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by docgnome 16y ago
People forgot Tesla because he A) wasn't American and B) wasn't into electrocuting puppies, kittens and elephants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents#Edison.27s_publ...
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by docgnome 16y ago
Am I the only one who's kind of annoyed that Kindle has become synonymous with e-ink book readers? I wouldn't care so much if Amazon didn't have a history of removing books from Kindles. Not to beat a dead horse, but I don't see why everyon
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by docgnome 16y ago
Jason Calcanis is rude to someone he doesn't like. In other news, the sun rose today.
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by docgnome 16y ago
Rebase is useful. Someone said it was like a boomerang with a chainsaw on both ends. You better pray that it doesn't miss it's target and come back to get you.
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by docgnome 16y ago
I can see squashing a bunch of commits when you make 30 junk commits just so you can push them off your box for safe keeping. Assuming that no one is gonna pull from where you pushed, or you just don't care about other people, I see no prob
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by docgnome 16y ago
Yeah, I was pretty sure that I played with it when I was doing .NET in school... Thought I was going crazy.
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by docgnome 16y ago
Actually there is a project to build a Webkit based emacs style browser a la Conkeror. It's called minno. http://minno.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi They are just waiting for the Sqeme QT bindings to be more usable.
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by docgnome 17y ago
Yes, I forgot if that was here or reddit. Thanks for the link
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by docgnome 17y ago
Are these iPad stories ever gonna die? Honestly, why is this news? pg eats breakfast, nothing. Jobs eats breakfast and we spend 6 weeks talking about how awesome the cornflakes are. We get it. Cornflakes are nice. Can we move on?
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by docgnome 17y ago
Not really sure what the Emacs jab has to do with anything. It's a bit like comparing apples and Godzilla.
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by docgnome 17y ago
Just curious, but can you cite an example of Apple jumping through hoops to help their developers?
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by docgnome 17y ago
It's not really an issue of if you can get away with it. It just betrays the fundamental attitude that Jobs has shown since first introducing the Macintosh. He appears to firmly believe in a closed, tightly controlled platform. I wonder how
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by docgnome 17y ago
I couldn't focus on anything else after this. "Tapirs are responsible for 78% of the world’s economic output." Thanks a lot. I'm now going to be thinking about tapirs all day.
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by docgnome 17y ago
I am so disappointed that this isn't real.
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by docgnome 17y ago
In my experience, Anything provides better file and buffer location for Emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Anything
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by docgnome 17y ago
He also wrote what is, imho, one of the best programming language books, JavaScript: The Good Parts. ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748 ) I found it super handy mostly because he made no claims that JS is the best thing ever. A lot
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by docgnome 17y ago
This is really cool! I'd second, third, whatever, the call for an import. It would also be neat if it was pluggable so when someone writes an emacs extension with custom faces, they could write a little snippet file to plugin to this to mak
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by docgnome 17y ago
I would strongly recommend against using aquamacs as it uses non-standard config locations which can be a giant headache. It writes saved configs into the ~/Library folder verses .emacs and it's very easy to create conflicting configs wher
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by docgnome 17y ago
The way that graph reads if you inform a partisan audience about an article for deletion, it's considered canvasing and you can be baned as a result. And given that the discussion of deletion for the dwm article was closed because of discus
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by docgnome 17y ago
Can you explain why posting a notification to a partisan group about a deletion is considered canvasing? It seems like saying "if there is an issue involving schools, you can't tell the parents of school kids." Am I just reading that wrong?
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by docgnome 17y ago
Right, I think my original comment was worded badly. I'm not trying to say that Google deserves blame for the choice they made. It's not what I would have chosen but they can chose anything they want. I don't like that a lot of people seem
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by docgnome 17y ago
'"Flash and arrogance" are not the same as skill, but they're not inversely correlated either.' No kidding. I don't think anyone could argue that Linus, for just one example, is unskilled... It's a pretty well established fact that he can a
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by docgnome 17y ago
You're right of course. Free vs Non-Free had nothing to do with it. I just really hate how everyone is hating on Mozilla for making a choice that is consistent with their principles.
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by docgnome 17y ago
I like how Mozilla gets all the blame for refusing to support a non-free solution, instead of Google, Apple, and Microsoft for choosing a proprietary solution.
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by docgnome 17y ago
Am I the only one who though he meant this Go? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
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by docgnome 17y ago
:-O I wonder if they could get a cutting from it at least.
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by docgnome 17y ago
A canonical package manager?! Concurrency? swoons It would totally rule to be able to have a script to install all the package I use instead of having to keep them all in repo myself. Also, not having to wait for Wanderlust to fetch my m
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by docgnome 17y ago
Yet another reason for me to try to lose some weight :-P
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by docgnome 17y ago
Erm. Yeah I know for a fact that not ALL PHP functions are first class. Which was all I was saying. PHP does have lambda, but not EVERY function is a lambda.
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by docgnome 17y ago
Well Python's lambda's kinna suck for one. As far as I know, Python, Ruby, and PHP all suffer from the fact that all functions are not first class. Also Javascript's prototypal inheritance is pretty neat. I'm not saying js is a "great" lang

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