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by dwb 11y ago
Last time I tried ansi-term and friends (not that long ago), it was very slow and struggled rendering my fairly vanilla (by some people's standards) shell prompt. Neovim's terminal emulation, by contrast, is a very great deal fast
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by dwb 12y ago
Mind your own business! http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pag...
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by dwb 12y ago
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424 :( Oh well, refactoring and crypto work is certainly more important. Congrats on the release.
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by dwb 12y ago
Midday doesn't have to be that precise, and you centre your day around it rather than move the day around sunrise and sunset. It may be that Swatch Internet Time was rather _before_ its time rather than something that will never catch
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by dwb 12y ago
UK-born/resident person here, couldn't agree more. Sorry for all the British people who still think we have an empire and all that nonsense. It's what's behind all this anti-EU crap that's going around here too. Hat
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by dwb 12y ago
I agree, and this is just a workaround, but use http://maps.google.co.uk instead.
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by dwb 13y ago
How much development time has been saved and codebase quality increased by making backwards-incompatible changes that improve things drastically? It's a balance, of course – I'm not suggesting old interfaces should be thrown under
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by dwb 13y ago
Backwards compatibility is vastly overrated, especially when the changes are as modest as the ones that I can see for Varnish 4. Sweep away the cruft. Make things better.
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by dwb 13y ago
Not features; reliability. We have fairly modest Enterprise® requirements, but we do shunt around medium-size files quite often and expect them to be synchronized around the office as well as Dropbox manages it.
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by dwb 13y ago
We tried to move to Google Drive but are about to go all in for Dropbox for Business. The Google Drive desktop sync client (for Mac at least) is just not reliable enough. Make sure you trial Google Drive first.
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by dwb 13y ago
(Late I know but) I said "in the same context". "Woman", "women" are very common words, but men revert to "girl", "girls" when they (usually unconsciously) are looking down on the woman in q
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by dwb 13y ago
I don't understand why a flexible e-ink screen is desirable if its cost doesn't approach that of paper – and it's safe to say it won't for a very long time. If it's (relatively) expensive, you want to reuse it, and
553.
by dwb 13y ago
The word is "women". Would you call their male co-workers "boys" in the same context?
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by dwb 13y ago
I've tried these prettified `git log`s, but I always go back to the default: I prefer having the whitespace and everything being on a consistent column, instead of dancing all over the shop. But that's just me.
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by dwb 13y ago
I really think moaning about the syntax is a bit pathetic. It's not what most programmers are used to, sure, but it's hardly Malbolge, is it? If Erlang/OTP is a good fit for your problem, use it. Learn the syntax. It's r
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by dwb 13y ago
I thought this was going to be an argument for simplicity but then it started talking about complex things. Git and SASS and Python and whatnot are great, but if you just want to build a website, like in the Good Old Days, surely https:&
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by dwb 13y ago
Great an' all, but what happens when a request fails? There's no (specified) retry mechanism — and POSTs aren't meant to be idempotent. I guess many applications don't need strong reliability and so this is cool, but I c
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by dwb 13y ago
Naturally you'd be against hetrosexual marriages where at least one person is infertile then, or where they don't want to have children. There has never been a single universal definition of marriage.
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by dwb 13y ago
> Every TV show, magazine or newspaper you liked, watched or read is the result of advertising. No it isn't. Aside from that which I pay for through Netflix (no ads), I pretty much only watch and listen to the various BBC outlets (n
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by dwb 13y ago
Riak could be contained in one OS X application bundle. All its dependencies in one directory. To uninstall, just trash it. It's up to the distributor.
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by dwb 13y ago
The concept of consent does not vanish when you're in a relationship, and if you need a guide – especially one that advocates being dominant – then heaven help you.
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by dwb 13y ago
Borderline victim blaming. It is the aggressor's fault that they rubbed up against your hand. That you didn't stand up to them by being loud or whatever doesn't come into it. If you did and scared them off, so much the better
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by dwb 13y ago
Very well articulated. Thank $deity this is the top comment. I was about to turn away from HN in disgust. Agreed with every word.
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by dwb 13y ago
There's paragraphs to write on the subject, but in short, yes this was very bad. Details here: http://caseymalone.com/post/53339539674/this-is-not-fucking-...
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by dwb 13y ago
No, jobs can be great, and if you're anything like me you greatly value the security, built-in social nature, team spirit, and the sorting out of all the boring crap (accounts, admin, even cleaning) by other people. I could probably make a
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by dwb 13y ago
I hate receiving long, structured, intricately-formatted emails. If you're writing documents in an email body, don't: that's what Google Docs is for. A good email is as short as possible.
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by dwb 13y ago
FWIW, I very much prefer the new version. I never use formatting controls, and to be fair you have cut off the lower toolbar from the new screenshot. If they want to make email more regular (keeping subject line structure, less formatting,
568.
by dwb 14y ago
You are not using the same definition of "gender" as me, and so your reply doesn't make sense. Sex (what you are born with), and gender (what you perform as), are two different things. No, you can't change what you are born with, but you ca
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by dwb 14y ago
Ok, obviously a troll, but just leaving this here in case someone sincerely holds this opinion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
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by dwb 14y ago
(trying to resist the troll, but..) Just because you don't feel something, doesn't mean you can dismiss the mindset of others. Many people feel and demonstrate that gender is separate from sex and can be very much non-binary. It surely exis

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