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by gcv 13y ago
In my experience, even really good Windows administrators do not use the console. They know how to use it, but rarely do. Frustration with the Windows CLI is strictly an artifact of a Unix-user's culture shock. IOW, no one worth listen
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by gcv 13y ago
I started using DCVSes with darcs and liked it quite a bit — a real breath of fresh air compared to the nastiness of cvs and svn. Nice UI overall. Unfortunately, it had a nasty bug where commits or merges would hang indefinitely. It was a h
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by gcv 13y ago
I use m48+. It's a decent replacement for my trusty old HP48.
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by gcv 13y ago
I hear it occasionally. I hear its equally-appalling equivalent all the time: "Please join Mary and I in welcoming John to our team." Of course, prescriptive grammar is for the birds, anyway.
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by gcv 13y ago
It's nasty language change which has spread, kind of like "I spoke to she about that problem" is spreading. Not specific to SV, but extremely common here.
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by gcv 13y ago
If you like dystopian near-future scifi, try the Deus Ex series. Though FPS in basic concept, they do not need to be played in pure twitching mode, and you should have no trouble identifying with the protagonist.
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by gcv 13y ago
Careful. Right now, under the ACA, insurance companies must sell you coverage no matter what. If the rules change, they may use your gap in coverage as an excuse not to sell you insurance in the future.
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Ask HN: Health insurance for California freelancers?
13 points by gcv 13y ago|7 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
A lot of messages on that thread boil down to "haters gonna hate; ignore them!" Luckily, it seems that Martin Odersky is taking good criticism to heart. His post makes it clear that he is listening to people's concerns and wa
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by gcv 13y ago
Discussion of tools is pretty important, and the "1 Star" blog post summarized a programmer's feelings about a tool. Both of his main complaints, compilation time and impenetrable operator overuse (remember, this is the langu
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by gcv 13y ago
In theory, you can get an identical VM in any of Vagrant's supported environments. So you set up a dev Virtualbox and deploy on ec2. In practice, I'm sure this requires extensive testing each time you try it. Also, on Mac OS, the
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by gcv 13y ago
This argument is not a fair question. It is a straw man. The debate has never been about the validity of seizing the metadata on one phone with reasonable suspicion. It is about warrantless wholesale surveillance of hundreds of millions o
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by gcv 13y ago
It's more like this: you've been on dozens and dozens of hiking trips. Except these trips generally go through seismically unstable territory and war zones. You just never know when you'll have to dig a tunnel underneath a ba
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What's New in Ruby 2.1 [pdf](atdot.net)
62 points by gcv 13y ago|33 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
HN is far more coastal-liberal than any flavor of libertarian. With a few exceptions, of course: people favor some policies relating to tech on which the conventional left doesn't have a strong opinion.
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by gcv 13y ago
I'm in a similar boat: my brain just doesn't enjoy chess. I tried studying it, and it bored me to tears. Go feels better to me because it has far simpler rules, but significantly greater depth. (Or maybe I recognize the patterns m
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by gcv 13y ago
All good points. This is why neither you, nor any other programmer, is likely to sit on a jury in a trial relating to computer crime.
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by gcv 13y ago
I have successfully done this with Angular. It was easy and convenient. No idea about Ember, so far I've only watched its tutorial video.
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by gcv 13y ago
Try this: (defun set-font (font-family height) (interactive "sFont family: \nnHeight: ") (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family font-family :height height) (set-fontset-font "fontset-default&quo
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by gcv 13y ago
Is it actually possible to sell BTC held in a random wallet and withdraw the proceeds as USD? I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the various exchanges, and am wondering if it is truly a convertible currency. (Assume that selling
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by gcv 13y ago
I've been using screen for years. It works well for me. Can someone list some reasons to switch to tmux? Just about the only thing which annoys me in screen is the awkward switch to "copy mode" to scroll, instead of just hitt
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by gcv 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that certain entities within the US (and elsewhere) already have full mirrors of all data hosted in German clouds.
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by gcv 13y ago
> it needs to be noted that some states do frown on its citizens owning chemical glassware. Excuse me? Glassware ?
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by gcv 13y ago
Probably because the project was forced to keep copies of data all over the place, and was distributed to boot. There was probably a reasonable bug or edge case which caused some copies to conflict with each other, and since writes are dest
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by gcv 13y ago
I haven't had to use $watch except to integrate with jQuery plugins for fancy widgets (and wish I could get rid of those). For everything else, two-way binding in Angular works very well.
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by gcv 13y ago
I said nothing about tables. I specifically referred to the TeX boxes+glue model. In addition, if the web was truly meant to be printed — an assertion I have never heard before; it sounds blatantly false — then not adopting the massively su
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by gcv 13y ago
CSS is not great for its original use case. It was poorly designed by a group of people who chose to ignore existing understanding of layout models. The TeX boxes+glue model, had it been adapted for CSS, would have made all the absurditie
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by gcv 13y ago
Facebook was Nasdaq. Twitter is NYSE. Wouldn't have the same problems.
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by gcv 13y ago
Road wind. At 40+ mph, a car with open windows is noisy and uncomfortable.
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by gcv 13y ago
Does anyone know if BitTorrent uses its servers to facilitate finding the endpoints of the shared secrets? Or is it done using DHT hackery, with no centralized server involvement?

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