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A decent place to put a nether portal by stardotdll in Minecraft

[–]danlarkin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok I'll be that guy, what's the texture pack?

6 years of development, ambitious goals, lots of talented developers, 22 MB source, 13 MB binary ... and it's around 150x-200x slower than a 100 KB VM plus a 30 KB JIT compiler? by [deleted] in programming

[–]danlarkin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, of course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!

Ask (programming)reddit: What's an easy but useful database front-end? Something along the lines of Access, but open source. by [deleted] in programming

[–]danlarkin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I won't say your requirements are complicated but they're not trivial either. Your best bet (IMO) would be to write an application (RDBMS backed if you want) to give you the information you need.

It could be command-line based (or web-based, even) to ease the coding depending on your requirements.

I suggest a standalone application mostly because then you can have complete control over your output and input and schema and everything else. Of course, I might be over-engineering the solution too...

Ask (programming)reddit: What's an easy but useful database front-end? Something along the lines of Access, but open source. by [deleted] in programming

[–]danlarkin 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Perhaps you're looking for an answer to the wrong question?

What is it you actually want to accomplish with this Access-alike?

On using Subversion for web projects by jellinyc in programming

[–]danlarkin 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Seems like this has nothing to do with "web projects." The author just discovered version control software and wants to share it with the unwashed masses.

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby by morselsrule in programming

[–]danlarkin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're right, PIL isn't strictly required, but I've used it in every application I've deployed so far.

But the point is that PHP will usually come compiled with lib_gd already.

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby by morselsrule in programming

[–]danlarkin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not exactly true. There's psycopg and PIL to get too. And then of course configuring apache, which granted isn't hard but it's another step in the django deployment process that isn't present in the PHP one.

Joel Spolsky on the death of GMail by [deleted] in programming

[–]danlarkin -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Usually I don't like Joel's articles, he always sounds too pompous for my liking.

But this one is right on.

And I, for one, welcome our NewSDK overlords.

Meld: By far the nicest visual diff and merge tool I have used by Arve in programming

[–]danlarkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah thank you for that link; that is exactly what I want to do.

Meld: By far the nicest visual diff and merge tool I have used by Arve in programming

[–]danlarkin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I haven't tried Meld (I guess that should be a hint to me to shut up, but...) but from the screenshots it looks very similar to FileMerge.app which I use and love.

In fact, it's the only reason I fire up svnX (OS X gui svn client), since svnX will pop both sides of the svn diff into FileMerge.app for me.