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by burke 14y ago
It's unspecified, I guess, but if you want to read into the spirit of it, which is to make it trivially-supportable by type-nazi languages such as haskell, you either get a [[Int]] or a [[String]].
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by burke 14y ago
Especially when their own logotype has it in all lowercase.
513.
by burke 14y ago
Well, he's the CEO of Github, and he's probably been drinking, so I suppose a little bit of arrogance is expected.
514.
by burke 14y ago
That's still a piss-poor heuristic to rely on -- especially because it biases your analytics data toward google-users.
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by burke 14y ago
I've been using Go a lot lately. It's difficult to overstate just how much simpler it makes writing highly-concurrent server-type programs. Entire classes of bugs, issues, and puzzles just vanish.
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by burke 14y ago
There's not much to maintain. I ported the matcher from Command-T out of its ruby-C wrapper, and it more or less just works. I use it dozens or hundreds of times a day.
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by burke 14y ago
Yes and no. There's a clear divide in this case between corporate and personal interests. America wasn't originally all about defending corporate rights more vigorously than personal ones.
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by burke 14y ago
Wrong question. If you can't simplify or analogize enough to explain something technical, you don't understand it well enough yourself. Sometimes I'll tell people "It's kind of abstract and will take a while to explain. Do you still care?"
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by burke 14y ago
CSIS is not nearly as eager to unjustly violate personal freedoms out of spite as its American counterparts seem to be.
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by burke 14y ago
It's not insanely hard; it just takes some practice. The gist of what you'd do is: * Assign a word to each card. For example, the three of spades might be "pancakes", but I think people usually have some sort of digit-to-sound mapping (eg.
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by burke 14y ago
And, again anecdotally, I experience much more concerning side effects from drinking a couple red bulls or monsters than I do from downing 4 espressos at once.
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by burke 14y ago
For the lazy: https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Azsh_history&type...
523.
by burke 14y ago
I try to ignore these things because the GPL generally just infuriates me, but do themes seriously count as derivative works for the purpose of GPL licensing?
524.
by burke 14y ago
while quite a bit more complex than this (2200 lines rather than 50), dwm[1] is a fairly complete tiling window manager, with extremely readable code. [1]: http://git.suckless.org/dwm/tree/dwm.c
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by burke 14y ago
It's different for white collar crime. People stealing cars likely don't have much going on in their lives, and joining a gang might look to them like a viable way forward. Martha Stewart was jailed for insider trading. Before, during, and
526.
by burke 14y ago
The difference in this case is that it could reasonably be argued he had an implied license to all the content he downloaded. The millions of kids downloading music have done more wrong by the letter of the law than Aaron did.
527.
by burke 14y ago
Sure, but the materials costs would almost certainly exceed that of the equivalent lego set (for now).
528.
by burke 14y ago
Shpongle was my go-to coding music for a number of years. More recently I've been listening to a lot of trance. Above & Beyond's Group Therapy podcast is excellent.
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by burke 14y ago
If the headache is caused by sinus blockage, capsaicin is generally pretty good at getting those flowing. Hangover headaches, I have no idea.
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by burke 14y ago
It's a cool animation, but it overstates the incorrectness of the heliocentric model. There is no absolute reference frame, so the heliocentric model is perfectly valid if we take the Sun as the reference. This model is (closer to) correct
531.
by burke 14y ago
Here are my first impressions as a keyboard-heavy email user: * Created account and added my google apps account. Detection worked well. * Tried to switch to my google apps inbox by pressing Cmd-2 like twitter clients and other apps with a
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by burke 14y ago
No, because like it or not, "he" is the de facto pronoun for a person of irrelevant gender.
533.
by burke 14y ago
I interpret this as encouragement to use fully-qualified package names (eg: https://github.com/burke/zeus/blob/master/go/zeusmaster/zeus... ), which I don't really have a problem with. Go code is nothing if not explicit.
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by burke 14y ago
I've started building this exact same thing so many times, but never had nearly the follow-through you did. Fantastic job. This has been sorely lacking for many years, and I'm excited to start using it!
535.
by burke 14y ago
I was responding specifically to the 'It clearly costs money' statement. It definitely costs them $0 more than gmail.
536.
by burke 14y ago
If someone's already committed to paying, they can be convinced to pay more. It's hard to convince someone getting something for free that they should start forking over dollars.
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by burke 14y ago
How so? It's essentially the same service as gmail, only with a different domain. The incremental cost to them is zero, and they make the same revenue as they do from a gmail user.
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by burke 14y ago
Takeaways: * Existing free accounts will remain free. * New accounts will cost $50/user/year. It sounds like this applies to personal domains with only one user as well.
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by burke 14y ago
It's not, as it doesn't do anything to describe the problem or the solution. However, the change is so trivial that it's immediately apparent, so who cares :)
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Dealing with Github Notifications(gist.io)
2 points by burke 14y ago|0 comments

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