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by aaronem 12y ago
What problem does this solve? And does it do so without introducing a half dozen more?
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by aaronem 12y ago
If your use case involves a requirement for master/slave replication, SQLite might be a little too lightweight for your needs.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, if you count Emacs in batch mode, such a thing already exists.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I have a feeling those sticks wouldn't stand up as well to the sort of load this use case would require of them.
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by aaronem 12y ago
More generally, they like dark, cool places where they aren't likely to be disturbed. For a few years in my childhood, my mother and I shared a small house with a widow who'd set up housekeeping between the toilet tank and the wal
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by aaronem 12y ago
That is unbelievably classy .
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by aaronem 12y ago
Has it? Sure, no one writes code by hand any more, but we all take notes on paper at least some of the time -- even though I've mostly shifted to an org-mode-based workflow for notetaking, and I now work at a company whose roughly ever
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by aaronem 12y ago
You're not the only ones: http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/ -- granted the man has almost no perceptible taste, but he does make a decent Exhibit A for the propelling-pencil side of the argument.
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by aaronem 12y ago
When I was in school, a lot of testing, including college placement exams, was scored by means of electromechanical devices ("Scantron") which identified answers by testing for the difference in conductivity produced by filling in
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by aaronem 12y ago
You're right about 0.5 and 0.7 being less than ideal, but lead holders have their own drawbacks, such as a generally unclutched propelling mechanism (i.e. one incautious nudge of the advance button and your lead's on the floor in
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by aaronem 12y ago
Sounds good for a second, and then you realize that it's going to induce a conflict between your visual and proprioceptive senses that'll make it impossible to work at best, and probably make you toss up your lunch besides.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Why shouldn't it be?
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by aaronem 12y ago
That's the place to start; the Behemoth trilogy isn't bad, per se, but it is a ramshackle thing by comparison, and I think only partly because it has a larger story to tell.
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by aaronem 12y ago
The point I'm making is that you are doing everything but looking at the question from a perspective other than your own, and that's the sine qua non of competence at office politics -- the correct analysis of the social and p
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by aaronem 12y ago
> ...at some point I stopped thinking they were "doing it wrong" and started thinking, "whatever makes you happy." The secret to success in contract software development.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I wasn't. I'm expressing. My own. I come. I'm getting. I haven't. I'm intending. I'm not. I know. I'm calling. I'd say. Would have left me . Ensure me . My sense. I know.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Depends on your choice of fictional media; try reading Peter Watts, some time when you're already not in a good mood.
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by aaronem 12y ago
How the hell should I know? But if I had to guess, I'd say it was because your prior comment implicitly equates "spaces prohibited in passwords" and "passwords not hashed" and assumes the latter as a necessary conse
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by aaronem 12y ago
There isn't one.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Everything.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Having faith that you're not susceptible to having faith still counts as having faith.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Leaving aside the quality issue, depending on your uses of dictation, you might find yourself wanting to be able to do it remotely. If so, using the iPhone you already have, plus a $2 app, is cheaper and easier than buying a wireless microp
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by aaronem 12y ago
Interesting app; I'd thought about doing something similar with a web socket and the (non-Siri) iOS dictation capability, but never got around to it, so this might come in useful. No points, though, for autoplaying your demo video in t
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by aaronem 12y ago
> step into the state of a man's spiritual condition and all bets are off The religion best represented on HN, and that to which hew most commenters here, includes among its basic doctrines the tenet that all spiritual beliefs are e
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by aaronem 12y ago
At least here in the US, psychiatry is a specialization of medicine, and a psychiatrist is an MD, while psychology isn't a specialization of anything, and its practitioners' credentials vary widely. The disciplines don't real
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by aaronem 12y ago
There's a little more to the United States than the city of New York. I grant it is an uncommonly large city, but it's not that large.
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by aaronem 12y ago
(You're not improving your case!)
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by aaronem 12y ago
You have no power to choose the features you're assigned to implement. The most, then, for which you may reasonably be held responsible, even by yourself, is that you implement a bad idea in a good way. From the sound of it, you'v
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by aaronem 12y ago
Thanks for pointing out the lack of precision in my preceding comment; by using the phrase "could offer" I erroneously implied a conviction that no such capability was possible. I've edited that comment, replacing "could
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by aaronem 12y ago
> Unreasonable expectations and little knowledge or inclination to try things out - sounds like perfect iOS user to me This you don't recognize as an insult? I'll bet you're a constant delight to your acquaintances.

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