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Targeted release: Fedora 19 - Replace MySQL with MariaDB(fedoraproject.org)
3 points by keyist 14y ago|0 comments
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How To Turn The Data From Any A/B Test Into A Real-Time Personalization Service(evanmiller.org)
2 points by keyist 14y ago|0 comments
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Postgres Backend Flowchart(postgresql.org)
2 points by keyist 14y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 14y ago
I consider it good practice to allow users to customize where your program creates files. I don't like $HOME to be the default dumping ground for anything I run. A standard that uses environment variables means programs don't have to provi
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by keyist 14y ago
Instead of putting a dotfile or dotdir in the user's home directory, do follow the XDG Base Directory specification: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-l... . It's easy to understand and requires only a marginal in
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Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles(plus.google.com)
470 points by keyist 14y ago|153 comments
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Programmer Information Needs After Memory Failure(neverworkintheory.org)
1 points by keyist 14y ago|0 comments
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Unix trivia quiz (with Rob Pike's annotated answers)(plus.google.com)
1 points by keyist 14y ago|0 comments
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Project JMC - John McCarthy's new site(themagiclab.org)
3 points by keyist 14y ago|1 comments
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I Don't Need Backups, I Use Raid1(momjian.us)
58 points by keyist 14y ago|51 comments
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Engelbart's Violin - chorded keyboards(loper-os.org)
60 points by keyist 14y ago|38 comments
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Linux 3.4 kernel released(kernelnewbies.org)
107 points by keyist 14y ago|46 comments
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Tig 1.0 released - ncurses text-mode interface for git(jonas.nitro.dk)
56 points by keyist 14y ago|14 comments
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by keyist 14y ago
"Between semicolon-free folks and JavaScript traditionalists, who gets to play the role of the expert?" You're framing this as a disagreement between equals. It is not. There are degrees of expertise. (Total lines of production code * am
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by keyist 14y ago
You can't have a "How to Learn Haskell" post without mentioning the Typeclassopedia: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Typeclassopedia For those going through LYAH, I highly recommend supplementing chapters 11-13 with this excellent reso
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The Future of Python HTTP(kennethreitz.com)
2 points by keyist 14y ago|0 comments
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Ingo Molnar on what ails the Linux desktop(plus.google.com)
205 points by keyist 15y ago|191 comments
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Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer(lesswrong.com)
2 points by keyist 15y ago|0 comments
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Firefox in 2011 – Firefox plans for 2012(hacks.mozilla.org)
69 points by keyist 15y ago|18 comments
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Fun with Git's --first-parent (git-blame.blogspot.com)
2 points by keyist 15y ago|0 comments
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How changing the structure of the web changes PageRank(michaelnielsen.org)
27 points by keyist 15y ago|4 comments
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by keyist 15y ago
This is a great post that gets mentioned from time to time and covers the underlying theory well. I'd supplement it with Chapter 9 of the Pro Git book: http://progit.org/book/ch9-0.html , which focuses more on the actual implementation a
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Rob Pike on Dennis Ritchie's legacy(plus.google.com)
2 points by keyist 15y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 15y ago
RMS has the FSF and Defective By Design sites as soapboxes if he wished to gain more attention from Jobs's death. This was a post on his political notes page. He did nothing to publicize it. He didn't post to aggregators or tweet to ask f
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by keyist 15y ago
I was going to say something similar but you've done it much better, with a story to boot. So I'll just chip in with one point I had that you didn't cover directly. A lot of the posts here are generally of the form "you can't speak ill o
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Google Bought Me: The First Two Days(blog.falconindy.com)
153 points by keyist 15y ago|29 comments
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by keyist 15y ago
Tarsnap gives deduplication, compression, and encryption. Some technical background on how it does this here: http://www.tarsnap.com/efficiency.html There is a detailed breakdown provided as well. Sample output:
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Django-style underscore filtering implemented in SQLAlchemy(pastebin.com)
2 points by keyist 15y ago|0 comments
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What Proxies Must Do(mnot.net)
2 points by keyist 15y ago|0 comments
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Lift author's Web Framework Manifesto (2006)(goodstuff.im)
1 points by keyist 15y ago|0 comments

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