aaronh

Why waste time rewriting Unix...

We know. ReactOS has been around for many years.

Nothing new here. In NY state you have to send in your Article of Organization to the NYS Division of Corps. You then receive a confirmation mailing which you have to turn around and send in to the NYS Dept. of Taxation, so they, you know, know you exist to tax. Durr! The state already knows it exists, it just registered it, why am I playing mailboy and shuffling mail between two departments which are probably within walking distance of each other!

while there may in fact be such a correlation, after skimming this "paper" it appears to be mostly philosophical rambling and armchair musings, very little data, no graphs or charts or analyses showing correlation, etc., just citations of other papers.

My pet peeve: You made an arbitrary change while debugging a problem. NOW YOU HAVE N^2 PROBLEMS!

if you don't want to be treated like cattle stop accepting it. opt-out every time. every time i have, they have asked if i wanted a private screening, and in fact the personnel that performed the "pat down" was always very professional. i never wanted a private screen since i'm pretty comfortable in public, and if they were going to do anything embarrassing to me or themselves, I do want it out and public so everybody can see how their fellow citizen is being treated. let's disregard that this pat down is also demeaning and pointless. but at least you can just say no to the automatic total recall porno scanning. i don't give a fuck who hears me opt out, or if it interrupts the line (which it doesn't), or their jobs (tiniest violin playing). the first time i did they even seemed to make a show by calling it out, but i think it's probably just because they have to yell for the pat-down dude to come over and do it.

I don't even get what the issue is. People have a problem that she even wrote this? I wrote something similar because there IS no standard replace tool along the lines of grep. Sed is awful (it's essentially impossible) for multiline expressions for example. Could this really be penis measuring because people think they are so cool that they know unix commands exist? Congratulations, you have turn invocations of a simple, convenient tool into a shitpile trainwreck of find and sed. Golf claps for infinity.

same question, noticed after i got sent two bogus password reset attempts...

by the way, I think if Gnome had "done nothing" by continuing to incrementally develop Gnome2 instead of doing something entirely new with Gnome3 the same argument would be trooped out: "Look, Gnome isn't innovating, it doesn't have vision, it's just a Windows clone, blah blah blah"

whinge

meh, other than bus factor this seems overblown to me. I use Gnome3 on Fedora and it is great. It takes advantage of Fitts law and there is just less fuck-around-ability with it. (I thought even the Alt-to-PowerOff controversy was overblown; I suspend far more often then I shut down, this is a welcome simplification) If anything I felt Gnome3 had ushered in a renaissance in Gnome. What "new" goals does Gnome have to have other than creating a great desktop?

Please don't drive more developers away with more gratuitous Hacker News "X-is-dying" bitching.

I demand a free lunch.

I think he knows the difference which was why he had a problem with it. But of course the problem is not that some arbitrary function no longer returns him a preferred default value, the problem is that he is sending it garbage to begin with (and he claimed this was used in "thousands" of places...shudder).

how is nobody aware of PythonBrew? to me it seems like the best and most comprehensive environment manager. it supports separate Python versions as well as virtual envs, in a very simple command line interface that is reminiscent of Ruby's RVM:

https://github.com/utahta/pythonbrew

Ugh...python packaging, it makes my head hurt every time I have to figure out how it works again. This is something that Ruby got very right, how could Python be such a mess?

I wish it was just a simple 3-step process to fix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_5QFZ-kbk

Guh, run, run away from PHP. Try ruby or python. And then a framework of your choice on that such as Rails, or whatever the lead framework in Python is these days (Django?).

The abdication of duty to truth in favor of balancing competing ideas is a disease. Sometimes some ideas are just empirically more correct and some are just empirically more incorrect. If some partisans happen to hold the more correct view, and others happen hold the more incorrect view, then to speak the correct view cannot avoid being incidentally partisan. To therefore preclude that speech as "partisan" is ridiculous.

why not put all .txt files in /txt? we have .../man for man pages, .../lib for libs, .../src or source and .../include for C includes after all.

GoboLinux does it too.

And for that matter, another "unixy" OS uses "bundles" to keep all of an apps files together instead of splattering them all over the OS: Mac OS X.

much of the original traditional unix file system hierarchy is basically redundant and unnecessary in the modern age. for a good overview (from the author of a linux distribution which departs completely from this tradition), see:

http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=doc/articles/clueles...

unfortunate that there needs to be a --enable-flaming option :(

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned pythonbrew.

https://github.com/utahta/pythonbrew

It's the Python version of RVM. It is higher level than even virtualenv, and in my opinion, the most seamless way to manage Python environments.

So far it's been difficult getting one on ones with doctors. They justifiably shield themselves from solicitors and other annoyances (if I were a vet, I would do the same). You are right that vets typically rely on IT consultants, but there are two things that are slightly different (I believe) about the veterinary industry vs. human medical industry. For one, there are a large number of very small practices (2-3 vets total), which makes any IT expenses proportionally larger. Secondly, most have to rely on "generic" home town IT consultants which are not very familiar with veterinary needs, as there is not a robust veterinary-specific IT support industry. And to some extent we're trying to improve this vet/IT relationship by offering a very low-maintenance, flexible solution.

We've had more success meeting early adopters where they already are on twitter, facebook, etc. than by knocking on doors or making calls. Although I know we still have our work cut out for us and need to continue pursuing these in-person discussions.

Good point. We do have one vet who is using the product but it's the same initial customer we developed it for/with, so they naturally already know how to apply it. We should come up with a little story, perhaps a comic, which introduces the idea in a friendly way and puts it in context of existing practices.

thanks! while we can't afford the big national conferences there is a regional one in the fall we are thinking about attending. we'll take a look at magazine advertising.