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zerosanity··on Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard
Just a friendly reminder the you can get the Programming Rust book for only $15 along with a bunch of other good books for 3 more days at the Humble Bundle Functional Programming Bundle. I've been working my way through it and learned a lot so far about Rust.
zerosanity··on Zurb Launches Foundation 4
Looks fixed now.
zerosanity··on Full list of new gTLDs
I use Name.com for registrations. I've only had good experiences with them. Nothing bad to report.
zerosanity··on Best use of subdomains ever?
I could set up i.am.just.curio.us
zerosanity··on DotCloud Adds Support For WebSockets, Vertical Scaling And More
I wonder what info-structure changes had to be done to support WebSockets. Are they using experimental nginx support? Something else?
zerosanity··on Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service from AWS
From the limits page(1) I see you can only have 256 tables per account.

(1) http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/amazondynamodb/latest/deve...

zerosanity··on Building StatHat with Go
Go has really been great fit for web based APIs where I work. Going from multiple servers running PHP-FCGI to a single server running a Go app behind Nginx has reduced costs significantly.
zerosanity··on Riak Handbook
This doesn't look like an official Basho product.
zerosanity··on Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st Century Linux’
I find it kind of scary that when I go to the AppFog page and click on support I see only one item on the site. ( http://appfog.zendesk.com/home ) Surely there must be more documentation that can go up there?
zerosanity··on Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux
Too bad it's not open source.
zerosanity··on Image manipulation library for PHP 5.3
Since this is a PHP 5.3 library it's using PHP namespaces.
zerosanity··on Go version 1 proposal
Makefile fussing was driving me insane with Go. I was trying to build with directory local packages to keep bits of code separated cleanly and it was a pain to get working.

I discovered http://code.google.com/p/go-gb/ and haven't looked back. It makes building Go code SO much nicer. If I just want to try something quick in Go I just make a directory, place my whatever.go file in it, type 'gb', and run my program.

I really hope they make this 'go' tool as easy as 'gb'.

zerosanity··on Announcing my second e-book "Sed One-Liners Explained"
The book looks good. I might pick it up. I think sed is one of those hidden power tools that everyone that works in the shell should pick up skills with. It's really helpful in some situations.
zerosanity··on 10gen raises $20m for MongoDB
I really wish they would straighten out their documentation. I've only looked a few times but it seems very conditional in the description of features like replication sets, etc. I think they should have it organized like the MySQL site has it. E.g. view 5.0 documentation here, or 5.1 here, etc.

The way it is now I couldn't tell you right away what version supports what just by glancing at the docs for a minute.

zerosanity··on Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
Your link goes to something else about an aikido dojo. Try this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1730320
zerosanity··on Results from Assembly Summer 2011
The full rules and description of categories are here: http://www.assembly.org/summer11/compos/realtime
zerosanity··on You build it and the users will come.
How long did it take to get those 10 users?
zerosanity··on 135TB for $7,384 - Backblaze Pod 2.0
We're using FreeBSD's ZFS support and haven't had any hiccups to complain about.
zerosanity··on Code.Google.com now supports git
After further investigation I found out the "My Favorites" link doesn't show projects that were marked for deletion but not yet deleted.
zerosanity··on Ask HN: What flowchart software do you use?
yEd is free and works great http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
zerosanity··on Code.Google.com now supports git
Google Code's UI needs a lot of work. I just created a test project to try our git functionality. I closed my browser and went to a meeting. After an hour or so I come back, open my browser, and type in code.google.com. I get a nice page but no links to "my projects" or the like. After searching through links on the page I finally had to give up and had to type in the project URL (http://code.google.com/p/myproject) from memory.
zerosanity··on Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks your browsing history
The files I've looked at have been authored by many different people. (Seed, Zak, RigoNet, Camille, Dmitriy, Dima Sidorchenko, etc.) I don't think Dima is solely responsible for this. The company that had this written should be responsible.
zerosanity··on Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks your browsing history
A quick fgrep found the code making the requests to their servers: http://pastie.org/1932287

Edit: Further code browsing points to the "rank" feature. They rank all URLs that are http/https and the host isn't "localhost". I'm guessing, but if you turn of ranking in the preferences, it will stop logging your page views.

zerosanity··on Cool, but obscure Unix tools
How is vim an obscure tool? I'm pretty sure quite a few people use vim daily. After looking over this list, I suspect it's also true for many listed programs.
zerosanity··on Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles
I think puppet in this case is overkill. I simple bash script with a small function to check if it already exists and what not would do just fine and you don't have to install another application (puppet).
zerosanity··on BMI: one person listening to his own music via the cloud is public performance
So if my home stereo is "streaming" music to the speakers in the next room that's considered a public performance too?
zerosanity··on Kill Math
Free on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=EAmgAAAAMAAJ
zerosanity··on IOS 4.3 sources are available
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521488
zerosanity··on IOS 4.3 sources are available
The release of this code should be an item on the product launch checklist.
zerosanity··on Comparing Erlang and Node.js
That would be OTP and not Erlang specifically.
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