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by botker 15y ago
One of the core principles of JavaScript is to avoid errors whenever possible. Using + on arrays bothers me less than the fact that there is no error for division by zero.
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by botker 15y ago
You hit the nail on the head. As an Arch user, I find pleasure in configuring a clean system, and indeed I've been continually doing it for years. Since it's natural behavior for me, I find it all too easy to forget that most people, includ
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by botker 15y ago
That's cool. I'd love to live in the bay. Underwater dwellings are awesome. I've always assumed that I'd have no Internet access down there, though, so I never seriously considered the move until now.
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by botker 15y ago
That's 1 down, 141 to go. Who's next? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
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by botker 15y ago
I disagree. A black background on a backlit screen is less eyestrain for the same reason that a white background on printed paper is. In both cases, the significant information is on while the background is off . Reading black on white f
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by botker 15y ago
I was prepared to buy until the page loaded. Yikes. 1 used from $314.52 I hope there are some other publications on the subject of greater or equal quality that have yet to go out of print.
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by botker 15y ago
I'm reminded of this story of the folks who worked on LEO hunting down a similarly difficult-to-find bug that was eventually found to be caused by an unrelated external machine: the manager's elevator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrn24
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by botker 15y ago
Quibble: A curses based application uses a TUI, not a CLI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
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by botker 15y ago
http://seasteading.org/
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by botker 15y ago
Here's my Google Verbatim search engine plugin for your browser. http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+ve...
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by botker 15y ago
You can. Append: &tbs=li:1 Ugly, but it works.
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by botker 15y ago
That's the symbol for logical negation, which would make it a confusing replacement for +.
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by botker 15y ago
What you're proposing is basically the analog of DNS. We would have seen this years ago if only there was any real competition in the postal space.
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by botker 15y ago
What a waste of time it is to complain about the way someone else configured your system. You're the one who chose to use a window manager that doesn't offer custom keybindings. If you can't live with it, then either write your own window m
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by botker 15y ago
In terms of the average quality of their content, G+ : FB :: HN : /. That's just my experience, and YMMV, but if it's globally true then I expect G+ to win in the long run.
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by botker 15y ago
I wish Simple the best of success, but it seems clear that a more technically correct name for the company would be Complicated. I understand that your goal is to create the appearance of simplicity via complicated obfuscations. Those of us
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by botker 15y ago
That's true in the Bay Area at least, but not necessarily everywhere. Back when I was their customer I recall visiting NYC, and asking several random strangers if they knew where I could find a "B of A", and none of them knew what I was tal
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by botker 15y ago
I had the same reaction at first, but its pith became a selling point as I learned the flags. Of course there's nothing stopping you from wrapping the command.
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by botker 15y ago
My first Arch install took well over a couple hours, and was a pleasurably educational hassle. I think it took me over a day to get the system completely working back then. And that was despite my background using Slackware. But every time
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by botker 15y ago
Yes, the dashboard / HUD could be a sweet mobile device if only manufacturers thought of it as a computing platform. They could ship with a package manager (or "app store", what have you), and offer an API to the car. If they allow competit
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by botker 15y ago
The Anarcho-Capitalist position has been thought through fairly well. You may disagree with it, but based on your questions it sounds like you haven't made much of an attempt to learn about it.
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by botker 15y ago
The Pyramids and the Colosseum were both build by slaves. With a tax rate of 100%, it's easy to believe that money was wasted.
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by botker 15y ago
Never pipe `find` to `xargs rm -f`. All you need is a malicious empty file called / and you're screwed. That's why `find` has a -delete flag.