Wilfred

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by Wilfred 16y ago
Python's docs are reasonable, but could be better. I don't like the left-hand contents, I find it breaks the flow. Wikipedia's inline contents seem far more intuitive. I'd like to be able to jump to specific functions. (Moving to bpython so
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by Wilfred 16y ago
I've built a little morphology parser in my spare time, and I'd love your thoughts. http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/3103/morphology-parsing...
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by Wilfred 16y ago
I'm fixing the sorry state of Esperanto online dictionaries. My system allows the user to use any of the major writing systems, tolerates spelling errors and even does some stemming and morphology analysis. It's been interesting because thi
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by Wilfred 16y ago
Fish is also an excellent alternative to the Perl one-liners proposed. Typing in part of a previously entered command then pressing up performs a substring search on the history. It's easy and adapted to your current usage habits.
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by Wilfred 16y ago
That would seem to be consistent with the statistics of users with less followers: http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/tweetburner-clickth... However I would consider clickthrough rates to be a poorly suited metric for Twitter. If yo
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by Wilfred 16y ago
I would argue this already being taken advantage of (though 'exploited' seems a bit strong). There are pages such as this one: http://www.facebook.com/pages/96-percent-of-people-cant-figu... that require the user to 'like' it before they
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by Wilfred 16y ago
The author's intent is to write enough of the surrounding context that you recover it first time. Still, it raises two questions: What about fragmentation? Why don't have a GNU safe-rm yet that moves files to the (freedesktop.org specified)
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by Wilfred 16y ago
I have used NFS for two years now without any complaints. If you're doing something small-scale, it's an excellent service at great pay-as-you pay scheme.
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by Wilfred 16y ago
I assumed it was a tenacity thing -- note the dog has something in its teeth and is presumably very reluctant to let go.
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by Wilfred 16y ago
Twitter, be being public by default means it doesn't have that intimacy that Facebook does. I'll follow someone if they're interesting, not because they're a friend. But to answer your question, I find it fantastic for foreign language lear
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by Wilfred 17y ago
Still, at $20/month I use a small $100 plug computer (such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug ) as a home server instead. Your use case may be different to mine but that is more than I'm willing to pay within a student budget.
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by Wilfred 17y ago
Ctrl or alt foot pedals are the way to go here -- using caps-lock is a workaround but in proper typing I wish to use the modifier key on the other hand to the letter.
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by Wilfred 17y ago
The LinuxMCE is no thing of beauty yet, though. Here's hoping this changes soon.