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The Open-Closed Principle, in review (2013)(codeblog.jonskeet.uk)
1 points by davegauer 6y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 6y ago
I heard the same suicide tale about The Stack when I lived in Phoenix. I wonder if this is a common urban legend? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stack
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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)(bookofhook.blogspot.com)
2 points by davegauer 6y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 6y ago
This is so true. Though I'd been writing CSS long enough to remember Netscape 4.0 quirks, it wasn't until I learned some troff a couple years back that I had my moment of CSS enlightenment. The fundamental features are the same
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by davegauer 6y ago
I thought the Strava rant was appropriate in demonstrating that bunnie was aware of and tried alternatives before he wrote his own software. As for "unsubstatiated": part of it is _well_ substantiated: his screenshots clearly demo
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The source of the e1000e corruption bug (2008)(lwn.net)
114 points by davegauer 6y ago|31 comments
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by davegauer 6y ago
Completely agree about Gopher. I still love it, but it has some real pain points. Gemini, on the other hand, has links, preformatted blocks, headings, quotes, lists, etc. as part of the content specification. By keeping most of the visual
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by davegauer 7y ago
For facts like these, I use WolframAlpha. For everything else, it's DDG.
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by davegauer 7y ago
Strange, my top three DDG results for 'fish shell' are for the friendly interactive shell. Maybe you just have really good seafood around your area?
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by davegauer 7y ago
> Terminal automation allowed the Gopher team to rip the doors off of every information silo on campus and beyond. I had never before grasped this part of Gopher's ascension story. > Some FTP servers were so overwhelmed by inb
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by davegauer 7y ago
Wow, I'm late to this party, but what the heck: I've been obsessing about this for a long time and concluded, as you have, that AsciiDoc is the One True markup format for me. I don't have anything to offer an Emacs user, but
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Your Brain Can't Handle the Moon (2014)(nautil.us)
1 points by davegauer 7y ago|0 comments
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QED Implementation (Dennis Ritchie)(bell-labs.com)
1 points by davegauer 7y ago|0 comments
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C++ vs. OCaml: Ray tracer comparison (2007)(ffconsultancy.com)
2 points by davegauer 7y ago|2 comments
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The Hanging Hair Test(coticule.be)
2 points by davegauer 7y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 7y ago
I do this too with the little journals. Started in 2011 and am on journal #72 at the moment. They still fit in a shoebox. My secret is to transcribe the journals to text files. Then it's searchable, too! A frequent (daily) transcripti
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by davegauer 7y ago
One way to get started is by creating a shell account on sdf.org and then using the provided script to create your personal gopher space: $ mkgopher Then you can start phlogging and join the community at gopher://gopher.c
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A patent on floating-point overflow and underflow(patents.google.com)
2 points by davegauer 8y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 8y ago
A thousand times yes. If Google actually cared about end-user "experience", the health of the Web, and accessibility, they would do exactly as you've described.
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by davegauer 8y ago
I like the vi-inspired commands. I will definitely be trying this out. I've also had good luck with using the terminal program, vifm, which also uses familiar vi muscle memory in a traditional "commander-style" two-panel layo
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by davegauer 8y ago
Fantastic! I love the design of this site: the way it greets you immediately with big thumbnails of actual paper airplanes. I was flying some "Basic Dart" and "Square" planes (those are the only two designs I know by he
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by davegauer 8y ago
Absolutely on the money! You can't walk a mile in someone else's shoes, but with the right book, you can imagine it - which can make you do a complete 180 change in how you see a situation. I've had this happen many times
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by davegauer 8y ago
I can't fathom why you've been downvoted. I think you're absolutely correct: there's nothing "obvious" about either flavor. It's really clear, in hindsight, why we started out with mutability (and self-mo
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by davegauer 8y ago
I've been very happy to see this sort of activity around Nim recently.[1] Developing in Nim feels so productive that I'm starting to use it in place of Perl/Ruby/Python for smaller "scripting" tasks. As a bonu
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by davegauer 8y ago
Space travel and computers: two of my favorite things. Since reading _Digital Apollo_ by David Mindell, I've had a huge appreciation for the computing capabilities of the Apollo missions. That book was full of detail, but focused less
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by davegauer 8y ago
The problem with non-standard usage is that it is confusing. When I see a comma, I expect it to have a particular meaning. When it doesn't, I assume I misread. You're welcome to use commas however you like, but know that others w
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Why gopher is still relevant(gopher.floodgap.com)
1 points by davegauer 8y ago|2 comments
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by davegauer 8y ago
I can't fathom why you've been down-voted on this comment! I feel the exact same way and I think you've elaborated on the parent's comment in a usefully specific way. And I, too, find the exchange irritating and have no
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by davegauer 8y ago
I completely agree. It's far too easy for me to type things on autopilot and fool myself into thinking I've understood them. But making some changes usually reveals any misunderstandings right away. It also helps me enormously t
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by davegauer 8y ago
Your experience mirrors mine exactly: we would go broke if we had to buy all of the picture books we checked out for our kids (sometimes on the order of 20/week). And for myself, the inter-library loan has been incredibly useful (espe

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