On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:37:53PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> So, while on the subject of meaningless spaces, why exactly IS it that
> "Make" cares whether you have a space or a tab before a rule?
Because make already had 10 users when this bug was found, so Stu
Feldman thought it would to be
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:32:03PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> I'm off to think about Lotus Notes for a bit now. That should dampen
> the ardour of my nostalgia.
Hey, I did hear that the new version of Notes will be based on the
Eclipse RCP(Rich Client Platform). Two hates for the price of..
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:06:34AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >to fd 2 which is the tty which stops you dead in your tracks.
>
> Dear Berkeley and/or AT&T or whoever owned UNIX the week the decision
> was made to stop background jobs that w
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:31:41PM +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> My admin suggested One Hell of a Workaround: `unsetenv DISPLAY`. That
> surely handles the timeout and is especially useful in scripts running bk.
> Somewhat tiring in interactive sessions though.
If you're not using csh, then you
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:54:21PM +, Earle Martin wrote:
> Dear $application_programmer,
>
> I'm sure you found it very satisfying when you wrote the part of your
> tab-handling code that makes the the tab that the user has just
> clicked on - in one of multiple rows of tabs - jump up to the
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:27:40PM +, Earle Martin wrote:
> On 19/12/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >You hate them until your code needs to work in medieval environments.
>
> Shell scripts: setting castles on fire and shooting people in the
> throat with arrows since 1284.
Yeah, and bloody t
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:43:57AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Peter da Silva [2006-12-18 22:15]:
> > Wouldn't this solve the original problem?
>
> Not only would it solve it, it actually works better: you don't
> need to terminate any process in order to recover the disk space
> occupied by f
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Reach for the root cause: regexps themselves are hateful. Nasy,
cryptic line noise.
Oh sure, reach for the easy target. Hating regexes is easy because they
look weird. Wait until you try string processing in Java where some
lunkhead only knows about "substr" and "inde
Peter da Silva wrote:
I mean, if you're going to break compatibility completely, you might as
well fix the rest of the screwups at the same time.
Starting with "do..done" versus "if..fi" and working up.
do .. od? Yes! Kick the people who _still_ want an octal dump whilst
they're down!
-D
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:00:09PM -0700, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
> Modern toolkit authors seem to be suffering from some kind of cargo cult
> mentality. They noticed that a datastream existed for finding out about
> unusual conditions, and decided that this data channel is actually a
>
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:08:37PM -0500, mji...@uchicago.edu wrote:
> Cool. Thanks, that's really helpful. Somewhere along this chain of
> client<=>middleware<=>server, somebody encountered some difficulty and
> killed my connection. Well thank goodness they threw an error! An
> "errno=104"!
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:08:43PM +0100, John Handelaar wrote:
> Peter da Silva wrote:
> >Which brings me to my hate of Microsoft using CONTROL for application
> >commands AS WELL AS for command line OS level controls.
>
> See also: everyone else with both GUIs and terminals.
>
> Well, except
Chris Nandor wrote:
At 22:52 +0100 2006.05.29, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
JavaScript -- the new respectable face of the web. Until you want to do
anything with it outside of a browser. There's apparently lots of choice:
* Rhino -- except that loading a full JVM to run a few lines of
JavaS
Stephen Deken wrote:
> All I wanted to do was run JSLint at the command line. Surely it can't
> be that hard? Yet SpiderMonkey has no I/O capabilities at all.
Maybe try compiling with -DJS_HAS_FILE_OBJECT and using the File object?
Yep, works great -- if you've got a full mozilla source tre
JavaScript -- the new respectable face of the web. Until you want to do
anything with it outside of a browser. There's apparently lots of choice:
* Rhino -- except that loading a full JVM to run a few lines of
JavaScript code is living using a JCB to swat a fly.
* SpiderMonkey -- Mozilla's J
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