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by cturner 14y ago
That's not quite what I'm after. I guess it's hard for non-screen people to know what I'm talking about from my vague description above :) Here's a scenario to show what I mean: you're in buffer 5. You switch to buffer 2. Now if you do ctrl
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by cturner 14y ago
I realise you can rebind them, but both screen and tmux do themselves a disservice by choosing binding keys which overlap with prominent keys in emacs and for users who use emacs mode in their shell. First impressions count. If you want to
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by cturner 14y ago
I mess around with roguelike development and have been migrating from python to scheme for brevity. I started with python. I've had lots of problems with it, but I'm far stronger in python than anything else, so have been in a sense stuck o
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by cturner 14y ago
That's as arbitrary as the idea that only a nation-state can support a currency.
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by cturner 14y ago
I don't see a strong need for special symbols for currencies. Currencies can be represented using three letter codes like GBP, USD and BTC. It's ASCII, unambiguous and scales better than having a new custom symbol per character.
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by cturner 14y ago
What do you mean?
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by cturner 14y ago
> The organ console is an electrical or pneumatic > controller When asked about the manual (keyboard) on an organ, many experienced organists will make fond noises about the mechanical action windchest. In this, the fi
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by cturner 14y ago
Interested to hear more about what you like with the mac terminal. Things I like about putty include that you can launch a profile very quickly (start->run, putty @profile_name); it's easy to carry a configuration around (copy a bit of
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by cturner 14y ago
"Don't repeat yourself" competes with KISS. DRY creates brittle code. There's low harm in duplication of code. When something changes you don't have to refactor your class structures. You just change the code for the thing it affects. And i
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by cturner 14y ago
Telecommunications has been headed in the other direction. State monopolies get privatised and lose their monopoly status. I don't think your other examples are standardised in the way you suggest either. Control of electricity becomes less
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by cturner 14y ago
Could there be something in the constitution to prevent it? The Australian constitution is derived from UK and US, and section 92 mandates free trade between states. Update: it seems there is. http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid
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by cturner 14y ago
It's probably subjective. I've always found capitalisation makes scanning harder. VB was one of my early languages, and I recall trying to find a way to turn off VB capitalisation way-back-when when I was developing in it. But it might be o
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by cturner 14y ago
Similar to self, iolanguage would be a strong place to start for getting cheap liveness.
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by cturner 14y ago
For anyone eager to have a go at writing a small roguelike, the 2013 seven day roguelike festival will be March 9 to March 17. http://7drl.org/2013/01/31/we-have-dates-for-7drl-challenge-... Roguelike Radio episode on making a 7drl: http
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by cturner 14y ago
> including various kinds of schema changes. If you have several different software teams all with different apps against the same database, it's a struggle to coordinate a refactor. Often there's problems just because of subt
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by cturner 14y ago
It's true that it happens, but it's the antipattern of our age. When you have seven applications written against a single database (plus a load of complex SQL that operators use for support), it becomes impractical to refactor the schema. N
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by cturner 14y ago
> That's a very good point. I wonder if it's possible > to have a party-based system which does not encourage > extreme brands? I had a long think about this and gave up but came back to it. What I write below
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by cturner 14y ago
I would have suggested Israel or Tasmania as a better example of the stability problem than New Zealand. New Zealand is vulnerable to it though: MMP makes it harder to form majorities, and encourages the election of "hacks" - abrasive party
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by cturner 14y ago
The parent is narrow, but you beat him up with a position which is also contestable. For some people, obedience to the law and its flaws, is itself a virtue because of the net win we all have by having a strong rule of law. Others are outra
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by cturner 14y ago
The books I learnt lisp from emphasised recursion early, and were taught from a perspective of emphasising the power of the language and tricks available to programmers. This approach encourages arcana, similar to bit-shifting tricks you'd
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by cturner 14y ago
> If it is so good why ain't it is used more? My guess is that it's hard to create well-gelled lisp programming teams. If you're using Java or C#, there are certain ways of going about things, and there's general consensus abo
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by cturner 14y ago
Have signed up. I expect I need to get a USB mike - what mike should I get? Please make a FAQ.
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by cturner 14y ago
Thanks, how about suspend/resume?
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by cturner 14y ago
How do you manage food and water for long runs?
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by cturner 14y ago
I'm not sure if there's a way to avoid problems learning toeclips. I cycled since childhood but was terrified by stories of "death clips", and decided not to get them. But at a race prep meetup for a long triathlon I was the only one withou
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by cturner 14y ago
I had no idea. I thought it was just a fun word in the tradition of bits and bytes. It had an internal logic - you'd have datatypes for things, and then you had this catch-all amorphous type called the blob. It's a great name.
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by cturner 14y ago
Google, for a company that reputes to perform services, is probably the single most consumer- unfriendly company on the planet. They're really not. This is overstated. Try dealing with some kind of loss-making monopoly, w
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by cturner 14y ago
The chap in the post isn't seeking highly available tech support. And it's not a free service - he paid. Customers/users should never be left guessing about whether they've been forgotten or not. If you have users, have some flow like this:
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by cturner 14y ago
Further annoyance with the alt search box thingie: you can clear it, and when you reboot it comes back again. So reconfigure it to something you'll never use like Rshift, l-alt, r-alt, super. You can fix a lot of these problems with compiz-
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by cturner 14y ago
Thanks for feedback. #twisted ppl were very helpful to me in the early days of me learning about network programming and python. I'm impressed with the achievement of Twisted. For example, the way it offers support for both unix-way async (

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