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The plight of the eclectic geek, or, where have all the dilettantes gone?(blog.zdsmith.com)
5 points by crux 16y ago|2 comments
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by crux 16y ago
The one advantage that my system has is that it's a little more like Colemak than Dvorak—to drop the metaphor, my system basically takes a standard line of plain text and does a lot of character substitution. So not only is any line of my s
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Ask HN: How do you feel about shorthand?
1 points by crux 16y ago|5 comments
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by crux 16y ago
You're right about his semantic mix-up, but surely you knew exactly what he meant.
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by crux 16y ago
The Vesper is rather vile, but its very well known recipe does indeed include vodka.
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by crux 16y ago
Edward Tufte's impression of Windows Phone 7: 'Ooh, look at me! I'm Windows Phone 7! I think I'm so smart! Look at all my buttons! I'm Windows Phone 7! Typography! A bloo bloo bloo!' I'll take the karma hit; I couldn't resist.
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by crux 16y ago
To be completely honest, I did originally write the name as historius, and had to double-check that there was an O in there. Latin morphology often competes with English morphology when it comes to naming things.
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by crux 16y ago
'-ly' is just a very common English morpheme, which also happens to be a TLD. In the age of rapidly expanding domain names, the trend in general has been to find common suffixes that will fit within English phonotactics and morphology, to f
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by crux 16y ago
I get the feeling you were a big fan of Ender's Game when you were a kid.
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by crux 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, what would you use a shell account like that for? Do you do active development on it, or is it just a place to keep a screen session with an irc client running?
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by crux 16y ago
I think that's well enough, but I also think that wrapped up somewhere in that blog post is the assumption—which is now terribly widespread but still strange to me—that the decision to blog comes before the decision on what to blog about. I
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by crux 16y ago
In that case, it seems like what we're really trying to do is envision or bring about a world in which death ISN'T a good thing. If we can bring about an existence without overpopulation, decrepitude, destruction of the biosphere—and maybe
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by crux 16y ago
I found myself completely stymied once that article got to the section about death. I haven't read their other articles on the subject, but they seem to find it rather uncontroversial to assert that anyone who thinks that death is ultimatel
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by crux 16y ago
In my case, Colemak was declared the best even though Capewell had less travel—because, I believe, Colemak had a considerably greater proportion of index-finger use. I reckon that because the Personalized layout clearly aims for maximum ind
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by crux 16y ago
'(corpii?)' corpores, if you must.
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by crux 16y ago
Apparently 'personality portrait' is what you call a caricature if you want to sell it as high art.
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by crux 16y ago
I started an account here and have had it open in my browser for about two weeks, waiting to dive in. But there's an awful lot of buttons and I still don't really understand how the website works.
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by crux 16y ago
I thought it was neat when I first came across it, and thought, 'well, why not?' but the fact is that the only time I am typing into the google search bar in the webpage, and not built into my browser's address bar, is to tweak the results
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by crux 16y ago
Speaking from a UI standpoint, I find the leap of the bar from the middle to the top of the screen to be very disorienting. I know that the middle-of-the-page input field is a real visual trademark for Google, but if they want to push this
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by crux 16y ago
I love software like this: software that not only models data structures, like a spreadsheet, but attempts to model thought structures and patterns of reasoning, too. It's so much harder than building some dinky wizard that steps you throug
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by crux 16y ago
Dubai's culture is so openly shallow and materialistic, and its social structure is so patently corrupt—its once-vaunted development and luxury are so directly built on the backs of slaves and oppressed people—that I must confess, I think i
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by crux 16y ago
Centralized economic control by the state is not socialism. It's just centralized economics. Indeed, nearly everything you described—especially the tightly controlled, wholly un-free workforce—is antithetical to any socialist plan. The elem
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by crux 16y ago
You can easily download alternate keymaps that adapt it to dvorak. Vim assumes qwerty, and thus things like the movement keys are remapped; but it doesn't really matter where the majority of the keys are. Most of vim's key layout is semanti
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by crux 16y ago
I think the key distinction that Katz is failing to make is this: switching to Vim is not a matter of 'You’re learning a new EDITOR for God’s sakes. Of COURSE there’s going to be a learning curve.' As pointed out, Textmate is a new editor a
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by crux 16y ago
This is utter gibberish.
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by crux 16y ago
I'm afraid I must mention that while that example does indeed demonstrate how different phrasing can avoid placing blame, it's not a use of the passive voice. The verb 'to have' is just as active as the verb 'to make'. A passive constructio
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by crux 16y ago
I came here to provide just those links. Not only are the rules of conversation written down, but they're often very heavily discussed and analyzed—even by people who aren't autistic. And of course, the rules of conversation vary very widel
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by crux 16y ago
Since this is being positioned as a bookmark search engine rather than repository, I think it would be awful useful to provide a couple-line excerpt under each search result, just like in a standard search engine. As it is, one needs to gue
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by crux 16y ago
Am I wrong or is there no currently running example to found? Or does it not actually publish a blog itself?
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by crux 16y ago
That's my friend Peter, too! He's wicked smart.

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