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azakuson Creator of ZFS, Jeff Bonwick, leaves Oracle

Since btrfs is an Oracle funded project, I'm real interested to see what happens to both of these filesystems going forward.

azakuson Palm inviting devs to a node.js meet-up by the Bay

It certainly is when the startup time and general memory usage of the JVM is taken into account.

azakuson WebOS 2.0 will include node.js

Did since 1.0

azakuson Ask HN: What Programming Languages do you use and for what?

- Javascript for APIs and backend frameworks (work & fun)

- Perl for scripts and a documentation tool (work)

- Scala for fun little projects (fun)

- C/C++/C# for small things just to keep my skills up (fun)

- Shell for portable scripts and such (work & fun)

azakuson RIM Must Switch To Android Now, Before It's Too Late

This would actually be a terrible idea. Imagine all the rewriting of every little business app people have written for their blackberries, and the instant obsolescence of BES servers. No, RIM just needs to innovate in a way that doesn't seem half-assed.

azakuson Dogs improve office productivity

Wouldn't increase productivity if I'm allergic to dogs and it causes me to sneeze instead of think.

azakuson OpenSolaris is dead

OpenSolaris had a GNU userland. The BSD ancestry of the Solaris userland isn't the problem. The problem was the senseless defaults and cryptic command structures ("shutdown -g0 -i5 -y" instead of "shutdown")

azakuson DragonFly: Chinese Apple-esque Hardware

http://www.qingting.biz/index.php?action=page&pid=16

Well, they certainly aren't trying to have Apple level laptop hardware, or even asus level.

Their Q Pro thing has an nvidia ion 2 chipset with an Atom D520 in a 14 inch body.

azakuson HBO miniseries: Game of Thrones

This had better not turn out like "Legend of the Seeker". I had so much hope for the adaptation of one of my favorite book series.

azakuson Five (+ 1) Things I Hate About Python (and then five more)

Some of his arguments are crap. How is extensive platform support a detractor? Wouldn't you want your language to work on as many platforms as possible? I'm not sure how "outdated" stdlib is, but just because the code was written years ago, that does not make it "bad". New ways of implementing certain things could actually be slower. Can't say for sure since he has no real examples. FYI: I dislike python for its syntax, but I can see why people like it. I just use perl for most everything that people would do in python.

azakuson James Randi comes out of the closet at 81

Good for him. It's sad that he felt he had to wait this long.

azakuson ACM ICPC World Finals preliminary results

I find that the largest problem about this competition is that the people who can actually do this probably have no motivation to compete. We all have jobs, lives, and cool stuff to hack on in languages we actually like using.

azakuson A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen

Check out some of his other projects: http://quadpoint.org/projects

Also, pastee is by far my favorite pastebin (also by him): https://pastee.org/

azakuson 768-bit RSA, now officially not enough

Isn't the default for ssh-keygen RSA 2048? That should be safe for a little while longer.

azakuson Creating easy to remember passwords

I've always found pwgen to provide usefully memorable passwords. Just have to run it a few times and find one I like.

azakuson Getting Computer Science Into Middle School

From what I remember of middle school, they DID teach us a little comp sci. They taught LOGO for about a week. Seemed pretty fun. It was at least mostly competent from what I can remember.

azakuson Short Chat Server in Clojure

The only small problem I would have with it is the inability to be in multiple chatrooms at once. Very nice though.

azakuson The limitations of terminals as an interface

There is Vimperator, a plugin that applies vim keybindings.

azakuson Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab

Aww, what a bait and switch.