chrismear

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by chrismear 17y ago
Oh man, another '.DD'. I don't think I've even figured out the difference between BDD and TDD yet.
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by chrismear 17y ago
Strongly seconded. And don't do what this site did, and only list the alternative languages in the language that is currently selected: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrismear/3330007381/
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by chrismear 17y ago
I enjoyed this recent post from Dan Benjamin, introducing meditation: http://hivelogic.com/articles/an-introduction-to-mindfulness... In particular, this line: "One final thing to keep in mind; you absolutely do not have to be a Buddhist
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by chrismear 17y ago
I'm not sure this is Time Machine. I know that in VMware Fusion, at least, there's an option to turn your monolithic disk image into a set of smaller individual files. If you turn this on, then Time Machine only has to backup the smaller pa
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by chrismear 17y ago
This makes about as much sense as claiming that before people figured out how to write and before linguists started codifying systems of grammar, all language was just unstructured simplistic animal utterances.
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by chrismear 17y ago
Here's a good five-minute segment from Howard Goodall's 'How Music Works' series, talking about the human universality of the pentatonic scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpvfSOP2slk
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by chrismear 17y ago
That strikes me as an obvious and not particularly noteworthy solution. Disclaimer: I have a Physics degree.
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by chrismear 17y ago
I've encountered more than a few people who take issue with the "us programmers are special flowers, we need weird working hours and no interruptions" line (as they see it). Everyone else gets their job done under normal conditions; why can
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by chrismear 17y ago
If you're interested in these topics, I highly recommend a couple of books by philosopher Daniel Dennett: 'Consciousness Explained' and 'Freedom Evolves'. His way of reconciling determinism with free will goes something like this. Assuming
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by chrismear 17y ago
Interesting experiment. I'm a purist at heart, though, and all this talk of accreting followers as a business process makes me ache a little. I still think this is the best way to go: http://increaseyourtwitterfollowers.com/
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by chrismear 17y ago
This. Also, the media computer.
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by chrismear 17y ago
Standard counter-argument: someone's still got to take away the trash.
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by chrismear 17y ago
Actually, one of the benefits of Git over, say, Subversion, is that it's much easier to hack away on multiple things, and then arrange a series of sensible, self-contained commits from your messy working directory. It's not necessarily a gr