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by codemac 9y ago
Program in rc shell[0]. It has a much superior syntax, and can manage piped commands. The use of the single quote to mean "really fucking quote", and $* working as every user would expect.. makes it a joy. [0]: https://
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by codemac 9y ago
Quick, who can switch to matrix.org before it comes back up?
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by codemac 9y ago
> They tend to be more rigorous and also take longer so again, it's a case-by-case basis thing I'm not sure if we're taking away the same things from these studies, as their whole conclusion is it actually takes less time
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by codemac 9y ago
Look up the talk "what we know about software engineering" on YouTube. Also, search for Mills, Cleanroom, and obviously Capers Jones as I mentioned. I'm on my phone so I can't link a lot, but I maintain that the author s
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by codemac 9y ago
This is a very poorly researched article, and the previous was as well. With people like Capers Jones and others doing piles of studies 30+ years ago, I'm confused why someone says there are no studies on TDD. My bet is the author do
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by codemac 9y ago
We gained 50k jobs in the last year, this is a loss for september of which happens every year as temps etc are usually hired again in Nov. > Over the 12 months that ended in September, the Bay Area added 50,400 jobs, a 1.3 percent incre
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by codemac 9y ago
Hate to sound like the nerd... but segways are freaking fantastic. If you haven't ridden one, go on a "segway" tour of your city. Super fun, and you can see just how simple and mobile you are. Completely replaces most small b
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by codemac 9y ago
The end is nigh.
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by codemac 9y ago
What does this mean for IMAPS w/application specific passwords? It's a really sad statement to say outloud, but if turning this on means my emacs mail client I've been using for ... years doesn't work anymore, I just can
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by codemac 9y ago
Ooop yep, pandoc. Don't know what the source format was yet though. <meta name="generator" content="pandoc" />
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by codemac 9y ago
What software did they use to generate this page? My first guess was org-mode, but it doesn't look like that. Maybe markdown + pandoc?
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by codemac 9y ago
Real Names Only!
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by codemac 9y ago
Or - it's that the work-aholics know that they're never going to get ahead. Middle America thinks they'll get ahead soon. That it's their gumption and attitude that got them to where they are. Which of course is a load o
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by codemac 9y ago
Here's what bothers me about micro-payments: How does a consumer actually evaluate the price of the good? How do I not browse to nytimes.com, because the subcent per scroll price has gone up? I don't actually have an answer, but
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by codemac 9y ago
I got in this same discussion with gregkh on Reddit, and Torvalds in person. Linux development is much slower than many large software engineering firms, because the gatekeeper model has many more integrators and reviewers as a proportion o
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by codemac 9y ago
The first part is a race against time to survive. The second part is a war between humans for scarce resources in space. The third part is about humans, who are largely doing fine, finding out stuff about the past and themselves. There are
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by codemac 9y ago
You and I have different meanings for the word, efficiency. My definition: the most efficient has the least wasted effort and the maximum productivity. I do not think having individuals & classes going off and suing everyone they can, e
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by codemac 9y ago
I-480 is worst version of this where SF put the car traffic ABOVE the pedestrians. Happy every day I take a jog on the embarcadero that it's been demolished.
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by codemac 9y ago
paredit. Why are we editing AST's like this!?
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by codemac 9y ago
> As Apple is not developing this software in the public, it would not make sense to put it on GitHub or any other code hosting site No, the reason they don't put it on GitHub is that they have no intention of participating in the c
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by codemac 9y ago
Hm, I thought the leading person around the concept of cost increases later in the cycle was actually Capers Jones, and his text about it and cleanroom: The Economics of Software Quality. Obviously this is NOT about TDD, but about Cleanro
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by codemac 9y ago
How? Seriously, would love to know. They keep a profile for any person that they think a facebook member knows, so how do I stop them from creating that profile?
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by codemac 9y ago
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/173795483 That's the 3 hour recording.
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by codemac 9y ago
Made a spreadsheet of all of the schools & books, it was harder to scrape the professors: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ZIUSf9xOVi1BEYaokJe...
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by codemac 9y ago
> You are not "handing" them anything with an expectation of reciprocity, you (in most cases) willingly give up information about yourself to them in exchange for their free service. They don't need an "excuse"
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by codemac 9y ago
Literally dividends. There was a period of time during which many thought it was the best way to get value out of your investments.
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by codemac 9y ago
We all miss oink. sci-hub is not like it, but it's more curated that tbp. You can enter a paper's URL or DOI and it'll take you right to it. I think there is curation that should be build on top of it, especially if the conce
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by codemac 9y ago
I didn't see this before! Please feel free to ping it my way, and I'll let you know what my experiences are.
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by codemac 9y ago
It works in eshell ;)
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by codemac 9y ago
> How many people were buying Fujitsu, Samsung and HGST drives before the acquisitions? Many many many. But the purchasers weren't consumers or even businesses, but other storage vendors higher up the value chain (see: emc, netapp,

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