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by haroldp 4y ago
> Photoshop, BBEdit, Netscape and Eudora This exact combo, plus MacSSH, Ircle and SoundJam, for years.
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by haroldp 4y ago
I mean, I worked for years as a professional web developer on MacOS 8 and 9 machines. The stability wasn't great, but it was fine.
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by haroldp 4y ago
I was thinking it was the end of the era of fun websites too. That is overstated, but...
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by haroldp 4y ago
Ouch, nostalgia poisoning. I had a 6100AV with a Maxpower G3 card, back in the day.
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by haroldp 4y ago
> The problem with the awk example here specifically is that you're mixing two different languages (shell and awk) Two languages, but three environments altogether. I'm running an awk script, in a remote shell script, in a loc
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by haroldp 4y ago
I mean, yes I know how to quote and escape. My point was that only I know what my intent was. Do I want local shell interpretation, remote shell interpretation, awk interpretation or a literal string? I'm not sure how great an aut
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by haroldp 4y ago
I have to say, the bluetooth experience is one of the worst pain points for me on macs these days. I'm always connected to the wrong source. Or it's connected to two sources, but playing sound from the wrong one. Or I skip an a
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by haroldp 4y ago
Just thinking of one of OP's examples, his (very cool) autoquoter allows him to type: > ssh user@host awk '{print $1}' file.txt And have the "$1" quoted or escaped so that it's interpreted as an awk keyword
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by haroldp 4y ago
I like Image Capture.app when I want to scan a multi-page document to one PDF
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by haroldp 4y ago
Thanks! No one seemed to get my point so I guess I didn't frame it very well. BTW, Julius Sumner Miller was my "Bill Nye" growing up. Great stuff. Go fuck yourself!
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by haroldp 4y ago
Seems like no one got my intent, so that makes it my fault. :)
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by haroldp 4y ago
I'd bet most ancaps are ok with families too, which are collective. I think what they would object to is coerced collectives.
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by haroldp 4y ago
I recently discovered that the signing feature can use an associated iPhone or iPad (with stylus!) as the signing device where you write your signature.
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by haroldp 4y ago
Anarcho-capitalism does not oppose unions. Free association is a libertarian principle.
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by haroldp 4y ago
Enthusiasm. He could do the same show without the poopy words and the sex dungeon jokes and it would be just as good because he has a contagious enthusiasm for the subject. Well almost as good, anyway.
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by haroldp 4y ago
Why does my 12 year old kindle-keyboard refresh so much faster and better than any eink hobby display that I can buy? Do you think there is any hope of this changing?
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by haroldp 5y ago
> If you replace all that SFH zoning with 6 floor apartment complexes Or replace it with 2-6 story mixed-use, with commercial space on the ground floor, and density goes way up and suddenly you can survive without a car.
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by haroldp 5y ago
This was my first real "programming" book, and my first O'Reilly animal book and it changed the course of my life in a real and tangible sense. I read it cover to cover and did all off the exercises, and then moved right on
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by haroldp 5y ago
> I'm imagining a scenario where two iBuyer companies try to outbid each other algorithmically, driving the prices further and further out of reach of people who are looking for a primary home. But iBuyers are always low-balling. T
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by haroldp 5y ago
Great post! Minor nit: eggdrop is an old bot written in TCL. People use "bouncers" like BNC and ZNC to proxy IRC through a shell to keep themselves connected, and other features. I don't know why we keep reinventing IRC.
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by haroldp 5y ago
AppleScript was one of my first programming languages, way back in the day. I still have an AppleScript I wrote that I use every day on my MacBook. I'll say it was nice for a beginner that it didn't use a lot of fiddly punctuati
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by haroldp 5y ago
That mechanism is totally absent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice That is precisely why these things happen.
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by haroldp 5y ago
And Feynman made some wonderful attacks on social status. I recall in particular the lesson on "epaulets" from his father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkv0KCR3Yiw He was the child of poor Jewish immigrants.
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by haroldp 5y ago
I grew up in Whittier and those photos really take me back. Apartment 510 means fifth floor, north-east side. I was 905, ninth floor north west side, same layout, but mirrored. They have retained the original shitty steel kitchen cabinets
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by haroldp 5y ago
> The rule about kids not playing with toys in hallways seems a bit authoritarian but was probably prompted by parents not sufficiently supervising their kids and toys getting left around and stepped/tripped on. When I was a little
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by haroldp 5y ago
Alaska has had a crazy history with marijuana legalization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Alaska
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by haroldp 5y ago
I grew up in Whittier and answered some questions about it in a previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8840005
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by haroldp 5y ago
This conversation is like telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
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by haroldp 5y ago
You are mistaken. Vast numbers of American teens are prescribed amphetamines every day. The main difference between elicit recreational methamphetamine use and medical/psychological amphetamine use is circumstances and dosing. Kids
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by haroldp 5y ago
Assaulting people for drug money is an artifact of the drug war, not the drug. Alcohol addicts don't typically assault people for alcohol money. Alcohol gangs do not shoot each other up on the streets over alcohol territory. Or they

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