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Why do you think it's doomed to fail?

The same - my CPU was about only about 50% saturated on the pv command (if the disk was twice as fast, I guess the CPU would become the bottleneck)

Thanks for the tip!

For some perspective:

    cat /dev/sda | pv > /dev/null

Reads 188MB/s on my new Thinkpad's Samsung SSD

Needs a code example on the front page.

They're a safe harbour under the DMCA, as long as they respond to all takedown requests. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmca

rsync --delete is the new rm -rf (it's bitten me more than once)

Please explain?

Thank you for valuing simplicity!

For a free, cross-platform (and excellent) alternative to PeepOpen, try Command-T

I used to use FuzzyFinder_TextMate, but that's stopped development, and the creator recommends you use Command-T instead.

https://wincent.com/products/command-t

Drag the different pairs of tabs together and use Ctrl-Tab + Shift-Ctrl-Tab to switch between them?

Doesn't look like that supports other HTTP methods (a CTRL-F for 'delete' shows nothing).

Can you explain the reasons?

Just a bit of (unrelated) feedback: It's difficult to see the tty examples in small scaled images.

That's insane. I'm at Waikato University, New Zealand, and we pay around NZD13000 (~= USD9000) a year

Dead simple, you can't get much simpler than http://wasitup.com/

Three form fields. Click submit. Done. It's been monitoring my blog for the last six months

IMO, there's more important things to choose an OS based on. Especially since Python and Ruby are both well-supported on all of the unices.

Find an OS that makes you happy. Like the Mac interface? Go OS X. Like tiling window managers, and automatic package management? Go linux.

FWIW, I use Ubuntu 10.04.

I completely disagree, and I'm getting a big "Not Invented Here" vibe.

Disqus comments are excellent. They handle comment threading, email notifications, voting, login (with your choice of about 5 providers), moderation, spam control... the list goes on and on.

Disqus manages all this while making everything look good.

I use disqus on my blog, because I've got better things to do than reinvent the wheel, especially when there's some extremely polished commodity wheels. It would take me months to implement all the functionality disqus gives me for free.

I'm interested in what you mean by the 'really' in the title. Do you think there's some kind of secret to how people test that they're not revealing?

If you want to see some 'IRL' test code, have a look at your favorite open source project. The test code will all be there, usually in a folder just off the root called 'tests/'.

That project has matured a lot, it's now called byobu. It's friggin' awesome. https://launchpad.net/byobu

Can you elaborate on why you prefer tmux? Myself, I use byobu, a set of user-friendly wrapper scripts around screen.

It's sad that you can't easily chain these methods. e.g.

    employees.filter(predicate1).filter(predicate2).filter(predicate3)

instead of

    Iterables.filter(Iterables.filter(Iterables.filter(employees,predicate1), predicate2), predicate3)

Damn, guys, fill in your profile pages! It's hard to find programmers here - it'd be awesome to get in contact with some other HN readers in New Zealand

New Zealand

By 'an AJAX call', do you mean having the client periodically ping the server, and then cleaning up the session if the ping times out?

He suggests keeping the cart clientside in (e.g.) a javascript array.

They're about the same amount of trippiness. Boyer-Moore makes the same kind of jump table, except Boyer-Moore starts comparing at the end of the search string.

ASCII is 7-bit (encoded in 8 bits - the high bit is ignored) and UTF-8 takes 8 bits for most characters, but can take 16+ bits for some characters.

Node is built for massive scalability on applications that (mostly) pass text from one source to another. Thus, having to convert the encoding of every string that passes through node can be a bottlenck.

Felixge has a good writeup of this: http://debuggable.com/posts/streaming-utf-8-with-node-js:4bf...

There's a lot of effort been put in to this, I like it.

I love that you can hear the bubbling in bubble sort :D

I don't understand. Can you elaborate on what you mean by 'weird' and why the BSD's do better?