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thrillscience

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thrillscience··on MacBook Air Stickers
Agreed. Ubuntu people are just as crazy as Mac zealots.
thrillscience··on MacBook Air Stickers
I have one "sticker" on my Mac. A piece of gaffer's tape over the glowing logo.
thrillscience··on MacBook Air Stickers
They're not childish--they're a signal of membership in a cult.
thrillscience··on IPv4 Address Report
I don't believe it. It's just like those "peak oil" people. We just need to drill more; we can find more IP addresses.
thrillscience··on Postfix has no public version control
He uses source control; he just doesn't have a _public_ one. So what?
thrillscience··on Runnable – jsfiddle for everything
Thanks! It would be nice to see support for real languages.
thrillscience··on Oxford Electric Bell
Here's a better video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsBak0oCgdY

thrillscience··on Runnable – jsfiddle for everything
"Everything"? Where's Erlang? Where's Lua?
thrillscience··on Understanding web pages better
So I wonder if we can trick Googlebot into doing computations for us? Maybye mine bitcoins! :-)
thrillscience··on Erlang and code style
Another great Erlang essay by jlouis.

The Erlang practice of letting things fail is also SOP for experienced implementors of any large SOA system. You just let things fail. If some process getting messages from a queue can't talk to the Database, don't retry; just exit and let the supervisor deal with it.

Erlang is great for writing robust software because this type of error handling is a first-class feature of the language and runtime.

thrillscience··on Dragdis – Drag and drop anything anywhere
I watched the video and still have No Idea. Is it an app? Is it a browser plugin? Where does it store the data? Does it sync between machines?