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by cturner 12y ago
"Beaudry, Green and Sand make the case that the technology bubble that burst in 2000 was far more significant than generally recognized." As I see it, there have been two milestones in corporate IT history. The first was around ge
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by cturner 12y ago
Is that a bad thing? I wonder sometimes how much we lose in develop collaboration due to security layers. I can imagine running a cool multiuser image in a prototyping language like to.
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by cturner 12y ago
A problem I've had with recent lighttable releases is that there's a dependency on recent GCC due to build of webkit that light table uses for its GUI. I understand lighttable 0.5.9 to be the most recent that works.
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by cturner 12y ago
For the determined - the old O'Reilly korn shell book (turtle) has a solid primer for vi mode.
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by cturner 12y ago
A different issue - but around phone companies and security. When your contract is running low, they call you and ask you to tell you them your security information as part of resigning you under new terms. To emphasise: they cold call you
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by cturner 12y ago
Your point about the bureaucratic restrictions is a good explanation for the kind of things that affect education - and it has nothing to do with money. To return to my earlier point - it's dumb to reduce the education debate to just a
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by cturner 12y ago
> Education does so much more for spreading democracy than > drones do, but our monetary priorities don't reflect > this, unfortunately. Education often gets reduced to money arguments. Is there a relationshi
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by cturner 13y ago
If I understand your need correctly, I believe it's solvable. Admittedly - using hacks, etc as you speculate. But in case you're interested in a solution that's bundled up - please have a look here and see if it sorts you out
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by cturner 13y ago
There's a feature that I've discovered recently that makes vertical split a lot more useful. It's PREFIX+z. it maximises the current pane. This means you can use mouse to select-copy without spanning multiple panes. Then you
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by cturner 13y ago
Agree, but SysV-init isn't notably unixy. In general, SysV distros raced to embrace and extend away from the mainstream. That created lots of un-unixy subsystems that live on in linux. Quick wave in the direction of three - NFS, wacky
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by cturner 13y ago
Art is all about limitations Great philosophy. Maybe the digital revolution will foster a reaction against perfect industry, and we'll see an emphasis on doing confined things, for their own sake.
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by cturner 13y ago
Another big limitation with Omni - it doesn't have a mode where it can just operate on and save to graphviz format. It's screaming out for this. Omni could be the editor of choice for graphviz. Instead they have gone down the rout
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by cturner 13y ago
> This is very useful when you want polymorphism. > Writing those delegators is a pain in the butt. What's a scenario where you'd be exposing a large number of delegators? Reading this made me think - maybe you
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by cturner 13y ago
alt+tab. Used to work perfectly. Now broken. I've returned to debian stable, which comes with a gnome-2 legacy option that works out of the box just as well as it did a decade ago.
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by cturner 13y ago
OK, I'm convinced. But don't forget about that deprecation team.
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by cturner 13y ago
Interesting, thanks. I'm not in the US so my context is weak. My reaction would be to get rid of the provisions. In a free society, the government will have no role in the bedroom. Extending it into micromanaging relationships is a ste
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by cturner 13y ago
> Brendan went out of his way to donate a thousand dollars > to prevent a group of people from sharing the same right > as everyone else. Right? The right to have a piece of paper from a government department endorsi
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by cturner 13y ago
Michael Marshall Smith's _One of Us_ has an alarm clock that can't get satisfaction until its owner has recognised the alarm. Also aware and needy white goods who get involved in the plot at places. Good read, but I recommend gett
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by cturner 13y ago
The spaghetti is part nethack's identity, it is accretion not architecture. Part of what's fun about it is that it works at all, despite the code being so awful. Even beyond the code, there's plenty wrong with nethack as a ga
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by cturner 13y ago
That'd be clicky, but it's on the right lines. A better way would be to come up with a smart grouping profile for apps that want reasonable common combinations. For example, "Standard application that can access your INTERNET
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by cturner 13y ago
Many people would role their eyes at the idea of using a chain of console tools for document production, think of it as contrived. But it's not such a fancy idea. One of the first things to work on unix was roff, an ancestor of the man
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by cturner 13y ago
This risks being brutal, but you didn't have an email in your account details, and I left it a week so the forum would clear. I have tough but fond memories of being called out on things like this when I in my 20s. I think I'm wel
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by cturner 13y ago
> dumb suggestion .. defeats the entire point of having JSON in the first place No. Json's mission is to be a wire protocol. You're suggesting using it for other purposes, and in a way that compromises its role here a
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by cturner 13y ago
Here's how I've solved the use-case you talk about. I built my development files in my own format, and then transformed them to JSON for the wire. In my mind, the hassle this involves is a down-payment I gladly make in order to be
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by cturner 13y ago
I'd break it into two categories. There's software that expects you to be an expert. Then there's software that's designed to allow lay-people to get stuff done with the promise that it will hide the nasty things of the
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by cturner 13y ago
You appear determined to find a way to paint the recent history of Australian health reform as being somehow American. But it's not - it's its own thing. The US system is a tangle of health systems provided by every level of gover
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Polish clinics: Another kind of health tourism (2013)(economist.com)
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by cturner 13y ago
No. The US system is distinguished by healthcare insurance being tied to employment, and the absence of free options. Australia has not been moving towards that model. Private health care options have always been a significant part of the A
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by cturner 13y ago
The hatred for the study of literature at school comes up again and again on hacker news, and grates. At my high school (independent school in australia), literature was one of the best things about the place. The teachers were driven by a
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by cturner 13y ago
Ada's powerful. The typing system is the best of the mainstream imperative languages. You can write good cross-platform code without thinking about endian issues. Almost as fast as C, strong gcc support. It's a shame it's so

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