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by djacobs 16y ago
The summary of those 75 words is "I want to watch for file changes but am too lazy to write a Perl script. Look at this. `man watch`" I guess we just disagree about what part of the post is useful.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Really? What part of the article was more useful than the man page? diff the-article the-man-page | wc -w => 75
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm not sure. I'm just commenting that in iPhoto (and I just upgraded to '11) they are stored uncompressed and in their original format.
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by djacobs 16y ago
This would've been better as a simple link to a man page, I think.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Once again, MG is blinded by his fanaticism. My favorite line: "This thing boots up in less than 15 seconds, ready to go. My i7 iMac with 8 GB of RAM takes something like 2 minutes." As if RAM had anything to do with boot time. And my Core
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by djacobs 16y ago
Agreed. To say otherwise is to be drinking the Koolaid that Apple fed to record labels 10 years ago. "We'll boost your sales like you've never seen. We'll even protect your stuff with DRM, no one will mind!"
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm pretty sure iPhoto does store them in their original form—unless they were originally in RAW, in which case they get converted to .jpeg, I think.
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by djacobs 16y ago
> But I love the fact that there are options. In a year when we've seen iOS increasingly restrict its own ecosystem, limit options it doesn't like (see the current story about Jobs nixing the orientation lock on the iPad) ... and even s
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by djacobs 16y ago
Agreed, I think Ruby > Python, both in syntax and semantics. It's a shame I'm going to have to learn such a close language to take advantage of Python's momentum.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I don't think this will be a boon to developers at all, because people like me won't be buying "apps" for a desktop environment. I want to use the full power of my computer and not have limited options. Do you think people will be using iOS
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by djacobs 16y ago
Very true. I bought the O'Reilly book on it last month and plan to start on that today. That library is full of linguistic goodness.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Python v. Ruby. The eternal question. The languages might not be different, but the communities definitely are. This just convinced me I need to switch my efforts from Ruby to Python.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I for one am not interested in having a constrained application environment on my computer. I'm glad Steve's giving us a choice with this release, but as soon as the App Store becomes the way to buy and run OS X applications, my dual boot
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by djacobs 16y ago
Hear, hear. I don't openly complain about it either, but I die a little inside every time I see it on a flyer or jam label.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Geekery has been cool for a while, but I've always felt that programming has carried a specific social stigma. With a bestselling movie that includes the line "I need to break out Emacs for that Perl script", maybe things are about to chang
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by djacobs 16y ago
Interesting, I'll have to go over your code fairly carefully, as I'm not familiar with every technique you're using here for performance. I've since learned a good deal about Clojure and implemented an idiomatic (but probably less performan
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by djacobs 16y ago
I would recommend reading the most recent messages on the linked thread. Rich tries to address your concern and, whether or not you agree with his decision, it's clear he's done his research.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Is the title alluding to Barthes' book of the same name?
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by djacobs 16y ago
One question I've had about Typed Racket since I first saw it: why all the colons? Seems to mess with the elegance of Lisp, and especially Scheme. There has to be another friendlier syntax for typing, no?
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by djacobs 16y ago
To clarify, are you saying that Canonical can take my code (which we supposedly jointly own) and re-write its copyright such that I can no longer use my code? Or does Open Core mean that they can take my code and use it for their own means
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by djacobs 16y ago
Then you should give credit where credit is due: to Debian, not Ubuntu. I didn't mean to say Ubuntu, actually. I just meant that Linux is a great place for developers because the tools are there (and fantastic). That said, making
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by djacobs 16y ago
The Art of Unix Programming also has a section on why text trumps binary formats almost every time.
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by djacobs 16y ago
What syntax? Or to rephrase: What (scant) syntax there is, I'm in love with.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm not intimately familiar with the details of this debate. So I have the following semi-organized line of thought, and I'd love feedback. This line of thought comes from curiosity, not because of an agenda. I really don't know what tack I
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by djacobs 16y ago
Stripped down, your above comment says "Diverse cultures are more innovative than monocultures."
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by djacobs 16y ago
Interesting. Simple as it is, I feel like I learn something new about HN's system every day.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I have been eyeing SICP and the Norvig AI books at the bookstore for about 3 months now. If anyone has one of these and is interested in any of the following, I'd love to trade: - Artificial Minds - Scientific Integrity - Pragmatic Version
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by djacobs 16y ago
Thanks!
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by djacobs 16y ago
How about atp.ww.com -> allthingsprogress.com?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm not sure why, but when I replied to this comment earlier, HN wouldn't let me actually reply under the comment. See my answer above.

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