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by hsitz 12y ago
"I'm confused as to why you think this is not about status." You can say it's about status if you want; it has some truth as an objective, detached description of what's happening. For purposes of our discussion in
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"Most 'professionals' quickly reach the point where money is really more about status than anything else." This sounds like something a young person would say. It's certainly not what most successful "professi
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In the U.S. the cheapest Mac Air with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD is the 11", which sells for $1,199. That's compared to the new Macbook's $1,299. That they barely differ in price is precisely the thing that struck me most.
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by hsitz 12y ago
I don't have one yet, but there is a guy who left comments on Amazon who has good experience with Ubuntu: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2UHFYMBSR02RT/ref=cm_srch_res_... Amazon has temporarily inflated prices
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For my needs I would say the Core M is a good compromise between performance and energy efficiency. E.g., the Dell XPS 13 some have mentioned this thread as alternative has a faster processor than I need. Also, the fan is a big issue for m
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by hsitz 12y ago
Tacked on, yes, but I'm not clear on what vimb does that Vimperator doesn't do, or couldn't do, in Firefox. The integration of Vimperator is pretty damn good.
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"I always find vim's window-manipulating commands obscure. . . ." What's obscure? I assume you're talking about the keys mapped to the commands, which can easily be changed to whatever you want them to be. Trivial
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"And the "wet coast" is really a myth. Seattle gets rain, but Vancouver is tucked behind Vancouver Island and is much drier." This is just blatantly false, and easy to check. Vancouver average annual rainfall is around
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by hsitz 12y ago
The upcoming Lenovo LaVie Z machines will weigh 1.7 lbs but be in a bulkier (tough) Magnesium-alloy case. Not sure if they'll have enough RAM, hd-storage, or battery-life for many, although if they're that light I'd probably
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by hsitz 12y ago
Current 13.3" Macbook Pro weighs 3.46 pounds. The Dell XPS 13 weighs 2.6 pounds. The MBP thus weighs 32% more (0.8 pounds) than the Dell. That's a big difference to me, and to lots of people.
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by hsitz 12y ago
I've heard people say this about Windows but it certainly hasn't been my experience. Since 1999 I've had nine (I think) different Windows machines, eight laptops and one tablet. They're from varied manufacturers: Dell,
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This is mostly the problem, I think. In this sense, both 'theory' and 'hypothesis' are antonyms of 'fact'. Leads directly to uninformed people saying that evolution hasn't been established as a fact, or
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As in, I do not want to see money thrown at majors that can never pay back the investment or require such skill and luck to achieve pay back relative to the cost. Sounds to me then like you're in favor of "government planning&qu
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This is the main point I take from the linked article, although it probably doesn't give enough context for everyone to do the same. One of the big improvements music-lovers were hoping for in move from vinyl to CD was the improved dy
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To avoid pain run less distance at a slower pace. People generally build up way too fast. I had plenty of problems in my late 40's when I tried to run and went at it like when I was a kid. But when I slowed down and built distance u
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by hsitz 12y ago
You're probably remembering something from Brian Kernighan's 1981 essay, "Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language". Lack of unsafe typecasts, as well as (I think) all of Kernighan's other main points in
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by hsitz 12y ago
Parent poster has a point that the difficulty of actually identifying the exceptional programmers poses a major problem here. P.G. has actually written about this himself, arguing that great programmers are the only ones who can identify o
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". . . it is not up to corporations to dictate terms of citizenship at their convenience." Of course not. But it is up to legislators to make decisions that are in the best interests of the U.S. going forward. An enlightened vie
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"What's still missing in the LaTeX ecosystem (to my knowledge) is a visually pleasing writing environment." I assume you're not aware of Lyx, then?: http://www.lyx.org/ My own preference is to edit in Em
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That statement by Wittgenstein is far from being the same thing as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. For one thing, if you can discriminate colors then you can name the colors, if you want. That is, the limits of your language include being abl
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by hsitz 12y ago
Looks to me like something similar to Evil, but which follows no Vim conventions at all and has way fewer features. Maybe there's an audience for it; I tend to think if you're going to go with modal editing Vim offers a tried and
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"If humans are the scourge of the planet then it's difficult to see why population density is of value. . . . Density simply improves the availability of goods and services." I don't follow. Density does not merely impr
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Almost everyone has problems when they first start running, and these become worse the older you get. The good thing, though, is that most people can work through the initial period if they do it right. I was a runner on cross county and t
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by hsitz 12y ago
Here's an Evil-mode best practices thread on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8483182/evil-mode-best-pr... I found at least the mini-buffer quit addition to be a practical necessity; without
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Efficient market hypothesis does not disagree that some active investors will do incredibly well. It does say that those who do will succeed based on luck rather than smarts/skill. Also, the efficient market hypothesis is of course no
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They seem to imply that no weave/tangle would be necessary with Outshine. At least I assume that's how it would work with the outline headings 'outcommented in the comment syntax of the major-mode language'.
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>> I would eventually throw emacs into a state where >> it wasn't in any of the evil modes, then >> bash my keyboard with C-X C-C. I think the snippet of code in linked article in section 'Escape . . . escapes t
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"Money put at risk is taxed as capital gains." Huh? Money that hedge fund owners provide as fund capital is already theirs, they don't pay tax on it at all. Of course gains in value of their capital investment are taxed as
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I don't know specifically about Renaissance's case, but they may well have avoided $6B in taxes if a lot of their fees were categorized as "carried interest". (I don't think the particular fact that they invest in d
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>> I would want to end my life while I'm able to >> competently choose to do so. At least with Alzheimer's, there is no bright line between competence and incompetence. It's a relatively slow slide into incompete

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