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by aaronem 12y ago
> I don't think Knuth would be happy with "Standard TeX". Perhaps that's because Dr. Knuth actually standardized TeX, unlike what Gruber did with Markdown.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, now. Are Atwood et al. calling it "Standard Markdown" because they don't have enough of their own popularity, and feel the need to appropriate someone else's decade-old coolness in order to be recognized as signifi
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by aaronem 12y ago
That's nice. When I first encountered Markdown, almost a decade ago, I loved it. To say that I now hate it would be going a little bit far, but only a little; I'm awfully close to that. This change in opinion has occurred almost e
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by aaronem 12y ago
What's wrong with Postfix? Sure, configuring it takes a little work, but it's not hard , especially not by comparison with Sendmail, which was the standard everywhere when I began my career.
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by aaronem 12y ago
There's no need to restart Emacs for a trivial config change; you just M-x eval-buffer RET and go on about your business, and I've opened a pull request with a patch which updates the document to reflect that fact. (You do still w
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by aaronem 12y ago
Switching is hard, especially if you're coming from Vim and don't have any pre-existing familiarity with Lisp. I know nothing about Haskell and barely more than that about Vim, but I do know quite a fair bit about Emacs and Lisp,
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by aaronem 12y ago
Shouldn't this be titled something more like "five things every competent Javascript developer must know"?
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by aaronem 12y ago
Thanks for reminding me why I quit looking at HN comments!
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by aaronem 12y ago
Good synopsis.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Apparently the worst API ever made is this guy: http://i.imgur.com/EtWh3QZ.jpg Might want to see to the stylesheet.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Does the public library sell coffee? (There's an Enoch Pratt branch directly across from my favored coffee place in Roland Park, which would be just dandy if it didn't have the weirdest opening hours known to man. Closed on Thursd
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by aaronem 12y ago
It doesn't have to be about professional day-job work alone; for example, I often bike to a coffee shop on weekends to work on my side projects, because it gets me out of my apartment and away from all the distractions therein.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Quite nearly a billion daily active users, for a start.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> Even today, I'm not sure if a function that returns a list (not list ref) can be directly dereferenced into via [] notation. Unless it's changed very recently, you cannot; you have to wrap it in an arrayref, e.g. [retur
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by aaronem 12y ago
I wouldn't chance it; the first time I implemented IPNs, I had to spend almost a week on R&D aimed purely at discovering and working around all the undocumented fuckups. Webhooks are not hard. That Paypal fails at them this badly m
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by aaronem 12y ago
If your payment processor builds a product offering around a webhook which tells you when someone has paid for something, and that webhook fails hard at their end for over a week while no one there even notices, then your payment processor
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by aaronem 12y ago
So they're put off. So what? The strong impression I have is that they aren't the people whom the author is addressing, in any case.
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by aaronem 12y ago
He might want to see to his stylesheet: http://i.imgur.com/KmKlAce.jpg
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by aaronem 12y ago
why not
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by aaronem 12y ago
For those who apparently never bothered learning any system but SI, here's some help: 2.2 pounds to the kilogram; 0.454 kilograms to the pound. 3.28 feet to the meter; 0.304 meters to the foot. You are reading this on a machine powerfu
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by aaronem 12y ago
Hey, is there anyone here who feels the need to self-flagellate in public over imagined sins, but not to read the article before trying to contribute to the discussion? Anyone here like that?
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by aaronem 12y ago
People, especially with the socialist thinking so popular on HN, don't like to admit that maybe human beings aren't fungible. Vacuous rhetoric is a waste of everyone's time.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I'm not sure what studying failure can tell you about what's necessary to succeed. "Don't do this", maybe.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Sure. And there's no reason why things went so differently for James Garner than they did for Bob Jones. Just luck.
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by aaronem 12y ago
It is the peculiar human genius that we adapt our environment to ourselves, as well as the converse; we're not the only species on Earth which does so, but we're the only one for which adapting our environment is the keystone of a
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by aaronem 12y ago
> If you are using Dropbox as a sole backup of your files, think again. Good advice. > Without making a mistake, you might lose your files. If Dropbox, or any other single service or method, constitutes your entire backup strategy, th
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, what of it? They're worried Instagram is going to eat their mark bones and all; whether they're planning to litigate or otherwise, their best defense is to make as much noise about it as they can.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Or possibly, as is actually mentioned in the article under discussion, to lay groundwork for a later legal defense of their mark.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I started laughing at the bit about all Apple products being banned in his household to make a statement about freedom, and I just didn't stop.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, it was certainly quite short; I'll give it that, at least.

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