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by cturner 15y ago
There are mechanisms through which some limitations of email can be worked around, but there are still problems with email. Technologies lend themselves to particular use and misuse, and when we see a repeating patterns of abuse, it's reaso
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by cturner 15y ago
If you get lots of emails, then you won't always have time to follow up on all of them. Somtimes the mere task of comprehending the email to create todos from it takes energy, and you don't always have energy to do that immediately. So the
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by cturner 15y ago
What I mean is - whatever is driving your graphics card, monitors and local network. Sometimes I do a dist upgrade and my video drivers go to junk. Or family install something to my workstation and I find that it has added junk to the boot
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by cturner 15y ago
> Does anyone else do something like this? Yup - I do exactly this for about the last year, and it works as you describe. Long-lived IRC sessions, all of my editing windows open as I like them. You can have nice monitor/chair/
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by cturner 15y ago
Hi, almost every post you have made in this thread has a disrespectful tone. please review what you're doing, avoid "...", don't be sarcastic, don't assume the other person is an idiot.
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by cturner 15y ago
Why are they going deeper with it? The more I deal with unix, the more I feel that permissions are a mistake. That wasn't always true. In the past, it was common to have having multiple untrusted users in one system. Outside of universities
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by cturner 15y ago
I'm not really using my mac much, so not for me. Interesting though - I've thought it would be neat to have something that's similar though different. Imagine a keyboard which was itself a mini computer. You could program macros into the ke
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by cturner 15y ago
Save on the visa hassle altogether and come to London :)
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by cturner 15y ago
How would you get your orientation to know where the other bit of the aircraft was? It's enough of a challenge simply not to walk around in circles when you're isolated.
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by cturner 15y ago
> The claim in the article isn't that nobody would > write and perform music without copyright, but that > there would be less of it, and that it would be of > lower quality. That's an arbitrary claim.
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by cturner 15y ago
Sure, but we're talking about smells in the context described in the original PG essay and the response to it that this thread is attached to.
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by cturner 15y ago
> What he's talking about is the fact that it might > take an artist over a month to create a two-and- > a-half-minute song. I covered that music innovation happens without requiring us to relinquish our rights
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by cturner 15y ago
Although there was some to disagree with in Graham's essay, he had some interesting insight. The restaurant smells analogy is the least bad I've heard so far. This response was flimsy. > This is a flawed analogy. Cooking smells ar
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Desktop Linux suckage: the clipboard(elliotth.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by cturner 15y ago|0 comments
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by cturner 15y ago
No need to be snide guys. If you don't know, you don't know. And there's no shame in trying.
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by cturner 15y ago
You can ran tmux on a remote server, and then deliberately disconnect, or have the line drop. You then ssh back in, 'tmux attach' and your state is still there. So you can have a headless box or dedicated server running tmux. In the session
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by cturner 15y ago
Why do linux distros keep trying to recreate the gaudy, confusing experiences of the proprietary systems? I want my drivers to work, and a window manager that wraps the file-system - allows interaction with the files. In an ideal world, som
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Seven-day Roguelike (7drl 2012) almost finished(7drl.org)
2 points by cturner 15y ago|0 comments
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by cturner 15y ago
I'd like to see an example situation to make this point. We'd need something that is "NP-hard" but which is laughably easy for a human to deal with. I've no ideas though.
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by cturner 15y ago
Interesting article, but the constant juvenile sexual references count against it. I wanted to send this to a girl I know for the addiction topic, except you can't send junk like this to girls. Grow up. If you like jumping have a look at Co
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by cturner 15y ago
I sometimes think about the games that I'd play, the structures I'd create, exercises. I'd suck at it. I do wonder about it though, not irregularly.
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by cturner 15y ago
How would a hacker deal with solitary?
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by cturner 15y ago
The language here is lua, a structured language, rather than a thin instruction layer over hardware. If it more of an API behind it (e.g. ability to work with sound at a low level) then the result could be better.
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by cturner 15y ago
I subscribe to the economist, and enjoyed reading this, but it's political comment. Please let's keep it off hacker news.
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by cturner 15y ago
Not so in this corner. Use of the idea of fairness in argument is a red flag suggesting a lack of foundation by the person arguing. I think this opposition suggests that the party takes its positions from who its opponents are, rather than
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by cturner 15y ago
When good people sign a NDA it counts for something. When you're dealing with lying buggers though, it represents an option to sue. Insurance is similar.
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by cturner 15y ago
> Shopping on Amazon is physically painful, when you > see how much you end up paying for extra costs. That's not my experience. I recently bought a stack of ancient machine code and assembly books and paid 2p for some
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by cturner 15y ago
> it's wrong to do market segmentation for electronic > goods based on [..] location I think it's OK to do it, so long as you do it in a way that doesn't leverage the government to be your enforcer. I worked on an educ
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by cturner 15y ago
Americans, why don't you introduce the concept where courts are encouraged to award all costs against the loser? This culture is widespread in the commonwealth, and strategic court actions are less common. It should be a really simple chang
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by cturner 15y ago
It's a bit of a rite of passage for Adelaidean teens, particularly after final exams, to drive from Adelaide to that Macdonalds on the outskirts of Melbourne and then back home again. Within speed limits I think it is about fifteen hours re

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