apotheon

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by apotheon 17y ago
Now look what you've done . . .
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by apotheon 17y ago
. . . if, by "working", you mean "replacing one form of noise with another, much louder form that will probably outlast the likely lifespan of the original form".
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by apotheon 17y ago
. . . or maybe the effect will be to make people whose level of interest in Erlang is somewhere on this side of sane stop coming to Hacker News, and go back to the programming subreddit.
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by apotheon 17y ago
That was pretty much my reaction.
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Scheme Is Love(msdn.microsoft.com)
72 points by apotheon 17y ago|21 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
What the hell does this have to do with "hacker news"? Go pollute the politics subreddit, please.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Please give the public origins of the notion that security through obscurity is broken a closer look. Until you understand what that means, you will keep making arguments like "keeping your key" (such as a password) "secret is just securit
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by apotheon 17y ago
I can, but only because I'm a cynic.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Maybe he used the same password at PerlMonks: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=2048
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by apotheon 17y ago
I don't think it was mean-spirited. I do, however, think it's a crying shame.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Are you sarcastically suggesting that the best thing about the article is the font -- and since the font is nothing special, there's nothing special about the article? If so, that's hilarious and you deserve upvotes. Are you just using a c
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by apotheon 17y ago
What about a startup that only has room (and money) for cubes or a bunch of desks shoved together in the main room of the rented space, but provides free Starbucks and donuts and lets you work from home whenever you want? > The problem
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by apotheon 17y ago
I agree, regarding deception. As for something being there -- that's kinda the point with a startup: there's quite possibly nothing there yet, but you get to help build it. Someone has to start the process. Just don't hire on with so
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by apotheon 17y ago
From my perspective, that list (and the fact people choose Win7) means: 1. Red Hat / CentOS is better than Ubuntu, but if that's my only free/open source Unix-like option, it sucks. 2. MacOS X is good for the "tell me how my working environ
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by apotheon 17y ago
Really? Do you really think that every business that uses a bunch of Macs is letting employees choose? From what I've seen, most of them assign Macs, and that's what you get to use, period. I think the point of the article was that Macs
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by apotheon 17y ago
Having Macs doesn't mean you get to use the platform of your choice. Is everyone using Macs, or just the people who want them? What about the people whose platform preferences aren't so trite as "Mac or PC"?
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by apotheon 17y ago
Until we have the technology, there's nothing to use to convince anyone to go along with the idea.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Two points: 1. If we assume for a moment that the quoted JFK speech was actually written by JFK (and not by a speechwriter), you've actually proven you're better at penning inspiring words than JFK was. The sentiments in the JFK speech are
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by apotheon 17y ago
I don't think "being dumb" should be rewarded, either -- especially when, if allowed to flourish, such accidental stupidity can lead to willful ignorance and worse.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I just realized that: A) I don't even use delicious for anything but storage, basically; it's where I keep most of my browser bookmarks, via a plugin in my browser. B) If delicious isn't making money hand over fist, it may not survive more
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by apotheon 17y ago
Holy crap. If X forwarding over SSH is that slow on an internal Gb network, either network congestion is crazy-high, or you're doing something wrong. At least, that's my guess, based on my experience with X over SSH, since "shit is not
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by apotheon 17y ago
That's only relevant to the discussion at hand if the person in question actually seems to believe that Y is better than Z in all ways except one. Instead, he appears to believe that Z is better than Y in all ways, period, and uses Y just
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by apotheon 17y ago
Other than hardware, none of those problem sources is any excuse for the whole system to crash -- but people still behave like they are on MS Windows.
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by apotheon 17y ago
In my experience, actually it isn't . I didn't just make that up. Sorry -- your anecdotal evidence doesn't trump mine, especially since: 1. you haven't provided a comparison with X, which is sorta the point -- so maybe X would be blazing
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by apotheon 17y ago
That's the first time I've ever run across something Compiz does that would actually be useful to me over a non-compositing window manager.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> In windows, it looks like the state of an application's GUI is separate from the state of the rendering system. It only looks that way because of the fact MS Windows Vista has two whole window managers integrated with the base OS itse
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by apotheon 17y ago
I just noticed a weird typo. s/other/open/
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by apotheon 17y ago
The PowerShell language is pretty good -- but it's a bit like "teats on a boarhound" in MS Windows.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think my girlfriend would disagree with you about the "great memory". In any case, patio11 said that the end goal was to make it possible to get work done better and faster, and I pointed out that, if that's the case, MS Windows failed -
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by apotheon 17y ago
This is why I said "halfway". Ruby isn't a replacement for Common Lisp (or Scheme) in the macro department; it just gets close enough that you can see Common Lisp (or Scheme) from there. Consider that, when speaking literally of getting ha

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