aaronkaplan

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by aaronkaplan 2y ago
This post demonstrates why I hate UI programming. The number of unpredictable, niggling little things that can go wrong exceeds my patience for dealing with them. I kind of enjoy thinking through the ways something might fail and writing te
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by aaronkaplan 3y ago
Your argument is that if a paper makes a valuable contribution then it should be accepted even if it's not well written. But the definition of "well written" is that it makes it easy for the reader to understand its value. If
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by aaronkaplan 5y ago
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School | Intermediate Software Developer | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | ONSITE | VISA The IRI Data Library team curates and provides access to data related to th
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by aaronkaplan 5y ago
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School | Intermediate Software Developer | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | ONSITE | VISA The IRI Data Library team curates and provides access to data related to th
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by aaronkaplan 5y ago
There is CardDAV sync built in to iOS Contacts, but I don't think the person who programmed it actually tried using it. When you create a contact on the iPhone, there's no reasonable UI for putting it in a group (it can be done, b
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by aaronkaplan 5y ago
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School | Intermediate Software Developer | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | ONSITE | VISA The IRI Data Library team curates and provides access to data related to th
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by aaronkaplan 5y ago
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School| Intermediate Software Developer | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | ONSITE | VISA The IRI Data Library team curates and provides access to data related to the
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by aaronkaplan 6y ago
International Research Institute for Climate and Society (Columbia University) | Palisades, New York | must be US-based currently, ONSITE post-COVID | software developer/scientific programmer The IRI works with stakeholders in developi
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by aaronkaplan 7y ago
Could you say more about why ansible is better than shell scripts for one-time configuration? In my mind, ansible's big advantage over shell scripts is that it has good support for making incremental changes to the configuration of exi
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by aaronkaplan 7y ago
IRI, Columbia University | Palisades, New York (near NYC) | Staff Associate (software developer and trainer) | ONSITE, full-time The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), part of Columbia University's Earth I
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by aaronkaplan 7y ago
Wow. Is no one spared?
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by aaronkaplan 7y ago
For the record, it's been around more than two decades.
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by aaronkaplan 7y ago
Where did you go? It's hard to find any US bank that supports it any more, let alone one with decent interest rates.
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by aaronkaplan 8y ago
> What are some non-profits who work on enabling people in poorer countries to withstand disturbances? Are they looking for coders? The International Research Institute on Climate and Society at Columbia University's Earth Institute
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by aaronkaplan 14y ago
It's also important that assembly lines can be offshored, whereas a lot of repairs really need to be done locally by someone who can interact with the consumer to understand the problem. Countries where labor is cheap relative to imports do
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by aaronkaplan 15y ago
I spent ten years in a corporate research lab, and my experience was quite different from yours. Specifically, 1. Our process went like this: first the researcher wrote up a description of the invention for review by a panel of his peers. I
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
Article content starts out in a straightforward, easy-to-process form, as created by the reporter/author, in a content management system. Then the CMS chops it up into pages and adds boilerplate for presentation as a web page. Then you expe
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
The generated HTML looks like this: E n t e <span class='w4'&#62
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
I agree about the convenience of having multiple branches in a single repo, as opposed to the darcs way which is one working directory per branch. For one thing, I never found a convenient way to switch between branches in an IDE when using
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
Right on. I particularly hate sites like myspace and some blogging platforms that translate the window dressing (button labels, sidebar, etc.) to your local language based on IP address, with no regard to the language that the page's actual
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
The work week is just starting on the east coast of the US and this has already dropped to 123rd place. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to post it over the weekend, particularly a holiday weekend. On the other hand, it got more posts than
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
I prefer to go each day to a list of curated aggregators like HN or what the people I follow on Twitter or saying But aggregators can publish RSS streams too. How is following someone on Twitter different from subscribing to his RSS feed?
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
You forgot to say where you are. You even forgot to mention it on your web site, as far as I can see.
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
You're attacking a straw man. Here are some arguments that people do sometimes make, and that somewhat resemble your straw man, but are less ridiculous: - Making a copy of a file isn't stealing because it doesn't deprive anyone else of the
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
My laptop is for reading email and surfing the web in hotel rooms. Occasionally I program on it when I don't have a choice, but I'm far less productive than on my regular workstation, both because of the ergonomic problems and because I hav
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
This is from Fedora 13 (not 14, sorry), with subpixel hinting, without the patch: http://i.imgur.com/whG3S.png Comparing it to your patched F14 version, the roman typefaces look quite different, but overall I can't say I prefer one to the
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
I had never heard that there was a difference before reading your comment, so I did a web search for "ubuntu font rendering", and most of the results are something like "How to fix Ubuntu's terrible, ugly, blurry font rendering." It's inter
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
Got my start on Linux way back when it was still called "Fedora Core" Wow, way back in 2007? Did you have to enter your programs on punch cards back then? :-) I use Fedora, and for the past few years it seems like every couple of months
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
It seems to me that the delta thing has made updates slower, not faster. I have a reasonably fast network connection and a P4 CPU; maybe with a slow connection and a fast CPU the equation works out better with deltas. But I imagine the real
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by aaronkaplan 16y ago
If you're talking about the Android email app, there actually is a fork, called K-9, and it's significantly better.

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