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   by cnasc 8y ago

   I use Emacs, and I played around with Pharo, Squeak, and Cuis. I would go so far as to say the Emacs is an acceptable Smalltalk, but the Smalltalk environment’s defaults are far better. It’s worth playing with it to experience it (see just
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   by cnasc 8y ago

   I believe at this point no incremental upgrade is possible, because Carbon is entirely deprecated and will not run on current Macs.
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   by cnasc 8y ago

   > There was one notable exception, and that was my experience with Triplebyte. They have a much better technical interview process than any I have seen anywhere else. I quite liked my Triplebyte interview too (all the better that I could
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   by cnasc 8y ago

   It stains my credulity to think he would fly cross-country just for an office opening party
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   by cnasc 8y ago

   > Do mildly Christmas-themed movies such as Die Hard (it's not integral to the plot) The plot of the movie would have to be changed substantially if it didn't take place at Christmas, so I think it is integral to the plot.
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   by cnasc 8y ago

   I'd be interested to see the TV program if it happens to be uploaded anywhere
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   by cnasc 8y ago

   And in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, most families are organized as a sort of generational polygamy thing, typically with more men than women in the group because of the relative scarcity of women in the moon penal colony.
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   by cnasc 8y ago

   I’ll second this, first time I tried I got about 5 minutes in, decided it wasn’t funny and moved on. Later I gave it a better try, deciding to at least watch the entirety of the first episode and I ended up binging much of the first season.
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   by cnasc 8y ago

   Getting a bit off topic here, but you sound knowledgeable about Ruby. Ruby is a language I've always admired from afar, but never spent much time trying out. I've read the poignant guide, which was amusing but didn't teach me
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    In this case I think they meant "dimensional" rather than skeuomorphic. Elementary isn't flat, but that's a selling point in my opinion.
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    My impression is that Ikey has been more or less gone for a while, and the recent news was just confirmation that he didn't plan on coming back. I use Solus on my Thinkpad and it's been great for me (I package SBCL and Kakoune for
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    > There was actually a set of SegaScope 3D Glasses for use in the Sega Master System that could render a stereoscopic effect right on a NTSC-standard television set! I had this! I'm too young to have played the Master System in its
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    Since the menthol cools your throat it makes heavy smoking less unpleasant and also makes it easier for a new smoker to develop a habit. Whether there’s data to show that these effects are significant enough to justify a ban specifically on
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    Alfa makes a full range of vehicles, including performance cars
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    > All websites looking "the same" is effectively evolution at work. Many website designs and layouts have been tried, and the "best" of them have stuck around. Yes. This is quite similar to asking why all newspapers
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    Where do you think those languages got those features from? This story appears to take place in the 80s, incidentally.
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    Some previous meta-discussion about a reddit post that made some very critical claims about 42: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189670
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    Sort of intentionally in stealth mode according to the dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683186
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    Would the UV damage your eyes or is a question of intensity?
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    While we're on the topic of McNamara, I'd like to plug the documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara [1]. It's great to watch, and you can see how McNamara's perspective has changed
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_fork
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    This course on EdX is pretty good: https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UCSanDiegoX+ALGS20... They have an automated grader that runs through a number of test cases (some of which are hidden from you). Unfortunate
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    I seem to recall reading (maybe somewhere in the J docs, though I can't find it now) that some people are more content to rewrite a verb definition than to try and parse it out. That is, if you're refactoring code it's faster
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    This is exactly the book I wish I had right now
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    You might find this repo interesting: https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-parens
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    I don't know that Cuba has been accused of conducting attacks. It's just that this event (whether an attack or not) happened in Cuba.
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    > I have yet to see any realistic proposed solution(s) to climate change. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air [1] is a free book that has a good start on this [1] https://www.withouthotair.com/
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    > If it makes all ballots look alike then surely it’s easier to stuff ballots with this. Maybe. But keep in mind that they know how many people voted at a given venue. So it's not sufficient to simply add a bunch of ballots, you als
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    Hm. I have to dig through my pile of Thinkpads to see if I have an X220 still. I mostly use Linux now, but I'm interested to see macOS on the X220 in action firsthand. Might be useful to have around in any event as a backup for my 2011
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    by cnasc 8y ago

    I'm curious to know if TrackPoint scrolling works nicely (or at all)