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by ised 10y ago
Can anyone define "succeed" in this context? Is it purely popularity? What if a language is inferior but popular? If a language is effective for its user(s), then is it a "success"? Is there some minimum number of user
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by ised 10y ago
I do not see an entry for sed. Is it an editor or a language?
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by ised 11y ago
Whenever this gets posted, comments seem to focus on what to use going forward. It seems obvious for most projects there are better alternatives. However whenever I see autotools documentation I think of only one thing: it's worth lea
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by ised 11y ago
s/OpenTable/Microsoft Word/g; s/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Windows/g;
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by ised 11y ago
To the author: I could not agree more. In the long term history of computing, I would hope this stage we are in now is not the height of the "revolution". In my humble opinion, to which I am entitled, current Apple hardware is st
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by ised 11y ago
"...serving a dummy page." It could also be less than a page. It could be a dummy resource. For example, in the case of an ad server and a smartphone app that has some screen space reserved for ads. You might want your own reso
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by ised 11y ago
"... but it is not how anyone in their right mind writes C." If I were going to place blame (I think a better approach is to skip that and just solve the problem), then I would blame developers, not the language. To me, the code y
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by ised 11y ago
The question is: what is listening on 127.0.0.1? For example, do you have an httpd listening on 127.0.0.1? Do you bind any other daemons to 127.0.0.1 or the broadcast address? If you operate your own root you can reassign the authoritative
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by ised 11y ago
If sites start moving to HTTP/2, is it true the untrustworthy code can be inserted into the same stream as the "content"? Everything could be coming from the same domain/IP? This might make blocking ads and tracking mor
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by ised 11y ago
Use own root and cache DNS instead of HOSTS. Then use wildcards, e.g., *.doubleclick.net
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by ised 11y ago
"...as close as possible to the creepy line." Great stuff. Blog posts are just too boring most of the time. We need more direct quotes from the people toeing the creepy line. That is the behavior that should be tracked. What do
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by ised 11y ago
The last line from the article you quote is spot on. Why are alleged "services" provided for "free"? One group will tell you it's because advertisers are picking up the costs for "content". Another group
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by ised 11y ago
"The next step... is to merge the different components by using basic computers and have software turn it into servers, storage devices or routers as needed." This statement is rather enticing because I have been executing this ex
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by ised 11y ago
I once read that Python, like Pascal, was intended to be a "teaching language". Is this true?
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by ised 11y ago
Rennaisance Technologies as in mrsync? Good software.
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by ised 11y ago
Yes. I like how you use the word "initially".
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by ised 11y ago
"a controversial topic" My observation: The "discussion" never seems to focus on systemd. Instead it usually turns to comments on the former sysvinit system or other init systems. That avoidance is perhaps something to
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by ised 11y ago
"Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?" Not really. These type of comments are almost always pure speculation, based on one's own experience. Here's one thing that is true: Everyone who uses the command li
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by ised 11y ago
"Performance is just the story they are selling in exchange of absolute control of the Web." To be fair, they are not the only ones that use this "story" as a ploy to get more control over users (and hence gather more sa
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by ised 11y ago
Alright, I am going to give it another try. Thank you! I knew I must be missing something.
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by ised 11y ago
"Wikipedia-over-IPFS" Interesting example. I have Wikipedia as a local database on my own secondary storage. As long as there are mirrors of the data dumps, I only occasionally need an internetwork. (To download data dumps.)
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by ised 11y ago
"For some people..." I think there are a lot of people who share a similar perspective. For every Gates and Jobs, there are many other equally talented programmers and marketers who were not and will not be as lucky as these two.
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by ised 11y ago
What I find amusing about this is that in addition to taking the money on the table by serving mobile ads, the carriers are also charging their customers for "data". All the mobile ad and other cruft just increases the amount of d
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by ised 11y ago
z39.50 is better than card catalogs and it predates the www.
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by ised 11y ago
"Documents are littered with commas." It's trivial to change all those commas to something else before making the CSV file and importing into the database. They can then be converted back to commas by processing the query res
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by ised 11y ago
fuckedcompany.com was a great site. Wish there was a better archive than the bits saved at archive.org.
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by ised 11y ago
"There is no such thing as an unmaintainable/illegible basic regex..." To someone who knows BRE. I am one of those people. It's ERE and PCRE I do not understand very well. Sharing solutions to common problems using BRE
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by ised 11y ago
But I never suggested any of those statements you are making. What I was referring to is that Google's "product" is offered free to the user. What you refer to highlights the importance of the question: if their "product
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by ised 11y ago
I accept session cookies only, I keep Javascript turned off except when I am forced to turn it on (banking, etc.), and I really do not like frames. If there is some site with frames that I willingly use regularly, I just bust out of the fra
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by ised 11y ago
For blocking, I use zone files, not the HOSTS file. I can select specific subdomains; I can also use wildcards. I doubt there is anything an ad blocker can block that I cannot block using DNS. But if you have examples, post them and let&#x

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