St-Clock

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by St-Clock 16y ago
Yup, "The service is not available. Please try again later."
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by St-Clock 16y ago
"The main reason is that at this point, BitBucket is simple attempting to feature copy from Github except using Mercurial in the background." I am so tired to read things like that. Issue-tracking at github is far behind bitbucket issue tra
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Sorry, i'm probably weird, but I could see my vim experience described quite accurately in this post. It was funny and disturbing at the same time. I particularly enjoyed: "hjkl movement becomes natural. you mysteriously lose the ability to
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by St-Clock 16y ago
"Which makes me wonder what is in the leaks that we haven't seen yet". Maybe there is nothing in those cables, but politicians must be very afraid of what could be published next... Although the irak cables were potentially far more damagea
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by St-Clock 16y ago
This is not politically correct to say, but given the gap in revenues between white and black, I wonder how the US would do if they had better redistribution of wealth.
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by St-Clock 16y ago
"But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain." Good! That's what science is all about. Making theories that can later be "disproved" or "confirmed". It's when you cannot dis
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by St-Clock 16y ago
I find LaTeX-Suite bloated. Since I already use snipMate and SuperTab which provides minimal but useful TeX support, I only had to install TeX-PDF (with Rubber) to ease the latex/bibtex compile cycles.
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by St-Clock 16y ago
I agree, it was my first time on the website and I genuinely liked the idea of "design for hackers", but when I read things like see "How 6 of my last 9 blog posts made it to the front page of Hacker News", I got irritated. Was this book an
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by St-Clock 16y ago
+1 for duplicity. With the command line tool, you can also: 1- Easily go back in history (if you erased a file and want it again, it's here, in a previous incremental backup). 2- Ask to automatically make a full backup every X months. 3- As
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Just to clarify: i know Arch does some customization, but certainly not as much as Ubuntu. Arch also heavily relies on configuration files while I rarely edited a config file in Ubuntu. Presumably, it takes a longer time to adapt the GUI co
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Yes, and it seems that they don't customize the packages as Ubuntu does (Arch does not for sure and that's one of the reasons I'm using it). So I really wonder how Ubuntu will pull that off (rolling release of customized packages?!)
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Just want to mention that long-running applications written in 1. (e.g., C) can be slower than languages in 2. (e.g., Java) because the VM can optimize hot operations. Other than that, I agree with your post!
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by St-Clock 16y ago
There are many dimensions to consider when choosing a martial art and it may be wise to try a few if you never had experience beside fencing. I practiced Karate (shorin-ryu) for three years when I was young and I was never really happy. I'v
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by St-Clock 16y ago
"some random people send you email and have such "eclipse plug-in" problem" -> They are not random people, they are Ph.D. students working on their thesis and you can be assured that they will find a way to publish their comparison one
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Oh, you must do "customer support"! Otherwise, they will use your code and report 1) that your code does not work or that 2) their code is better because they did not use your code well. And for code that is not easy to install (e.g., requi
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Every time I see a reference to that website, it makes me cry. As someone said: "The biggest non-technical difference between git and mercurial is the rabid culture surrounding git. mercurial users fairly happily and quietly use their tool,
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Wrong, Ph.D. candidates get a lot of pressure to be associated with an idea, or a set of related projects, and they can get a lot of flak if they deviate a little because when you apply for an academic or industrial job, "you want to be kno
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by St-Clock 16y ago
I 100% Agree. There is a difference between "it all started with a revenge stunt" (the lawyer say something like this at the end of the movie) and "I worked all these years motivated by a revenge stunt".
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Font rendering is horrible (at least on linux), you have to try various l&f before finding one that is "acceptable", etc. It's a great IDE, general usability is certainly better than Eclipse (it was meant to be an IDE as opposed to Ecli
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by St-Clock 16y ago
I think he was being ironic (look at how it was quoted: @bar.com and not @ http://bar.com )
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by St-Clock 16y ago
On the whole, I agree with you, but replication is often expensive and in some fields (e.g., software engineering research), it's not enough to warrant a publication in a high profile journal or conference (especially if you confirm the ori
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by St-Clock 16y ago
I disagree. Give me a hard problem and a short deadline, leave me in front of my computer with my environment set up (so I can do some quick trial-error), don't look over my shoulder to evaluate me (but you can help me if we're doing pp), a