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by gavinpc 12y ago
> Because a language without macros is a tool: You write application with it. A language with macros is building material: You shape it and grow it into your application. Is this the OP's analogy? It's quite interesting.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
New Orleanian here, and we're in the same boat. Except that we don't even need rising seas. What this map doesn't show is the land uncovered by melting ice. Something a Canadian or Russian might be thinking about. I remem
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by gavinpc 12y ago
A good client understands why you shouldn't optimize for doing "one narrowly defined task very efficiently"; for the rest, I've tried to resolve matters diplomatically. Yet — for my own work, I will barely hesitate to bu
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by gavinpc 13y ago
The scroll animations don't work for me either, Firefox 28 on Windows. Works in Chrome. But frankly I like it better without them. They add no value to the page. When Bret Victor talks about "directing the user's eyes to t
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Wow, not useless at all -- that is really well done. I'm working on a similar "all about" site for Shakespeare, in which I've struggled to make a clear and usable timeline. This is a really helpful model. Is there a wa
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by gavinpc 13y ago
It comes up essentially blank if you have cookies blocked. But, if you run with cookies blocked, you'd be used to that.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Nathan's wife is the one whose opinion about this matters. If they are both on board with his choices, they are going to be fine. But more generally, I always think of a statement I heard somewhere, to the effect that "You'r
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I'm with Yegge on this one. [0] That said, I have turned to SharpDevelop at times for the debugger, because after .NET 2 the standalone CLR debugger was no longer supported. It has some quirks, but it works. [0] https://sit
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Yeah, I wish you could do that without the focus call: http://stackoverflow.com/q/22046683/4525 But what then is the point of setting tabindex?
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Notwithstanding the fact that I'm diverted right now ... thanks, these are great. I've been using a local copy of the SimplyNoise SWF since I am offline a lot (which is itself very helpful).
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Yeah... that would be the most pointless April fool's joke ever started.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
If you're not joking (and it is April 1), you seriously should check out nxml-mode for emacs. It has amazing support for RelaxNG based schema (the compact syntax).
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Am I the only one who got an ad for Chevrolet? Pretty awesome that GM helped pay for the segment. (Also for Viagra... not sure about that one.)
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by gavinpc 13y ago
My bad anyway, it's just (yet) another one of those sites that looks like it's completely hung if you happen to have cookies blocked. Is this even considered a bug anymore?
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by gavinpc 13y ago
There's this website called solvers.io that is trying to solve problems, but it looks like it's down.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Warning, if you have cookies blocked, this will hang the page, at least Firefox. That's a new one.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
The first step is admitting that you have 2^N problems.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
If you've spent time searching around for a great coding font, I recommending giving proportional fonts a try. Chances are your system has a proportional font with everything (else) you want. "But things won't line up, right
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by gavinpc 13y ago
That's exactly what it is — if by "exactly" you mean "not exactly": > 1 in every 9 Americans–or exactly 11%
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I like the site. I was just responding to it on its own terms. And yes, the irony was irresistible.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
But $ curl http://clarkduvall.com % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 631 100 631
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Sometimes I wonder if dogfooding has gone too far. With respect to the OP, I see so many... products like this which seem very oriented towards the teams building them. Witness the example page. I'm trying to imagine another field w
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by gavinpc 13y ago
> Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files OT, but just this week my wife did something that really got me thinking about how far computers haven't come in terms of usability. I heard her say "O crap" from beh
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I've never used an ORM, but I tend to associate their use with yer basic CRUD application that people write for money -- i.e. something not that interesting where you wouldn't mind "saving some time" if you could avoid c
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Hilarious! I never see confirmation bias in action so much as when SO answers get posted on HN: "See, this is exactly what's wrong with SO." "Really? Because it seems like a perfect example of why SO works perfectly.&qu
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by gavinpc 13y ago
So are you saying that the term "graph generator" is misleading here?
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by gavinpc 13y ago
> reposting their shrill political screeds from their personal internet silos Amen to that. I left the facebook years ago because of this.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Kids, please. Spatula City, 1994. http://stefangagne.com/spatulacity/button.htm
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by gavinpc 13y ago
A bad job is never wasted on a good writer.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Wait, do you mean fall asleep on emacs? Until I break the habit, thank God for undo.

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