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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Xkb gives me eight different layers just on the shift keys (not the control keys etc.). Just takes a ton of time to learn because Xkb is borderline arcane (:)) and because you have to do everything manually if you want something beyond “sw
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
I haven’t tried both. Nor am I a keyboard hardware enthusiast. I have just spent some time modifying my keyboard through software (Linux X Server). I don’t get the apparent fascination that (mech) keyboard enthusiasts have with small keyb
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
US, that country that has blessed the rest of the world with cybersecurity.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Many HN readers seem to be perpetually surrounded by non-talented engineers and all other sorts of mediocre people. https://xkcd.com/610/
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Child’s play. True capitalists (1) hire wage labor to do the actual work, and (2) enlist the aid of the state to do all R&D and later use any technology that comes out of the research (socialize the costs (risks), privatize the profits
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
You have to be damn naive to think that economics is not political.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> Gigerenzer is undoubtedly correct that Bayesian reasoning is something that can be learned by many people, and yet all that Kahnemann needs for the implications of his statement that "the human mind is not Bayesian at all" to
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> Moreover, I’ve always found it strange how people like to put things neatly into boxes or associate with a single label. … > Before jumping in, I should clarify that these views are my own and don’t necessarily represent the views o
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
CDL sounds great. Writers won’t stop writing in any case. And if they did, well, there are already too many books to read in a lifetime. It’s only natural that authors/writers use their skills and connection to publish moralizing def
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
I would fail that interrogation. :-)
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Both terminals, shells and Emacs suffer from the problem that you have to configure them out of their ancient defaults.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
One of the dead ends of Unix UX are all the terse DSLs. I feel that terse languages like Vi’s command language [1] get confused with interactivity. It sure can be terse, but having dozens of tiny languages with little coherence is not int
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
The author is an MS student in statistics. Seems that Unix is well-represented in STEM university fields. Old-timey Unix (as opposed to things like Plan 9) won. When does widespread ’70s/’80s computing stop being impressive? You say
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Essentially selecting and operating on text in the same buffer. Saw it in Russ Cox’s demonstration of Acme.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
I generalized interactivity to the Unix that most people seem familiar with. “The interactive nature of the shell” isn’t that impressive in this day and age. Certainly not shells like Bash (Fish is probably better, but then again that’s ve
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
The Wright brothers lived at the same time that Kafka and Weber were writing about bureaucracies. It was the time of positivism; the belief that social sciences could usher in scientific societies led by technocrats. Bourgeois professiona
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
One interactive feature I like about Bash though (or shell or whatever) is C-x C-e to edit the current line in a text editor (FC). Great when I know how to transform some text in the editor easily but not on the command line.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> In the talk, he gives several demonstrations a key aspect of why unix pipelines are so practically useful: you build them interactively. The standard Unix interface might have been interactive in the ’70s, back when hardware and periph
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Seems like a book specifically about text processing for the purpose of writing/formatting/typesetting documents.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
I haven’t coded Perl beyond one-liners. What attracts me to it are its regular expressions. So much of Unix scripting seems to involve regexps. So I figure Perl+utilities is the better option compared to utilities+Bash. I wouldn’t wanna
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
I meant more the post-communism part.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/handbook.html
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
He’s an MS student. He’s just documenting and sharing his journey. As blogs do. https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
I’m not terribly experienced with Unix tools but I reckon that it might be best to just use Perl instead. Then you just have to worry about PCRE instead of PCRE in addition to old-style regexps. Then again, Perl is even scarier.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> I am starting to realize that the Unix command-line toolbox can fix absolutely any problem related to text wrangling. How many problems related to text wrangling arise simply by working with Unix tools? “This philosophical framework wi
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Is this supposed to make sense?
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Remember back in <good old days> when people were authentic and real and not opportunistic fakers? Load up the resentful pioneer module, Billy.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Can they be wholly blamed? Managers and other people who have more power than young developers want developers to be replaceable cogs.

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