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A heap of bad decisions: a blog-post DSL in m4(github.com)
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The Effect of University Monopoly Licensing in 3D Printing(rtei.org)
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by afiler 15y ago
Lund's (a snooty high-end grocery chain in Minneapolis) set up their new store in Old St Anthony (a fairly high-density area) this way too.
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by afiler 15y ago
I've used your documentation before, and it's amazingly useful. It's let me solve keyboard mapping issues in the least hacky way possible, especially when combined with KeyRemap4MacBook.
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by afiler 15y ago
"You're stupid." = name-calling, of course, but you consider "What you did there was stupid." to be name-calling? I don't think everyone would agree with that.
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by afiler 15y ago
I wrote my own web-based terminal emulator, but shortly thereafter found shellinabox ( http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/ ) and I use that instead. It looks like GateOne might be a bit more configurable, and I don't think shellinabox doe
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by afiler 15y ago
"Well, actually, no, officer, I wasn't speeding. You see, while you clocked me at 90mph [c] between toll booths [atoms], once you factor in time at the booth, you'll see that I am actually driving much more slowly."
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by afiler 15y ago
I have to say that your video is surprisingly beautiful given the subject matter, though the voiceover is done in a style that sounds like a commercial for a new wonder product that's both a floor wax AND a delicious dessert topping.
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by afiler 15y ago
I meant it only in the superficial sense, that the call of len() is called as len(foo), not foo.len(). I guess this is another example of why using the term "object-oriented" at all can be unhelpful, as it may mean so many different things
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by afiler 15y ago
I don't think you really mean "object orientation" so much as "a byzantine object hierarchy" (stereotypically associated with Java, of course). To me, Ruby's object-oriented string functions are a lot easier to keep track of than PHP's: x.l
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by afiler 15y ago
If they didn't put links in parentheses, they might break compatibility with teletypes! ...I'm not actually suggesting any newspaper still uses actual teletype machines, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are still plenty of workflows tha
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by afiler 15y ago
Seeing the title "Greece defaults" made me things had taken a turn for the worse compared to news I'd heard earlier in the day, but no, this is just the title of an opinion piece. Other news articles are more nuanced, and in particular, the
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by afiler 15y ago
The VOIP data is probably not delivered over the internet for local calls. The calls probably come out of the cable network and hit a softswitch in the same city. For local calls, they probably have a TDM interface (T1s/DS3s etc) to the inc
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by afiler 15y ago
I see he says "(As in my previous post, I’m using an evolutionary explanation metaphorically — as a way to help explain a concrete phenomenon I’ve observed in my research and writing on this topic. Whether the evolutionary explanation for t
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by afiler 15y ago
(Yes, another reply to one of my own comments.) After looking at your blog, I see that my example above was basically the geodata version of http://blog.buzzdata.com/post/7535032009/25-great-links-for-... . I think I'm in love.
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by afiler 15y ago
If I were going to describe this to a friend, I'd probably say "like flickr, but for data"... not something you can put in marketing materials, I know. I'd like to abuse this reply to ask that when you add tools for geodata, that you please
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by afiler 15y ago
(I'm presupposing, of course, that "social network" sounds as overused of a term to everyone else as it does to me.)
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by afiler 15y ago
I'm glad to see something coming in this space. I had been very sad to see DabbleDB go away, and Google Fusion Tables, Google Refine, and Google Docs Spreadsheets seem promising yet somewhat neglected, unfocused, and disjoint. Surely, thoug
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by afiler 15y ago
The problem of blasting out non-relevant messages to friends/followers/people who have you in a circle also occurs with Twitter and Facebook. Twitterers often solve this by opening more accounts and separating "my cat coughed up a hairball"
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by afiler 15y ago
I had to look this up after you mentioned it. Looks like it was run by a company called US Videotel: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/minitel-usa/inde... I know the US also had some trials of teletext (text pages over broadcast
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by afiler 15y ago
I'm sure my neighbor, who's blind, would appreciate piezo buttons. I had to help her deduce why her screen reader would "die" on her Dell laptop periodically. It turns out that it has capacitive buttons for Mute/Volume, and the only feedbac
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by afiler 15y ago
Adding the -S option to python (to skip 'import site') as seen in another post here brings python's time down to 1.229sec.
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by afiler 15y ago
To my great astonishment, Ruby's performance was much closer to bash than Python in my own test: 0.572sec for 101 runs in Ruby, versus 4.276sec with Python and 0.318sec with bash. I now feel slightly less bad for all those shell scripts I'v
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by afiler 15y ago
OS X/Cocoa includes some Emacs-style key bindings by default (see http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/system-bindings.html ), so I don't think leaving other key shortcuts out makes the keyboard "interfere with a novice user" as you say.
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by afiler 15y ago
Prompted by downloading a .doc file from Qwest only to find out that inside was a monospaced text file, I set up a small, nearly UI-free site for doing document conversions. http://doc.mar.cx/<url&#62 ; gives an HTML or other sensible
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by afiler 16y ago
Spakman, I'm very excited about this. And I say this as someone who's writing his own ruby shell/shell-complement. Mine is mostly intended to be invoked from Bash the way you'd invoke grep, though it can also be run interactively, where it
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by afiler 16y ago
I figured the concept for the display devices was based on microfilm/microfiche readers rather than CRTs. Microfilm was "high-tech" back then, and Vannevar Bush's Memex (of a couple decades earlier) was microfilm-based.