aaronem

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811.
by aaronem 13y ago
Canada Post's community mailboxes have oversized slots for packages, which work on exactly the model you propose. I gather it works reasonably well. On the other hand, I have absolutely no desire to have random delivery staff wandering
812.
by aaronem 13y ago
Yes, according to the Nature article's abstract [1]. (It'd have to be, wouldn't it? Erythrocytes don't have nuclei.) [1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7485/full/nat
813.
by aaronem 13y ago
Back when I was doing payment code, I built several sites which didn't prompt for the card type, since (a) the first digit identifies the association [1] and (b) the processor doesn't usually care anyway, i.e., you don't need
814.
by aaronem 13y ago
It's an interesting idea, I suppose, if a bit smug; I've always found it sufficient just to pop up a note saying something along the lines of "Look, I'm sure you have a good reason for using IE 7, and I'm not going
815.
by aaronem 13y ago
Could be worse, as I've just found out; it could be hot coffee.
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by aaronem 13y ago
In which case, rudeness must resemble flatulence. Having now finished the book, I remain unimpressed, or at least not impressed in the fashion you expected that I would be. If anything, I have to say that, not only for there have been relat
817.
by aaronem 13y ago
Really? Which wearable, decades ago, had the ability to pair with a smartphone and access the Internet to retrieve information for display?
818.
by aaronem 13y ago
I don't use vim, but from the parsing example he gives in the post, I'm guessing he uses C-c: `Mihere's some text^Cyyp$bimore ^C0~A.^C:w^M:q […] > The lexer correctly determined that I started in normal mode by na
819.
by aaronem 13y ago
More "fury" than "frustration", really. That may make it easier for you to understand why your citing "developer happiness" as a reason to use Rails elicits only a hollow laugh from me.
820.
by aaronem 13y ago
Wow. Having tried to resolve in a friendly manner a bill in which Verizon charged me $150 for DSL service at an address to which they not only never provided service but at which they eventually noticed they can't provide service, per
821.
by aaronem 13y ago
Natural causes, then.
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by aaronem 13y ago
The keyboard heatmap code is nifty enough to justify this being on the front page of HN all by itself, which is not to say the rest is without value -- quite the converse; I hadn't thought of doing this sort of usage analysis with Emac
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by aaronem 13y ago
That sounds more like a use case for eye tracking. What about, say, a torus or sphere of virtual displays accessible via Rift? I don't think I'd actually want that, but it's possible someone might, although the resolution mig
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by aaronem 13y ago
If so, then one or the other has a long, long way to go. We've seen attempts to translate the movie experience into a videogame format, and they've failed abjectly every single time; there is a reason for this. For a recent exampl
825.
by aaronem 13y ago
Quite easily, if you've made a business out of designing Wordpress themes; part of Wordpress's value proposition is, more or less, "you can make your site look exactly how you want it to, without needing to know anything abou
826.
by aaronem 13y ago
Apparently it's railroading time! I'm delighted to see my favorite gaming genre finally getting some love again, and especially now that we've got the computing hardware to really make a proper go of it -- Tachyon and Freespa
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by aaronem 13y ago
Wouldn't work where I work; I'm not sure whether having a dog running around in the sequencing lab would be worse for the dog (in a facility some of whose areas are rated BSL-3) or the lab (where contaminants are generally regarde
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by aaronem 13y ago
EVE Online and Star Citizen both happen in space, but they're not a lot alike aside from that; the former is a point-and-click tactics 'n strategy simulator where a "skill" is something your character eventually levels u
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by aaronem 13y ago
Old age, from the sound of it: > Timothy Paul Hart of Cambridge, formerly of Lexington, died peacefully in his sleep on January 20, 2014 at the age of 74, surrounded by members of his family. (Quoted from: http://www.legacy.co
830.
by aaronem 13y ago
Likewise, especially given my recent interest in Lisp. I actually own a paper copy of the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual , thanks to Baltimore's excellent free book exchange [1]; I haven't cracked it yet in any serious way, bu
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by aaronem 13y ago
That's not much of an example; to say that it barely scratches the surface, in all its seven-paragraph glory, is to be if anything excessively kind. This is unfortunately typical of the Rails community's attitude toward these matt
832.
by aaronem 13y ago
Why bother to respond at all if you're not going to put forth even a minimal effort?
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by aaronem 13y ago
tl;dr: "Rails: Not even once." Everything in Rails is so much work because Rails is a rolling disaster; every new major version replaces enormous chunks of framework functionality with enormous new chunks of functionality, which
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by aaronem 13y ago
If you use email, the Black Chamber can have your inbox if it wants. FTFY.
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by aaronem 13y ago
No. Consider the sequence (2, 2, 2, 10).
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by aaronem 13y ago
"Wikipedia doesn't mention Molotov cocktails being thrown at human targets, so it must not ever happen, and wouldn't really matter anyway if it did." Oh, HN! You marvel of marvels. Don't you ever change.
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by aaronem 13y ago
It could lead into a navigable system of tunnels, or it could just open onto a pit full of pumping machinery.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Nope. But you can run Windows (or Linux, if you're a masochist) on a Macbook Pro.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, good Lord! I made my previous comment to you before I noticed you'd thrown this rock at the hornets' nest. Good man! Not that bright, maybe, but with moral courage to spare, and that's a rare pleasure to run across in thi
840.
by aaronem 13y ago
Why not just say "starting a business?" I've never seen what is so magically special about "startups" that they deserve to be regarded as inhabiting a separate, higher plane of their own, beyond and above ordinary e

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