uriel

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by uriel 15y ago
There might be some selection bias, users who still like the contents of the current frontpage are more likely to still be around than users who as the frontpage shifted away from their taste visit it less often.
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by uriel 15y ago
Afaik FLAC this days uses an ogg container, which is where the metadata goes, so support should be as good as for Ogg Vorbis. In practical terms, I have a huge collection of FLAC, and never had trouble with metadata, sounds like a bug in wh
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by uriel 15y ago
It is such a shame that ARM has taken over MIPS place in the embedded world, and that SGI crashed and killed it in the server space, MIPS is a much nicer architecture than ARM or PPC, (and nevermind SPARK or god forbid IA64).
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by uriel 15y ago
I'm not a big fan of RMS, but this is a good point, in our current world the freedom to control the software that runs on devices you own is becoming more and more essential, not having that freedom undermines all other freedoms (from priva
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by uriel 15y ago
Everyone should read this post, the origins of copyright are very enlightening when trying to understand the insane system we have now. Intellectual property is system of monopolies inherently incompatible with a competitive, creative and i
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by uriel 15y ago
Welcome to the Internet. As Paul Vixie pointed out ages ago: "The Internet is not for sissies." Trolls are almost as old as the net, and they are not going to disappear without something short of a big-brother state that makes the Great Fir
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by uriel 15y ago
> Allow companies to patent innovations but legally force them to license it to others for a "fair price". And who gets to define what is a "fair price"? The whole point of patents is that they are a monopoly , and they are inherently
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by uriel 15y ago
I propose HTTP 0.2, a subset of HTTP 1.1 with some simple extensions: http://http02.cat-v.org
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by uriel 15y ago
Java is the new COBOL.
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by uriel 15y ago
Go is mind-stretching in its practicality and pragmatism. Most (but not all) its ideas have been implemented before elsewhere (but then, that is almost bound to be true of any new language). But the real 'innovation' is in the careful selec
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by uriel 15y ago
Google is a very big and diverse organization, I'm sure there are some that do promote pretty much every language you ever heard of (and many you didn't). Actually, I remember some years ago reading about some Googlers that used C#, no clue
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by uriel 15y ago
There have been many changes to both the Go language and the stdlib, but it is really easy to keep your code updated (specially since gofix was introduced: http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/introducing-gofix.html ) so this should not be an o
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by uriel 15y ago
Nope. There is nothing that forces Googlers to either use or promote Go.
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by uriel 15y ago
For me Go has made programming enjoyable again.
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by uriel 15y ago
> Is Go adoption happening? Slowly (not surprisingly giving the youth of the language), but it is happening, see: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go
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by uriel 15y ago
Also, most modern software/hardware is not particularly exciting from a usefulness point of view. It is mostly the same stuff that has been around for ages in a slightly smaller package with a new coat of paint.
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by uriel 15y ago
Except that building a "properly written PHP app" is way harder than in almost every other language in widespread use. The number of pitfalls and traps you can fall into almost surpasses the 'safe' parts of the language (and its environment
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by uriel 15y ago
Events are evil, much better use something like Plan 9 (port) libthread ( http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/thread ) or Russ Cox's libtask ( http://swtch.com/libtask/ ). Or better yet, program in Go ;)
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by uriel 15y ago
CAs are one of the biggest scams of the last twenty years.
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by uriel 15y ago
Copyright is a (supposedly temporary) government granted monopoly. It is very often used for censorship, and its origins are in the censorship system (ie., requirement for publishers to be licensed by the king) of the middle ages. Authors t
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by uriel 15y ago
It is worth noting that Bruce Eckel pretty much gave up on C++ as a hopeless mess long ago. After some time in Java-land and Python-land this days he is hanging out in Go-land.
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by uriel 15y ago
Even if others did it before, it is still an annoying line noise.
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by uriel 15y ago
Code Search allows using regexps for searching, which is one of the things that made it super awesome.
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by uriel 15y ago
Interesting note: As far as I know Code Search was built mostly by Russ Cox, he is now one of the main developers of the Go language.
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by uriel 15y ago
> However those iFanboys polluted all true tech discussions, by bringing such constructs to tech discussions like 'I love my ' , 'I browse the internet with my ...', 'Non-iphone users stink, or are poor etc', to further enlarge the stat
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The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal by Rob Pike(doc.cat-v.org)
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by uriel 15y ago
I'm fairly sure much of both Delphi and VB are written in C. I wonder what the Turbo Pascal compilers were written in...
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by uriel 15y ago
For anyone interested, section 9 of the Unix 8th Edition manual has documentation about the jerq: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/9/ Intro(9) is a good starting point: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/9/intro It was thanks to dmr that a few
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by uriel 15y ago
Yes, precisely the opinion of somebody that has not written anything in Go. Not to mention somebody quite biased given that Go has been way more successful in being used to build actual systems than Alexandrescu's D2.
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by uriel 15y ago
HTML-ized version of the 1st ed. manual: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/ (Which works as mirror, given that the Bell Labs site seems to have crashed under the weight of the news of dmr's dead)

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