Nick_C

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by Nick_C 16y ago
Typically in a tiling window manager you will have a main window open with, say, an editor, and other windows open with man pages or documentation. Sometimes you just want to browse through something that is text, online documentation for e
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Thanks for that. You've just removed 90% of my use cases for opening an actual shell on the remote server. I've been using vim for a decade or more. I guess it's a salutary lesson for experienced users. I should read the Changelog more c
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Personally, I'm all for it because of Moore's Law. Particularly because we seem to be approaching a plateau (he says hesitantly) in hardware growth that may invalidate it for hardware, but we've only just started the exponential spurt in n
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by Nick_C 16y ago
When I lived there up to a couple of years ago, they were surprisingly accurate, even during fairly heavy traffic. I can't recall the exact details, but from memory they use road counters at entries and exits to measure traffic numbers with
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Wow, that's a big call this early in the century. Think back to 1910 and the relative positions of the UK and the US versus their positions by 1990. Personally, I think China will have exerted its real economic influence well and truly by t
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Thank you to you both.
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I'm like the OP in that I've set up the environment and am up to Ch 12 in Practical Common Lisp . Plus it finally motivated me to learn emacs after a couple of decades of vim. The extract from the Land of Lisp makes me think I might en
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I loathe PHP's docs for two reasons: - the colour choice; - the comments. The colour choice for code examples is orange on gray. This is almost impossible to read for colour-blind people. I have to squint to make out each character. I ca
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Owning land. It adds no value; it is the only "thing" that is a fixed, limited quantity. (I'm not making a moral or value comment.) There is a branch of economic theory that says all taxes should be on land ownership.
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Like you, I can't find the exact info, but I'm pretty sure it was an episode of Aircrash Investigations . I saw a repeat with that episode a few months ago. I didn't come away with the impression that they'd actually implemented blast-pro
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Just to note: Mercury is incredibly hard to get to, and it's almost impossible to maintain a stable long-term orbit there, at least in terms of our fuel technology. Forget Lagrange points, even just orbiting it is hard. http://en.wikipedi
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I get what you're saying about energy costs, but I'm not as convinced. We (first-world) got a lot of cheap manufacturing inputs because we ignored (i.e. passed on to next generations) some of the costs of energy, namely pollution and wate
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs got to drive the crawler in one episode. It was a cool episode. You appreciate just how big it is when you see him standing next to the treads.
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> Mandatory voting is disagreeable for the same reason mandatory anything is: it uses force to make people do what they don't want to do, which reeks of tyranny. I very much disagree with this statement, which smacks of hyperbole. A ci
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I'm very surprised by many of the comments here implying that a PhD involves course work and exams. Is there a difference in PhDs between countries? Here in Australia, the last degree involving exams and course work is the Masters. A PhD
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by Nick_C 16y ago
That's true, many were. That was mostly in the Caribbean. There were also (I would say the majority) private ships operating under a government licence, the letter of marque, where they could do anything to the enemy's shipping to "take, b
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by Nick_C 16y ago
For me, this issue affects my language choice. I can pretty much get used to any language, so I don't participate in the language wars very much. I get used to a language's idiosyncrasies and work around them. However, I very much dislike
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I've been using screen for years. All my terminal sessions are within one or two screen sessions. So I'm probably in a similar situation to you: I'm used to it, I have it customised to how I like it, and it "just works". I recently switch
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I can sympathise. 15 years ago while cruising along a country road at 65 mph, I very clearly remember seeing, for a flash of a second, the point of a beak of a small bird as it hit my visor right in front of my left eye. Without a visor (o
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by Nick_C 16y ago
My parents used them around the house for years and my mother still uses one. You need to adjust to them, but they are very comfortable after a few days. My mother swears by it. I've used for a few hours and, yes, I can see why. Your po
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Here in Australia employers have to offer several choices of investment plans for superannuation, and ethical mutual funds have sprung up as a result. You can pretty much invest ethically if you want. You're still stuck with the problem t
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Funnily enough, I was talking about this exact topic with a clinical psychologist recently. In a nutshell, intelligent people think more. They don't just think better, or more efficiently, they think more . The side-effect is that certai
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Just FYI, someone wrote the equivalent of Vimperator for Opera. I don't have it to hand here, so you will have to google for it. I use it all the time and it works great.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I liked this, it is one of the clearest explanations of tail call optimisation I've read. It explains that it removes the need for recursively more stack space, and therefore why it's a Good Thing. As an aside, I also liked his note on wh
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by Nick_C 16y ago
> decentralized imperial republicanism has absolutely outperformed just about every other form of government. Epitomised by the Romans. No one else has mentioned it, so I must:) Life of Brian Reg: But apart from the sanitation, the m
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Absolutely. Here's another, more recent one from the upgraded Hubble: http://www.nickcoleman.org/blog/index.cgi/galaxygrains%21201...
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Python CGI scripting: Use a dictionary for print subsitution(nickcoleman.org)
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by Nick_C 16y ago
You are clinically depressed; lack of concentration and motivation, and morbidity are key indicators, as is the sense of failure. The correct drugs will help the morbidity and motivation; counselling, particularly CBT, will help the sense
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I guessed about 700, so I was way off, but on the other side. My reasoning was: the morning was pretty booked out, but most of afternoon slots (24 of them) had about 20 - 30 free. 24 * 30 = 720.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Yes to all three; about 34 languages in totals. BTW, ctags is a separate command-line tool. Any *nix has it, it is available for Win too.

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