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by chousuke 14y ago
Maybe they ought to call it Libre Universal Construction Kit instead.
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by chousuke 14y ago
I learned to use hjkl(yubn) by playing Crawl on a macbook which doesn't have a numpad so it was impossible to move diagonally otherwise. Nowadays I don't even need to think about using any of those keys for moving around. In fact, I use t
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by chousuke 14y ago
Something like that is probably possible with NFC tags. My phone doesn't support them so I can't give details, but I'm fairly certain it's doable.
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by chousuke 14y ago
The nice thing about Haskell is that you can have a million data types with different names, and as long as they're capable of implementing the type classes you are using, you can pretty much freely switch between the different underlying t
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by chousuke 14y ago
I'm sorry, I don't see the problem. You can encapsulate away the state behind an opaque type so that it can be only accessed by functions that you have defined. Whether this is a good choice is up to the programmer, but it's common practice
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by chousuke 14y ago
Could you explain why a monad is unencapsulated? As far as I can tell, using monads is a far superior way to encapsulate state, since it's impossible to use the state without also operating within the type universe that you've defined for
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by chousuke 14y ago
You can just start typing a path. Typing / shows an input field, and it has tab completion too.
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by chousuke 14y ago
I often wish the minimum brightness on the SGS2 screen were lower. Most of the time I run at the lowest setting, and if I use the phone in a dimly-lit room I further darken it with Screen Filter (to about 35%) to avoid overloading my eyes
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by chousuke 14y ago
How's the performace? I tried a beta of Quantal a couple weeks ago and Unity was so slow compared to vanilla Gnome that it wasn't really usable (I have a Radeon HD 3000 card, using the FOSS driver). I hope it's not that bad in the actual re
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by chousuke 14y ago
I think without this ability to "game" the system SO wouldn't be half as good as it is now. You end up with brilliant and above all complete answers that can be kept up to date, and the moderation policy reduces duplication and clutter, ke
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by chousuke 14y ago
The thing is, given the Firefox project's new development model, their old versioning scheme makes absolutely no sense. Deciding which version numbner to bump would be completely arbitrary and exactly as informative as just using a single n
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by chousuke 14y ago
> Doing more (Which a more highly abstracted languages must do) Can you explain why you think this assumption is true? I don't think it is. A higher level of abstraction may allow your to convey more information in less code, but that
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by chousuke 14y ago
Clojure is slower than Java in general, but strives to provide you the tools that you need to write code "as fast as java" when you need it, eg. via type hints (to avoid the need for reflection). Clojure's interop with Java is also differen
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by chousuke 14y ago
The thing most people seem to miss is that you can't actually mutate a commit in git. You can only appear to do so by removing the old commit and replacing it, and all of its children if it has any, with new commits. If someone depends on y
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by chousuke 14y ago
Doing those "unsafe" things in git by accident in a way that is unrecoverable pretty much requires you to be so drunk that you wake up the next day not remembering what you have done. forcefully pushing things to remote repositories can be
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by chousuke 14y ago
I really can't agree with point #1. Most of the things he lists as being part of the complex information model are equivalent and make perfect sense once you take a couple hours to understand how git works internally. And no, that's not t
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by chousuke 14y ago
EULAs can contain arbitrary demands, but that doesn't mean they're enforceable. The particular statement "without notice" sounds like something that would simply be ignored in court.
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by chousuke 14y ago
Learning kanji isn't quite so hard as people often make it out to be... It's not trivial, of course, but you're off by an order of magnitude. :P A native Japanese person once told more she sees kanji as images, so it probably is different,
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by chousuke 14y ago
I like the appropriation of an archaic word for this use. The point is to make you think about something familiar in a manner that is unfamiliar to most. The word is now strongly connected to the concepts of easy and simple which Rich tries
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by chousuke 15y ago
I've found sleepyti.me to work for me. After a while of paying attention to sleeping for a preset duration instead of waking up at a preset time it became kind of automatic, and nowadays I wake up before the alarm (often just a minute or a
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by chousuke 15y ago
I was reading it as "Hyyppönen" until I read this comment and looked at it more carefully :P Even though o and ö are not interchangeable in Finnish, I suppose just o is preferable to the "oe" abomination that is occasionally used. Especiall
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by chousuke 15y ago
I think the "if it compiles, it works" has to do with Haskell's type system being much more expressive than most static languages, and that most of your code will be declarative and pure. Purity helps because your program will necessarily b
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by chousuke 15y ago
My intuition tells me that hiding data in objects does not really help as long as the data is still mutable. Immutability is the only way to guarantee true encapsulation for objects that don't actually represent something inherently statefu
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by chousuke 15y ago
In my experience, Pentadactyl is more actively developed. The people who started PD were the two most active developers of Vimperator before the fork. PD has since diverged enough from Vimperator that the code bases are almost entirely in
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by chousuke 15y ago
I hadn't used DVDs in years either, but when I did need my DVD drive yesterday (I wanted to try out Arch Linux) I found out it's malfunctioning :/ I can burn the disc with it, but for some reason it refuses to read anything. To top it off,
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by chousuke 15y ago
Is it necessary to find something negative in git if you want to highlight a limitation in mercurial? (That can admittedly be worked around with extensions) The author makes a point that git's more transparent approach makes certain things
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by chousuke 15y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that anyone who obtains a GPL'd binary is entitled to receive the source as well, from the source that provided them with the binary. If you are careful with who you distribute the binary to, you could in theo
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by chousuke 15y ago
That's not really an advantage. If service providers and marketers were regulated reasonably, you wouldn't have to pay for receiving calls AND you could prevent telemarketers from calling you. Here in Finland there's a number you can call t
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by chousuke 15y ago
> This makes it REALLY HARD to keep up with your team members' code, because all you see are huge commit batches at the end of the day containing tons of diffs. Git is decentralised. If you think you might get conflicts with some other
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by chousuke 15y ago
I feel that most occurrences of the word 'fuck' are unimaginative and fail to utilise the full expressive potential of swearing. There are countless interesting words and phrases that convey the same emotion as the F-bomb, and I would rathe

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