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gregnbanks
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About gregnbanks
Engineering better software is a daily battle against Murphy.
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Hey 0d9eooo, with respect you have no idea what's actually happening. My wife attends one of the colleges mentioned in TFA, and at that college everything that you imagine cannot b…
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Comment #14224116
http://search.cpan.org/~gnb/Devel-Plumber-0.3.4/lib/Devel/Pl...
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Comment #10157802
Darwin support is functional today, I'm just waiting for the 3.11 Valgrind release, which fixes a bug which is a showstopper for NovaProva.
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Comment #8679829
Sphinx also had a bunch of really bad bugs around server startup and shutdown, and some ugly code. I ended re-writing some of their pthreads code and submitting patches, I have no …
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Comment #8679811
Xapian supports a query syntax which uses a trailing '*', but it's not a true wildcard/regexp, it's a range search on an ordered index. Notmuch allows you to use that syntax, see h…
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Comment #8679804
I never used notmuch, but I was much inspired by it when I saw a talk about it at linux.conf.au a few years back. Later I ended up stealing several ideas from notmuch about how to …
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