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by dasht 16y ago
As user "maw" pointed out, your mileage may vary. Random observations and anecdotes: Unlike many people these days, I learned to type on - gasp - typewriters. Classes were on electrics although I often used a manual, too. I learned fairly
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by dasht 16y ago
That completely misses the point of the Model M. It's not just the noise - it's the tactile feedback. That was a keyboard on which, when you pressed a key, more than any other keyboard of its time or since -- they keyboard fought back . T
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by dasht 16y ago
Don't tell Dave to just fucking do anything. You're violating his "I only hear people who speak to me in certain tones" policy. You're harshing his mellow, man.
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by dasht 16y ago
Not so sure that's entirely it. See from two days ago: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/05/market-changes-tone-dur... and one day ago: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/05/cash-100/ (Some of) the technicians were looking at a lot of m
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by dasht 16y ago
Sweet. Minimal viable, clear path to revenue, useful, potentially viral, easy for merchants to start using, expandable as a revenue-sharing service that other web sites can embed. Chief assets are (1, the lesser) the web site tech; (2, t
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by dasht 16y ago
Perhaps they have buyer's remorse and are trying to pressure you to quit? or are setting up a "for cause" firing? Here is a similar-sounding example I saw happen in the U.S., although it may be U.S.-specific: An employer (themselves a st
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by dasht 16y ago
(thanks. typo fixed. (how the heck did that happen?!??)
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by dasht 16y ago
Same year, across the Bay in Berkeley. The street is Euclid Ave. which borders the central U.C. Berkeley campus to the north. Do be sure and note (a) the same generally languid approach to street travel; (b) the role of the fine gentlewoma
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by dasht 16y ago
It's "funny" that people see his statement, that perhaps it's better he didn't die as an infant because he's done some good, as arrogant. He could be paraphrased as saying something like "I've experienced such misery that sometimes I wish
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by dasht 16y ago
He is on record as not wanting to have a kid because in his view the planet is over-populated. Also, I don't fully understand (due to lack of inquiry into it) his view of marriage but I'm fairly certain that "thinks it's too easy" is not
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by dasht 16y ago
I disagree with the analysis: Of necessity, airlines enjoy small, government-granted oligopolies on various routes. That is to say that passenger air travel bandwidth along various routes is finite and heavily regulated. The public (via t
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by dasht 16y ago
Sorry if this is too meta but: I usually think the wikipedia.org items on HN are just a silly waste of time (e.g, not news ) but I do have to admit that this one got me. Neat algorithm. Hadn't heard of it prior and wouldn't have thought
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by dasht 16y ago
There are two big problems with all this fretting over Gray: 1) Um, he was allowed to leave the Infinite Loop campus (or wherever he works) with the phone -- indeed, was presumably supposed to. The risks of accidental lossage are a calc
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by dasht 16y ago
There is a subtle, cool point in the story as gizmodo tells it: The fellow what left the bar with the phone called Apple repeatedly, and "all he got for his trouble was a ticket number". I bet the gawker lawyers said, at some point, "when
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by dasht 17y ago
Yes. I meant "penultimate". I did not mean "ultimate". Nor did I mean "antepenultimate". I happen to love that triad of words (three years of Latin and two of Attic Greek in high school) and am sometimes accused over over-using them.
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by dasht 17y ago
I have no idea what emotions inspired their actions after I quit.
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by dasht 17y ago
As I recall, the contract was vague and bullshitty and I didn't see any upside for the potential customer and suspected it had been offered as a "favor" in relation to some larger deal. I don't roll that way. That it was also then signed
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by dasht 17y ago
Huh. Well, that's me (Tom Lord). So, what can I add here for HN? Some of the comments talk about Andy Wingo's good work and leadership in recent years. I agree. Of course, Guile was once my baby, long ago, complete with sleepless night
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by dasht 17y ago
My guess (sure, I'll add to the noise): he's designating successors for the care, feeding, and future development of TeX. He's "retiring" from TeX. Hence the lead in to the panel session that follows. But that's just a guess.
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by dasht 17y ago
"Beyond simple pub stories, moral questions about how to dispense justice in a large, diverse society and global gets really difficult, and we need a system of principles for that." Indeed we do. One of Hitchens' themes is that theologie
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by dasht 17y ago
> suppose that dog just bit the man out of your view. Right, maybe not, justifiable certainly. Suppose indeed. You should join the philosopher at the other end of the bar who points out that perhaps the dog abuse averted a larger tra
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by dasht 17y ago
The judgment made to arrest two men for kissing is hardly automatic. Indeed, it's oxymoronic to suggest so. Examine how that judgment is arrived at: First, there is a background of a lot of theistic teaching regarding elaborate theorie
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by dasht 17y ago
I voted up this link (after it appeared on the front page) but precisely because I think it is such ridiculous hooey that it is worth commenting on. It's errors are abundant so I'll choose just one which, taken as paradigm, can be used to
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by dasht 17y ago
Your partner appears to have an eye for design. Here's a thought: insist on writing a contract with your partner's brother to pay him the $600-$1000 after the company starts bringing in revenue. That way you both win. :-)
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by dasht 17y ago
The * in the parentheses is part of type name and it indicates that the type being named is the sort of type to which it makes sense to apply the run-time * operator.
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by dasht 17y ago
A reasonable question. They are reconciled by narrowly observing that the clause "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" describes a specific public interest. You can also narrowly observe that there is no specific enumeratio
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by dasht 17y ago
Hi, rsc. I'm Thomas Lord. Also, I got something wrong in my pedantry there, which is the absolute worst place to get this kind of thing wrong: it's not O(1) space - it's O(length-of-regexp), no? Going through the points: 1. Ok. I think
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by dasht 17y ago
Mr. Cox generally speaking has his act together on regular expressions - he's more or less joined the very small number of real experts on the topic. I especially admire his courage in promoting a regular expression engine that disregards
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by dasht 17y ago
Yes. (By which I mean that a settlement offer along the lines suggested is part of how to avoid the kind of tangle you describe.)
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by dasht 17y ago
It's a very cheesy book and tedious in parts and overall is rather pretentious. The central metaphor, though, makes a brilliant recommendation for someone who "trusts" HN so much, etc. But... college freshman.... presumed to be "typical"

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