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by gcv 18y ago
Kent Pitman, a member of the X3J13 Common Lisp standards committee, wrote a terrific paper ( http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-2001.h... ) on the subject of various condition handling systems, which includes examples of
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by gcv 18y ago
How is performance with msysgit? The Cygwin port leaves a lot to be desired on larger projects.
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by gcv 18y ago
One problem: Java. The installer didn't find Java on one of my Windows machines, because I have the latest JDK installed in an unusual directory (and might not have run the official Sun installer, either). Maybe inspect JAVA_HOME before dow
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by gcv 18y ago
At least one thing: Dropbox synchronizes its directory, meaning that every machine linked to your account has a local copy of the data stored there. Zumodrive keeps most things remote, unless you explicitly ask to have a local copy (seems t
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by gcv 18y ago
A little extra space after a period in a sentence does help legibility, especially in print. However, I completely agree it does not make sense to manually introduce two spaces in manuscripts, and I hope two-space typists stop doing it. 1.
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by gcv 18y ago
The Linux desktop also needs better fonts and better antialiasing. I can't think of a good way to describe it, but the fonts I see in GNOME are kind of fat and frumpy-looking. With the weak antialiasing, the whole picture looks hard on the
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by gcv 18y ago
Surely the botnet operators and the authors of the original infection program knew about the risks of not using any authentication for communication between clients and servers? If anything, they are probably surprised they got away with th
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by gcv 18y ago
People made that assumption because your opinions do not match their experiences as iPhone users. I assumed the same thing. With regard to your first three points: 1. My call quality is excellent in NYC. I get a dropped call maybe once a we
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by gcv 18y ago
Twitter _is_ a weak reimplementation of IRC. For that matter, instant messaging in general, from AIM to Jabber, is a weak reimplementation of IRC. It took years for these chat protocols to get features like rooms and direct-client chats and
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by gcv 18y ago
This is cool if only because I learned about netcat. I can't believe I never knew about it before and always relied on "telnet <somehost> <someport>" to do this.
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Human-electric hybrid car(americanscientist.org)
1 points by gcv 18y ago|1 comments
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by gcv 18y ago
Fascinating piracy ratio in the article. Approximately 4:1. I assume most cracked apps require jailbroken iPhones. I think it unlikely that the piracy ratio of the author's application reflects the overall ratio of jailbroken iPhones. This
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by gcv 18y ago
Interesting news. I really liked FreeBSD in the past, but rather lost sight of it in the last few years, primarily because of the excellence of Debian and Ubuntu. This is my excuse to give it another go as a server OS. :)
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by gcv 18y ago
I am glad that Steve remains in pretty good health. Thank goodness. I'm a little disgusted at how all this concern about the quality of Apple gadgets and the price of Apple stock trumps simple human concern for a fellow human being.
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by gcv 18y ago
For the S3 users here, if you don't mind sharing: how do you actually do it? Do you use duplicity, Jungledisk, s3rsync.com, the s3sync utilities, tarsnap, something homegrown? Do your backups require incremental updates, snapshots, encrypti
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by gcv 18y ago
According to this article, neither of them: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/ That article also links to a paper ( http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf ) analyzing the initial approximation constant.
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by gcv 18y ago
You have a point, but unfortunately, the only discipline which claims any real insights into fixing the economy is economics. You know, the "dismal science." It is the discipline in which the introductory books outline the basic rules. Supp
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by gcv 18y ago
What about abandonware? Consider two different scenarios. In the first, the manufacturer or distributor no longer makes the product (game) available, but it runs well enough under emulation. In the second, the manufacturer and distributor h
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by gcv 18y ago
I sent this article to my dad, who is an engineering and architecture consultant, and works extensively with the construction industry (New York area). He thinks this can't work in the US, because these houses will end up costing far more h
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by gcv 18y ago
You don't want front-wheel drive, either. I drove a Taurus in New Hampshire for a couple of years, and it was downright unstable on snow. Geting out of a driveway turned into an adventure too often. A four-wheel drive car is wonderful in a
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by gcv 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43074
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by gcv 18y ago
So it was post-modern cultural studies first with Alan Sokal ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair ), then theoretical physics with the Bogdanov brothers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair ), and now it's the turn of compu
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by gcv 18y ago
If you are interested in text editors, you should read The Craft of Text Editing (available at http://www.finseth.com/craft/ ). In spite of its Emacs-centric seeming subtitle, it discusses a lot of the basics of representing text and imple
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by gcv 18y ago
I used to think that I need to work in an office is a prerequisite for getting things done, and since becoming an off-site consultant, I've completely changed my mind. I found that the commute does wonders to dull the brain. In addition, wh
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by gcv 18y ago
Really? I think people have hesitated to launch major App Engine sites primarily because: (1) it isn't supposed to be production-ready yet, and (2) no one has hitherto had any idea how much it costs. It wouldn't be pleasant to spend time to
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by gcv 18y ago
I'm very happy that Subversion works for you. For me, it just blew up on an update, which corrupted the fragile .svn directories it litters all over the working copy. "svn cleanup" couldn't repair the damage. This sort of thing happens on a
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by gcv 18y ago
I must sheepishly admit that I have not fully read Knuth. I've skimmed parts of Vol. 1-3 and looked up specific things, but I have not gone through every proof with a fine-tooth comb. (Far from it.) The book is enormously deep, very valuabl
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by gcv 18y ago
I'm impressed that you chose to approach learning from a theoretical point of view. It will serve you well; you will understand algorithmic approaches which stump a lot of people who lack a theoretical background. (Please, no "I never got a
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Ars discussion: "Is MySQL really this bad?"(episteme.arstechnica.com)
14 points by gcv 18y ago|7 comments
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by gcv 18y ago
You can also Cmd-click the document icon in the title bar of a document window (not the title, just the icon) and get a Finder-integrated dropdown with the same information.

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