ericfontaine

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by ericfontaine 11y ago
Will this be available on f-droid? Many people don't like having google play on their phone, especially those concerned with privacy and open-source. I know the user can always compile this themselves.
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
> Don't want to use your real name? Don't join a site where the goal is to publicly connect with people you know." ironically, many people joined facebook with the names they used in "real" life, only later to fi
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
I would add for 2. that there are newer architectures, especially low power and various experimental parallel ones, that could use better optimizing compilers.
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
In addition to GCC, a bunch of other compilers including Intel and Visual Studio do profile based optimization, as well as many dynamic compilers, such as firfox javascript or Java VMs. Profil-guided opitmization has been studied for decad
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
as jessaustin remarked, "[RMS] is complaining about the specific implementation of mobile tech with which we're currently saddled." Listening to RMS would mean that if you do carry a mobile device, that it would use entirely
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
> I do use Facebook to plug my books and to hopefully drive traffic to my blog articles The trick is configuring your blog to autopost to facebook, for which I use https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-link-to-facebook&#
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
:) It is not minutiae when someone phrases their posts in a manner that may imply they're taking credit for other people's work. I didn't mind spending a few minutes because I respect all wikipedians who created and maintaine
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
unvote would be nice due to misclicks, or fix misunderstandings when initially reading a comment (e.g. in cases delayed detection of sarcasm.)
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
If karma doesn't matter, then that is an argument for not having up votes for comments either.
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
It is possible to get by with a mobile device without cell service. Just need occasional email checks at open wireless spots. All the more reason to setup a router with EFF's open wireless. https://openwireless.org/
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
Yes, so what? So were many others. But you don't see everybody who created a wikipedia article make ego-boosting comments on HN whenever their article is mentioned. Nor do you see everyone involved in nurturing bitcoin comment on HN
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
I've been hoping for things like this to start appearing. The difficulty with getting these things going is getting enough of a user base to prime the pump. Before major arbitration decisions can be made, people need to start off arbi
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
I see that your website has a link to http://stani.sh/pratyeka , which is the same username as "Pratyeka" who created this 529 byte stub for bitcoin on 8 March 2009: Bitcoin is an open source peer-to-peer ele
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
nice. they forgot to mention Excel. http://www.felienne.com/archives/2974
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
Neat. I was also wondering if maybe it was possible to switch between two colors based on a certain ratio of frames, faster than the CRT phosphors to fully switch colors (or atleast faster than the eye could detect the swapping), such that
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
> "Github and Bitbucket deserve the mention because those projects are well established." According to Wikipedia article, GitHub and Bitbucket were established in 2008, and GitLab in sept 2011, making it ~3.5 years old and abou
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
Well if we're using "Responsiveness of the UI" as the metric, then I would argue that http://fossil-scm.org/ beats both GitLab and GitHub. Fossil is easily self hosted (just run one small executible file).
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
"There are many other hosting services like gitlab, what would make gitlab different so that it would deserve a pitch there?" Which is why I said the blogpost would be fairer to just post the wikipedia comparison link. I never sa
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
I'm sticking to self-hosted fossil-scm. Very simple, lightweight, C, but has full wiki and issue tracker and code trees. The one thing self-hosting lacks is the social network. What is really needed for self hosted sites is a federat
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
I think it is fair to for GitLab to pitch their service, considering that the google code blogspot post specifically mentioned both GitHub 8 times and Bitbucket 3 times, while GitLab offers similar functionality. It would have been fairer
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
"We need some way to distribute open source projects so they're on at least two services simultaneously, synched." google "git sync mirror" and a bunch of solutions appear.
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
interestingly I wasn't able to run vi, but could run vim. I reported to the github issue tracker. This seems very neat. Definitely much less overhead than VirtualBox. Plus can write to the same filesystem as windows without windows
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
great hack btw! I'm sure you had limited time to waste!
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
machine would just have to count '/t' tabs at beginning of each line to parse. Is that any slower than scanning every character for '<'?
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
interesting. Very clean looking.
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
good point, but could you elaborate?
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
I was wondering if maybe they preconverted the videos into a sequence of tilemaps and a set of approximate tiles. I notice they are only using the same 5 colors, which is under-utilizing the capabilites of the nes which should be able to d
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
how about just use whitespace, like python: div class="red" p Hello, World! (of course I know would not look nice if had to place <b>tags</b> inside of single line of text, and might get a little
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
Ok, I simply linked to that as an example of a device that can interface with the free ath9k driver. Looking at https://www.qca.qualcomm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AR92... I can't really see an
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by ericfontaine 12y ago
"There is no firmware at all on the ath9k wifi chipsets." No, there is firmware inside the wifi. Just looking at a specific chip ath9k wifi device: https://www.qca.qualcomm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013&#x

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