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by zer 4mo ago
One of my first jobs had a legacy application that was based on Clipper. I never had to work with it directly (since I worked on the SQL successor) but reading the source code was still fascinating. Semi off-topic: The wikipedia article on
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by zer 6mo ago
These are great. I really have come to love this little plugin that extends and creates a/i textobjects: https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.ai
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by zer 5y ago
Nowadays I use TinyWall[1] on Windows. A simple firewall with a whitelist and some convenience functions. [1] https://tinywall.pados.hu/
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by zer 5y ago
Fish is really great for an interactive shell, I love using it. Not so great when it comes to scripting though. For example I think there's still no way to easily exit a script on error except to manually check exit codes. However I ha
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by zer 5y ago
I wouldn't attribute it to malice. The author has got that probably right: the people in charge think in iOS terms.
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by zer 6y ago
I like the general idea. I haven’t got the time to do more than skimming right now but I already feel that a single markdown file (especially without a table of contents) isn’t the right medium for this.
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by zer 6y ago
The Idasen does look a lot better. Do you think it would handle a move (or two) well?
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by zer 6y ago
My clients — oncological institutions — license Oracle and so they prefer my solutions to use it as well. Really simple, and sad. As for why they use it... as far as I know it‘s the old tale: historical reasons. Classical lock-in.
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by zer 6y ago
Regarding your second point: This sounds similar to .NET‘s CancellationToken. It works very well there. What are those nuances in JavaScript which aren’t handled by it?
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by zer 6y ago
I use schemy [0] for non trivial config tasks in .NET projects. LISPs in general are well suited for this. Very small implementations are easily done and data is code, it’s pretty great. Of course, if one has already access to a Python runt
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Programming Language Fragility(cancel.fm)
4 points by zer 7y ago|0 comments
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by zer 8y ago
I use http://hn.premii.com/ I believed it to be more popular but it seems no one has mentioned that site so far...
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by zer 8y ago
Yeah I did the same. It's infuriating to put the machine to sleep only to see in the morning (or days later...) that Windows woke it up at 3am. Is it supposed to go back to sleep or is this honestly how someone at Microsoft wants it to
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by zer 8y ago
You're right, I totally missed that link. Thank you! It shows off Chapter 3, and yes, it really looks great.
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by zer 8y ago
impl Trait and the second edition of the book; very nice! Congrats on the release! Question: Is there any way to preview what the book's typesetting looks like, since there's praise in the release note?
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by zer 8y ago
In that case you can still use custom CSS / user styles.
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by zer 9y ago
Q6: Ranking has an error, or I misunderstood. It says "Order by: ranking, name" but in truth one should not order by name! Anyway, overall very nice!
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by zer 10y ago
I'm curious, what exactly is it that makes you recommend Ubuntu Studio for the desktop?
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by zer 11y ago
You could also disable JavaScript for socketloop. Works fine for me.
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by zer 13y ago
Interesting fact just for fun: Afghanistan shares a 76 km long border with China; this is where the biggest time zone jump occurs, an impressive 3.5 hours.
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by zer 13y ago
Is there anything equivalent for Windows? I heard of ProxyCap and Tunnelier, but I don't know the technical details of how those work - i.e. if they avoid TCP over TCP tunneling.
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by zer 13y ago
I agree with your post. TV shows and movies helped a lot, and many wrong things just sound wrong. Pure grammar exercises can only teach so much. However a solid understanding of grammar helps. For example in your post you wrote "like i
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by zer 13y ago
Sounds like a good offer. Have they added an option to limit the download/upload bandwidth yet?
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by zer 14y ago
> IntelliJ (which I do use for C++ ;)) If I may ask, how do you use it? The C/C++ plugin was unusable, last time I tried it.
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by zer 14y ago
I haven't used it but is PhpStorm no 'real' IDE for PHP? There's a vim plugin for various JetBrains products too (including PhpStorm) and it works well with IDEA.
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by zer 14y ago
Try it with alt-up/down, works for me in Chrome.
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Kernighan's Lever(linusakesson.net)
4 points by zer 14y ago|0 comments
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by zer 14y ago
https://gist.github.com/3910435
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by zer 14y ago
There's this page on their website that should help you answer your question: http://www.redbullstratos.com/science/scientific-values/
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by zer 14y ago
http://nic.io And yes, those domains are pretty expensive.

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