mekazu

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by mekazu 1y ago
Agree that it’s good to get the certainty of zero memory leaks (assuming there’s no associated bugs in apache) but it’s not that hard to write code that doesn’t cause memory leaks for stateful apps as long as you are able to follow certain
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by mekazu 3y ago
I wonder if the author knows about `watch`. It seems like it might’ve saved some effort with a better outcome.
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by mekazu 4y ago
This is an great example of how you don’t need fancy graphics for good, playable and engaging games. The music combined with the sound effects works really well too and is very simple.
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by mekazu 4y ago
But they wouldn’t announce it until it’s pretty much ready.
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by mekazu 4y ago
Most good software that I can think of has the luxury of being delivered whenever it’s ready. It’s not estimation that improves the quality of the product but good cost/benefit analysis, although you can get one from the other.
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by mekazu 6y ago
Could use mv -iv for interactive and verbose if you want a rollback or commit alternative. The real question is: why move files at all?
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by mekazu 7y ago
I use Perl similarly to awk if I need to use regex rather than white space delimited fields. I think if you know Perl really well and can remember the command line arguments - particularly -E, -n, -I and -p - then it’s a good swap in substi
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by mekazu 7y ago
> Therefore, this line actually says: !didIMakeAMistake() || CIsWrongHere(); > If you understand how short-circuit evaluation works, you can understand that this will result in the following: if (!didIMakeAMistake())
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by mekazu 7y ago
Employees are valued by businesses more for their expertise than for their work. I’d rather have one dev who knows how to solve difficult problems than a hundred who don’t. Roughly.
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by mekazu 7y ago
I wonder why pg didn’t launch this article on a Tuesday.
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by mekazu 7y ago
Yeah if the last election result wasn’t a perfect demonstration of voter apathy and disengagement I don’t know what would be. Having said that, that’s just the majority - the rest of us are very engaged I promise! Just uselessly, impotently
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by mekazu 7y ago
National security is important, but so is whistleblowing, and the ability for journalists to protect their sources. There’s a trade off here between, and it’s worth looking at this from all angles to ensure that the AFP have the right inten
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by mekazu 7y ago
Sounds similar to P2PE.
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by mekazu 7y ago
I agree, and I like having those ‘oh wow, I can do that in bash? That’s dangerous, but awesome’ moments just by researching how to get stuff done. Really people don’t know what they’re getting themselves into when they start down the shell
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by mekazu 8y ago
Yeah? I’m off to read some Jane Austen. Seeya!
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by mekazu 8y ago
Unit tests that don’t read or write to disk and don’t try thousands of repetitions of things should be bleeding fast, but the most useful integration tests that actually help find faults (usually with your assumptions about the associated A
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by mekazu 8y ago
I kinda like the idea that Americans could be gradually migrated from Imperial to metric by osmosis over the course of a few thousand measurement based scientific articles.
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by mekazu 8y ago
Plastic is sometimes useful to preserve fresh food to some degree. Without plastic many goods wouldn’t be viable. Would be nice though if at least the necessary plastic was highly recycleable, as well as cost efficient etc.
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by mekazu 8y ago
Was anybody else thinking these tools would be great for general development and debugging purposes? Anything that uses the network or file system anyway. The fact that they can detect malware reads as just an aside to me.
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by mekazu 8y ago
Just remember the name XKCD is already taken.
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by mekazu 8y ago
If only when googling “sql on csv” this comments page would show up first.
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by mekazu 9y ago
Is this reddit now?
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by mekazu 9y ago
Many of the comments made here are < 140 chars. Others are more.
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by mekazu 9y ago
Nope, the company is called shifty jelly. They've still got other iOS apps though so it wouldn't surprise if they were taken down.
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by mekazu 9y ago
Would it be illegal to write say an excellent grepping or sorting tool that I really want someone to use as part of a criminal activity, even if it had heaps of other uses?
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by mekazu 10y ago
We know the greenhouse effect is real (just walk into a greenhouse and you'll know), so the only remaining question is whether CO2 causes a greenhouse effect in the earth's atmosphere. That should be reasonably easy to prove right
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by mekazu 10y ago
Keeping your fingers wet will also prevent the mechanism from working.
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by mekazu 10y ago
It can be difficult to verify the quality of code in GitHub. Even well know products that work really well can be implemented with awful code. I suspect the vast majority of projects on GitHub are experimental and unfinished. Using this fea
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by mekazu 11y ago
No idea but coding against unit tests, rather than testing every change on a running app, should help avoid that frustration.
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by mekazu 11y ago
I find if I'm struggling to come up with a word it's because I've lost the conversational flow of the sentence I'm writing, or of the point I'm trying to make. If I try to describe it out loud to an imaginary or, id

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