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by codemac 12y ago
> What do you think happens when you provide unlimited free food to a population of rats? 1) No idea, I'm not a rat, nor do I have any expertise in the economic lives of rats. Have there been any studies that show this? I don't
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by codemac 12y ago
> Linux you will often have difficulties to connect to the random WIFI setups you'll find, or to manage the external monitors I will say that linux has amazingly improved. I haven't had a single problem with my t440s wrt wifi o
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by codemac 12y ago
Where are you getting the data for this? It seems to be missing a fair number of startups that have had significant (>20M) rounds.
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by codemac 12y ago
One of our hardware engineers uses Windows, and has been checking in schematics and other documents into a git repo. He's tried switching to Linux, but there are tools that only work on Windows. I was pretty stunned to see just how Mac
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by codemac 12y ago
Any discussion of how projects like monotone defeat this?
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by codemac 12y ago
Well, you're also missing some reasons: - git has an 'email' centric workflow - The index with git (git add -i) awesome for people doing patch maintenance - the rebase workflow is great when you want to maintain against an up
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by codemac 12y ago
The binding arbitration clause is predatory and an unfortunate addition to their terms.
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by codemac 12y ago
> Can you imagine any other industry where the people doing most of the work aren't compensated financially and conglomerates make most of the profit. The NCAA. Ironically, it also has the same bullshit lofty wording around why this
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by codemac 13y ago
I mean... the videos are sortable by shirt color. I'm not sure quality is truly the goal here.
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by codemac 13y ago
Some fun notes about this shell: - There is no '~' - You edit history VERY differently, it's pretty neat, using # and % to edit the history line before it's executed - The default prompt is ';', so when you cop
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Plan9's RC shell for Unix(github.com)
1 points by codemac 13y ago|3 comments
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by codemac 13y ago
> Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of The World Thas is one of my favorite books of all times. Thank you for recommending it, and I will echo your sentiment to others here on HN to read it. It's one of the few books I've actu
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by codemac 13y ago
A long advertisement for a pile of books. Not to mention the article states the obvious - different cultures are.. you know.. different. Am I missing something? Was there anything more to this?
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by codemac 13y ago
He's on a chromebook pixel these days.
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by codemac 13y ago
The picture they took is of the MUNI stop where my 48 bus used to stop, and yes, the Google bus would actually block out the MUNI busses. I haven't experienced it anywhere else though. I think this is basically just a highly visible
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by codemac 13y ago
I'm amazed linum is not more popular in that list (~10% usage).. I definitely thought more people used linum than say something like winner. Interesting. Obviously, this type of data submission should be tied into something like packag
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by codemac 13y ago
The actual pdf, as documentcloud was messing up the rendering of the graphs and spaces between letters: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8858...
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Ask HN: Personal Machine Deployments
2 points by codemac 13y ago|0 comments
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by codemac 13y ago
Anyone have thoughts on "effective meeting minutes?" I know David Allen only wants to see "Next Actions" at the end of a meeting, but I'm curious if anyone has insight into a long (5+ year) project where meeting min
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by codemac 13y ago
> [..] your shortcomings are made so much more obvious. If you're the kind of person who enjoys reading programming manuals and studying Fourier transformations for fun, then you'll probably have a great career ahead of you. Bu
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by codemac 13y ago
Well let's be specific. Given a normalization of usage, period of ownership, driving habits, and maintenance: do they have a different rate of fires that is statistically significant. I don't know the answer, but that's the q
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by codemac 13y ago
emacs org-mode 4 life! https://github.com/codemac/config/blob/master/emacs.d/boot.o... But seriously, you don't need omnifocus for GTD, and all of it's features can (and I have a corollary
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by codemac 13y ago
They were busted on 25 as well, but my FFbeta just upgraded to 26.0 while I had the article open - it's fixed.
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by codemac 13y ago
Exactly. If we can find a way to use the "ipython kernel" with other languages to generate a generic notebook that can access multiple language runtimes, it'll be unstoppable (just as unstoppable as org-mode is)
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by codemac 13y ago
A lot of the tools they sell access to are extremely useful.. if you work remotely.
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by codemac 13y ago
It's like org-mode, but without all the emacs! :) I actually was just discussing with coworkers how I wish tools around org-mode could actually create an "editable" final state that didn't require emacs. I've been
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by codemac 13y ago
Has anyone kept up with notion development?
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by codemac 13y ago
% cat /tmp/tmobile_countries | sort | pbcopy Aland Islands Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Bahrain Barbados Belgium Bermuda Bolivia Bonaire Brazil Brit
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by codemac 13y ago
This is why I basically use DuckDuckGo for any search where I know exactly what terms I want to be super weighted, and Google for things like: "What is the weather in Amsterdam?" It's worked out really well. That plus the !
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by codemac 13y ago
> It's possible to, you know, not actually like Silicon Valley. Well sure, but the goals of the article were in terms of startup ecosystems. I don't think anyone says it's impossible to dislike the bay area (so much to lov

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