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by gkya 8y ago
Thanks for the explanations!
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by gkya 8y ago
We disagree indeed, and that was foreseeable. I just wanted to clarify my words. I'm not on the LKML and most probably won't ever be. But I generally say a word or two about Torvalds' behaviour because he is a "role mo
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by gkya 8y ago
I guess I have failed to explain myself: I think bad people (trollish, insistent, selfish, &c) can be banned, and that is more effective than insulting. Bad ideas on the other hand, should not get people banned, but criticised &a
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by gkya 8y ago
Not really. Reproducible research depends on reproducible execution, which depends on a reproducible environment, which depends on a reproducible set of libraries and frameworks. I don't think Node is apt for that. The community val
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by gkya 8y ago
So this is a reproducible research application suite built on Node.JS, the epitome of non-reproducibility and characterised by fast pace, little care for compatibility, and an ecosystem of volatile libraries?
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by gkya 8y ago
I agree you, I assumed an incompetent/malevolent/sociopathic contributor that everybody would want to avoid. A toxic person that is. In the case you talk about, I think it's easy and effective to put forward one's thoug
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by gkya 8y ago
What you say is totally different from and possible without insults.
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by gkya 8y ago
It is easy to filter such people out. Especially if it is email the sole medium of contact.
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by gkya 8y ago
But it has certain connotations in many cultures, which is not positive. I too like them and know they aren't a part of our value system, but naming a security product that is meant to protect your valuable stuff "fox" i
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by gkya 8y ago
I have in the past, but not written it down. My criterion was: - FOSS (totally indispensable) - Offline (totally indispensable, data you put on others' servers is not yours anymore) - Can be used from the CLI as well as some interface
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by gkya 8y ago
Lockfox sounds like something that breaks or works around locks to me, fox being a sneacky tricky animal; not really reassuring.
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by gkya 8y ago
Everything starts out so, so we can wait until it's stable, no?
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From Hot Metal to Cold Type (Phototypesetting Documentary) [video] (1965)(vimeo.com)
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by gkya 8y ago
I don't think simple means discard if complex. It means using the simplest and most obvious tools (algorithms, libraries, &c) possible in order to achieve a correct enough software. So it does not mean discarding intricacies of t
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by gkya 8y ago
I've always hated team work in uni as a humanities student. And I'm not even an introvert type. It's always childish and boring, and makes me detach from the class, if not the entire lesson itself. If it's team work,
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by gkya 8y ago
Evil is a Vim implementation in Elisp, basically.
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by gkya 8y ago
Except 11 out of 10 such tools come as a command line tool that has to be integrated to your IDE, often by someone else.
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by gkya 8y ago
I run Emacs, in GUI mode. If the language tool have a debugger and/or an interpreter, there is the IDE. In the rare case that there is not a ready made comint implementation for a language, it's easy to do. Completion, well M-&
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by gkya 8y ago
DarkSky was forecast.io when I wrote forecast.el, they renamed.
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by gkya 8y ago
Nice! The http://wttr.in website shows a nice report too. If you use emacs, I've made this [1][2] which gets its data from DarkSky.net. [1] https://github.com/cadadr/elisp/blob/master/for
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by gkya 8y ago
> I actually wanted to _have painted_, and not really to paint. Oh, this resonates so much with me... But WRT purpose of art and it having a message, I don't think that that's a valid approach. I'm into writing fiction a
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by gkya 8y ago
2013. My 19yo self, having spent almost two years doing nothing but learning programming, wants to read CS at the uni, but knows not maths. Signs up for a class to prepare for the national uni qualification exams in order to learn enough
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by gkya 8y ago
My take: - The indentation based syntax: it can easily trip you up when moving big blocks of code around. You want to put this if else block somehwere else, hope you get a syntax error, because you can get sth. that seemingly works but doe
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by gkya 8y ago
No they say it required network connectivity which is not correct. Also utilities exist to make it somewhat distributed.
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by gkya 8y ago
The best thing with Org mode literate programming is that you can easily mix and match code in multiple languages and make these communicate, and then render the result as part of the document w/o any hassles.
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by gkya 8y ago
Org mode can natively export to all that formats, and more. The end result is always better than pandoc's, and it lends itself better to the customisation of the process and hooking in your own functions to further modify it.
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by gkya 8y ago
A CVS lifesaver that you can put into your shell init file: export CVS_RSH=ssh This defaults to rsh and figuring out that I had to set it like this took me a shameful amount of time (mostly because it produces such and unhelpful erro
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by gkya 8y ago
I use RCS for version controlling single in a bunch of places. Using Emacs' VC mode makes it mostly invisible to me.
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by gkya 8y ago
Thus is wrong: you can not commit locally means that the commit cannot be local to any checkout. You can perfectly have /some/directory on your computer be the CVSROOT.
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by gkya 8y ago
In both CVS and Svn you can just check out from a local directory. For a couple years I used CVS for my private local repos where CVSROOT was sth. like /my/cvsroot. Same is possible with Svn too.

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