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In my project I use "env GOPATH=$PWD go ..." in the makefile, that way it all goes in the current directory. There's probably some good reason this is a bad idea, but go is kinda f…

Straight razors are pretty popular still in shaving forums.

The IoM isn't part of the EU or the UK. As a Manxman living in Europe, I'm fortunate that my mother's side of the family is English or I'd have more trouble with work permits and w…

This isn't really a Docker thing though, is it? It is talking about the case of a program that includes its dependencies in its own source code tree. I think docker-ized programs w…

Doesn't work on Xfce either. On a virtual terminal thingy (ctrl-alt-f1) it shows a grey background with white text. I suspect blink is only implemented on the Mac's terminal, not i…

Looks like it was people clicking google code's "export to github" feature before you got round to doing it ;-) I wouldn't worry about it - the clones will probably not go anywhere…

Will this also affect Firefox for Android? Mozilla currently don't provide a dev build for Android, just regular and beta versions https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=M…

The FlatBuffers repo on github continues a couple of "meta-trends" I've noticed in recent Google projects. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers First, it uses CMake to build - for…

You haven't broken the podcast RSS feed, thank you. Another large podcast network recently did a redesign and broke all of their feeds, apparently on purpose. Crazy. However, the p…

It's sounds like how Gerrit works, from a user's POV at least. You can push to a repo that you don't really have write permission to, and it goes into Gerrit. The post-push scripts…

Yes, I do this too. Incredibly, a lot of airports only have hot water in the bathrooms. Or sinks designed in such a way that a bottle can hardly be filled at all.

While we're at it, can we be allowed to carry bottles of water through security? At least in Europe, having to pay 3€ for a 50cl bottle of water after passing through the checks is…

I dunno... anecdata here, but my kids have quite a few sets - Batman, Ninja Turtles, Star Wars as well as some brick boxes and Lego City stuff - and they mixed them all together an…

It's why I love the Nintendo DS and its successor the 3DS - any game can be paused just by closing the lid! In this low-power mode it can last for many hours, possibly days.

Does this work for you? https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=forum/tm... It works here with Firefox+noscript, but in w3m it messes up when you read an article and fo…

Wow, that's quite a surprise. I just checked the terms you quoted - https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html - and of course you're absolutely right. I can see w…

Unfortunately there is a flaw in this design of Firefox OS. By baking the rendering engine into the core OS, it is impossible to upgrade the browser separately from the rest of the…

Ah, bummer. I tested in csh too but not fish.

There's just one scenario: a completely absent #! line. It's an easy fix, just add the line, otherwise 0755 scripts with no #! do execute using the current shell.

FWIW I had the same good support experience regarding Nexus tablet failures. The cynical side of me thinks that this is one reason they are rumored to be canning the Nexus tablet l…

Right, I'm sure you could do the same thing with grep and a classic /var/log/messages - in fact there's probably something to do this already. Or you'd find a gz from the day in qu…

> "give me 10 hours starting from last Friday 2am" journalctl --since="$(date -d'last friday 2am' '+%F %X')" --until="$(date -d'last friday 2am + 10 hours' '+%F %X')" Now I'm no sy…

Have you tried using the logging module? Might be overkill for really small scripts as it requires a few lines to set up, but even the tiniest tool ends up requiring print-debuggin…

I have a small script in my ~/bin that pipes `info --subnodes "$@"` into less. That way I don't have to remember all the keys, and the whole output is like a big man page. Although…

I disagree, and think they've done a great job. The CMake devs have always been really responsive to bigish projects that find CMake to be almost-but-not-quite good enough for thei…