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by aphyr 16y ago
Pfft. All blackbox users know mousewheel-on-desktop is the One True Context Switcher! Jokes aside, I can't help but feel that Spaces is somehow incompatible with the OS X application model. Because the desktop is application-centric as oppo
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by aphyr 16y ago
A working pgdn key, for example.
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by aphyr 16y ago
You're the first person I've heard describe OS X as having a "nice windowing system". OS X has many good traits, but I've always thought of the WM as being rather poorly done. As far as I can tell it lacks proper maximization, horizontal/ve
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by aphyr 16y ago
Well, that's unexpected! The Utah footage is at least consistent with human aircraft behavior. Could be a high-altitude drone (if it's silent, it probably isn't a helicopter) or perhaps an airship. The Israel footage... well. You could de
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by aphyr 16y ago
It seems like it would be trivial to get someone's door busted down by running LOIC aggressively on their computer. I wonder--at what point can the FBI's enthusiastic enforcement be directed, in some sense, as a weapon? Edit: I've watched A
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by aphyr 16y ago
Ah yes. Five to eight years of phd and another three of postdoc was just getting me to the nonexistent job market for scientists too darn fast . ;-)
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by aphyr 16y ago
When would I have had time for significant manual labor in college? Ask a grad student working 72 hours a week in the lab to grow their own food instead of snarfing down ramen at their desk, and see how much research gets done. :/
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by aphyr 16y ago
Yup. IIRC the R language includes really cool features of both pattern matching and keyword arguments in its function signatures.
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by aphyr 16y ago
Sometimes I wonder if Java's "classplosion" is actually a subconscious backlash against the type system. In order to get anything done within the narrow box of its static type checking, you're forced to apply insanely convoluted indirection
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by aphyr 16y ago
I didn't realize how old this was, which tells you something about how prescient Yegge's writing can be. I would have added "pattern matching", though. At a minimum, keyword arguments or syntactic sugar for them.
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by aphyr 16y ago
I think you may be generalizing from a particular language culture to all OOP. This doesn't apply everywhere.
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by aphyr 16y ago
I've read that article twice in the last few months. When I was writing a lot of Java I thought "Oh, you know, that actually makes some sense." Now that I've returned to writing Ruby full time, I look at it and think: "Hey, wait a minute...
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by aphyr 16y ago
Seriously, there's a ton of voodoo in there. Things break in surprising ways, and it's hard to synthesize new knowledge based on prior experience. I've written a nontrivial amount of Java including a sizable Android app (aside: thanks Dob
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by aphyr 16y ago
Java isn't impossible for students to learn. I suggest, however, that it is not the best choice; because when it comes to learning how to program you want a language which is maximally expressive with a minimal amount of work. It artificial
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by aphyr 16y ago
I'm not an airplane engine expert, but they show a compressor and turbine blade. Would that make it a jet turbine?
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by aphyr 16y ago
"These findings are compelling, but I'd like to see some corroborating studies in peer reviewed journals" Uhh, I say exactly that on a monthly, if not weekly, basis.
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Abusing set_trace_func for fun and profit(aphyr.com)
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by aphyr 16y ago
Er, theoretically, no. I don't know what Photoshop's implementation is, but computing the cumulative effect of the adjustment layers will result in less error than applying them in sequence. That's part of why GEGL is being written. [Edit]
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by aphyr 16y ago
Yeah. There are several nosql backends which offer resistance to corruption under sudden failure. Bitcask, for example, is structured for on-disk data durability using some of the ideas for log-structured filesystems.
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by aphyr 16y ago
I understood your point the first time. I still respectfully disagree, but perhaps someone with more understanding of macro can step in here. In idealized, infinitely large, rational labor markets, wages are still driven by the interaction
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by aphyr 16y ago
"If you have a job that anybody can do, you aren't going to get paid very much..because its value is low." This is not how labor markets work. I think the inappropriate generalization of a HN reader's experience to the working poor in gener
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by aphyr 16y ago
May I humbly submit, for your theater-going enjoyment: - Drink every time women are portrayed as inferior to men. Bonus points if it's done in narration. "...the diamond band on the wrist of her naked arm gave her the most feminine of all a
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by aphyr 16y ago
Half of marriages end with divorce. You can either refuse to get married to anyone you can't predict perfectly for, say, sixty years, or plan sensibly while you're on amicable terms. If you can't plan a divorce when the two of you like ea
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by aphyr 16y ago
As telemachos points out, this is not an appeal to authority. The article does not claim that Darwin et al would support this research; it claims that it is consistent with the university's character to publish the work. Furthermore, this
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by aphyr 16y ago
'Cuz I plan on separating the config into YAML later.
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by aphyr 16y ago
Heh, point taken--I banged it out in 3 hours this morning. Though I must admit laughing a little about being called a newbie! Not like I'm hard to find on github or freenode... :-) I only submitted because a.) it takes advantage of some non
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by aphyr 16y ago
I do a few things. 1. The forwarding user has no group access, and not even write permission for its own home directory. 2. Shell is /bin/false, password is disabled. 3. The SSH public key format actually takes options (man ssh-keygen, -O)
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by aphyr 16y ago
I have a particularly ingenious defense to prevent reformatting: I have a 3,1 Macbook Pro with a Superdrive. Not only is it incapable of reading any optical media, but getting your disc back from the furry recesses of its lair is almost imp
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by aphyr 16y ago
Is it more likely? That depends on how often you leave your laptop unattended. :) I, and pretty much every hacker I know, have some machine they can SSH to on the internet, somewhere . The only added risk is exposing your laptop to an at
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by aphyr 16y ago
I should clarify: the passwordless account is a honeypot. It's isolated from my personal account and everything important. The only point is to encourage the attacker to use the computer instead of reformatting it, so I have a chance of rec

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