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Re:Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting
on Thursday May 31, 2012 @06:34PM (#4050766)
A lot of questions being asked here are already covered in this thread from a day ago:
http://dd.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/uc1o9/why_linux_doesnt...
Re:Critical Windows Vulnerability in TCP/IP Stack Could Allow Remote C...
on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:08PM (#3213906)
It's not a secret that Microsoft's hiring practices are somewhat subpar and their internal organization is a mess.
Am I surprised that a product got rushed out with major issues? Of course not, they do it every day.
Re:High Priority Free Software Projects
on Friday October 07, 2011 @08:27PM (#3086587)
Are there any idiosyncrasies besides the ones detailed here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MATLAB_Programming/Differences_...
I say this because I'm learning Octave mainly to get familiar with the Matlab-ish world (kinds of coding used in real world academia) and I wonder what I'm missing.
Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't we be pissed that sites like Grooveshark exist?
on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @07:05PM (#3078003)
That's the only way to get started in areas of copyright monopoly.
Think of it like any startup not checking if there are patents they infringe. If you think there's nothing wrong with the patent system, then you should be "pissed" about that too. But sane people tend to not be.
Re:Inferno (Bell Labs' Plan 9 Successor)
on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @05:03PM (#3077589)
A few posts about and bringing up Plan 9 have been around HN recently, but I haven't seen a single person bring up Inferno.
Is it because it isn't well known? Or is there some obvious deficiency that everyone but me knows about?
Re:Textmate 2 - Alpha this year
on Monday September 26, 2011 @05:17PM (#3040773)
About MacVim vs vim and 'color scheme support' and 'solarize': Actually the issue is with Terminal.app which has some weird setup where changing the background is either impossible or always looks horrible.
Also it's particularly difficult to get Solarized setup in a terminal using 256 colors rather than manually resetting the 16 colors of your terminal to custom values.
If you have a sane terminal, vim works fine with 256 color support. A lot of people on OSX use iTerm 2 which I hear has fine 256 color support. I just use gnome-terminal on Linux that's had support forever and dropped solarized since the maintainer is not interested in making any setup work besides gVim/MacVim it seems.
Re:Will the Xbox 720 run Windows 8?
on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @06:02PM (#2756812)
Xbox 0 * 360
Xbox 1 * 360
Xbox 2 * 360
...etc
Re:A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer
on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @03:14PM (#2735416)
Well said.
I was about to tack on "questions on the other hand..." to my comment but was already in bed when I thought of it.
Re:A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer
on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @06:06AM (#2733210)
As soon as philosophy gets to even a fraction of the use mathematics has, then maybe it will be worth looking to for answers.
Re:Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds
on Saturday July 02, 2011 @10:54PM (#2722937)
Is this .emacs file on a github somewhere? :)
Re:The GPL Sucks
on Saturday June 04, 2011 @12:47AM (#2618911)
There's this magical license you may not have heard of that does just that called the LGPL. The LGPL's entire existence is about compromise.
Why are you intentionally ignoring it?
Re:Linux 2.8.0?
on Monday May 23, 2011 @06:51PM (#2577909)
Not every project treats version numbers the same way.
It's irresponsible of anyone paid to know this kind of thing to not be aware of how a project handles version numbers.
Linus is the kind of guy that would go to 2.8 just "because it's time" in his mind rather than some big feature jump. Whether or not a person agrees, it would be good for people to at least inform themselves.
Re:Why Cloud is Like Email in the 1980's
on Saturday May 14, 2011 @05:18PM (#2548568)
It could be 'serverside' rather than 'clientside'.
As in, sure you can connect the AIM and MSN chat networks, but you yourself have to run a server to connect the two.
Currently one also has to have migration functionality written by themselves. Instead, amazon could provide it, just like AIM could provide an MSN gateway themselves.
Re:Exception Safety, Garbage Collection etc. (a.k.a. Why Does Java Suc...
on Friday May 06, 2011 @07:00PM (#2522793)
Non-slideshare link:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws...
Edit: Warning. Actually seems to cut off some of the slides.
Re:`gosh` is security theater for piped shell scripts
on Saturday April 09, 2011 @09:09PM (#2428546)
This is a good start.
I don't know ruby but if I did I'd change the sha256 stuff to GPG. Could support searching for local GPG keys with URL and/or the username out of the github URL. Asks which to use if multiple matches are found, should remember the choice. If there isn't a local key already, support querying specific known keyservers. mit's and ubuntu's come to mind.
Might poke around with this in bash in a week or two.
Re:Ask HN: Contributing to Linux Kernel
on Monday March 21, 2011 @04:50AM (#2348938)
http://kernelnewbies.org/
"Kernelnewbies are a community of people that improve or update their Kernels and of aspiring Linux kernel developers and more experienced developers willing to share their knowledge. We help each other learn how the Linux kernel works and occasionally discuss other operating system kernels."
http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHacking
Includes docs on:
How To ...
KernelBuild - build a custom kernel
KernelSafari - taking apart the kernel to see how it works
UpstreamMerge How to submit your patch to the upstream kernel.
join the Kernel Janitors and/or Linux Driver projects
CareerAdvice for people who want to get a job hacking the kernel
KernelHackingTools to edit/navigate/hack the kernel source
Re:How to delete cookies, cache and history in all major browsers
on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @09:58PM (#1960804)
Depending on how thorough you want to be, don't forget evercookies
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/evercookies.ht...
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/10/it-is-possible-...
Re:NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery
on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:24AM (#1953537)
"two planets"? Is he is writing from the perspective of a future event of life being discovered on another planet besides Earth, or is there some underground news about life being discovered on another planet besides Earth?