simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: Stop using tail -f (mostly)
That's an important point: never use this trick with huge logs...
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simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: Stop using tail -f (mostly)
Eventually Microsoft will be able to reinvent Unix. Just keep the faith.
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: Stop using tail -f (mostly)
It works fine indeed. I'm using it all the time.
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: The Systemd Project Forks the Linux Kernel
The fork won't last long I guess...
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: The time has come to stand up for the GPL
Is there a way of avoiding to make a PayPal account? I would like to contribute, but I don't want a PayPal account.
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: Analysis of the Linux backdoor used in Freenode IRC network compromise
Thanks for the clarification.
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: Norris numbers
I'm not convinced by the "number of lines" measure unit. It's clearly something which depends on the programming language, so one should gather different statistics depending on the language. Not to mention the fact that different projects might be prone to get messed up in different ways...
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: Named parameters in C
...agreed, what's the point? Besides, a lot of includes are already a mess of #defines, do we really need another bunch of them?
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: Programmer excuses
Is there a "hey, it passed all the unit tests"?
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: Programmer excuses
Indeed...
http://tinypic.com/r/2yv88c7/8
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: If you traveled back in time to 1975 equipped with a modern laptop...
A copy of this thread.
No seriously, I think I'll bring all the information referred to the environmental damage we created since then, plus the information required to understand the technology of the laptop itself, including some peripheral, an ethernet cable and a second laptop.
simgidacav | 11 years ago | on: New scientific markup language
That's why we cannot have good things. People ruining someone else's work just for fun. That was not smart nor funny, and the goatse belongs to 90's.
simgidacav | 12 years ago | on: Tell HN: Videos with privacy
While `ytmusic` saves it on the hard drive (second parameter is the name of the file), `ytlisten` streams that directly into mplayer.
simgidacav | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Google Privacy Enhancer – "smoke bombs" your search history
Exactly. Also use an email client for handling email, while using the browser with cookies self-destroyed[1] and google not whitelisted.
[1] http://www.technorms.com/26262/auto-delete-cookies-firefox-s...
simgidacav | 12 years ago | on: The Pythonista's Legacy
Fixed version: http://pastebin.com/zBPRJGRF
simgidacav | 12 years ago | on: The Pythonista's Legacy
Dam'n... missed a comma, end of line 38! :(
simgidacav | 12 years ago | on: To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
Sent it to my girlfriend, who's a clever pythonista
simgidacav | 12 years ago | on: Hacker news for data scientists
Could it be possible to build a more or less comprehensive list of hacker-news-like websites?
simgidacav | 12 years ago | on: Finger binary
Hopefully nobody will be offended by 4.
simgidacav | 12 years ago | on: P = NP
Even if this content is quite old, the idea of linking it here in those days is quite clever. Just tell me how many of you did not immediately think "Oh crap, my RSA is doomed!".