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by cout 5y ago
That's a great point. I often do writing in markdown format using vim. I really wanted to like LaTeX for writing, but I kept having to look up how to use it.
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by cout 5y ago
Thank you, I forgot Word had that feature. If I remember correctly, it's not nearly as powerful as Reveal Codes -- it's like setting :li in vim to see whitespace marks. Reveal Codes shows you _all_ the codes (imagine HTML or SGM
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by cout 5y ago
Though it lacks Reveal Codes, I can tolerate older versions of Word, but when they added the ribbon I was completely confused. Give me a keyboard template and function keys any day over a hodgepodge of nonsensical icons with no obvious orga
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by cout 5y ago
I still occasionally use WordPerfect on my PS/2 when I want to get serious writing done. I don't have any multitasking set up, just plain DOS, so no internet or other distractions to occupy my time. (and even if I could multitask
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by cout 5y ago
Two words: Reveal Codes. Have you ever moved your cursor and started typing, only to find out that suddenly you were typing in BOLD? That's due to some bold code left behind from earlier in the edit. In WordPerfect you could press F1
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by cout 5y ago
I agree; business tactics and chess tactics are different worlds. The big difference between chess and the real world is that in chess you lack resource production: the pieces you have are the pieces you will always have, and no more. This
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by cout 5y ago
Short for Multi User Dungeon, it's a world you can explore and interact with alongside other users. They were generally text-based (like Zork), though I believe there were some roguelikes and graphical MUDs too. Many multiplayer onlin
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by cout 5y ago
I would also like awaiting to be the default, as I've been bitten more than a few times by forgetting to await. It's tricky though -- if I assign the result of a function to a variable, should I immediately await? What if I'm
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by cout 5y ago
Or maybe someone intends for freenode to fail.
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by cout 5y ago
Thank you for the swift and polite reply.
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by cout 5y ago
Who is nedbat?
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by cout 5y ago
I remember when it was a big deal that I could play MOD files through my PC speaker (I forget the name of the tracker I used, but the interface was in German and was fast enough to run smoothly on my 386SX/25). That mplayer now runs on
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by cout 5y ago
I did the same thing for years, mindlessly browsing well past a sane hour. What changed is I started going to bed early and getting up early, before the sun rises. I still browse mindlessly on occasion, but my after-coffee morning browsin
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by cout 5y ago
The #1 recommendation I can make for working from home is: get dressed before you start work. It helps to separate work from rest when you do both in the same place. It's easy to stay in your pyjamas and start work, but doing this ev
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by cout 5y ago
This looks like a fun class! If only I were young again. Unfortunately, I took undergraduate physics 20 years ago, and I can barely remember the Lorentz transformation and the Hamiltonian, so I couldn't get very far in reading this.
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by cout 5y ago
After reading the front page, I'm a little confused. How do you go from "compose your website using UI components from your favorite JavaScript web framework" to "a fully static website with all JavaScript removed from
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by cout 5y ago
So why then isn't this an anti-trust case instead of trying to make google a public utility? It seems Ohio is throwing cases and seeing what sticks.
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by cout 5y ago
I have more than once pondered what the world would look like if GEOS had become the dominant GUI in the 90s instead of Windows.
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by cout 5y ago
I clicked on the link hoping it was a new type of bubble gum.
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by cout 5y ago
Oh, now that sounds nifty. When I went to the page I didn't understand what it was for. A squeak derivative in JavaScript could be fun.
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by cout 5y ago
I thought this was a pretty bland list until I spotted that one. I find it very insightful.
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by cout 5y ago
Performance for me has been awful since a few releases ago. I have eight cores, and I often find that Firefox is using 100% of all eight cores when I'm not even using the browser. I ran perf on the processes and what it's doing
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by cout 5y ago
Even the most fundamental types in smalltalk derivatives are circularly defined (using Ruby as an example: Object is an instance of Class, and Class inherits from Object). Circularity doesn't make this any less useful as a model, just
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by cout 5y ago
Mitosis is the cellular equivalent of prototypal inheritance; the cell clones itself, and then you have two cells, each a copy of the original. You even get an inheritance hierarchy when pluripotent cells divide and become differentiated; t
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by cout 5y ago
To clarify, I don't think OO is natural for all problems, and I don't think it is natural for all people either. But for many people, it is natural. Do you describe the world around you using nouns? Anything you can name is an o
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by cout 5y ago
I agree; many OO models are built in a contorted way that does not reflect reality. Still, the fact that you refer to the coffee machine as a noun and not a process tells me that you do think of that device as an object. And yes you do put
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by cout 5y ago
It's also useful forensic data if your site is ever hacked.
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by cout 5y ago
What would an ECS language look like? Would it differ substantially from an OO language? ECS seems to me more like a pattern than a paradigm.
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by cout 5y ago
I like the use of the word "mold" here; I've not heard it applied to programming before. Manufactured objects are often very different from the prototype, but it's harder to differ substantially from the mold.
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by cout 5y ago
The concept of a message is older than the actor model, so I don't think it can be considered a fundamental part of the definition of a message (so Smalltalk-style messages are still messages). I do think the Actor model is the most i

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