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by dbbolton 13y ago
As far as I'm concerned, just moving a vim clone to git is a huge improvement. Ever tried building vim from the ports tree on a <1GHz machine? Painful.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
What editor is that?
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by dbbolton 13y ago
On the subject of all-nighters and sleep debt: You might be surprised at what a difference just a few hours of sleep + and afternoon nap can make. The downside is that it's really hard to wake up at that point (due to sleep inertia as
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by dbbolton 13y ago
This article's substance is 100% covered by the title. I'd be much more inclined to upvote an article that actually discussed the technical reasons why BlackBoard is bad, as opposed to a long-winded and flowery hyperbole that can
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Kiev protestors allegedly shot with door-breaching shotgun slugs(merera.livejournal.com)
2 points by dbbolton 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
I think the point is that you generally have very little to lose by talking to a lawyer before talking to the police, even if you haven't done anything wrong. The sad reality is that "looking guilty" by not talking is usually
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by dbbolton 13y ago
I believe when we were first introduced to the radian, it was explicitly defined in terms of the radius, i.e. 1 radian = an angle whose arc length is equal to the radius of the circle. Was a radian just defined as an angle of 57.3 degrees i
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by dbbolton 13y ago
>but you are How? I simply asked whether people had trouble with this material because I don't remember it being an issue with any of my classmates in high school or in my 24 hours of undergraduate math. Saying "anyone who does
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Not to be dismissive or condescending, but do a lot of people have trouble understanding radians? I was under the impression that they were standard material in high school trig/physics.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
>If Fixed gets your ticket dismissed, you pay it 25 percent of what the ticket would have cost. If it loses, you pay the ticket like normal but pay Fixed nothing. I assumed this meant that Fixed would be picking up the legal fees (likely
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List of Google hoaxes and easter eggs(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dbbolton 13y ago|1 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Native West Virginian here. We have kind of a strange situation in that we are rather right-leaning politically and so many people are employed by coal and energy companies that anything that comes across as "environmentalist" is
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Sarah Stierch leaves Wikimedia Foundation over paid editing(lists.wikimedia.org)
119 points by dbbolton 13y ago|81 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Has there been a technical write-up on this yet? I honestly tried to read the presentation and had to quit after the third superfluous meme slide.
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Thing (listening device)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dbbolton 13y ago|0 comments
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Youtube: real name now the only option
4 points by dbbolton 13y ago|3 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Agreed. The author here is talking about being offensive and/or insensitive (which is subjective and not related to intent). Hostility is something else.
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After nearly two decades, MetaCrawler is moving(metacrawler.com)
1 points by dbbolton 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
In some cases, Perl can actually be faster than grep and sed at basic text processing-- IIRC particularly with larger files-- but I'm not sure about the mechanics behind it.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Hare's definition is rather widely agreed-upon. I doubt there are many mental illnesses that do have a single agreed-upon definition.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Antisocial personality disorder and (Hare's) psychopathy are defined largely by behavior, so this title is extremely misleading. However, I supposed "neuroscientist discovers that his brain shares some anatomical similarities to k
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Anti-Aliasing modes explained(reddit.com)
2 points by dbbolton 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
One day I went in to my local Goodwill store and noticed they had a good bit of computers/electronics. I picked up a keyboard and liked the clicky sound (at the time I didn't know anything about mechanical key switches) and bought
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by dbbolton 13y ago
>We like free enterprise and tend to favour deregulation and privatisation. But we also like gay marriage, want to legalise drugs and disapprove of monarchy. Sounds like they're libertarian.
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by dbbolton 13y ago
They should really mention which shell and terminal emulator they are using. Not everyone is using the same "Unix command line".
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by dbbolton 13y ago
My dad and I are in a similar situation to you- terrible nasal congestion constantly interfering with sleep. The quick and dirty solution is decongestants. However, vasoconstrictors (pseudoephedrine, oxymetazoline, phenylepherine, etc.) oft
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by dbbolton 13y ago
Is there something you can do with named pipes that you couldn't also do with a regular text file?
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Unethical human experimentation in the United States(en.wikipedia.org)
36 points by dbbolton 13y ago|5 comments
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by dbbolton 13y ago
If I'm not mistaken, bacon was actually a popular breakfast food long before this marketing campaign took place, and even before the US existed.
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Huge Portal easter egg revived with the Wayback Machine(reddit.com)
2 points by dbbolton 13y ago|0 comments

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