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   by docgnome 16y ago

   My brother in law (to be) started teaching me C++ on a road trip. When we got back I snagged a old Apple IIe from the high school that they were just tossing. After a few months of Apple Basic and a giant program where I didn't leave enough
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   by docgnome 16y ago

   They also have an export tool.
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   by docgnome 16y ago

   Seems like a crap argument to me. If you're not being paid what differences does it make if you have a "job" or not.
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   by docgnome 16y ago

   I think this has more to do with people hating to write CRUD vs crafting queries for a report of some sort. I can see the argueement for thinking about SQL as wasting brain power when you're just doing simple interactions.
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   by docgnome 16y ago

   Not sure about the parent poster, but in my case, yes. Well. The head honcho's for that department anyway.
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   by docgnome 16y ago

   I work in an open plan office as well... And it is a mix of client facing staff and developers. For them it works really well. Not so much for us devs. Sennheiser CX300-B's are a real life saver. I tend to listen to Daft Punk or other music
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   by docgnome 16y ago

   Interesting. I can't listen to classical music when coding. I think it's because I'm used to listening to that particular style actively rather than passively as I'm used to with most music.
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   Wikileaks founder on Interpol's Most Wanted List(npr.org)

   3 points by docgnome 16y ago|0 comments
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   by docgnome 16y ago

   I'd suggest adding IRC handle to the ways of contact.
10. 130.▲
    by docgnome 16y ago

    Not exactly related but my current pile includes Carl Sagan's Cosmos which I recommend.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    For those in the US Den's Tea offers great Japanese teas. http://www.denstea.com
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    I agree. In a similar vein, I took a bunch of electronics classes and wasn't allowed to use my TI-92+ on the grounds that other students didn't have them. I though that was the biggest load of crap especially for a program that was geared t
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    Reminded me of this XKCD http://xkcd.com/686/ Which just made me sad.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    Odd. I wonder why that is. I suppose it has to do with gaining the knowledge to work in the space. Once you do, it's probably easier to find a job with other companies in the same space.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    Thanks for explaining this. I was a bit unclear about the reasons for concern as everything I've found has just been to spread FUD.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    I think it's the same situation as so called "audiophiles" who spend large amounts of money on gold cables and ultra expensive headphones. They may or may not be able to tell the difference but the knowledge that their 10000USD headphones p
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    A bit. I admire his principles of using free software only no mater what.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    True by _why is special. Very special.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    What about Elephants? I guess it depends on how you define art for art's sake. http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/splash.php
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    Am I just stupid, or am I not the only one who finds graphs like the first one useless and impossible to read?
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    Actually, if you use quote mode (enabled by C-M-q by default) it works great!
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    To be fair, that's more a Conkeror problem than a ymacs problem. We're sort of trying to bang the square peg of the web into the round hole of keyboard based control. It often leads to gross hacks like all the page modes we have, which are
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    Closest I've ever come across is Conkeror ( http://conkeror.org ) That's using Gecko instead of WebKit but it's still a great project. It's my primary browser.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    I think it's main neat feature is to be able to click a button to fork. Many others have this now but, iirc (and my memory my be faulty), github was the first. At least the first I saw. That alone makes it easy to fork, fix, pull request. I
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    Yeah, we tested it on our WPA encrypted wireless and didn't get anything. It was seen when I logged into facebook but my coworker wasn't able to login as me. At least not with Firesheep.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    What? Unless he is still bound by some Amazon NDA or something, what difference does it make if he violates the policies of someone he no longer works for?
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    I love Powell's. Best bookstore in the world.
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    > shifting from open source to collaborative source to create closer cooperation between Firebug core and extension development What does "collaborative source" mean?
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    I can see color being nice for text books or any book with diagrams. However, not at the expense of the wonderful eye pleasing display that is e-ink. Which, as I stated before, is to my mind, the only reason for purchasing such a device. Ot
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    by docgnome 16y ago

    Why is the speed of zooming text an issue? How much zooming do you do that you can't wait for half second>