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by elehack 12y ago
Jails are a FreeBSD thing. OpenBSD doesn't have them so far as I know.
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by elehack 12y ago
I read this book in college and was captivated. Not terribly long, but fascinating for learning how the insides of our tools work (or could work better).
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by elehack 12y ago
> A big one for me is keyboard input: at one point, I could use the Super key for whatever I liked, and I could easily set the right Alt key to be a Compose key. Now, there is no reclaiming the Super key from hard-coded shortcuts (Unity
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by elehack 12y ago
The lack of documented software that used them to enable useful (to me) functionality. I was using some of them, such as kvm for my virtualization and lvm for disk management. But systemd still had a substantial 'oh, wow, Linux lets p
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by elehack 12y ago
Not quite. I'm saying that systemd makes the Linux kernel's feature set and capabilities visibly usable from user-space. For (nearly) the first time, it feels like it matters that I'm using Linux. Linux is still Linux witho
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by elehack 12y ago
> However, in my mind it has made several awesome things possible. My boot time got dramatically shorter when I adopted it thanks to parallelization. Besides, daemons have now simple and robust service definitions. Sys V had become a mes
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by elehack 12y ago
IIRC, the gpg-agent is sadly not that capable or intelligent. In theory, it should be usable for this. In practice, I believe the agent actually just retrieves the passphrase and hands it to the requesting program, which is then responsible
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by elehack 12y ago
> The research project was partly funded by NSF grants, so does that mean the public have the right to see all work related to the project? For better or worse, no. NSF funding brings requirements for data sharing, but does not automati
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ACM RecSys 2014 – Call for Demos(recsys.acm.org)
1 points by elehack 13y ago|0 comments
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by elehack 13y ago
If it accidentally worked due to bugs/spec violations in the old OS, but is nonconformant in broken ways?
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by elehack 13y ago
FF uses fallback. Chrome and other WebKit-based browsers, however, do not.
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by elehack 13y ago
I don't have good examples of what can or cannot be done. But I find pf much easier to understand. I can write pf rules myself and understand, clearly, what my firewall is doing. I haven't found iptables near as approachable, and
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The awkward copyright collision of Fair Use and Creative Commons(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
59 points by elehack 13y ago|28 comments
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by elehack 13y ago
Because it improves the quality of delivery of their service (e.g. video-on-demand). The Internet user won't notice the improvement - their Internet speed would remain the same, by metering - but the actual pipe improves so they can
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by elehack 13y ago
FLOSS Weekly had one of the lead OwnCloud devs on recently. Of course, he was asked ‘why PHP’. Answer: to make it possible for as many people to deploy it as possible, on commodity shared hosting (or anything better they might have). Ther
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by elehack 13y ago
GNU License ≠ GNU Project. Yes, (almost) all GNU software (as in projects of the GNU Project) are released under the GPL. So is a lot of other software. GNU Foo is, branding-wise, just like Microsoft Word, Google Drive, or Apple Macintosh
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Trusting Government IDs in the Web of Trust(elehack.net)
1 points by elehack 13y ago|0 comments
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Twitter's Open Source Code of Conduct(engineering.twitter.com)
1 points by elehack 13y ago|0 comments
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by elehack 13y ago
Anyone using RHEL6's built-in virtualization technology is using KVM, it's just all wrapped up in libvirt stuff. Those tools were in early development 7 years ago.
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by elehack 13y ago
KVM is used, a lot: it is the backbone of Red Hat's virtualization in RHEL6. Also, if you create a new VM using Gnome Boxes, you will have a KVM VM unless you go out of your way.
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by elehack 13y ago
How can they have legal standing for such a claim, unless one of the authors had privileged access to Wolfram Research knowledge to misappropriate a trade secret? Seems to me that the principle of trade secrets should have a clear defense
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by elehack 13y ago
Go does have a much better concurrency story, OCaml's is rather weak (as others have observed). For the work I do (data analysis and scientific research, particularly on recommender systems, with system-building to support that), if I
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by elehack 13y ago
It depends on what you are working on. OCaml lets you interact more closely with Unix and with C libraries, if you need that. It also has a lot faster startup time and lower memory overhead, making it somewhat more suitable for writing Unix
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by elehack 13y ago
Not everyone has notes. When I lecture, I do so from notes, but I usually do other presentations without them. I'll likely have created an outline, but it has less information than the slides.
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by elehack 13y ago
Yep: http://data.linkedin.com/publications
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by elehack 13y ago
That's on your file system. The HTTP protocol specifies that, if the server says a document is 'text/plain', the client must not attempt to second-guess it based on content. IE second-guesses it based on content, so you
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by elehack 13y ago
And break Cygwin/MSYS/<*nix compat layer> that provides install(1).
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by elehack 13y ago
OCaml also internally uses an intermediate code representation called C-- (or Cmm). I do not know if the two have any relationship.
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by elehack 13y ago
Python does not compile to C (well, there might be such a compiler, but it is not the standard mode of operation). In CPython, Python compiles to bytecode, which is then interpreted by the Python interpreter (which itself is written in C).
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by elehack 13y ago
My Ph.D adviser (who was also a close colleague, mentor, and friend, very much not Ph.D's Prof. Smith) died this summer. One of the most acute grief triggers early on was seeing him in my chat roster (and shared Google Docs, calendar

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