Ben65

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by Ben65 16y ago
I have to wonder if the Linux desktop would benefit from giving up the ghost that is X Windows. I don't think you'll ever have that elegance that you see on OS X and Windows 7 sitting on top of X Windows. I tried Ubuntu last year, well I'm
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by Ben65 16y ago
Run add for Carbonite, Time Machine, any backup service here. Something that's that important, you don't take a backup of some kind every now and then?
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by Ben65 16y ago
I know this probably isn't for most people, but I've gone to emacs' org mode for creating documents and spreadsheets. The cost is nothing, it's highly functional, and can be exported to TEX or html if you want to make it pretty.
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by Ben65 16y ago
I think since Clojure is a lisp there will always be a lot of people using Emacs to develop it. Emacs itself is an outstanding lisp environment, too bad the editor is so quirky. :) Yes it takes some time learning, but it is worth it, if y
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by Ben65 16y ago
If you'd like to get a close look at one, there's one in the SAC museum, just outside of Omaha, NE. http://www.sasmuseum.com/2008/11/21/sr-71a-blackbird/
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by Ben65 17y ago
It's hard to live without: (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
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by Ben65 17y ago
I don't want to sound like a Mac fan boy here, but if (when) things like this happen the Genius Bar will help you right out. I know there have been cases where they don't help, but they're good for 90% of the problems that come in.
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by Ben65 17y ago
This is a great way to keep working even when your body forces you to sleep.
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COBOL turns 50(computerworld.com.au)
13 points by Ben65 17y ago|5 comments
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by Ben65 17y ago
It would be interesting to know how well the black students did in fields of study that are typically (on average) normally higher for blacks. Such as music, dancing, and sports. There is a difference in races, why do we assume the differ
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by Ben65 17y ago
That was incredible, great, amazing .... :) I don't know though I think Steve just loves his products and has a lot of enthusiasm for them. I've seen him before on like CNBC where they want to talk about boring stock stuff, and he was mor
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by Ben65 17y ago
Groan, but I gave you a bump up anyway.
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by Ben65 17y ago
The thing is, what if you want to run something Hostgator doesn't offer. I didn't see Arc, or PLT Scheme, or even Java. From your own home server you can run whatever you want.
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by Ben65 17y ago
True, but the contest idea builds a community and hopefully increases the number of subscribers. It certainly builds loyalty with existing subscribers. I think it's a good idea.
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by Ben65 17y ago
I can't believe all the down marks on this. It was kind of funny.
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by Ben65 17y ago
Oddly enough this doesn't seem to be hurting the stock price. Usually news like this will tank a stock. I suppose it's because the current price isn't over extended.
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by Ben65 17y ago
It's true there's nothing funnier that the sound of a geek's finger breaking, but the down side is that 25 years later they won't be at the class reunion, and that hurts.
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by Ben65 17y ago
Cool, nothing better than a discussion about which editor to use. Of course you could learn vi in five years.
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by Ben65 18y ago
It looks a lot better than the original Kindle. I tried one and disliked it so much I returned it. The sad thing is I really wanted to like it. I prefer reading on the computer anymore. I didn't like how there wasn't a good way to hold
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by Ben65 18y ago
Yawn! I hate it when people link anything from infoworld.
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Fed cuts key interest rate half-point to 1 percent(biz.yahoo.com)
1 points by Ben65 18y ago|0 comments
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by Ben65 18y ago
I was about to add nearly the same comment.
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Benevolent Startups(scholarspot.com)
2 points by Ben65 18y ago|0 comments
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by Ben65 18y ago
More of the same thing http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker...
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Nerd library to end all nerd libraries(boingboing.net)
39 points by Ben65 18y ago|8 comments
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by Ben65 18y ago
Being a hardcore geek, I love running on top of a "unix" like environment. I should flock to Linux, but Mac OS X is just prettier, and more stable. I don't know better fonts maybe? For that reason, and I know it seems small, I prefer Mac
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by Ben65 18y ago
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by Ben65 18y ago
People love emacs because you can customize it to your liking. That's why it's touted as such a divine tool, and that's why it's worth it to keep trying to learn it.
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by Ben65 18y ago
I found this to be really touching. Dean's work is just amazing. I wish I could give this 100 or even 1000 karma points. It's not just the technology and the ingenuity, but the fact that he's helping people who are beyond help. I'm trul
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What's your favorite music to program to?
1 points by Ben65 18y ago|1 comments

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