts elsewhere on this page, but they're less conclusive than yours.
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by eekee 12y ago
I agree interactive shells suck. I like to use Acme which has been called Plan 9's Emacs, but it uses the shell tools instead of Lisp. In Acme I can enter a shell command -- I can write it directly in the appropriate dir list if I want
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by eekee 12y ago
>> GCC. ->> 8c, tcc. > clang, you mean? I think I'm safe in answering "No" for uriel here. I think he was probably watching clang warily to see how it would develop, but he didn't pay so much attention to
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by eekee 12y ago
Sed existed for many years before head, and head only exists for symmetry with tail. There's no other reason for it to exist. It's not that sed is complex, sed isn't nearly complex enough to matter. The more you look into Pla
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by eekee 12y ago
Amusing indeed. I'd forgotten about it. For those wanting to see it today: http://web.archive.org/web/20140209235144/http://harmful.cat...
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by eekee 12y ago
aI wrote rc-httpd; it's a CGI-capable web server written in rc shell script. I started the project with the idea that I could probably write a whole web server from scratch, learning the shell tools ant HTTP protocol as I went, in less
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by eekee 12y ago
You as a user may work for a company which feels it can't afford the risk of GPL-licensed code getting into their products, and may thus forbid you working on GPL-licensed code while you're working for them. Or somewhat lighter bu
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by eekee 13y ago
Article seems nice, but without data it's rather hollow.
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by eekee 13y ago
the maintainer was busy with work for quite a while, so it might pick up now he's not. i don't care too much myself though, linux has become little more than a web browser platform for me, and i'm sure sta.li would struggle t
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by eekee 13y ago
many people in uriel's cat-v community don't either. part of the problem is go's community and its web focus. the other part is cat-v is now focused on a plan 9 fork, and go solves problems which don't come up much on pl
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by eekee 13y ago
that one paragraph... if i were you i'd be wishing i could edit that comment! you most certainly do not "cut down on file load time." the linking process is a complex task, especially if it's to be performed with any eff
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by eekee 13y ago
i don't know about leaner, but static linking is faster. symbol resolution is a heck of a task to be run on every program load, especially for larger programs. i remember before linux optimized its dynamic linking, starting a gnome or
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by eekee 14y ago
There's one thing I can't stand in many of these comments: The blithe assumption that just because something is open-source, it -- and any fork of it -- could be maintained. I can't emphasise enough how wrong this is. Look aorund you in the