angusgr

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by angusgr 16y ago
If I was trying to find a good Perl programmer, I would try to read some of their code before asking a single question. If I could read it, that's a good first step. Because you can know the answers to all of those questions and still write
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by angusgr 16y ago
That explains a lot, thank you.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Although I know it's not at all -literally- why they are used (not to mention that they may not work), these tests seem to say something to me about our understanding of depression, right there.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Tests referred to in the article: Forced Swimming Test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_despair_test Tail Suspension Test http://www.stoeltingco.com/stoelting/productlist13c.aspx?cat...
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by angusgr 16y ago
From TFA: "optional single-window mode" (I'm also very excited about this.)
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by angusgr 16y ago
There was never much of a PlayStation One homebrew or Linux scene though, was there? So it'd be hard to argue that the PS1 device had any useful purpose other than piracy. Unlike with PS2&3, where for a while there Sony pretty much endo
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Sony suing fail0verflow & geohot over PS3 jailbreak [pdf](geohot.com)
64 points by angusgr 16y ago|51 comments
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by angusgr 16y ago
Another thought, I wonder if Google initially anticipated the amount of makeover work that OEMs would put into Android. Does anyone know how hard/easy the current presentation layer makes customisation? If they released a more easily &
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by angusgr 16y ago
I guess there might be some credibility in the suggestion that if the current stock of OEM makeovers usually make an OK interface slightly worse, they would make a very good interface only slightly less very good.
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by angusgr 16y ago
One thing Meld cannot easily do (unless it's changed very recently) is manually align blocks of text when autoalignment fails. I recommend Diffuse for that, and also for three-way merging: http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/ I do join in reco
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by angusgr 16y ago
One more happy dumb phone user here. In September I switched back after two years with an iPhone, and I do not regret it one bit. ( http://projectgus.com/2010/09/my-no-iphone-no-smartphone-exp... )
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by angusgr 16y ago
Thanks for the great explanation. I must say that it sounds great Youtube's culture allows features to be "turned down... code deleted a couple weeks later". You don't always get that.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Are you at liberty to say why the Erlang thing got replaced? (Erlang & Python are my two favourite languages to use, but there are not that many problems I would interchange between them.)
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Placebos could work even if people know they’re placebos(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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The End of The Open Source Hardware Cambrian Age(antipastohw.blogspot.com)
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by angusgr 16y ago
> I want my code to say what I mean, not just evaluate to what I mean. This is an awesome rule of thumb. A more succinct version of Knuth's "Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute" &#
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think it's a double-edged sword. I've both written and read code in non-functional languages where the "easy" way of doing it is thrown aside for the "cool functional" way of doing it. Leading to code which was more fun to write, looks co
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by angusgr 16y ago
OK. Except, 'CouchOne Mobile for Android' seems to come as a complete package with Android SDK bindings. As you'd expect, no Erlang required/mentioned. I'd be interested to know if an Erlang VM is actually included in the CouchOne for Andro
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by angusgr 16y ago
I <3 Erlang and this seems like a cool idea and all, but I'm struggling to think of the exact use anyone is likely to put it to. If you want to do Android UI, I'm sure JInterface will compile against Dalvik but it's also fairly dated an
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by angusgr 16y ago
Thanks. I've never used either align-regex or rectangular editing, so you've inspired me to give them a go!
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by angusgr 16y ago
It's funny that I was already composing my "this *killer business is nonsense, where are the historical examples of one tech company really annihilating a market leader, etc., etc." rant comment in my head, when I clicked to read the articl
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by angusgr 16y ago
I used to do something similar to this (less intense), however I seem to have hit my limit for number of remembered features. ie I'll find something new now, use it for a few hours or a day, then suddenly it will be 3 months later and I'll
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by angusgr 16y ago
Is using the arrow keys really that bad? I understand that it moves you off the home row, but is _that_ really so bad? Should I be doing this? If you're being serious, it kinda seems like just punishing new users for no good reason. If you
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by angusgr 16y ago
The other critical factor is that "digging straight in" is _fun_, at least for people with this mindset. Reading documentation, on the other hand...
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by angusgr 16y ago
That's true if their main concern is security, as opposed to security theatre.
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'm confused. A few years ago, the perceived wisdom was that dedicated flash filesystems like yaffs2/jffs are better (performance & longevity-wise) for running on flash devices than more general block filesystems like ext4/3/2. What am
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by angusgr 16y ago
Nevertheless, there were a lot of dramas when ext4 first came across to the mainstream Linux distros (as per the extra reading links in the blog post.) So I can see why Google want to make it perfectly clear that this is happening.
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by angusgr 16y ago
I hate to be a pedant, but this case concerns a copyright troll, not a patent troll. The distinction between the two is well worth acknowledging. However, I agree with everything you've said about intellectual property trolling, in general.
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Making data races manifest themselves(yosefk.com)
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by angusgr 16y ago
Australia is running something similar, called the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme. http://www.deewr.gov.au/Employment/JSA/EmploymentServices/Pa... I know two people who have participated, a couple who successfully started a designer art/

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