AngryParsley

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by AngryParsley 14y ago
32GB of storage satisfies 18 users? That surprises me. I have 5GB in one mailbox and I'm not much of an e-mail hoarder. Also, what do you do for backups? Do you have offsite backups? How do you search your email? How do you filter spam? Wha
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
After reading the post, I was curious how to do the same thing on OS X. I knew there was a menu for special characters built into all text inputs, so I searched help for "characters." The first result was Edit->Special Characters, which
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
First of all, kudos to this guy. He's happy with his set-up. It works for him and it works for a lot of other people. That said, I feel the need to warn others who are considering switching to a cloud-based development environment. There ar
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
We're building supercarriers faster than we're getting new presidents. Either we go back to cool names or we'll read about airstrikes conducted by the USS Chester A. Arthur.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
What? A one-way trip to Mercury takes three times as much energy as a trip to LEO and back. If you need energy to produce goods, building power plants on Earth or Moon make much more sense. Your ideas belong in a soft sci-fi story. The econ
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Thrust may be more efficient, but you need a lot more of it to get out of the gravity well. Delta-v from LEO to Mercury is around 18km/s. That's LEO, not the Earth's surface. If you want to travel from the ground, you'll need another 9-10
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Yes, there are a few edge cases, but hardly anyone uses those features. In fact, 90% of the time, most people seem to use literal string matching.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Since I added pthreads, there's no chance that it builds on Windows anymore. I don't have a Windows machine or VM to test stuff out on. Patches welcome, though!
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Ag supports the same regexes as Ack. I use the PCRE library. I only call pcre_study once, and I use the new PCRE-JIT[1] on systems where it's available. These tweaks add up to a 3-5x speedup over Ack when regex-matching. 1. http://sljit.so
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I wrote a mostly-clone of Ack in C: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher . Output format and most flags are the same. Besides the speed, most users won't notice a difference. I spared no effort in optimizing. Pthreads, mmap(), bo
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act[1] was passed 4 years ago. It makes it illegal for insurance companies and employers to discriminate based on genetic information. In the long-term, it's unlikely that you'll be able hide your g
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
"this should come as no surprise"? To me, the 60% figure seems like an invertible fact.[1] Imagine the article said, "75% of successful entrepreneurs are single." People would post comments similar to yours, but with other rationalizations
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
You forgot to mention that many nonviolent crimes in China carry sentences we would consider extreme. Depending on the quantity, rather harmless drugs such as marijuana, shrooms, and MDMA can get you executed . Civilian ownership of firear
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Given the same volume, a tablet has more space for batteries than a laptop. A laptop has to use space for the hinge, keyboard, trackpad, peripheral ports, and display. Worse, you can't fit batteries behind a laptop display without ruining t
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Only if the trajectory is almost vertical and the bullet is a small caliber. People get killed by celebratory gunfire all the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I realize there are other ways to disable or destroy a drone and that you're curious about the legalities. But if you did literally shoot a drone, you'd probably go to jail. If you miss you'll send a bullet miles away, endangering others. I
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
/me checks http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vlokshin > about: I love web apps and my team is amazing. http://www.darwinapps.com /me checks http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=vlokshin All submissions but one are darwinapps
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
A lot of the problem is caused by cell phones. People talking on phones are usually louder than in-person chatter. And while a conversation is distracting, half of one is worse. Also, cell phone conversations on public transit seem to be mo
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Another cool one: Osaka aquarium. You go straight from the sky above the Osaka airport to staring at huge fish.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I don't want to toot my own horn, but I only check in Makefile.am and configure.ac. Here's a simple example I made a while back: https://github.com/ggreer/fsevents-tools . To build it, just run autogen.sh. For a "real" project, https://gi
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I'm pretty sure those numbers are the total amount of time spent by Lookmark users on the site. 11,000 seconds is 100 users reading TechCrunch for almost 2 minutes each.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Painless death at the hands of other chickens sounds more moral than the current situation: a life of suffering followed by painful death at the hands of a machine. Of course if all chickens are born into a persistent vegetative state (or s
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
On the other hand, we could drastically improve the lives of farm animals if we engineered them more. For example, we could give them CIPA[1]. We could make their brains smaller. A vegetable chicken can't suffer. These modifications may sou
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
He seems like a less-crazy version of the losetheos guy. Here's a bit of advice: When asking for donations, 1. Do not call your mother evil. 2. Have a way to receive money. Take a look at his other postings. Apparently, the main Lua mailing
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Thanks for this. I ran into a lucky coincidence: my GitHub account is exactly 1000 days old. It's surprising that I've been using GitHub for almost 10% of my life. (I'm 10,095 days old, so it'll be exactly 10% the week after next.)
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I can't easily find your real name, so I doubt you're completely apathetic about privacy. (Mine is in my profile.) In normal unrecorded life, you can make a fool of yourself and nobody will care after a couple weeks. Online, things are diff
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Truly a tragedy. When I get my 64GB iPad Mini, I'll be sure to install iViolin Nano and play Ashoken Farewell followed by the theme to Schindler's List. It amuses me that the author was aware of his kvetching, but went ahead with the articl
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Yes, it's blatant ageism. As much as we hate to admit it, our minds and bodies start to decline almost as soon as we reach maturity. Not only does raw intelligence drop as we age, but some personality traits change. Of the Big Five, opennes
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
They're around 70, so depending on how much they want to leave for their offspring, losing money might not be a problem. If they sold their house for $1.2 million (not uncommon in some parts of California), they could continue their current
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I like the idea, but I'm not sure how well it would work in reality. Conspicuously absent are examples of products already reduced in size. Airplane seats immediately come to mind.

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