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by defroost 16y ago
Understanding and using a grid as well as the golden ratio are not tricks. If you think they are your just don't understand why designers, artists, photographers, etc. use such techniques. What is more, just because the author here doesn
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by defroost 16y ago
This is shameful behavior by PayPal. There is no doubt about it. If everyone with a PayPal account who cares about the unlawful, unjust treatment of Bradley Manning would simply delete their PayPal account and clearly state the reasons why
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by defroost 16y ago
This is a really good read. It is fascinating to see how cleverly designed and engineered Rubinius is. I've been following it from early on, and they have made tremendous strides. The new 1.2.1 is a fun to use, solid Ruby implementation.
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by defroost 16y ago
681 lines? The HTML5 Boilerplate that I grabbed from Paul Irish's website, the commented version, is 94 lines. And much of the stuff can be removed. I have my own HTML5 boilerplate as a TextMate snippet, but augment it. One thing about th
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by defroost 16y ago
The "Grade A" browser ratings are only slightly more meaningful than the "Modern Browser" label. And IE fans (apologists?) can rationalize from now until Sunday, but web developers who project after project are forced to write CSS Hacks, c
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by defroost 16y ago
You obviously didn't read the article. The SEC didn't just turn it's back on insider trading. And that is not the only "crimes" here that Taibbi catalogues by the AIG, Goldman Sachs, Bear Sterns, Citigroup, Fanny Mae. There was widesprea
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by defroost 16y ago
Agreed. I wish I could up you 100 times.
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by defroost 16y ago
From the article: "In other words, you now have one less reason to fire up your bloated copy of Adobe Acrobat." Using OSX's Preview PDF reader, I haven't used Adobe Acrobat for years. Preview is fast-loading, and has all the features one c
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by defroost 16y ago
No offense, but your imagination is pretty elitist.
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by defroost 16y ago
While not a Lisp OS, StumWM http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/index.html is an interesting project. I run it on Debian, and I like to pretend I using a Lisp Machine.
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by defroost 16y ago
Their website is excellent. The recently acquired leaked documents, The Palestinian Papers, are fascinating reading. http://english.aljazeera.net/palestinepapers/2011/01/2011122... And I just saw an interview with PJ Crowley about Egypt.
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by defroost 16y ago
Thanks for converting those to PDF, unfortunately none of the hyperlinks work either in browser, or in a PDF reader like OS X's preview. Don't know about Windows or Linux.
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by defroost 16y ago
I agree. I also think that like many things, this kind of paranoia regarding pedophilia is taken the the extreme in the US. I've spent time in several European countries, Greece for example, where it is perfectly OK for an adult man to pa
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by defroost 16y ago
So you save a whole dollar and 51 cents. Big deal. I'd just as soon order it from Amazon, who in general has much better prices than direct from O'Reilly.
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by defroost 16y ago
You wrote: "I wanted to learn eLisp but there are no decent beginners' book" Actually there is a fantastic Emacs Lisp book by Robert J. Chassell called "An Introduction to Programming Emacs Lisp" http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lis
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by defroost 16y ago
Emacs won't run? Then why would I want to use it? What about all my Lisp code? And why on earth do I want to give Google so much control of my OS? And full control of my laptop? Maybe I should just give bots from outer space full control
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by defroost 16y ago
That is really great. As a musician, and a programmer, I would like to how you would make that. Seems like you would go through a ton of Mobius strips getting the arrangement just right.
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by defroost 16y ago
Uh...No.
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by defroost 16y ago
> Most of the populace understands wikileaks to be bad, engaged in killing soldiers, letting terrorists escape, etc. We do? Huh? Amazon, typical of any big corporation caved in an effort to protect their number on priority: the bottom
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by defroost 16y ago
> It's quicker for my hands to stay on the keyboard than it is to switch to the mouse and back Agreed. Why would anyone want to stop working, grab the mouse and click on a menu, when the command-line interface for git works perfectly.
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by defroost 16y ago
Difficult to empathize as the subtitle of srunchup.com excludes anyone not considered "young". Why not "A Web Magazine for Designers and Developers"? Or are their specific aspects of web development that only pertain to people under 25?
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by defroost 16y ago
I bought Land of Lisp as soon as I became aware of it. Every time I hear a truck out front I think, its here. Looking forward to total Common Lisp immersion. Thanks for all of your contributions past and present to the Lisp community and o