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by cturner 11y ago
I suspect the same, am also a rabid note-taker, and rarely revisit my notes. Writing is a means by which I build houses of cards in my head. Last year I tried some Ritalin I'd been given so I could understand the effect. What I found w
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by cturner 11y ago
Sam expressions for manipulating text. This is a blub thing - if you haven't seen them you might not realise what you're missing out on. Try to imagine an editor where the core idea is a better-sed-than-sed. Two well-known editors
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by cturner 11y ago
Hey, I waved away the existing unix solution, and your link corrects me. Your link shows it has a history far richer than I said: real people put real engineering work into it, often through a fog of unappreciative politics, and now their n
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by cturner 11y ago
Your post is passive-aggressive from start to end. If you state questions respectfully I'll have a shot at a response.
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And for identifying who broke the build :)
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You can do much of what you described by copying directories around, keeping a text file running sheet and judicious use of winmerge. The key thing is to be managing complexity. git provides good mechanisms for this but it is not the only w
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by cturner 11y ago
There was some other important narrative: post-war Germany, post-war asia, and the asian economic miracle. After the second world war, a lot of asian countries were in ruins. Consider Korea. Before the war, it was a servant of the Japanese
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by cturner 11y ago
He wrote a cool book about sailing, also. I read it in q3 last year, then quit my job and did an atlantic crossing in november. I am now cottage programming.
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by cturner 11y ago
Clearly you're angry, but the post you're replying to has a point. There is a tendency for countries to shed manufacturing and move into other sectors, and it's often a sign of success rather than decline. When there's a
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by cturner 11y ago
But that was a whac-a-mole, probably for getting boxes checked for whatever it is that audit departments did before sarbanes oxley. That they've gone with linux here shows that their focus is mainstream developers. Consider - it their
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by cturner 11y ago
I think it would be difficult to do a full unix experience on the Windows kernel because the forking will never be as fast. I'm not going to cite facts, so be dubious of this, but let me try to explain. There's lots of layers with
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by cturner 11y ago
Non-trivial audio is still difficult to do cross-platform. You can load songs in SDL, but it's not suitable for writing something like a tracker. There's a library coming through libsoundio that looks promising for cross-platform,
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by cturner 11y ago
It's odd that we rarely hear from you guys on sites like this one. Why isn't there a VM that hosts JCL and which you can pass your own projects around on? I wonder whether part of the problem might be that it's so awkward to
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by cturner 11y ago
Plan 9 would run well. Netbsd would be solid, particularly if you don't care about X. Openstep if you could find a CD. Minix. That's an amazing amount of RAM for that era, and OS/2 4.0 would probably run well on it, with no n
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by cturner 11y ago
I assume they are not particularly interested in the phone itself. Rather, that they have been shopping for a situation with the character of this one so as to try their luck at pushing their capture rights.
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by cturner 11y ago
Your point wasn't a nitpick. It is crucial to get the structures right, because otherwise the status quo easily hides behind non-obvious circular reasoning.
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by cturner 11y ago
The novel _Man in the High Castle_ references this system, and was supposedly written with reference to it. [No idea about the tv series, doesn't seem possible to get it in the UK] BSD 4.4 had a game in it that I'd guess simulated
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by cturner 11y ago
Hey, this isn't really a direct response to any of the points you made, but I've been thinking about your get-rid-of-the-tty comment, and wanted to ask. What is your take on syntax highlighting in a plan9 world? I've read a l
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by cturner 11y ago
Thanks, I'd missed this. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_develo...
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by cturner 11y ago
How long until Microsoft put out their own BSD distribution?
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It's a great system in commonwealth countries. It discourages litigation from larger companies precisely because the judge has discretion to award costs. In some cases the judge can even award in favour of the plaintiff, and then award
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by cturner 11y ago
Here's the potential I see. Imagine if it was routine to write an application stack entirely in a repl language. Not just the application code - everything. You'd write your application code. Then other functions would dispatch th
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by cturner 11y ago
I know less about this than the other people replying, but will chip in because I have a different perspective that you might find useful. When I saw what this guy was doing, my first reaction was also "that's like Terra!" He
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by cturner 11y ago
Thanks. I was recovering from three days of sickess, so at least most of the gap was at my side. Yeah - an explain link would be a worthwhile project for someone with some time or an interest in building a small webapp, and useful.
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by cturner 11y ago
Nihil means nothing in latin. The punchline is a pun on Battle of the Nile (see wikipedia). It may seem bizarre, but is less so because Nelson is already associated with latin in victorian popular culture because of his supposed final words
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by cturner 11y ago
I wonder if there's a way of using software licensing to bypass the issue. Consider this. What if there was a piece of encryption software where the copyright was held in the UK (i.e. not in the US). The key thing about this encryption
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by cturner 11y ago
"protecting the people from the government is more important than protecting the people from the people, at least as long as it stays manageable." This is fundamental, and this point needs more airtime than it gets. Terrorism is a
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Doesn't need to be a bank. You go to a shopfront FX dealer in Vientiane or Tehran or St Petersburg and deposit or withdraw USD against local currency (or anything else that's liquid). In the most basic trades, possession is settle
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by cturner 11y ago
> they cannot escape US regulation and legal exposure as > long as they want to have the ability to trade US dollars You don't need to be in the US to trade USD. FX is more lightly regulated than almost all other as
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by cturner 11y ago
Macdonalds is interesting because they already have a strong internal training program, and food handling is one of the issues they take care of (to a standard higher than most regimes they operate in).

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