sztanpet

No, that is a bad idea, see: https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/issues/15#issuecomment-25...

By propelling linux process supervision into the 21th century, change is scary

because it's "fixed"

The excitement is because Lua is a very nice little language with the explicit goal of being embedded into programs, so when a pure-go port of the language appears that is not just bindings to the C version it is warmly welcomed.

And no, it shouldn't be any faster than luajit (what can really :)

Trying to obsolete the needless differences between linux distributions on the basic level. The differences that everybody just re-implements all the time, but slightly differently and never decides to innovate or make the status-quo better.

You are also conflating the "init.d" replacement with the project that is aiming to provide basic OS building blocks.

networkd is quite orthogonal to pid1, what it is not orthogonal to is that nowadays almost every system needs network connectivity so bringing up the network is part of the basic system. And systemd (the project) is trying to be the basic building blocks from which you can build an OS out of.

I think you are mistaking systemd pid1 and systemd the project, this is not in pid1 but in the networkd component.

You know the blog is just a clickbait when it capitalizes the name of the project wrong.

(on the wiki, the big Spelling header could not be more explicit)

But it is just as easy to do that will a full userdata in lua. You just hook up the newindex metamethod. Even more powerfull

I cannot agree with that, it's just as easy to add new methods as to learn to pass a new string as the first argument. How is it more "forward compatible"?

the lua api of redis seems a bit un-lua like, redis.exists('key') would be better also, returning a boolean for exists instead of a number, but it's such a small nit-pick that it hardly wants mention

the possibilities this brings is quite huge tho, so quite excited

if you missed the CHE-UP talk zed gave at mwrc, you can watch it here: http://www.justin.tv/confreaks/b/281745310 starting at about the 15 minute mark

I had the same problems too, had the same firefox profile since the 1.0 days almost, and had my history set to remember it for 1 year, my profile dir alone was over 2GB. After starting a fresh profile everything went back to pretty much normal (by firefox's standards)

The length operator(#) is a bit misleading when used with tables, you can only rely on it with array like tables with numeric indexes without holes in them (no nil values). Thats a big gotcha one should mention.

I really like the idea, but I would make it even more general. Granted one could use it right now for absolutely everything, but the title says appointment reminder, I would personally use it to remind people interested in e-sports related streams. Here's another idea, having the ability for this to send me IM messages or URL callbacks would be even better.

The client has a few but very important shortcomings like being unable to set what to alert for via text-to-speech, also one cannot set the volume neither of said text nor for anything else. The user-interface seems a bit off to me, with that annoying background and other elements, but I'm a minimalist kind of guy but I do find it usable. Also the feature to "mask" your voice is not at all highly regarded by me, especially if it cannot be disabled globally on my side as it is usually more annoying than funny. The website serves it's purpose but yes, what the others said about instant clarity what the site is about would help.

Why the negative title for the story? I mean you can hate techcrunch all you want but honestly this is not the way to discredit them.

there is a webirc project in the works for freenode if i know correctly, its based on quakenets qwebirc (which is a lot nicer then mibbit, but of course YMMV)

absolutely, I just hope that HN will not get advertised too much, because then we will be flooded by the digg-like submissions