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by catenate 14y ago
I always opt out of both the new booths. Occasionally they ask why. I say I don't trust them, nobody should trust the security apparatus of the state, and they have no real concern for my safety or well-being. I also make a point of saying
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by catenate 14y ago
Yeah, it would be bad if any of the clowns got out.
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by catenate 14y ago
Yes, if the bottom of the iceberg-hole is below sea level. If the mantle at the bottom of this new bore-hole is under pressure and liquid, then it will go up the bore hole until the pressure above it equals the pressure below. If the botto
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by catenate 14y ago
Without adequate safeguards, what's down there will come up here (at least to the top of the borehole), and create a new 6km volcano. I'd name it Moria.
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by catenate 14y ago
It's bad enough I spent $50 to read it. I'm not going to pay $50 more just to mess around with trying to create an app for it. It should be free with membership to create an app for it, and charge the $50 when the app has noticeable traff
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by catenate 14y ago
Very good point: long variable names make it harder to spot when they've been mistyped. Even worse, some long variables become other long variables when mistyped in just the right characters. On the other hand, in long variable names, the
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by catenate 14y ago
If I encountered this (I usually fly up to six times a month) I would simply not buy the supposedly-offending food item at that airport ever again. If enough people do this, the businesses there will be less able to pay their expensive airp
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by catenate 14y ago
> 'Tomorrow' looks way too colorful for my taste, kinda like eating something too sweet after weaning yourself off sugar :) Sing with me: What can make boring code Seem all fresh and new Cover it in pastels of both deep and li
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by catenate 14y ago
> It's easy to apply an editor command across every open buffer, if you need to refactor for instance. As as example: Edit X/.* / ,s,loginAdmin,loginIdiAmin,g I edit this text (in a guide file for the current directory) to suit my curre
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by catenate 14y ago
Sam and acme do away with almost all the cursor movement commands and keystrokes of other editors, and replaces them with the mouse (to move the cursor around, just point and click, simpler and faster) and structured regular expressions (to
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by catenate 14y ago
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/ reproduces the original paper by Rob Pike, which goes into some detail, and at length. http://sam.cat-v.org/ collects links to sam implementations, papers, and paraphernalia (such as
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by catenate 14y ago
Inferno is kind of like Plan 9 running on a VM, with its own peculiarites like a really nice shell language. Having a VM, versus integrating with the host os like plan9port or cygwin, lets you use new features of the os like directory bindi
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by catenate 14y ago
I used emacs for 11 years (93-04) and then acme-like editors (wily, plan9port acme, Acme SAC, Inferno acme) for 8 years (04-). Acme (especially guide files) made a distinct and pervasive change to my working style that emacs never did: spe
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by catenate 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that the trick to tackling most problems in practice is to see the basic problems to solve, and find existing tools to apply. Solve 80% of the problem in 20% of the time, and move on to something else you need to get done.
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by catenate 14y ago
Plan 9 port to Linux, or Inferno's VM over Linux, to stop spending time learning new options, and use simpler tools to actually get stuff done.
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by catenate 14y ago
It doesn't take half a million dollars to come up with one single actual demoable application that does something twitter won't or can't do. The point of this thing is supposed to be better apps. Fine, show me one, and I'll pay $50 to see
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by catenate 14y ago
There is a free tier. Anyone can read the global feed.
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by catenate 14y ago
I do understand this, and would like it to be true. But until at least one application actually exists that twitter won't or can't do, this is all promises, and those apps (which I hope aren't limited to user clients) are, in fact, vaporwa
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by catenate 14y ago
Can anyone yet point to something done with app.net that twitter won't or can't do? $50 is a lot to pay for something that so far acts just like twitter. Without those new and interesting apps, which right now do appear to be vaporware, i
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by catenate 14y ago
Having reusable tools in the first place, to make it a problem simple enough to solve with a shell script, is the accomplishment that advances the state of our art. It reduces a complex data structure to passing data through a pipe, which
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by catenate 14y ago
Don't think so. The liberty cap has been a symbol of emancipation from slavery in Western culture since ancient times. There's a statue of Columbia, goddess of liberty, atop the dome of Congress. She was designed with a liberty cap, but was
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by catenate 14y ago
I'll second this. That stupid-looking cat tells me nothing about the goal of the movement, what it's fighting against, or the character of its supporters, other than they probably also like nyancat or hello kitty. If you want a serious symb
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by catenate 14y ago
I want this to be awesome. I feel the void of great apps while trawling through my flat feed, searching and scanning for info that should flow to me through a thousand different apps, just as I need it. BUT, I won't spend $50 on a dream, wi
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by catenate 14y ago
Inspired by redo, I've been writing a simple command-line tool set you could use to automatically generate and maintain a build system. https://github.com/catenate/credo
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by catenate 14y ago
So a better logo for Microsoft would be a Katamari Damacy ball?
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by catenate 14y ago
I see they actually created a way to remove the FB app from an Android device. Back when they hoovered up phone contacts into their database, I tried to break the connection, but all I could do at the time was delete my entire facebook acco
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by catenate 14y ago
Acme supports constantly improving how you work in little ways, better than tools with plugins or extension languages, by not having many features, and providing a good interface to route text through shell pipelines. For a simple example,