tterrace

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by tterrace 4y ago
Dos32.bas with Visual Basic was my first intro to programming. There was no useful search so you had to navigate through webrings to get programming tutorials. There were also networks of private vb channels where the hackers hung out, thos
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by tterrace 7y ago
Recently there's been cases where searching for a company name will actually return an ad for a competitor. Companies are being forced into a bidding war to win back the top position for exact searches on their own name. See: https:&#
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by tterrace 7y ago
I'm not on buildbot nine (I think the new waterfall UI is a big regression), but what that is describing looks like a statically defined list of workers that scale up and down dynamically. What I'm looking for is the ability to ad
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by tterrace 7y ago
I'm still on buildbot, but it's definitely showing its age and I'm hoping to move off of it within a year. I've been keeping an eye on Chromium's buildbot replacement, LUCI ( https://ci.chromium.org/
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by tterrace 11y ago
A recent example of this is buildbot. The current version (8.x) has a very no-frills, utilitarian python/jinja UI which has served me, personally, and many other open source projects well (chromium, mozilla, LLVM, etc). Version 9 is a
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by tterrace 11y ago
Amazon also has a cloud deployment tool called Apollo (internally only I believe - the public version is called "CodeDeploy"): http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2014/11/apollo-amazon-de...
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by tterrace 11y ago
The lunar laser ranging experiment was used to observe the effects of relativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
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by tterrace 12y ago
What was the performance like for those queries?
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by tterrace 12y ago
Could you link the "why is my go program 138GB!" article?
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by tterrace 12y ago
"Put the secret into your shared/.rbenv-vars file"... and then say goodbye to them! http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0... . I don't think keeping your secrets in a file acc
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by tterrace 12y ago
Usually Fabien gives a high level overview and dives into some of the pieces of the project that he finds interesting. I don't think this is the type of review that focuses on overall C practices unless it's something really uniqu
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by tterrace 13y ago
Here's a neat (and totally unpythonic) way to bring that down a bit: python -m timeit --setup "from collections import namedtuple; Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y']); p = Point(x=0, y=0); g
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by tterrace 13y ago
Hmmm, that looks oddly familiar: http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_Aristotle/journal/33448.ht...
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by tterrace 13y ago
I tried this once as well and I might have stuck with it if chrome had a quick "add to js whitelist" button. Instead you have to fiddle around in the settings menu which just takes way too long.
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by tterrace 13y ago
I ran across this yesterday (posted in 2011) about how google is using clang to automatically refactor their codebase: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVbDzTM21BQ
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by tterrace 13y ago
I've accidentally pasted lines with --username --password into source files because of a sensitive scroll wheel... That's pretty embarrassing in code review.
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by tterrace 13y ago
What source are you looking for exactly? The piece was about the Dark Snow Project, and the journalist trekked around Greenland with the guy that founded it.
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by tterrace 13y ago
This is nonsense. You should judge the article on its own merit.
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by tterrace 13y ago
IIRC it's the way to switch between tabs
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by tterrace 13y ago
Swipe to navigate is a terrible design antipattern. I can always tell when I'm reading a blog on blogspot because it'll dump me to the adjacent article when I'm scrolling or trying to zoom in on an image. I dumped chrome on i
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by tterrace 13y ago
Don't do that please.
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by tterrace 13y ago
This was a neat article about a hackathon, and it seems like you're ignoring the whole point of it to push a holy war against coffee. Also, you broke the several-month long streak during which I hadn't seen the word "brogrammer" used, so th
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by tterrace 13y ago
That's really fantastic that he was able to save his work from 28 years ago. I really wish I had the foresight to do the same from only five years ago, though I expect the result would be less like unearthing buried treasure and more like f
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by tterrace 13y ago
Do you mean "do as little with them as possible"? It sounded to me as if you're saying he's trying to make the least amount of dollars he can.
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by tterrace 13y ago
To make matters worse, after C&P rolled out some banks would just flat out refuse to reimburse cardholders for fraudulent charges. They claimed the system was bulletproof and if fraud did happen, then it was the cardholder's fault: htt
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by tterrace 13y ago
If you're using eclipse, I found this plugin helps a bit: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/java-source-attacher . For most popular jars you can just right click and hit "attach source".
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by tterrace 13y ago
It definitely depends on the language. The author mentions spring security so I'm assuming he's using java, where it's a massive PITA to manually hunt down and attach the sources to the 50 jars you have in lib/. Maven probably has something
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by tterrace 13y ago
I thought Dell submitted most of those patches to fix bugs in the kernel, not its own drivers.
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by tterrace 13y ago
I think the extra effort he means is that Dell had to hack in additional fixes for the trackpad, wifi, bluetooth and monitor brightness: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-k... . They were all merged upstream, but
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by tterrace 13y ago
I read "ultrabook" as "any high-end laptop not made by apple".

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