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I was bitten by this this week. Tried to reuse my installer to install OS X El Capitan on a MBP without redownloading it over my super-fast 2Mbps internet connection. First, I try …

Couldn't you automate it anyway? Mechanize and PhantomJS can be really helpful to script things that aren't covered by a public API.

This doesn't look like 1.4 but _1.0.0-beta.4_, so much older.

How do you make money?

You have invites? I'd love one, KeyBase seems awesome but I couldn't find an invite. If you don't mind, could you send me one by email at yohaiberreby@gmail.com? Thanks :)

What do you use instead? You navigate exclusively from your terminal?

Hacker News does.

IIRC, Nginx can use sendfile too, it's just not there by default because the transfer happens entirely in kernel space and hence you cannot apply filters like gzip on the response …

I'd love something similar to be part of Cargo, maybe as an option in the manifest. Like the author, I've learned to guess when the codegen starts, but having this information disp…

I'm glad to know there is ongoing work on a tracing GC. Rust has many strengths aside from lifetimes and ownership (algebraic data types, sane generics, strong module support, very…

Rc and Arc aren't exactly GC types... they are just reference-counted pointers, Rc being akin to C++'s shared_ptr. I get that in a sense, this is garbage collection, but certainly …

While I agree with some of your arguments, namely that "popularity and merit are not the same thing", I think saying that Mozilla is "trapped in a pseudo-C++ mindset" and that its …

I use Racer with Sublime Text 3, it works pretty well!

I think announcing a product on April 1st is a genius strategy. They can see if customers want it or think it's a joke; if nobody likes the product, they say it's for April Fools, …

I meant SFTP - I never use FTP

Oh, yes, that: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-... I've read it a while ago. Of course if you only use command-line editors, it's nice. But some people …