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by aaronem 12y ago
Oh, I don't know. To say that the article ever seemed to be going anywhere is to give it more credit than is warranted. At best, I could make an argument for royalism out of it, but in fairness I can do that with almost anything.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I like how you read an article whose point is that there's no sense in making up conspiracy theories, and infer from it support for a conspiracy theory.
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by aaronem 12y ago
You've misunderstood me; my Emacs is a custom-built 24.3.1 with the railwaycat patch for OS X, so it behaves exactly as I intend it to. (All of my Emacsen are hand-built; I learned back in my Perl-hacking days not to trust packagers be
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by aaronem 12y ago
I use KeyRemap4Macbook for a variety of purposes, mostly related to making a PC-style USB keyboard play nicely with OS X. It doesn't go as far as I'd like, though.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, sure, if by "finish" you mean "unite emacs partisans and vi aficionados in mutual and vaguely contemptuous pity".
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by aaronem 12y ago
Different perspectives; Emacs has a built-in shell, which is closely integrated with most of the editor's functionality -- for example, Tramp, which transparently supports almost every remote access protocol in existence; if I want to
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by aaronem 12y ago
Lusty actually originated on the Vim side, and was ported to Emacs by someone who liked the functionality. Emacs comes stock with good tags support; once you've built a tagfile, M-. on a tag will take you to its definition. (I don&#x27
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by aaronem 12y ago
Lusty Explorer may well satisfy your first two requirements. I don't believe it searches tag files at present, but the capability shouldn't be too hard to add; for files and buffers, I've used it for some years, and find it q
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by aaronem 12y ago
Emacs does a great job at that, too. (In fact, it contains a complete Javascript parser, which is invaluable to me since that's the language around which my professional life revolves.) It also does a great job managing child process
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by aaronem 12y ago
> I think there are some mac-centric UX patterns that I have a hard time giving up. I can certainly understand that; I'm a relative newcomer to the platform, and while Emacs (of course) continues to behave regarding meta keys in the
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by aaronem 12y ago
Make that $150; they've knocked fifty bucks off the price since I got mine a month ago. I wonder if they're about to rev the hardware again.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Not and have any idea how close I am to my target deficit; I'd either err low and fail to lose the weight, or err high and badly endanger my health via malnutrition. With the band, I know exactly where I'm coming in on a daily bas
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by aaronem 12y ago
I do the same thing. No reason to feel guilty about it, not that I can see; indeed, when freed of the hardware compatibility issues that it just can't handle, Linux really shines.
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by aaronem 12y ago
It's a shame no one there seems to have noticed that they reinvented Yog-Sothoth from first principles.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> most likely if you are trying to solve a health/lifestyle problem by purchasing something, that is just symptomatic of yet another unhealthy aspect of your lifestyle Tell that to the thirty pounds I've lost, over the last cou
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by aaronem 12y ago
My Basis band is actually the second revision of the hardware ("Basis Carbon Steel" vs "Basis B1"). If you're thinking about buying, I definitely recommend avoiding the 1.0 version, which uses a rather bizarre custo
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by aaronem 12y ago
My Basis band addresses your point 1 quite well; all I have to do is wear it to bed. Unfortunately, there's no good API (and your choice of three variously lousy ones [1]), and it syncs in the same way as the Beddit does, i.e., via Blu
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by aaronem 12y ago
I submitted a third reading which strikes me as both more charitable, and almost certainly more accurate, than either of yours were. Nor did he state what you claim he did; it's the article author, not Baber as quoted, who equates civi
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by aaronem 12y ago
Or maybe he just likes screwing with their heads, and as a fellow Southron well familiar with the oft-condescending ways of Yankees, I don't suppose I can blame him too strongly for that.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, someone's going to do it.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> What? Expecting someone who writes for the New Yorker to understand how firearms work is, I think, expecting rather too much.
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by aaronem 12y ago
The reading you've given that quote is rather uncharitable, if perhaps heavily implied by the article's author. It's pretty obvious that Baber means he doesn't want his weapon falling into the hands of criminals, but he
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by aaronem 12y ago
I value a tolerable prose style. Sadly, that is not something which Mr. Yudkowsky can in honesty count among his merits, be they what they may.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Ye gods. It's everything I could've possibly imagined from a Harry Potter fanfic written by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I spent plenty of time writing code in my teenage years, too. They're hardly mutually exclusive.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Perhaps you've forgotten your own adolescence, or perhaps you were lucky enough not to have trouble finding interested partners. But I feel it necessary to point out that, especially among teenagers, "never been laid" does no
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by aaronem 12y ago
If my experience (which includes shedding thirty pounds in the last month and a half) is any guide, the trick is not to swear off bacon entirely; indeed, try to do that and you're just setting yourself up for a discipline-vitiating fai
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by aaronem 12y ago
Agreed; O'Brien's boot metaphor was purest hubris. I don't know if I'd call civilizational collapse "positive", though. Surely things will get better afterward! Things always do, eventually. But, judging by his
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by aaronem 12y ago
It looks to me like adding more complexity than it relieves, and I'd worry about the security implications besides.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> Deploying postfix + dovecot with multi domain usage and multi alias capabilities is hard! Really? I didn't find it so; overall it took me about four hours, including RBL filtering via Spamhaus[1], and I haven't had to touch i

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