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by aaronem 13y ago
I built it from scratch, only using Brew to install the necessary image format libraries, and that worked fine too.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, there's nothing wrong with rebinding M-x; that key combination requires a lot of hand scrunching, which can get uncomfortable after a while. Nothing wrong with talking about it, either! I'd just recommend describing it in ac
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'm not very familiar with OS X, and I've had a lot of trouble finding the magic invocation that'll get an Emacs daemon running with the same behavior to which I'm accustomed on Windows and Linux. This looks like it shou
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by aaronem 13y ago
If you run it with --daemon, the server process doesn't create a frame of its own, but only listens for connections from emacsclient instances; IIRC it also rebinds C-x C-c to delete-frame (also available at C-x 5 0), and the daemon pr
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oddly enough, this technology was foreseen in a novel, Free Radical [1], which some random fellow on the Internet wrote on the basis of the story from the game System Shock. Quite a good novel, actually, and especially so for being someth
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by aaronem 13y ago
> Put in your new name that Google rejects because it doesn't match the name on your phone bill / credit card / whatever. This is the part that confuses me -- granted, my Google account for work has my legal name on it, an
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by aaronem 13y ago
Emacs supports inline graphics; you don't see the capability used all that often, but it certainly exists, and has done for quite some time. Inline documentation doesn't seem all that desirable in the first place; from the screens
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by aaronem 13y ago
(shameless plug) And don't you want the current weather to go alongside your Nyan, thanks to an Emacs minor mode inspired by a Hacker News comment? https://github.com/aaron-em/weatherline-mode.el
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by aaronem 13y ago
An excellent point; having a command line in your editor is something whose value is hard to recognize until you've tried it, and hard to overstate once you're used to it. It might, though, be worth using the typical Emacs nomencl
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by aaronem 13y ago
When, a few years ago, I really started to get serious about using Emacs, I spent three days or so going through the customization options for pretty much everything, or at least everything I could figure out at that time, and adjusting it
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by aaronem 13y ago
Yes. Let us blame everyone except the man who chose to take his own life.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, HN, don't you ever change.
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by aaronem 13y ago
I don't know about playing the original Elite with a 3D HMD, but if you don't mind a more modern sort of game, you would appear to have several options. For one, there's an open source Elite remake, somewhat infelicitously ca
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by aaronem 13y ago
What's to stop you from creating a Google account specifically for that purpose? Worked for me.
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by aaronem 13y ago
> I even occasionally go through my Gmail settings to make sure nothing has changed. Yeesh. It's stuff like this that makes me glad I run my own mail/CalDAV/CardDAV server, and am thus free to use throwaway accounts for al
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by aaronem 13y ago
On HN? Do you really have to ask?
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, picky, picky, picky.
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by aaronem 13y ago
(11,997,987 BCE)
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, exhorting the choir is very satisfying, of course, and I can see the tactical benefit in so doing to the exclusion of any attempt to increase the size of the congregation. This does, of course, imply an abandonment of any desire to fi
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'm a former partisan of that sort of thinking, so I'm well aware of it -- from the inside, as it were. The trouble with it is that it only works on people who already substantially agree with you. When you're talking to peop
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by aaronem 13y ago
You talk of parroting the dictionary as though that were desirable. While a dictionary is a good and useful thing, there is much of value which is not to be found in such a book. In particular, a dictionary concerns itself with what a given
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by aaronem 13y ago
I wish I were. They agree with the protesters, don't you see? And, because they feel themselves to be on the "right side of history", whatever that means, they are utterly innocent of fear that they should ever themselves awa
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by aaronem 13y ago
Your argument suggests a certain naïveté, or else a desire to claim there is no subtext whatsoever in organizing a mob to serve as the medium of the "communication" to which you refer. Whatever the overt message, and especially wh
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by aaronem 13y ago
It's still inappropriate, but considerably less so, both because a C-level officer of such a large company is likely to have security arrangements of some sort, and because a C-level officer has at least some influence over the policie
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by aaronem 13y ago
"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." The trouble with the eternal firearms argument is that anti-firearms types tend to be theorists (many of whom, in my experience, have neve
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by aaronem 13y ago
As far as I can tell, it's a necessary consequence of any mention of firearms on HN, in any context. There seems little point in blaming any one participant, in any one instance, for the perennial argument over what is perhaps the most
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by aaronem 13y ago
Of course, and ericcumbee's point is well made; people who've never put any actual thought into what it's like to go armed are generally very quick to assume that those who do go armed see putting holes in things as a handy
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by aaronem 13y ago
Are you by chance familiar with the axiom that, given an audience without any other information about the parties or principles involved in a given argument, the side which presents its claims in a calm, level-headed fashion is more likely
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by aaronem 13y ago
Of course not. Instead, they blame Google, and its employees, for the police presence which they themselves necessitate.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Of course. The essence of the argument is whether or not threatening to maim and murder as necessary, to produce whatever result the protesters hold dear, is a morally sound tactic.

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