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by dhess 16y ago
Wow, lowendbox is a fantastic resource! I've been looking for a cheap UK VPN endpoint for years, and lowendbox has plenty of options. Thanks for the link.
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by dhess 16y ago
I'm a MobileOrg user, and I completely agree. I would pay good money for an app that presents an iOS user interface for editing files with org-mode markup, including creating org-mode files on the fly. Unfortunately, MobileOrg offers neithe
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by dhess 16y ago
I signed up and used a 30-character secure (alpha+symbols) password. The signup accepted the password, but now I'm unable to sign in, and the password reset isn't working. Help? My tagmask account name is dhess, and my contact info is in my
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by dhess 16y ago
I make fairly heavy use of scsh. At least half of the sysadmin scripts and utilities I've written over the past 5 years are scsh programs. However, it does have its problems: http://www.lysium.de/blog/index.php?/archives/215-Why-I-dont...
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by dhess 16y ago
Only for searching. This feeling is mitigated a bit by the recent improvements in nnir IMAP search in the development version of Gnus, but it's still not as nice as Gmail search. On the other hand, I use Gmail to archive some mailing lists
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by dhess 16y ago
I, too, have a Maildir Spotlight importer on my list of projects. I have made no more or no less progress on it than you have, apparently :) It's really too bad that Apple didn't choose Maildir for Mail.app's message storage; my understandi
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by dhess 16y ago
Have you tried the development version of gnus (from git) in the last 2 or 3 months? Lars has returned and is making lots of improvements, especially in IMAP performance and search. I have about 200 mail folders, and the dev version of gnus
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by dhess 16y ago
I just found out a few weeks ago that my ISP, Sonic.net, offers an IPsec VPN endpoint to all of its customers, with no additional fees. I highly recommend them if you're in the SF Bay Area. Note that while their help page suggests that you
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by dhess 16y ago
I like standard Emacs better than Aquamacs, too. I can see the appeal of Aquamacs to people who were Mac users first, and Emacs users later, but I'm the other way round. For my tastes, Aquamacs is trying a bit too hard to be Mac-like, and i
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by dhess 16y ago
Which Scheme libraries/modules are you using?
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by dhess 16y ago
> Unwinding the call stack in a game is a no-no. For the most part, I agree, which is why I said they're probably only appropriate in games when used judiciously, e.g., for fatal errors.
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by dhess 16y ago
> Exceptions don't just add an overhead when they're thrown, they add overhead for every function call. How else would the exception-handling runtime know to unwind the stack to the correct addresses? With unwind descriptors/exception
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by dhess 16y ago
I'm no C++ fan (anymore), either, but I don't understand Carmack's taking exception with exceptions. If the alternative is guarding every function call with an if statement to check for error codes, I'll take exceptions almost every time. (
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by dhess 16y ago
One problem with C++ templates is that they're infectious. You're right that the Boost source code is quite unreadable compared to vanilla C++, but even using Boost types and algorithms in your own code often makes it impenetrable, too.
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by dhess 16y ago
I'm on the same arc (especially the template Kool-Aid phase), except perhaps further along: now I forgo C++ entirely and write plain C because it's so much easier to wrap from higher-level languages. I do miss smart pointers, but on the oth
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by dhess 16y ago
My Google Docs fu is weak. Anyone know how to generate a PDF of the paper linked in the article?
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Project Citadel: a Stanford user study to determine how people learn to program(swans.stanford.edu)
1 points by dhess 16y ago|0 comments
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by dhess 16y ago
I was just reading about extrinsic motivators today in the book, What the Best College Teachers Do . The research cited there dates back to the 1970s and the work of Edward L. Deci. Apparently what he and his colleagues found is that most
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by dhess 16y ago
It maps GitHub and Dribble accounts to neighborhoods in 3 cities - SF, NYC and Chicago. Could be cool for organizing meetups, or just finding a partner for coffee or lunch.
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Interhoods - Find Designers and Developers in Your Neighborhood(sanfrancisco.interhoods.org)
1 points by dhess 16y ago|1 comments
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by dhess 16y ago
The basic test I performed involved me logging into a site with a standard window, then opening a new window and navigating to that site. In the new window, I was logged in, because my cookie was shared and the session could be re-activate
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by dhess 16y ago
For the sake of brevity, I didn't go into detail about how CookieSafe works, but try it out and you'll see why it's an entirely different experience than creating a static whitelist in a browser dialog box.
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by dhess 16y ago
As far as I can determine, Incognito mode just creates a 2nd sandbox for cookies and history that's shared across all Incognito tabs/windows, and is only deleted once you close them all. Cookies you create in one Incognito tab or window are
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by dhess 16y ago
Since OpenID is coming up a lot in this thread, I've been meaning to set up my own personal OpenID provider on my colo box for a couple of years now, but every time I look around for a free software implementation that supports SSL client c
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by dhess 16y ago
Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention. Another problem with Bootstrap is that the students seem to be quite confused about control flow. They don't understand how the whole process starts, proceeds, and then repeats itself. The confusion o
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by dhess 16y ago
I taught 3 Bootstrap courses last year to middle-schoolers, with pretty good success. Bootstrap is an introduction to functional programming in Scheme. The students write simple callback functions to implement animation and collision detect
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by dhess 16y ago
Ahh, that's an informative link. Thanks for posting that. You didn't really answer my question about a native Mac app, but that may be because you can't talk about anything that may or may not be in development, which is understandable. In
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by dhess 16y ago
> Lately it seems like this discussion group has become increasingly anti-Apple. It didn't use to be this way, originally it was far more neutral. I wonder what's changed? HN is frequented by developers. Probably, the increased hostil
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by dhess 16y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain Netflix's justification for choosing Silverlight. As a customer, I would still prefer a solution that doesn't require installing a plugin. Let me rephrase my original question: is there any chance we'll
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by dhess 16y ago
OK, that's a lot nicer than it used to look. Apparently they enabled that in May. I'm still not happy about needing to install Silverlight, but at least the quality is now comparable to what I get on my Xbox 360 and PS3.

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