apotheon

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511.
by apotheon 17y ago
Damn -- now I'm going to have to get Object Oriented Perl .
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The Copyright Paradox(etherplex.org)
1 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
513.
by apotheon 17y ago
That's ludicrous.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> is there a reason to suppose that a drive with 'bad sectors coming off the line' actually has a higher expected failure rate? If it doesn't hurt me to choose a different brand or a different model line, the more relevant question bec
515.
by apotheon 17y ago
. . . or the Read it Later extension for Firefox.
516.
by apotheon 17y ago
I don't have that problem. Perhaps there's something glitchy about the way rxvt-unicode works with your setup in particular -- which might be an rxvt-unicode problem, but not a problem that affects me, evidently.
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by apotheon 17y ago
True -- but I like the way AHWM works more than the way Compiz works, so that's not really a concern for me.
518.
by apotheon 17y ago
Excellent! Does it require use of the PLT Scheme implementation, with use of PLT's "educational" extensions to the Scheme language, or should it work as-is (with, perhaps, some obvious adjustments -- such as using display instead of print,
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by apotheon 17y ago
I used to use aterm, but one thing drove me to change -- Unicode support. Now, I use rxvt-unicode. Since making the move, though, I've grown to love rxvt-unicode's daemon mode and discovered that pseudo-transparency works better than it di
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by apotheon 17y ago
I love the daemon (aka "client/server") operation of rxvt-unicode, and the fact that with all its capabilities it's still smaller than xterm.
521.
by apotheon 17y ago
Somebody needs to show this to Paul Krugman: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/how-big-is-9-tri...
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by apotheon 17y ago
A nontrivial percentage of the "consumer" grade drives (basically, the stuff you can get at Best Buy) were actually manufactured as higher-capacity drives for the premium line (I forget the model line term WD uses at the moment) but had bad
523.
by apotheon 17y ago
Congratulations. You had a good experience.
524.
by apotheon 17y ago
I write professionally, and I often have close to a dozen tabs open for research toward the completion of a single article.
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Ask HN: Is anyone out there using Scheme for Web development?
9 points by apotheon 17y ago|3 comments
526.
by apotheon 17y ago
Jesus, it's hideous. I'm suddenly less enthusiastic about Perl 6, and I can't even articulate a good reason for it. I'm just very turned off by the site.
527.
by apotheon 17y ago
gated expired bugmenot too lazy to find or make a new one
528.
by apotheon 17y ago
I typically get as far as "new", but then, I routinely have more than a hundred tabs open in Firefox. If Chrom(e|ium) worked on FreeBSD, I'd probably be using that instead.
529.
by apotheon 17y ago
Just about as often as my service providers break in to my servers after asking whether I wanted them to have access to those systems and I said "no".
530.
by apotheon 17y ago
Actually . . . you shouldn't visit the US. I'm leery of leaving the US because of the body cavity searches I can expect when I come back.
531.
by apotheon 17y ago
I wouldn't -- but then again, my landlord wouldn't have the option of "pausing" my home the way the hosting service has the option of pausing a customer's VPS, so it's more reasonable to expect the landlord to come in since that's the only
532.
by apotheon 17y ago
You're pretty much on the money, here -- except that I prefer the term "economic individualist" to "capitalist", generally, since "capitalism" was originally a pejorative term invented by Marx and company to refer to economic individualism.
533.
by apotheon 17y ago
Non-sequitur, much?
534.
by apotheon 17y ago
Funny -- last time I checked the science subreddit (just before I unsubscribed), the front page was entirely flooded with ridiculous sensationalism that had little or nothing to do with actual science, while some actually science-focused ar
535.
by apotheon 17y ago
> Rimuhosting didn't go through this guy's underwear drawer, though. How do you know? They rooted the system against the explicitly stated wishes of the customer. What makes you think they wouldn't do other sketchy things while they'r
536.
by apotheon 17y ago
It's more like he went to McDonald's and specifically requested that they not give him a colonoscopy -- but they did so anyway.
537.
by apotheon 17y ago
Yeah! You tell 'em! Nobody has any grounds to complain when a specific fucking request is ignored ! Who cares if the customer gets what he wants? He should be happy he's getting what thirty other people want instead! Criminy. Did you
538.
by apotheon 17y ago
> I'll promise to read up on it, if you'll learn the meaning of "not even close". I don't see how "I know you are, but what am I?" is a very strong argument. > I will merely mention that most hosting provider customers not only acce
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by apotheon 17y ago
If they were freely copyable, and you had a more pressing need for that $3 than any of them, I'd say go for it. If you have to steal them from someone, on the other hand, you should probably refrain from actually taking away their candies,
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by apotheon 17y ago
Agreed. It's also a good reason to use different hard drives. My preference is to have the failure tolerance and backups, but not have to use it to recover from a head crash.

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