TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
Is it just me or is the top voted answer not an answer? Q: "Why should cows be colored in blue?" A: Because document ZOIU-123497 says cows should be colored in blue.
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
As a very long time Linux user distributions which I find intriguing are the ones using the "Nix" package manager. Nix describes itself as a "purely functional" package manager. As I understand it you don't need to
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
IIRC at first they had an entire Microsoft stack (I may be mistaken on that). But nowadays, from what I've read here on HN by SE devs in other threads, they're using lots and lots and lots of Linux: HAProxy, Redis, Nagios, etc. I
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
About nine person out of ten I know aren't aware of the fact that the rear view mirror in most cars can be manually set to "night mode". The rear view mirror has two positions: one for day-time and one for night-time (which
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
I don't understand how people are willing to pay 40K EUR for a fake Ferrari when you can have a real F430 for 70K EUR or a very nice 308 GTS for 40K (and 355 and 360 between these prices). Sure, maintenance may be a bit lower but I can
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
"We don't allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here, says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar." (read on /. years ago IIRC)
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
Does it work too if the account opened on the Mac is a non-admin account? I'm a Linux person but my gf has a Mac. It became so slow an unusable after the years that I re-installed everything and created her a non-admin account to surf
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
Many Emacs contributors are already using Git and simply publishing everything in Github. Most of the things in my .emacs comes from Github. Simply they're not part of the core Emacs. I think the issue is not only bzr vs Git. It's
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
I find it interesting that both the blog entry and the picture of the physical book he's using are not justified but simply jagged right. I've written books in both LaTeX and QuarkXPress and they were always using justification. A
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
I know but that is kinda my point... There are countless things way less important that are raised and people's time is wasted on less important issues, like people fighting as to who in the "close police" is going to close f
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
I think the biggest problem is not "creeping authoritarianism" or the low quality of quite some questions / answers. The biggest problem in my opinion are voting rings getting more sophisticated and getting undetected for lon
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
"An intermediate step would be robotic tools that could be controlled by a surgeon as effectively as their own hands." But that is basically already were we are today right? And it's way more efficient than "as their own
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
"once you have physical access to the internal electronics then the game is over" Common... Someone used an X-acto knife to plug in an USB stick on a PC configured to auto-play it and we should take it as a proof that "physic
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
"...so unless an application requires the performance benefits provided, it is probably still a better bet to use standard locking mechanisms." Or simply use battle-hardened APIs which are known to be fast and correct and which, t
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
"For example, I haven't needed to iron a shirt in years because nice shirts come out of the dryer looking perfect. So no need for an iron or ironing board." I'm more in the "minimalism but within a big property&quot
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
caps lock + hjkl requires your left pinky every time you want to move the cursor. This may very well induce RSI because "using the arrow keys" is something that we tend to do all the time. I'm using the key physically at the
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
Interesting... In a correctly working market wouldn't the end result be that competitors prefer to lower their fees too and then offer other guarantees (security, etc.) in order to keep clients and to bring in new clients? Or is the bi
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
Hey obra, good to see a GHer on the front page of HN... It's a nice board you made there and I prefer your thumbs key placement than the one on the ErgoDox, which I find to be too a bit too close one to another.
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
The HHKB (on which I type this) is kinda minimalist but it's still a "60%" keyboard (no numpad, no functions keys and no arrow keys for the HHKB but some 60% have dedicated arrow keys). There are people who have custom 40% ke
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
One could argue that for any "on screen" navigation (that is: moving to any visible character), there's nothing faster than vim's EasyMotion stuff, which has been adapted in Emacs as "ace-jump-mode". The latest
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
Somehow I do find that "Elevated" in 4 KB beats all these 50 bytes spreadsheet in JavaScript that have made it lately on HN! (4 KB, including the music)
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by TacticalCoder 13y ago
I remember I started to use Linux in the early to mid- nineties. Back then home networking equipment was a bit too expensive for me (basically I was student-broke), so I did set up a local network between my "big" Linux desktop co