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mpcjanssen

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    Comment #40406134

    It seems to recompile every regex on every matching operation. This is really slow. The compiled regexes should be cached in the different matchers.

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    Comment #39346530

    Add the lowercase -r for recursive scp and you have two screens with man pages open.

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    Comment #32080137

    Redshift is indeed a matter of speed. But due to the expansion of the universe, relative speed and distance are directly related (Hubble's law). So farther away means faster relati…

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    Comment #29912100

    In the article it describes the N+1 problem with an example of the fossil timeline. In a system using Postgres, you would select all the timeline entries and then generate one big …

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    Comment #27352535

    The computer says no. Probably some automated Google process. Curious what voting to undo it will accomplish.

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    Comment #27232213

    There are plenty of examples in this thread alone. In my opinion hinting won't help. Everyone who cares about the performance gain will enable the hint (which I expect will be almo…

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    Comment #26478080

    Cmd-Up brings you to the parent folder.

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    Comment #24402001

    Gsheet is just a link to the online copy. It's useless as a backup.

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    Comment #24333004

    Faster than light in a medium. The last part matters. There is currently no reason to doubt relativity.

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    Comment #24329495

    There is indeed also a relation between momentum and (rest) energy describing the conservation of energy, In the rest frame this relation reduces to the famous E=mc^2.

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    Comment #21679338

    Because advent is a common term for the 4 weeks before Christmas even in non religious contexts. And that is how it's used in this non religious project.

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    Comment #21331163

    Or you could use the FTS extension of SQLite. https://sqlite.org/fts3.html

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    Comment #20756098

    I would be very interested to know what your additional wishes are. Could you raise some feature requests at github [1]? [1]: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android

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    Comment #20678734

    You are describing static typing. There is a well defined difference between strongly typed and statically typed.

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    Comment #20368141

    The cli hello world exits with the main return value.

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    Comment #20285075

    This could equally well be a function which takes a string and a seed and returns the hash. The more concrete the type signatures become the less they become documenting. A signatu…

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    Comment #20261541

    Not everyone uses semantic versioning. In chicken, point releases can deprecate or remove functionallity. See http://wiki.call-cc.org/development-process for details.

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    Comment #20041288

    "they have a 66% market share", in that world. A 100% market share is not needed to have monopoly power.

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    Comment #19589726

    Not quite, without MCAS the flight behavior is quite predictable, it just doesn't match the existing type certification and it falls outside of the allowed parameters for this clas…

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    Comment #17051138

    One big area where taskwarrior shines compared to solutions like todo.txt or org mode is synchronizing between devices using taskd. Although it is a bit involved to set-up, once it…

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    Comment #16891518

    It is supported by asciidoctor-diagram.

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    Comment #15364796

    Dropbox has not only deprecated their V1 API endpoints, they are now also disabled. This means that any application which has not been updated to the V2 API will now fail. Expect a…

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    Comment #9038192

    I just created a tool to walk a wsdl definition to create a single contained xsd file for distribution to users of the wsdl. With Tcl the tool was done in a couple of hours. Edit: …