cactusface

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   by cactusface 11y ago

   Okay, so what's a drop in replacement for Times that comes with standard LaTeX distributions? It must fit as much or more text and ACM must be okay with it. Reviewers will actually criticize authors for using CM, preferring to have th
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   by cactusface 11y ago

   Correlation is not causation? How does the introduction of high speed rail reasonably result in people deciding not to take the train?
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   by cactusface 11y ago

   Less cars on the road?
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   by cactusface 11y ago

   I don't know, a lot of people I've met ditched CM for Times long ago because you can squeeze a lot more text in, which matters for conference publication page limits.
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   by cactusface 11y ago

   I tried doing the whole works but the only lasting things from GTD were: 1) start each item on your todo lists with a verb 2) get lots and lots of folders and just keep creating new folders in a flat hierarchy to organize things all the tim
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   by cactusface 11y ago

   > I have no desire to publicly out myself on this. Well then you'd better delete this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9672480
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   by cactusface 11y ago

   He said A means B, but you're refuting B means A.
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   by cactusface 11y ago

   I guess the word rapid is ambiguous. Most chain restaurants have repeatable and scalable business models and as such count as startups, even if it takes ages for them to reach multinational status. However they're still rapid growth
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   by cactusface 11y ago

   > a repeatable and scalable business model implies rapid growth.
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    Then again you wouldn't have the initial JVM bytecode interpreter without p-code and the p-system, which were the bytecode and runtime environment used by UCSD Pascal. These were a direct inspiration for the Sun engineers developing J
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    Beer drinking competitions, debatably.
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    Can you say more about that?
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    Apparently sometimes Argon gas instead of a (partial) vacuum, but I didn't read up on why...
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    Well, generally speaking nothing is impossible, but it's often more efficient to put the extra features in the same binary. However this "bloat" is nothing compared to your typical desktop or programming environment.
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in PowerShell?
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    X11, KDE, GNOME, GCC, Emacs, Mozilla? Any huge project I guess. The GNU command line tools are not as lean as the BSD ones but so what?
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    regedit would like to have coffee with you.
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    Alternatively MSYS + MinGW + GCC / MSVC.
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    Thinking about a box of hammers makes me smile.
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    hero/villain claim: So it's a tautology if you interpret it like this: You are currently A. You will die. If you don't die as A, you will die as !A. But it's not a tautology because there's an intermediate state
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    To their credit, they were (apparently) the first blog / news aggregator. R.I.P.
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    by cactusface 11y ago

    > It's the same reason you probably have double panes in your home: thermal and noise insulation. Air has terrible thermal and noise conduction. So you need two panes and air between them. I think it's the lack of air in doub