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Re:Creator of ZFS, Jeff Bonwick, leaves Oracle
on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @10:13AM (#1735729)
Since btrfs is an Oracle funded project, I'm real interested to see what happens to both of these filesystems going forward.
Re:Palm inviting devs to a node.js meet-up by the Bay
on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @03:12AM (#1668322)
It certainly is when the startup time and general memory usage of the JVM is taken into account.
Re:WebOS 2.0 will include node.js
on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @04:33PM (#1650787)
Did since 1.0
Re:Ask HN: What Programming Languages do you use and for what?
on Saturday August 21, 2010 @03:43PM (#1623495)
- Javascript for APIs and backend frameworks (work & fun)
- Perl for scripts and a documentation tool (work)
- Scala for fun little projects (fun)
- C/C++/C# for small things just to keep my skills up (fun)
- Shell for portable scripts and such (work & fun)
Re:RIM Must Switch To Android Now, Before It's Too Late
on Saturday August 21, 2010 @03:25PM (#1623467)
This would actually be a terrible idea. Imagine all the rewriting of every little business app people have written for their blackberries, and the instant obsolescence of BES servers. No, RIM just needs to innovate in a way that doesn't seem half-assed.
Re:Dogs improve office productivity
on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @02:44AM (#1613416)
Wouldn't increase productivity if I'm allergic to dogs and it causes me to sneeze instead of think.
Re:OpenSolaris is dead
on Friday August 13, 2010 @05:57PM (#1602413)
OpenSolaris had a GNU userland. The BSD ancestry of the Solaris userland isn't the problem. The problem was the senseless defaults and cryptic command structures ("shutdown -g0 -i5 -y" instead of "shutdown")
Re:DragonFly: Chinese Apple-esque Hardware
on Sunday August 01, 2010 @07:35PM (#1566370)
http://www.qingting.biz/index.php?action=page&pid=16
Well, they certainly aren't trying to have Apple level laptop hardware, or even asus level.
Their Q Pro thing has an nvidia ion 2 chipset with an Atom D520 in a 14 inch body.
Re:HBO miniseries: Game of Thrones
on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @12:32AM (#1431809)
This had better not turn out like "Legend of the Seeker". I had so much hope for the adaptation of one of my favorite book series.
Re:Five (+ 1) Things I Hate About Python (and then five more)
on Saturday March 27, 2010 @02:10PM (#1223329)
Some of his arguments are crap. How is extensive platform support a detractor? Wouldn't you want your language to work on as many platforms as possible? I'm not sure how "outdated" stdlib is, but just because the code was written years ago, that does not make it "bad". New ways of implementing certain things could actually be slower. Can't say for sure since he has no real examples.
FYI: I dislike python for its syntax, but I can see why people like it. I just use perl for most everything that people would do in python.
Re:James Randi comes out of the closet at 81
on Sunday March 21, 2010 @04:55PM (#1208569)
Good for him. It's sad that he felt he had to wait this long.
Re:ACM ICPC World Finals preliminary results
on Friday February 05, 2010 @09:56AM (#1103637)
I find that the largest problem about this competition is that the people who can actually do this probably have no motivation to compete.
We all have jobs, lives, and cool stuff to hack on in languages we actually like using.
Re:A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen
on Thursday January 07, 2010 @01:17PM (#1037625)
Check out some of his other projects: http://quadpoint.org/projects
Also, pastee is by far my favorite pastebin (also by him): https://pastee.org/
Re:768-bit RSA, now officially not enough
on Thursday January 07, 2010 @01:03PM (#1037574)
Isn't the default for ssh-keygen RSA 2048? That should be safe for a little while longer.
Re:Creating easy to remember passwords
on Monday December 28, 2009 @10:08AM (#1018633)
I've always found pwgen to provide usefully memorable passwords. Just have to run it a few times and find one I like.
Re:Getting Computer Science Into Middle School
on Monday December 21, 2009 @12:02PM (#1008129)
From what I remember of middle school, they DID teach us a little comp sci. They taught LOGO for about a week. Seemed pretty fun. It was at least mostly competent from what I can remember.
Re:Short Chat Server in Clojure
on Monday December 07, 2009 @10:03AM (#981258)
The only small problem I would have with it is the inability to be in multiple chatrooms at once. Very nice though.
Re:The limitations of terminals as an interface
on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:24AM (#973897)
There is Vimperator, a plugin that applies vim keybindings.
Re:Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab
on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @01:48PM (#881770)
Aww, what a bait and switch.