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dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Underrated Features of PostgreSQL

What's wrong with the console ?

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

OMG computers

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: New extension to Haskell -- data types and polymorphism at the type level

You dawg!, I hear you like type systems ...

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks

vultures

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg has more friends on Google+ then Larry Page

then Larry Page what ?

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: "Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript

That's dynamically loaded, try it with the runtime

    $ gcc hello.c
    $ ls -l a.out
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 maht maht 4511 Oct 11 16:38 a.out
    $ gcc --static hello.c
    $ ls -l a.out
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 maht maht 574106 Oct 11 16:38 a.out

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Introduction to sed

because GNU is Not Unix

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Introduction to sed

Turn on locale UTF-8 for GNU software before benchmarking it to compare with Plan9 software.

GNU stuff gets a speed improvement from assuming single byte characters.

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork

It used to be the case that licenses required you to submit your modifications back to the source. Lucent's first stab at opening Plan 9 From Bell Labs back in '99 had such a clause.

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork

> Fortunately, thanks to the GPLv2, all the significant changes come back to the mainstream kernel.

How exactly, does that work ?

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Tell HN: Seriously We Get It

It's like Slashdot on April Fool's

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices

Check your assumptions. The field could be updated at any time to any value by another connection.

And who's to say we started at zero.

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices

You didn't check for overflow.

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: How Ruby is beating Python in the battle for the Soul of System Administration

tac filename.txt | sed 10q | tac

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac

Fortunately not.

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac

There's so much more to Acme than piping. Actions based on regex matching via the plumber for a start. Menus you can type / keep in a text file anywhere you like. No stupid colour syntax highlighting or pointless fancy shit.

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac

1) install plan9port

2) use Acme

3) program !!!???

4) profit

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: “I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl

GNU is Not Unix

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Check out this hacker sting - poetry in motion

So security minded they're using GPG, no wait ...

dramaticus3 | 14 years ago | on: Pre-branded domain names for startups

WineCoffer sounds like Wank Offer