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   by ggggit 14y ago

   I do understand about the simplicity of the design, though I haven't tried to figure out exactly how git works. When I see people commenting about git's simplicity it is not about data structures. It is about commands. And that really tel
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   by ggggit 14y ago

   I am no expert with du and all it's options and behaviours, but it's funny you mention the h, c and s ones because I did bother to learn and commit those three to memory long ago and routinely that combination. I also use routinely use dd t
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   by ggggit 14y ago

   Right. I feel stupid that I did not realise this. I am a big fan of crunched binaries, actually. That guy at U of Maryland who introduced it to BSD in the early 90's is a software hero in my book. For Linux fans, I guess your hero would
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   by ggggit 14y ago

   Maybe he cares first about portability, e.g., easily moving a binary from one BSD-based device to another. Not all devices have the same space limitations. There might be other reasons, too. Static binaries fork faster, but this works bes
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   by ggggit 14y ago

   MS: Too big to fail.
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   by ggggit 14y ago

   Edit: As an example, I just compiled subversion 1.6.17. They actually have an --enable-all-static in the configure script which is a nice convenience as libtool can be a real PITA sometimes when trying to link statically. Total size: 28M
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   by ggggit 14y ago

   Thank you Maro. I've never understood why static linking and easy compilation, not to mention being concerned with file sizes, upsets certain people when mentioned on mailing lists and forums. But it always does.
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   by ggggit 14y ago

   Are there instructions anywhere on how to do this? I could have sworn Perl, absent some other scripting language, was an absolute requirement. If it is possible I will have another go.
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   by ggggit 14y ago

   So ls -i should show they all share the same inode number? Thanks for this. I was not aware of that. Perhaps I will give it another try.
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    by ggggit 14y ago

    I would tend to agree with your initial statement. Which is why I believe what nerds are ranting about on HN does make a difference. I would guess that other users will never find out about certain stuff unless the serious nerds let them-
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    by ggggit 14y ago

    I doubt they registered in a class covering data processing. How many consumers are going to confuse some data processing service from Google with Dremel tools? A trademark, unless perhaps it's famous, does not cover everything under the s
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    by ggggit 14y ago

    Tridgwell's "reverse engineering" of BitKeeper is one of the funniest, and at the same time the saddest stories, I've read about software. http://lwn.net/Articles/132938 It's companies like BitKeeper, who think using a command line is "no