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* Posts by lauwersw

7 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Aug 2013

Plenty of fish in the C, IEEE finds in language popularity contest

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Re: Shell scripts

They are defined as Domain Specific Language, and it looks a lot like programming. C is implemented in Assembler. What's the difference then?

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Shell scripts

I rarely write shell scripts these days (that used to be different), but I'm writing hundreds of lines of Puppet code now. Where are the configuration management languages listed? (Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, Salt, Ansible, ...)

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SpaceX gets ready to crash barge-land ANOTHER rocket

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Re: fuel?

Ok, but the direct cause of the crash was because the fuel in its role as hydraulic fluid ran out, not in its role of fuel...

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fuel?

The first attempt didn't ran out of fuel, but hydraulic fluid: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/12/xwing_fluid_failure_caused_falcon_to_burn_its_landing_barge_says_spacex/

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Secure web? That'll cost you, thanks to Mozilla's HTTPS plan

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Re: The only upside I can see...

Well, for me unencrypted HTTP is 3x faster than encrypted HTTPS...

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Belgian minister set to legalise Uber

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Belgium != Brussels

Note that while Smet is technically a minister in Belgium, he has only authority over Brussels, not the whole country. We have like 4 governments, you know, and he's part of the Brussels government only. The other regions won't necessarily follow his plans.

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Meet the world's one-of-a-kind ENORMO barge-bowling bridge of Falkirk

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Re: Impressive, but nothing on what the continentals do

And we have this one too in Belgium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A9py-Thieu_boat_lift

" It is the tallest boat lift in the world". And maybe the ugliest too. And it's not engineered by the Scottish: http://www.canal-du-centre.be/Presse/En/20000700_avarie.html

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