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by gknoy 10y ago
Using fossilized communications tech, while ignoring the conveniences embraced by nearly the entire rest of the FOSS community, optimizes for the comfort of the Current Developers, while making it less convenient for New Developers to contr
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by gknoy 10y ago
For anyone else who was interested in looking this up on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rob...
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by gknoy 10y ago
Both your comments and the GP's ring true for me. - Individuals can communicate in secrecy, thanks to encryption and the internet, much more easily than before. This means that wiretapping as we used to know it is nearly impossible fo
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by gknoy 10y ago
This tool looks amazing! Would you consider adding a flag for whether to terminate statements with a semicolon, or consider accepting a PR that added such an option? (My team is all-in on `standard`, so I'd love to be able to execute
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by gknoy 10y ago
When you write with a dip pen (e.g. calligraphy), writing from left to write will smudge the ink if you are left-handed. Writing the opposite direction preserves the same convenience of movement as right-handed writers have when doing calli
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Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming(pyret.org)
306 points by gknoy 10y ago|267 comments
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by gknoy 10y ago
When looking for a job, one does not always feel in a position to turn down a job offer, especially when one does not already have a competing bid.
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by gknoy 10y ago
In an all-volunteer military, I think (based on talking to friends who were in the services) the prevailing attitude is that they want to find people who genuinely want to be there. They don't want to waste taxpayer dollars on sending
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by gknoy 10y ago
> being critical of innovation killing deals by the boys on YC gets you down votes to negative territory. I haven't noticed this effect. Your post is currently positive, in fact. If I were to downvote you, it would have been for _
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by gknoy 10y ago
On the bright side, Steam has Wasteland 2. I haven't played more than a week or so of it, but if you're looking for "isometric turn based combat RPG in a post-apocalyptic wasteland", it nails it. It felt like a Fallout,
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by gknoy 10y ago
Recovering from a lisp image is pretty darned cool. :D > I had a lot of unchecked work - about a weeks worth > ... It is the second time I have lost work by misusing git I realize this is _off topic_, but one thing that helps me a lot
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by gknoy 10y ago
That's still a very striking omission of a feature. Lambda isn't available in all zones, and not everyone has the time/ability/knowledge to set up such a thing. I'm sure I could do it, but only if I were to spend a
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by gknoy 10y ago
I think you should play Fallout before Fallout 2. There might be some small spoilers in F2 of how F1 ends, but ... probably not enough to worry about. Mainly it's about the world-building and settings. The gameplay in F2 is a little
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by gknoy 10y ago
These seem profoundly irrational, but one thing I've noticed is that young kids are profoundly irrational beings. You will feel like a vulcan by comparison. My kid flips out if I put the blankets on her in the wrong layering order ...
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by gknoy 10y ago
I'd like to chime in and agree -- the cartoon dudes are mildly amusing. It might be disconcerting that they are so large, but then I ended up un-zooming most of the page, so it might just be PEBCAK at my desk. ;)
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by gknoy 10y ago
I thought that was something that one can do by putting things in a trust? If it's not your money anymore, what prevents you from passing it on?
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by gknoy 10y ago
Wow, that's cool. There are apparently ones for micro USB, which means that ... I can have a magsafe adapter for my phone. I might have to buy one, as my kids destroyed the last charger they tried to unplug from my phone.
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by gknoy 10y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that porn drove innovation in tech. :-) I had a hard time finding info on the web about Richard Morgan, but the NY Times is probably a decent citation. Mr. Gordon, 62, played a significant role in the
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by gknoy 10y ago
Perhaps they already do speak from experience. As a parent, I'm not sure if there's ever a "ready" point, but I definitely feel like my life (and my kids') would have been tangibly more difficult had I decided to ha
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by gknoy 10y ago
Switch statements have fall-through behavior that you need `break` to avoid (in most languages); sometimes this is what you want, but only rarely. One trick I've seen people do in Python is to use a dict; define lambdas for each case,
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by gknoy 10y ago
I was under the impression that voting rings and whatnot are already something that dang and the other mods watch out for; we as users don't need to see who downvotes us. If we could see identifiable information about downvotes, it wo
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by gknoy 10y ago
To be fair, the rest of the questions were demonstrably pedantic, and I would completely expect a question like this to be on the bill of fare: Q: What does lstat return? A: A struct >> Wrong, it returns an error code Th
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by gknoy 10y ago
I realize this isn't a perfect counter, but Google Maps (on Android, and probably iOS) allows you to download "offline areas", and you can store just about many of them as your phone has storage for. This means that as part o
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by gknoy 10y ago
rm -i *.zip Apparently, in iTerm2, you can actually copy and paste the name, and do ls *.zip rm -i cv.zip
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by gknoy 10y ago
That sounds vaguely familiar, so I think that it does have it. If not, it has to be at least mentioned in the footnotes. In fact, I think it might be one of the first pages of the alternate-universe section? The footnotes in Ms. Padua&#x27
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by gknoy 10y ago
I'm not sure I agree. I think games can be a good way to explore the way you apply your morals. You can choose to be a jerk or not, be kind or be a monster -- and since the consequences don't matter, it might even be a truer tes
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by gknoy 10y ago
A shell is a program that interprets input and such -- the interactive Bash shell is the same program that interprets scripts written for it. You can remotely call shells and interact with them without showing anything to one's termin
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by gknoy 10y ago
Think of the scientific advancements we might have made had people like Einstein or Fermi or Tesla been able to live another fifty or hundred years, or were still alive. If we ever manage to find a way off-planet, being able to live for hal
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by gknoy 10y ago
In the history of skills (guitar playing, mastery of swordplay, music composition, etc), it's not inconceivable that someone could go a long time and not happen to notice the same things that masters of the discipline have been taught.
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by gknoy 10y ago
I had never heard of it until I saw it mentioned in an HN comment a year or so ago. For anyone who's interested, here's a link to the Wikipedia article on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mou

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