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by cogs 8y ago
I see no one has mentioned Scrivener. I love it because it allows ideas to grow organically from a single sentence to a whole book; or a single idea into a project spec and plan. I use it to manage all my personal projects. They usually st
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by cogs 8y ago
Wow. But then the question is - what word does the letter represent: is it a topic, a project, the name of the tool ... ?
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by cogs 8y ago
I do like the idea that "Most files go straight to the default suggested path". Maybe the rest is a little Google-centric for me. Perhaps that's why I'm having trouble being organised; I haven't bought 100% into an
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Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?
275 points by cogs 8y ago|244 comments
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by cogs 8y ago
He's very active on Twitter, and goes around giving talks about the impact of technology. I'd guess that doesn't stretch to the impact of lousy customer service.
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by cogs 8y ago
I cancelled my subscription last year after similar problems with full text search. I did get a download of my data, albeit it took a while, after requesting it from my settings page. I've never had a reply to any of my emails to him.
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by cogs 8y ago
Programming for beginners is just as accessible as it has ever been, there are good languages (some specifically for beginners: Logo, and game making languages and so on) and good courses. Where do I think programming has stalled is in the
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Optimistic Nihilism(youtube.com)
1 points by cogs 8y ago|0 comments
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by cogs 8y ago
I can't find any mention of commercial license pricing anywhere, can anyone enlighten me? Because python links dynamically, I believe it's possible to use python Qt bindings commercially without a commercial Qt license. Does pysid
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by cogs 8y ago
I know C++ isn't really dying off, but what is the best platform-agnostic compiled object-orientated language these days? I liked Borland Pascal, and I know Delphi is kind of ticking along, but I'd rather invest in a language th
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by cogs 9y ago
It's not on the BBC News England page now (8 hours after story was posted in the early morning UK time). I did find it, as you say on the Politics page, and yes it was one of the smaller headlines with the title "Police admit role
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by cogs 9y ago
Oh, and my original title made clear, although the BBC title which HN has now imposed did not: this was done by Special Branch. Special Branch are the police arm of the UK domestic security services, not the kind of neighbourhood police imp
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by cogs 9y ago
Apparently this was on the BBC front page this morning, but somehow I blinked and missed it. I don't have any trade union axe to grind, but I'm pretty shocked both by the security services behaviour, and by the lack of coverage th
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London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting construction workers(bbc.co.uk)
182 points by cogs 9y ago|57 comments
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Ask HN: Is it time to patch against Spectre and Meltdown yet?
1 points by cogs 9y ago|0 comments
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by cogs 9y ago
No I'm not. It's possible I have done in the past, but not currently or recently.
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by cogs 9y ago
Different computer, same house. So it wasn't browser cookies.
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Amazon advertised my search items on my wife's Facebook
15 points by cogs 9y ago|17 comments
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Wow, 12000 people fall asleep to futurama. Whats the opposite of loneliness?(reddit.com)
3 points by cogs 9y ago|0 comments
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by cogs 9y ago
Supra-national organizations help prevent war. The original purpose of the EU was to integrate the countries so tightly that war .. which happened twice on this continent not so long ago, would be unthinkable. Now - when the world is look
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by cogs 9y ago
How does this compare with Apple? I haven't seen so many articles about what MacOS slurps, is that because it is better behaved?
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by cogs 10y ago
We built Crab so we could run SQL queries over the filesystem. It's for Win and Mac, free for personal use, and lets you slice this anyway you want and plot the data how you like. I like the flexibility. http://etia.co.uk&
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by cogs 10y ago
I don't see we should have to learn a new language for this at all. The set based paradigm of SQL lends itself very well to reporting and processing files, and is known by 7 million people. SELECT extension, count(*) FROM files GROUP B
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by cogs 10y ago
The syntax kind of gets in the way of the logic here. We built a SQL tool to run at the shell prompt, Crab. It's free for personal use, and designed to make this easier. http://etia.co.uk
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by cogs 10y ago
We've only tested on personal systems so far, just a few TB. The theoretical limit is around 9PB, but we don't know what performance would be like at this scale. A one TB spinning disk drive takes about 30 mins to scan, several th
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by cogs 10y ago
Crab - SQL for the filesystem. Bash is such a pain because of all the incompatible utilities. Its much nicer just to think about logic than to be searching for command switches and dealing with corner cases like .. file names that contain
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by cogs 10y ago
We did look at Log Parser, and osquery, before starting to build Crab, but neither of them have an exec() command to run programs on query results - such as deleting them, unzipping them, or moving them. And Log Parser doesn't support
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by cogs 10y ago
We built a SQL query tool for the filesystem (macOS) last year, and will be launching for Windows in the next two weeks. Finding files is pretty straight forward using the LIKE operator against text in the filename, path or file contents. A
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Gene Drive(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by cogs 10y ago|0 comments
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The life expectancy of anything(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by cogs 11y ago|0 comments

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