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by dbbo 15y ago
Interesting. I actually tried a few different variations of Jupiter's symbol (like making the curve more or less exaggerated, higher and lower, etc.) and couldn't get it to work.
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by dbbo 15y ago
I just check the stats on DistroWatch: http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity It's based on pageviews as I recall, but that's a decent metric for getting a feel for a distro's "buzz". The data suggest that Mint started to sur
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by dbbo 15y ago
I tried some astronomical symbols, like ♃, but they don't seem to be supported yet.
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by dbbo 15y ago
The phone number is unlisted, but the point is that it was supposed to be sent over HTTPS and it wasn't.
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Dominos Pizza and Your Privacy(dbbo.posterous.com)
2 points by dbbo 15y ago|2 comments
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by dbbo 15y ago
So what kind of extreme knowledge/magic did Jobs have? I also disagree with that law because there is always a handful of people capable of explaining an advanced technology, but no one can explain magic. For example, Siri might seem magica
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by dbbo 15y ago
"So was Mr. Jobs smart? Not conventionally. Instead, he was a genius." To me, this is just an abusive twisting of the word "genius". I know it has different meanings to different people, but I think being smart, or having some kind of intel
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by dbbo 15y ago
I didn't really learn anything about list-versus-scalar context from this article, but I did however learn that merlyn had been convicted of a felony.
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by dbbo 15y ago
My first thought was of the prologue level of Modern Warfare 1.
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by dbbo 15y ago
I thought those "notes" were really poorly transcribed. Did the author really not have time to turn them into sentences? "Personally like to thank you for saving me winter algebra last year through Khan Academy investment." "Africa, 800m to
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by dbbo 15y ago
I think the `string' quoting format in the ld output is breaking their "syntax" highlighting.
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by dbbo 15y ago
Unless I missed something, I don't think being easy for novices to use was one of Larry's design goals for Perl. Nevertheless, I found Perl pretty easy to learn, and it's the only language I ever "stuck with" long enough to build complicate
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by dbbo 15y ago
This link is also on http://git-scm.com/documentation
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by dbbo 15y ago
I understand the gearhead mentality (I was raised by one), and I actually enjoyed reading about the music equipment. I just didn't expect it because when I hear "Zed Shaw" I think "programmer", not "musician", even though I realize that few
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by dbbo 15y ago
I thought it was a bit odd that he wrote 7 paragraphs about music equipment and software, but didn't mention which GNU/Linux distribution(s) he uses on his "junky" laptops.
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by dbbo 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand this story. Is it basically "check out the design of this website" or am I missing something? I thought, and the site confirms it, that Nethack has been around for quite awhile, so that's certainly not news. Roughl
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by dbbo 15y ago
Personally, I dislike websites that try to grab my keys. I use pentadactyl/vrome, so if the website just lists everything I need to do there as a normal hyperlink, I need only hit f+number and I'm good to go. That isn't to say that it isn't
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by dbbo 15y ago
OCZ's stock went up over 20% on Thursday: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=OCZ&t=5d&l=off&z...
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by dbbo 15y ago
I actually wanted to know what he was really doing, since the article just says he wanted to talk to Cook about the next product. Had I known a simple question was grounds for reproof here I wouldn't have asked.
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by dbbo 15y ago
How was he "working" for the company after he had resigned?
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by dbbo 15y ago
I found some of Khan's orgo videos helpful review material. In fact, the doctorate-level professor I had didn't do a much better job (if at all better) of explaining the material the first time around.
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by dbbo 15y ago
I understand that they are different. I wanted to know why one is worse for child development.
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by dbbo 15y ago
How is looking at an image of live human beings "worse" than looking at live human beings (which is ultimately an image too)? If the child is given a remote control, does that count as interactivity since he can choose what to look at while
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by dbbo 15y ago
I find it somewhat strange that video games are OK (it's on a screen but interactive) and I guess live theater is OK (it's passive but not on a screen), but the combination of passively watching something on a screen is not OK.
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by dbbo 15y ago
So if I rewrite an existing program from scratch and it takes 10x longer than just using the existing one, but one person uses the program, it's still worth the time? I think that one person could have found the information from an existing
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by dbbo 15y ago
You're right. I mistook vimtutor for the first chapter of a Vim book I have, although I did make a point to indicate that I wasn't 100% sure in the OP.
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by dbbo 15y ago
Putting the article's content aside, how many "beginner's guides" to Vim do we really need? It seems like every other week I find a new author writing about basic vim commands. Now, considering the article's content-- I'm not sure it contai
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by dbbo 15y ago
As a linguistics student, I have a good deal of sympathy for people using a secondary language-- but I don't think this author even proofread his post before submitting it.
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by dbbo 15y ago
Maybe I'm just biased because of my curriculum, but I didn't find this article informative at all. I actually found it overly dumbed-down. Perhaps it was meant for people with zero biology/chemistry knowledge.
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by dbbo 15y ago
It's also full of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. I had to reread every other sentence to get the gist of it. If the content was gold I could probably overlook that, but it's not. It's basically a carelessly scrawled rant.

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