alextgordon

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by alextgordon 11y ago
If they get an office job they are going to have to use drop-down menus, rename files, send emails, etc. If schools only taught teenagers the skills that teenagers deem relevant... there wouldn't be much need for schools.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/538/
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by alextgordon 11y ago
> However, I find this statement laughable: "Can it be true that the hours of lost playtime, power struggles and tears are all for naught?" If doing homework is a power struggle in elementary school, you're a poor parent a
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by alextgordon 11y ago
OK so let's imagine sandboxing is on by default, then "Transmission" pushes an update that asks for read/write access to the whole home directory. You don't know if Transmission has some legitimate need for that or
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by alextgordon 11y ago
The error in your attempt at utilitarianism is to only count deaths of innocent people as meaningful. It doesn't actually matter whether someone is guilty or innocent when executed, the effect on their family will be precisely the sa
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by alextgordon 11y ago
In Chocolat we take a similar approach, but the histogram is of the GCDs, not of the indentations. So we just take a sample of 1000 lines, then take the GCD of every pair. The indentation width is simply the most common pair. If it turns ou
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by alextgordon 11y ago
You shouldn't use tabs for new projects, because spaces are more popular. It's like endianness: it doesn't matter which you use, as long as it's the same as everybody else. Right now, "everybody else" is usin
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Don't even need anything that drastic. Just switch the compiler to C++ mode and start using std::unique_ptr instead of malloc/free. Remember to turn off exceptions and RTTI to keep the spirit of C alive in your C++ code!
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by alextgordon 11y ago
For anyone slightly confused (I was), Bury Council (bury.gov.uk) is the local government for the town of Bury, and that is a guide for burials in Bury. It's not the national authority for burials or anything.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Isn't that discredited by Apple's "goto fail" bug? A critical function was mistakenly circumvented in an extremely transparent way, and yet the source code sat on their website for a long time without anybody noticing. N
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by alextgordon 11y ago
What OS X at least gets right is that OS-bundled software is immutable , or desired to be. If you want a recent version of e.g. Python, you install separately and add it to your $PATH instead of changing the base. Then any app that depends
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Horizontal space is free, vertical space is not. The more lines that are visible on your screen, the less you have to keep in your working memory. Human memory is fragile, so you really don't want to rely on it. I can only fit 51 lines
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by alextgordon 11y ago
The "cargo" is self-referential, clearly. It's a cargo cult "cargo cult".
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by alextgordon 11y ago
So "short sighted" is a metaphor in BrE but an idiom in AmE.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Because every time you open the site you'd have to receive an email. vs just letting 1password, browser, etc enter the password.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
So there's no password option? That's horrible, means you can't use it with incognito mode (because you'd have to receive an email each time)
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Heaven must be a real party then.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I'm not understanding what is "insane" about installing to /usr/local/Cellar and dropping a symlink in /usr/local/bin. This is the convention on OS X. All tools I have ever seen install to /
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by alextgordon 11y ago
It's never acceptable to use violence, but the world does contain a lot of violent people, and most of them are on the internet. Welcome to Earth.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I hereby define 1 megawatt to equal 7^7 watts, because I find that more convenient. Any light bulbs not sold in base 7 units are part of a conspiracy by light bulb manufacturers.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Going to a library and getting a free copy is exactly what people are doing. The library is online, freely accessible without discrimination. Since when have we asked authors permission to add their book to a library? In many places (incl
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by alextgordon 11y ago
> Pointless campaign because it cannot be done. You cannot remove VAT under EU regulations from an item. There's a referendum coming up to do just that...
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Rich people don't spend all their money on consumption like poor people have to do. Their money goes into equities, houses, investments that appreciate over time.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Even for a simple text editor, AFAIK you can't continually monitor a directory for changes (FSEvents), so it's hopeless.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Back in 2009 the developer of Tweetie got so frustrated with the second group he made this site: https://web.archive.org/web/20090218122324/http://twitterisn...
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Well you can generate C with Ruby, JavaScript, Bash, or whatever language takes your fancy.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Not really. Compiling to C is much easier than compiling to LLVM. If 90% of languages fail, then there's only a 10% chance you'll have to do that rewrite :)
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by alextgordon 11y ago
For me, the opposite. $50m is about 100x more than I could ever need, so I'd just stick it in $SPY until I die. Volatility is irrelevant as there is no actual risk to life or limb, only the "risk" of numbers going up or dow
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by alextgordon 11y ago
What a load of tosh. Are there no disadvantaged people in America with light coloured skin?
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Today's state-level agency is tomorrow's small town police department, and next week's street criminal. Attacks only get better. Also, Apple is not only designing phones for you and me, but for businesses who nowadays are t

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