Slackwise

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1. 181.▲
   by Slackwise 10y ago

   That keyboard looks insanely unusable. Can we please just go back to the PowerBook G4 keyboards?
2. 182.▲
   by Slackwise 10y ago

   Oh, did I misunderstand what he meant by "this era"? I would assume the proper way to phrase it would be "that era" if he meant the 60's, although he did use "ran" which is the past tense. He also mentione
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   by Slackwise 10y ago

   Not a satellite, but Deep Space 1 ran on "Remote Agent", which was entirely written in Lisp and even had a remote REPL, which was used to debug and fix a race condition bug while millions of miles away. That and more about Lisp at
4. 184.▲
   by Slackwise 10y ago

   Counterfeit walnuts... ...or... When labor is cheaper than something that grows on trees.
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   by Slackwise 10y ago

   > He was the only employee allowed to work from home, because he was deathly allergic to computers (no joke), and had a special setup at his house where the computer was isolated in one room, monitor pressed up against a window, and only
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   by Slackwise 10y ago

   > They nailed it for me, especially with design aesthetics. #1 reason I stopped using Readability was their "designs". The web app had constant bugs, especially right after their big redesign and the Android mobile version was
7. 187.▲
   by Slackwise 10y ago

   Yea, I know what you mean. When I first played I got into it and burned out fast. Now I just play pre-made Duel Decks with my buddies, or we go out and do a draft at a store. Just $10 and half the time I break even from selling the cards I
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   by Slackwise 10y ago

   Ahh, well, then it appears I have to manage a directory of packages myself, as well as any dependencies outside of the Guix store, right? Would be nice to just have a secondary source, as I do with MELPA for Emacs, or overlays for Gentoo. I
9. 189.▲
   by Slackwise 10y ago

   Well, you can specify extra packages using $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, and I've seen a few custom repos, such as this: https://github.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics and https://github.com/Ecogenomics&
10. 190.▲
    by Slackwise 10y ago

    Just a heads-up, but if you ever take interest in card games again, I'd recommend giving Magic: The Gathering a try. Why? • There are no cards with the words "random" on them • Of the cards you draw, you can mulligan several
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    by Slackwise 10y ago

    I didn't actually look at the implementation of these functions and tables, but yea, I am fairly familiar with Lua and metatables from my days of working on WoW addons. As for JavaScript, my opinion is that Lua is everything JavaScript
12. 192.▲
    by Slackwise 10y ago

    The section in question, "A quick aside on colon syntax", is referring to the code from the section above it, "Introduction to window movement": local win = hs.window.focusedWindow() local f = win:frame() wi
13. 193.▲
    by Slackwise 10y ago

    You're not the first. I shared this with many people and many seem to miss the button. It's arguably bad UI, as I'd imagine most people would expect functional buttons to be at the top of a full-page UI, and not shoved down t
14. 194.▲
    by Slackwise 10y ago

    Same username on Twitter, or for my email run this hopefully-spam-preventative-de-obfuscation code in your browser's JS console: [115,108,64,99,107,119,105,46,115,101].map(c=>String.fromCodePoint(c)).join('')
15. 195.▲
    by Slackwise 10y ago

    Does the button in the bottom-right of the page work?
16. 196.▲
    by Slackwise 10y ago

    If you want to keep track of similar geeky events, I maintain and curate a "Geeky Events" Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=9t07jqib63if4... Let me know if there's anything
17. 197.▲
    by Slackwise 11y ago

    "Let's move forward, by moving backwards!" The web is already a document system. It doesn't need to be skeuomorphically constrained into a 'book' with cute page turning animations, and no ability to use a scrol
18. 198.▲
    by Slackwise 11y ago

    YAML seems more preferable, since it would be far more readable when STDOUT is the shell. Oh, and JSON is a functional subset of YAML, so you'd still be able to output as JSON and a YAML parser will read it.
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    by Slackwise 11y ago

    Yea, except, Apple most definitely favors aesthetics over functionality. Take the iPod shuffle: - Gen 1 was minimal, usable, and a portable USB drive, - Gen 2 was minimal and usable, but lost its portable USB drive functionality (required a
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    by Slackwise 11y ago

    This was the page that made me finally grasp why Lisp and s-expressions are relevant. After reading this about a year ago, I ended up picking up a Clojure book and now I'm enamored with s-expressions. I feel late to the party. The last
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    by Slackwise 11y ago

    Been recently studying Lisp/Scheme, and I couldn't help but relate these "Quantum Pairs" with cons cells and the relationship described as a tree data structure. (Not equating them here, just a musing of mine.)
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    by Slackwise 12y ago

    Speaking of misfeatures: I was scrolling down this page, wanted to go back up to re-read something, and the entire page just changed. I wondered why for a second, then made a half-inch swipe to the left and discovered there's a "f
23. 203.▲
    by Slackwise 12y ago

    If you disable the annotation tool popup after taking a screenshot in the settings, then yea, it creates a "Screen clip" note with the image immediately after you finish dragging the screenshot range. (Of course, you can annotate
24. 204.▲
    by Slackwise 12y ago

    I've found need for a note taking mobile app recently, but after trying to use Keep and seeing that it has zero organizational tools such as tags or folders, I just started to use Evernote instead. Frankly, it is nearly impossible to
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    by Slackwise 12y ago

    Google Wave was an XMPP-based protocol¹. It allowed communication and collaboration with revisioning. It could have been embedded into applications such as office suites, giving you collaboration and communication right inside the app. Wav
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    by Slackwise 12y ago

    This just reminds me of how much I'd like to see Clojure on LLVM also.
27. 207.▲
    by Slackwise 12y ago

    The fact that this is not Lispy is more surprising than the concept itself.
28. 208.▲
    by Slackwise 12y ago

    They have evil-mode for that: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
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    by Slackwise 12y ago

    Well, with Neovim, we'll have a legit fully-featured plugin for any and all IDEs that do plugins. I sincerely can't wait to have Neovim in IntelliJ/RubyMine/CursiveClojure.
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    by Slackwise 12y ago

    > even Gentoo, which has been a rather vocal systemd holdout, offers systemd and doesn't seem to have this kind of political infighting about it. One of Gentoo's fundamental goals is to provide the users with as much choice as