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I'm surprised there is no mention of Marcellus Gilmore Edson [0]. He was a pharmacist from Montréal who patented a method to make an early version of peanut butter, more than a dec…

An option for correlated kernel and userspace tracing on Linux is LTTng. [0] For a comparison of LTTng and other tracers, check out the LTTng docs. [1] [0] http://lttng.org/ [1] ht…

While it's true that Google and the like benefit from closed or partially closed data ecosystems and formats, as I've pointed out in another comment elsewhere in this thread [0], t…

I can see where you're coming from, and your point of view is certainly not baseless, but I just thought I'd point out that at least Google has pushed for the development and adopt…

You can filter these out actually. When you go on someone's profile, and then to the "repositories" tab, there is a drop-down menu that reads "Type: All" from which you can select …

That's actually a fairly common setup, known as a LackRack [0], although this one seems to be a different size/model, but maybe that's my eyes playing tricks on me. Edit: actually …

I used to work at a consulting firm called EfficiOS[0], specialized in OS and application efficiency and performance. They maintain the LTTng[1] kernel and userspace tracers and re…

Possibly off-topic, but the article isn't displaying[0] for me on Chromium 55.0.2883.87 (64-bit), running on Arch Linux, unless I go in the dev tools and manually remove "Fira Sans…

I don't know about Firefox or Atom, but in Chromium you can achieve that via Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn.

> but afaict it doesn't work at all for adding totally new files You can use git add --intent-to-add on your new file (or -N for short), and then use git add -p as usual. You can t…

There's also LTTng which is more mature and, arguably, more powerful too (and it does userspace tracing as well): http://lttng.org/ Full disclaimer: I'm am a contributor to the LTT…

Which companies, if any, in the anti-virus business would you not consider as "snake oil vendors"? I'm genuinely curious, I haven't had to deal with Windows systems for so long, I'…

I read an article about the similarities and differences between data art and data visualisation a short while back (couple of weeks?), but I really can't seem to find it right now…

The threatening message itself is actually from 1996.

pdfmake is actually built on top of pdfkit.

I wasn't aware of his stance on this specific matter. I guess I was needlessly worried, then.

I find it somewhat unfortunate that a LWN subscriber link is being abused like that. I don't think such a link should be shared on a widely accessible platform like Hacker News. I …

There was a poster a few weeks back on here offering to test your web app on all the major ISPs/carriers in Dar es Salaam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9133792

What do you mean by GNUism?

He's not really actively involved, though. He's just been on a crusade lately to eradicate unwanted VCSs still used in older projects, including CVS for NetBSD and bzr for emacs. H…

Well, I've never used OProfile myself, so please take this answer with a grain of salt, but from a quick perusal of their website, and as the project's name seems to suggest, OProf…