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by cturner 12y ago
"Rare images" and "rare footage" are common phrases in linkbait. It's a particularly ham-fisted attempt to sensationalise a topic. The idea fails to make sense at a very basic level. An image can be duplicated. Scar
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by cturner 12y ago
It's not just resources, it's also about trust. The government/foreign operations had basically shut down Ebola earlier in the epidemic. But there was an atmosphere of conspiracy theories associating the operation with the ou
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by cturner 12y ago
What are examples of a good approaches to generic logging? In the past I've found log4j and the python stdlib logging to be frustrating to work with. But when I had a shot at writing my own approaches, I found it to be one of those dom
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by cturner 12y ago
That pitches a hypothetical. Not allowed for the third form.
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by cturner 12y ago
What's interesting about the above thought is it supposes that what have the technology now, we just lack the technique. You might disagree, but what you wrote paved over the essence of the parent.
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by cturner 12y ago
Near Reykjavik there's a site called something like the Golden Falls. It's a pretty waterfall. I joined a busload of retirees and other holiday-makers on a tour of sites. We stopped there, went for a walk along the concrete, saw t
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by cturner 12y ago
Maybe it's more important to maintain a state of mind where you could quickly relax into a period of no-thought, than to actually spend a lot of time in no-thought. Regular exposure makes you aware of when you're spending long per
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by cturner 12y ago
> I would answer "no" to this question. You're declaring a conclusion that goes against the outcomes of several pages of heavy argument. When you do this, it's customary to attempt to support your position with argume
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by cturner 12y ago
Wow. That jj idea is a good one. I've been down a similar path to that for other purposes. I changed my leader key to space, and now I can save with <leader>w instead of having to do shift to get :w. But I hadn't thought of
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by cturner 12y ago
But isn't it interesting that people would find that easy to use, despite being modal? This suggests that the conclusion from the article - to avoid modes - misses the point.
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by cturner 12y ago
Raskin had a shot at building an editor along these lines but died too soon. His attempt to remove the pain of vi-style modes was by having users hold keys down to get the modal effects. As soon as you release, you're back in command m
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by cturner 12y ago
It's exactly as you say: if anything, the obstacle with vi for new users is that its display fails to be modal. An interesting consideration though: experienced users know to develop unstacking habits. They wouldn't need the visua
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by cturner 12y ago
I tried to get scheme shell working recently and had issues. My memory is that it had assumptions about running on 32-bit architecture. Build process segfaults on debian stable, and it isn't available in package management for x64.
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by cturner 12y ago
If you wanted to recapture that feel of an instant-on console, you could set up a computer that booted into lighttable. It supports mouse and graphics and music. But to get a web browser up, you call a function.
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by cturner 12y ago
Something to keep in mind about quality - sometimes programmers spend ages doing something in a way that seems like the right way, and the end result is either unimpressive, or a disaster. That destroys goodwill. A project manager who had a
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by cturner 12y ago
Since lisp is homoiconic (refreshed on this, see downvotes below) it would be nice if you could type things into a repl and then run a function like this: (persist function-i-just-wrote). And then it would save to a text file. Then you woul
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by cturner 12y ago
Racket has strong multi-platform support of its own. I actually chose racket over options like clojure for building a game, because I wanted to be able to be able to easily and quickly package one codebase for deployment on windows (running
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by cturner 12y ago
Thanks, and apologies to the readers.
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by cturner 12y ago
Yeah, middle clicking on the page to start a scroll got weird as well. In defense of why-homoiconicity-is-cool: it's useful to build pipelines of things in code. Imagine if you had a series of functions that manipulate an audio signal.
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by cturner 12y ago
The top reason here could been written - lisp is more expressive. You can find ways to express an idea that make sense now, and which are readable. Macros is a different part of the same idea. -- Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but a problem
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by cturner 12y ago
It's an interesting idea - could we deal with procrastination by visualising ourselves in the future position where the task is not done? I don't think it's the full story on procrastination though. Procrastination can be rat
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by cturner 12y ago
Hacker news is very unix focused. This is convenient, but I'd love to see some more blog posts about what's made platforms like VMS or mainframe platforms awesome to work with. (where do these crowds hang out?)
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by cturner 12y ago
One that's easy to overlook - just open in google chrome.
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by cturner 12y ago
There's other answers here that suggest it's enough to merely pass though a correct state, without having executed all of the operations. If that's valid, then the wording of the puzzle should state this more forcefully. Even
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by cturner 12y ago
There were gaps closer to home - the non-ISIS Syrian opposition (on the ground, not the overseas committee), the Kurds.
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by cturner 12y ago
Last time I looked, the canonical manuals for the ARM architecture were quite expensive. If anyone has advice on piecing the basics together please let me know. I don't know much assembly, am currently playing with 6502 assembly, and h
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by cturner 12y ago
I had a think about it over the day, and decided that what you're proposing would bring power to users, and be an improvement. Focus on content rather than presentation, power to the users, less layers. Thanks for a considered reply.
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by cturner 12y ago
> The author is kind of all over the place, Yes. His article's intent is to describe a problem. He then tries to give examples of solutions, and they're bad suggestions. Still, he's right about the problem. We are
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by cturner 12y ago
It depends who you are. People who have the recursion muscle tend not to appreciate what an obstacle it is for people without it. Basic use of scheme requires you to think recursively. If you have that, scheme gives enormous power for a sma
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by cturner 12y ago
Stone Soup is a good community, and sounds like the right idea. The TOME suggestion is also good. If you just want to write something to share with friends, go with rot.js. It's a nice approach, and it takes away all the complications

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