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by akavel 8y ago
Also: the book of Ecclesiastes [1][2], or the Song of Songs [3] — poetry at its finest... how is it not about thoughts and feelings? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes [2]: https://en.wikisource
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by akavel 8y ago
Notably, as to choosing land vs. water when falling from high altitude, see the ever fresh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748528
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by akavel 8y ago
Arrrgh, a photo from Kraków showing the Main Square with the Mariacki church is labeled "The Wawel Castle". It's like showing a photo of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and labeling it "The Eiffel Tower". It'
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by akavel 8y ago
How does Chez Scheme compare vs. CHICKEN Scheme? For a layman, they both seem to compile to binary; Chicken via C, Chez maybe not? Which one has a bigget community? Also, do you know of any static typing extension for Chez?
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by akavel 8y ago
I'd be interested in replacing an in-house logs filtering/aggregation solution with Loki, but there's a lot that is not clear to me from the initial announcement & materials. Could you please help me understand what are t
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by akavel 8y ago
Could you share what you found, by any chance? I've been having some trouble configuring GRUB for Linux on an old VAIO with UEFI (kinda works, but required weird workarounds and seems still flaky); I'm really interested in any suc
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by akavel 8y ago
There's a somewhat hidden gem in vanilla git which can be sometimes useful: git gui You can right-click on some line in the file and select "Stage Hunk for commit", etc. instead of `git add -p`. It can be also helpfu
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by akavel 8y ago
Would be curious about the websites indeed!
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by akavel 8y ago
Uh, crashing??? I, like, never actually switched to Chrome in the first place (only using it sometimes for sites that "only work in IE^H^HChrome"), am using Firefox on multiple computers on Linux and Windows, and absolutely don&
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by akavel 8y ago
"So You Want To Compete With Steam": https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-...
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by akavel 8y ago
Personally, I see Elm as an interesting development in such a direction, i.e. humane FP language, with the author relentlessly striving for simplicity and ease of use kin my opinion, successfully). That said, it's currently limited to
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by akavel 8y ago
Related Ask HN from a few months ago: "Why is nearing completion so demotivating?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17138794
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by akavel 8y ago
Ahahah, lol, ok, get it :D So, apparently I totally reinvented less, I concede :) To say even more, it's actually very much a crippled less (not all of its functions available!). With just one feature added, namely: > in the inpu
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by akavel 8y ago
Um; I feel it's kinda as if you asked if a dog is like rhinoceros... How do I even answer that? Simplest answer is: "no, it's not"; though if you squint your eyes super hard, you could see some kind of vague resemblance,
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by akavel 8y ago
up - https://github.com/akavel/up Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview It's a new CLI tool I've recently written, and it reached a Top 1 position on HN just after the
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by akavel 8y ago
That and poor/nonexistent syntax for macros are about my only 2 serious gripes I have with OCaml. The third was missing multithreading, but IIIC this seems to kinda be workable now with lwt IIUC?
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by akavel 8y ago
1. Debugging a non-deterministic crash in a huge and complex C++ app. It took me a few weeks of super-focused hard work (kudos to my then team & management at Sabre office in Kraków for giving me this time, and understanding and appreci
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by akavel 8y ago
Troff + pic + eqn ported to Go would be cool :>
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by akavel 8y ago
As I wrote, I see interesting and valuable points in your comments above. But I think the apparent commonality and prevalence of outrage in recent times starts to grow boring on me, and it's hard for me to keep reasonable respect to us
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by akavel 8y ago
There's value in your comment, but please try to tone it down and not take it too far.
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by akavel 8y ago
Did you register it on Google via Firefox too? (The first time?) For me, Google complains "must use Chrome" even though I have the u2f in about:config enabled, and it works on other sites. I read somewhere it works via Fx for l
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by akavel 8y ago
I tried that this week, and Google still complains that "you must use Chrome" when I tried to register it. The Yubikey works OK on other pages, also with u2f (e.g. gitlab & github). I read somewhere that one can do the registr
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by akavel 8y ago
For one not too nice possibility, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
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by akavel 8y ago
I've recently found an open-source editor named Zettlr, started using it and would recommend. https://www.zettlr.com/
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by akavel 8y ago
For me personally, as a person who's tried Nix, it's helpful that the Nix language is simple, self contained and easy to learn & grok quickly. I never learnt Scheme, and its use in Guix, though extremely interesting and appe
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by akavel 8y ago
I totally emphatically understand, that for DMD authors, reporting their binary to a truckload indifferent AV vendors is the worst kind of kafka-esque, soul-draining, burnout-inducing, and quixotic chore imaginable. While at the same time t
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by akavel 8y ago
I believe the Lua creators' claim on this is not that it's necessarily a good API, but rather that it's "just" a better one than any other they know of :) (Or at least knew of at the time when they created Lua. Bu
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by akavel 8y ago
Maybe you could do it the other way round now? Adding a ?withmath to url would add math rendering :)
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by akavel 8y ago
A cool advantage is that one should be able to just write the file by hand in any Markdown (or text) editor on any random PC, and then with this fairly easy to remember one-liner insta-convert it to a pretty document for viewing in a browse
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by akavel 8y ago
Ok, I get it now. Thanks! :)

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