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by cturner 15y ago
I see this motive for Germany: the Euro has been a back-door mechanism for buffeting weak parts of the economy during a stressful period (reunification, global plunge in manufacturing margins). The effect is similar to what China gets by co
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by cturner 15y ago
even now when I try to think of it I have trouble recalling such vivid memories. Are the youth memories part of what you captured to paper, and are you able to find an external way of verifying that they're authentic? I have z
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by cturner 15y ago
I've had the same objection. Now I run installs from the server edition. You can add stuff afterwards.
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by cturner 15y ago
Oblig. feyman link on textbooks in schools: http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
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by cturner 15y ago
I've seen writing and communication courses scheduled into engineering degrees too. There's demand for something that's not your definition of computer science but which teaches a combination of theory and tooling. It would teach you some o
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by cturner 15y ago
I'm working to build a cluster of pandaboards. This week I've taken delivery of a powersupply that will power several boards from a single wall-socket. Something I've been stuck on - how to create mess-free casing. The least-bad idea I've h
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by cturner 15y ago
On linux try 'man select' (defaults to section 2) or 'man kmem' (section 4). Linux man project.
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by cturner 15y ago
I admire the respectful way that he handles communication with the difciult party, and becomes helpful on another level. I'd like to be better at dealing with the world like that.
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by cturner 15y ago
The problem with linux is that nobody owns responsibility for making the whole man system good. Linux kernel stuff is covered by the linux man project. This is run by Kerrisk, who is a good communicator - _The Linux Programming Interface_ r
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by cturner 15y ago
Do older versions of turbo pascal have any edge over freepascal?
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by cturner 15y ago
In some countries regulation will state that the bank needs to send a physical account summary to people every so often (month? quarter?) which has a mail cost to it.
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by cturner 15y ago
I install from source to /opt. It's fast and it works. What's the downside of this?
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by cturner 15y ago
I think you've misread the parent. nupark2 is distinguishing between what Amazon is planning and what Google do. jcampbell is saying "doesn't this already exist" and nupark2 is saying no.
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by cturner 15y ago
> I thought that he made me think of Peter Schiff This guy is less doomsday than Schiff - Schiff wouldn't talk of a move to treasuries. He'd say that America faces the same problem as Europe, but claim that they've got structu
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by cturner 15y ago
He's not going to have time to open all his mail. Do the same letter handwritten. Put a post-it note on the front saying "roommate from college" so whoever opens his mail will know to pass it through. Send it snail-mail. Having said that, I
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by cturner 15y ago
I'd like to get a device the other way around - a daisy-wheel printer with simple parts and a serial or USB interface.
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by cturner 15y ago
The issue of parole isn't particular interesting. But decision fatigue is intriguing. I think a more interesting pitch for this would be just 'Decision fatigue'.
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by cturner 15y ago
if it works and have stuff built against it, why would you touch it again?
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by cturner 15y ago
> The fact Windows probably contains code written > for release 2.x is a weakness, not a strength. No way - it's a strength, so much so that I think you're getting downvotes because saying otherwise reads like a troll.
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by cturner 15y ago
Why do successful platforms overhaul established successful user interfaces? Gnome2 could have used some polish but the building blocks were right. Windows 2000 was fine. These changes are value destruction. The world would be a better plac
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by cturner 15y ago
Great point. Paint shop pro comes to mind. People who weren't serious about graphic design who wanted pixel editing loved the early versions, and it became far less useful as time went on.
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by cturner 15y ago
The author mentions trying to get around this with the nerdtree plugin. I stay away from heavy plugins like this because I think they compete with the minimalism that is so nice to the feel of vi. But I can see why you'd be attracted to it
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Fairies, Witches and Supply and Demand(nytimes.com)
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by cturner 15y ago
In visual mode, it seems we need to press escape twice to return to command mode. Be good if it could be just once. Glad you've implemented some vim functions like this. I think you're on the way to giving me something I've always wanted -
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by cturner 15y ago
Like you, I think the current settlement is poor. Usually too-complicated technology-mash platforms die a horrible death (taligent, opendoc). But somehow the web made it. It's straightforward to come up with alternate designs that don't hav
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by cturner 15y ago
Costs will decrease in the meantime.
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by cturner 15y ago
Imagine we had a clean slate. We wanted to design a technology stack that would fill the space that's currently filled by browser+javascript+dom+css+html. We don't need to use those technologies, just to fill that space. What should we do d
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by cturner 15y ago
Now I think about it, the other thing that does this is PDF files. Which are also a gift from Adobe. I loathe Adobe.
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by cturner 15y ago
A major one not mentioned - flash hijacks your keyboard input, preventing you from navigating around and out-of on pages which are flash-infected.
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by cturner 15y ago
typo, "When Novell got into the Linux market in 2007" It was 2003, as the link demonstrates.

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