TomDavey

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by TomDavey 11y ago
> It was pretty obvious that phone/data would be > added to PDAs soon. Indeed. I had a Handspring Visor with the cellular add-on in 2000. And then there were the Palm Treos, awesome PDAs plus phones with a thriving app ecosystem
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by TomDavey 11y ago
If one reads the U.S. Declaration of Independence, published in 1776 (the same year as Volume 1 of D&F), it's written in the same Latinate periodic style. That's just how they wrote in the 18th century. Dinging Gibbon for fail
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by TomDavey 11y ago
I've read Volume 1 of "Decline and Fall" twice: once when assigned it in college, and afterward on my own from love. I'm eager to make the time to read the other two volumes, as lucky Jason Epstein did. It is hard to ove
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by TomDavey 11y ago
Edit: I also have new openings for two full-time Product Managers, devoted to the websites and to mobile apps. These PMs report into my group and work closely with the Engineering team naturally. However, unlike the three openings above, th
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by TomDavey 11y ago
Council on Foreign Relations | New York City USA | REMOTE FULL-TIME 1. DevOps Engineer 2. Front-end Drupal Developer 3. QA Analyst These three positions have been released for recruiting today, the first day of CFR's new fis
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by TomDavey 11y ago
> Have you tried Amazon Fresh? I have not. To my embarrassment I didn't even know about it. But I checked it out and am going to give it a whirl. Thanks for the suggestion. Gotta love the low switching costs of the 'net. It&#x2
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by TomDavey 11y ago
I'm in NYC, and I love Fresh Direct. I use Fresh Direct for the food, and Amazon for everything else. I feel guilty for not patronizing my local retail establishments, but the cumulative advantages of 1) huge inventory, b) rapid delive
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by TomDavey 12y ago
+1 for Tree Style Tab. I like to keep dozens of tabs open, and to drag and drop 'em into hierarchical groups. I also like to additionally organize the tab trees into multiple windows; the windows can be distinctively named with the Fir
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by TomDavey 12y ago
What browser is that? I'm using Firefox 33.1.1 on Windows 7 and it's working fine, although I've just begun to explore the app. I'm not trying to deliberately break it. So far this is rather impressive. A Scheme REPL in
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by TomDavey 12y ago
Chacon sketches the differences in the Preface. As I understand the Preface (I haven't read the new book nor compared the respective TOCs), the second edition aims to give deeper treatments of these three topics: 1. HTTP as the simples
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by TomDavey 12y ago
I think that this sentence, from Play 8 "Choose a modern technology stack," could have far reaching significance: "In particular, digital services teams should consider using open source, cloud based, and commodity solutions
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by TomDavey 12y ago
Agreed on separate windows for distinct topics. For that, I find the FireTitle extension invaluable: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firetitle/ You can flexibly add text to the title bar o
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by TomDavey 12y ago
> If New York becomes a wasteland of empty apartments > held by overseas billionaires No chance of this happening. NYC has over 3 million housing units. There are many fewer overseas billionaires, fortunately. I own and occupy a 2-bd
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by TomDavey 12y ago
The Kindle e-readers are excellent products in their own right. With the Paperwhite they've perfected the category IMO. The software -- e.g., the Xray feature, and the overall gesture UI -- and the hardware are equally good.
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by TomDavey 13y ago
+1 for Orgmode. Its wealth of features is astonishing. And it just gets better and better; the community supporting it and driving ongoing development is fanatically committed. Bonus: it comes with a pretty good text editor. :)
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by TomDavey 13y ago
Completely agree. It makes it a cinch to nicely organize one hundred active tabs or more within a single modest sidebar. Last time I checked there's nothing for Chrome that's as good. Tree Style Tab is one of the things that could
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by TomDavey 13y ago
> There is no good reason for copyright to ever expire. The case for limited copyright was laid down as early as the U.S. Constitution, and the Congressional Copyright Act of 1790. Lawrence Lessig has devoted much of his life's work
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by TomDavey 13y ago
The Crying of Lot 49 contains IMO one of the most hilarious sustained passages in all of modern American Lit. It's a parody of a typical Jacobean revenge like Webster's "Duchess of Malfi." The parody is pitch-perfect. It
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by TomDavey 13y ago
Invoking the help system by typing C-h b (the command "describe-bindings") will open a new buffer showing all the keybindings in effect in the current buffer. Picking an unused binding to your liking is a matter of scanning the li
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by TomDavey 13y ago
I've never heard of these. Thanks much.
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by TomDavey 13y ago
I was interested to see that Wiegley's config file is notated in org-mode, using the Literate Programming extensions that come built into Org. That's why the file looks more like documentation than code. For Emacs to actually eval
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by TomDavey 13y ago
I'm not a professional programmer, but I spend all day in Emacs primarily because of org-mode. Two years ago I read about org-mode here on HN and was inspired to give Emacs a shot. Today Emacs is my main technical hobby. Extending Emac