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by Sapient 16y ago
I think it is something people can get used to quite quickly. If you look at the Romans, taking a dump surrounded by your friends in one of the Bath Houses was a good part of the day, so its not like abluting in public is something we are i
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by Sapient 16y ago
Sane people can, and often do choose to do things which could be considered worse than a few months in a Swedish jail. Given a choice between a Swedish jail and a tour in Iraq, I would choose jail. But then I am not American, or Swedish.
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by Sapient 16y ago
There will always be Xubuntu for older computers though.
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by Sapient 16y ago
This is precisely what happened to me, and the reason I ditched git for Hg in my most recent project. I am not doing anything large enough to warrant paying for a GitHub account at the moment, and its not because I am cheap - its because I
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by Sapient 16y ago
The beauty is in the simplicity.
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by Sapient 16y ago
The range of opinions which you access by posting a question like this on HN can have more value than the rationale page on the Clojure website. That is to say, the reason for asking a question like this is not always laziness.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Type about:config in the address bar and accept the consequences. Then find the general:autoscroll property and enable it. Doing this should disable that feature and enable autoscroll as a bonus.
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by Sapient 17y ago
It can't be much worse than exposure to the chemicals in most of our cleaning products.
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by Sapient 17y ago
I know this is from physorg, but after the second paragraph I was reading it in a Billy Mays voice. Still, it sounds interesting, and if it works as they say it does, I imagine it will become quite ubiquitous.
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by Sapient 17y ago
I am glad to see that the replies here have been humerous - Hackernews can be a little too serious sometimes.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Its kind of like astrology - they are almost all right if you want them to be right.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Heh, one step at a time... Those sound like they can produce headaches.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Quite a good explantion - the idea of having immutable data is a really strange one to wrap your head around when you have been doing OO for most of your career. I'm just getting into clisp (I read somewhere that it is inevitable that every
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by Sapient 17y ago
Thanks, but as I understand it, the reason they ejected one of the apps was because they were possibly afraid of getting sued - which seems strange to me.
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by Sapient 17y ago
Perhaps I should rather have said "The word hacker will never be fully reclaimed".
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by Sapient 17y ago
Its time to accept that the meaning of the word hacker has changed.
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by Sapient 17y ago
I am not American, so I need to ask - why would Apple be worried about litigation? I don't see how a widget shop can be sued for selling a product when there is a dispute between two widget manufacturers.
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by Sapient 17y ago
AppBox doesn't even mention which of their "copyrights" has been infringed, and when looking at the side by side comparison screenshot, and reading their complaint - I get the feeling they are acting like kids.
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by Sapient 17y ago
The videos were a lot easier to digest than reading the first few chapters of some lisp book, but I understand that if you aren't excited by learning about new languages, then this would seem dull.
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by Sapient 17y ago
It takes a while to fully grok git, but I recently found a really good presentation which has helped my co-workers get up to speed really quickly. The most important tip for understanding git is probably to actually start using it. edit: Fo
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by Sapient 17y ago
Thats a lot of writing to explain a diagram which explains itself perfectly well. That said, it still looks like a great way to handle branches!
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by Sapient 17y ago
They are both awesome videos which can get anyone excited about lisp. I know this, because an hour ago I had only a passing interest in Lisp.
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Reddit Clone in 20 Minutes and 100 Lines of Lisp(homepage.mac.com)
64 points by Sapient 17y ago|18 comments
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by Sapient 17y ago
I would have to disagree with you when you say there are no bad tools. Try frame a house using a brick, or perhaps a sledgehammer. Software is the same, for example, C is a bad language to use when creating a website, its possible, but not
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by Sapient 17y ago
Great for a minimalist app, but I have found a bug already. I created one todo for today, then created another and immediately clicked the Move to Someday button. The Today todos all vanished except for one I had created earlier. Clicking o
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by Sapient 17y ago
I don't have have much to add here (downvotes accepted), but I love that this post was made by someone called phren0logy.
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by Sapient 17y ago
The minute I read about Avatars plot, I thought of Call me Joe by Poul Anderson. Glad I wasn't the only one. I would highly recommend reading it.
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Revamped Routes in Rails 3(rizwanreza.com)
2 points by Sapient 17y ago|0 comments
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by Sapient 17y ago
Then why is their resistance from the scientists. Right now, only data can speak louder than the talking heads.
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by Sapient 17y ago
While it is good news, I still wonder when we will see an actual "moon-base" Once established, it will definitely signal a new era of space exploration. And perhaps a new era for humanity at the same time. Maybe I read too much sci-fi...

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