aaronem

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by aaronem 12y ago
Failing that, backgrounding the process at launch (by appending & to the invocation) should stop it blocking the shell from which it's launched. While I did mean what I said earlier about not feeling qualified to argue with someone
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by aaronem 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_flash_cartridg...
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by aaronem 12y ago
"By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy daily bread." It's tempting, I agree, to romanticize our species' distant past, to imagine that our hunter-gatherer ancestors enjoyed what Christian mythology calls the Garde
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by aaronem 12y ago
> I have used it. How was it? I've heard a lot of really impressive claims; I'd be interested to know whether the hardware lives up to the hype.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Have you read Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! ? If you hven't, you really must; I didn't think very highly of it, but from the sound of what you're spouting here, that book is right up your alley.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Do they also object to the clearly stated restrictions, which TI places on its general-purpose microcontroller lines, against their use in life-critical equipment? TI's reasoning is that they don't want to be sued because someone
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by aaronem 12y ago
As well as the Apollo program, in the form of the Saturn V instrument unit. I suppose it never ceases being necessary to reiterate that no technology is either good or evil, and it's not applied science which carries moral weight, but
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by aaronem 12y ago
I actually just grabbed a copy of the HN source a few days ago in pursuit of a potential side project I'm screwing around with on behalf of a community I frequent. I'm half tempted to dig into it and see what I can come up with in
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by aaronem 12y ago
I wish I'd known about AutoPager before I spent all that effort writing a Greasemonkey script that does essentially the same thing. The script's on my Github account (in my profile) if anyone wants to use that instead of installin
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by aaronem 12y ago
FYI, you can access a buffer's menus, while menubars are disabled, with C-<mouse-3> on the buffer.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I probably would've been inclined to argue about how Emacs "should" be used, but I'm not about to presume so with someone who's been using it for two years longer than I've been alive . If you're inclined
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by aaronem 12y ago
That's some impressive work; I've preferred a trifold wallet for almost twenty years, but now I'm thinking about whether it might be worth going back to a bifold again.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> So this "fat JSON" problem is Java's problem, not JSON's, then? Pretty much. I would expect that Java could offer some sort of solution to this problem, ideally with an accessor syntax similar to what you'd fin
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, I'm glad to see that you at least appear to be headed in more or less the right direction. I'm not about to invest $100 in Clojure at this early stage of the language's development, but I'll be interested to see ho
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by aaronem 12y ago
For a password field, "autocomplete" doesn't mean to suggest candidate completions, but rather to prefill with the password part of a previously saved username-password pair, and to offer to save such a pair (or update an exi
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by aaronem 12y ago
In US English, I've only ever seen 'a history', but I have seen 'an historian'. I'm really not sure why.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, it's in Java, for one thing.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Bach, preferably short pieces I know well; failing that, Mozart, likewise. Either can serve as a pleasant diversion for those parts of my mind which get bored and need something to occupy them while I'm hacking, without requiring anyth
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by aaronem 12y ago
FYI, there's a space in your link which doesn't belong. Might want to edit that out.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Pretty sure it's Apple Menlo, which IIRC from my OS X experience is the default font for Terminal.app. (Or is it? Might have been Monaco. I'm sure it's one of the two, and the other is the one I ended up preferring for reason
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by aaronem 12y ago
I don't think anyone has anything close to a ready-for-marketing 1TB optical disc. I do think that anyone who did would be perfectly happy to let the possibility of causing an incremental uptick in piracy take care of itself; they woul
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by aaronem 12y ago
Judging by the downvotes, this isn't something HN commenters find advisable. It's also something I hadn't thought of, and as I am currently looking for a new position, I wondered whether it was something I should consider doi
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by aaronem 12y ago
Perhaps your comment was intended as a sarcasm, in which role it serves admirably. I'll please myself nonetheless to answer as though it were genuine: If you want to make absolutely certain that you never, ever hire the best candidat
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by aaronem 12y ago
If there were enough people looking to purchase a single LTO-5 drive and a relative handful of cartridges, then, sure, that would make sense. Judging by the prices listed at the links I posted earlier, though, there aren't enough such
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by aaronem 12y ago
Put another way, Ruby is a Lisp implemented by someone who doesn't understand what makes a Lisp worthwhile. * Start with Emacs Lisp [1]: Well, if you like, but in exchange for the perceived simplicity as compared with e.g. ANSI Common
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by aaronem 12y ago
Speaking as someone who has lately been studying Common Lisp, I'm not quite sure how I feel about Clojure; I like that it's hosted on the JVM, but I don't like the apparent lack of a debugger, which to my mind is a sine qua
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by aaronem 12y ago
> never responded to popular demand Really? I know lots of folks, within the industry and without, who use cloud backup services like Carbonite and Crashplan precisely because they are so much more convenient than maintaining a physical
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by aaronem 12y ago
I don't know whether it is more reasonable to assume a conspiracy directed at keeping enterprise-scale storage technology out of consumer hands, or simply that a supply chain optimized for enterprise scale has a hard time fulfilling th
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by aaronem 12y ago
> makes you wonder why more companies don't "float" ideas to see how much traction they might get How do you know they don't? Whether to test the waters of consumer reception, or to decoy me-too competitors into doing
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by aaronem 12y ago
Agreed. I can't see how this did anyone any harm, which means there's nothing for which to apologize, although I certainly can understand the instant "oh my God what have I done " fear, upon seeing something one thought

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