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grepgeek

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About grepgeek

Searching old gems from the old Internet

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    Ask HN: What is the tiniest FOSS code you've written that does something useful?

    I would like to see publicly available free and open source code bases for very small projects--say a single file with less than 100 lines of source code--that also does something …

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    Did they try to ask for donation? Linux Journal has a huge reader base most of who probably grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. Most of these readers are now probably working profe…

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    I have travelled to India often but I don't understand Indian politics enough. So if someone here can help me with these questions, I'll appreciate it! * What does it mean for Laka…

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    This is cool. I wonder how outline.com manages to get past the sign-up wall.

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    > Register to read this article in full: Sign up I don't want to create a new account to read an article? Is there any other option to read this article? I know one could say that …

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    I like the way Creative Commons licenses do it. First there is a simple bullet-point-wise summary for layman like this: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Then there…

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    This does not look like the description of "10x engineer" at all. An "immature engineer"? Yes. But "10x engineer? No. A true "10x engineer" would also care a great deal about docum…

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    I am honestly unable to decide whether the original tweets by @skirani were said in seriousness or as sarcasm!

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    Which websites do you still find using Flash? I ask because I am genuinely interested to know. I think it has been years since I came across a website that used Flash. I uninstalle…

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    Ask HN: Suggest me a new programming language with small user community to learn

    I want to learn a very new programming language. It should not be too popular. It should not have a large user community. It should be relatively new compared to Go, JavaScript, et…

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    Comment #20466401

    It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20454966

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    Comment #20202388

    Anyone knows what theme is used in this blog?

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    Comment #20202238

    The swift-http-import README is great. Can you describe what do you see especially nice in the castellum README? Honest question because it looks like a regular README (which is no…

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    You could have still kept the massive state in a dict or a list or a tuple and passed that dict around from one function to another, could you not? Why did it become necessary to i…

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    Only if there are major contributing developers who do not work for Google. Is that the case with Go? If there are no major non-Google contributors to Go, then the fork may not be …