borkabrak

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by borkabrak 12y ago
Works on Ubuntu for me.
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by borkabrak 12y ago
Interesting all around, for discussion of a technique I haven't been fully aware of before. The mention of the depiction of lettered documents caused me some pensive ruminations on the fine detail involved in painting typefaces.
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by borkabrak 12y ago
There seems to be something very Japanese about this to me. I get that there is a humorous component, but there's also something precious about putting so much time and focus into doing something obsessively well. This point is made
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by borkabrak 12y ago
Wow, I use Google like, a lot.
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by borkabrak 13y ago
Ask him about that twenty bucks he still owes me.
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by borkabrak 13y ago
Yeah, I took that to be a dig a Paul Graham, whose early essays all seemed to have unlinked footnotes.
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by borkabrak 13y ago
Thanks for the idea. I just wrote a similar thing, based on this. Credited you in the header. :)
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by borkabrak 13y ago
I don't agree with it; I think time is proving him wrong. But that is hilariously written. I love a well-executed embittered screed.
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by borkabrak 13y ago
The regular 9 to 5 is what some people want . And that's fine . They get their satisfaction in ways we may not -- (stereotypes coming).. a kid to play with, buddies at the bar, plunking a guitar, reading John MacDonald. This is not
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by borkabrak 13y ago
Almost signed up until they required a phone number, with no explanation why.
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by borkabrak 13y ago
At $10 per cigarette, in a neighborhood where you're likely to get shot. But they're illegal in order to keep us safe. Right.
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by borkabrak 14y ago
I feel like I've missed something. What, exactly, are they teaching? I don't mean to be confrontational -- this is a genuine question.
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by borkabrak 14y ago
In my work, it's generally better to optimize for clarity rather than performance. I suspect this is true more and more as compilers grow in sophistication. In this vein, use: x = x / 2 To DIVIDE, use the DIVISION operator.
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by borkabrak 14y ago
The directory ~/.config/fish should be there. However, you'll have to create the file config.fish inside that directory, if you want to use it. I'd hazard a guess that fish_config may do that for you.
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by borkabrak 17y ago
I don't get it.. why was he upset?