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dramaticus3

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    Comment #3203038

    no, we all work for each other.

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    Comment #3202270

    MySQL was the original NoSQL. The wrong answer, faster.

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    Comment #3191125

    People everywhere seem terrified of the console. It has a banner over it saying "Know What You Are Doing" and most would prefer to stab away at tree controls and tabs randomly fill…

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    Comment #3187732

    What's wrong with the console ?

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    Comment #3186940

    OMG computers

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    Comment #3175971

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

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    Comment #3174760

    vultures

  8. comment
    Comment #3115027

    then Larry Page what ?

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    Comment #3098719

    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…

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    Comment #3087683

    because GNU is Not Unix

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    Comment #3087681

    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.

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    Comment #3087594

    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 claus…

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    Comment #3083869

    > Fortunately, thanks to the GPLv2, all the significant changes come back to the mainstream kernel. How exactly, does that work ?

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    Comment #3083868

    > Fortunately, thanks to the GPLv2, all the significant changes come back to the mainstream kernel. How exactly, does that work ?

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    Comment #3079514

    It's like Slashdot on April Fool's

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    Comment #3074801

    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.

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    Comment #3067171

    You didn't check for overflow.

  18. comment
    Comment #3065952

    tac filename.txt | sed 10q | tac

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    Comment #3064186

    Fortunately not.

  20. comment
    Comment #3064185

    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 …

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    Comment #3063078

    1) install plan9port 2) use Acme 3) program !!!??? 4) profit

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    Comment #3062405

    GNU is Not Unix

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    Comment #3053274

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

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    Comment #3051876

    WineCoffer sounds like Wank Offer

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    Comment #3045897

    Yes, that's the one. There are more than one available. I'm not going to spam the name of mine. It's a service I wanted myself as an early adopter of handheld computers, outgoing S…