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   by ink_13 7y ago

   This is true of many large companies today, though. Facebook comes to mind.
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   by ink_13 7y ago

   It's funny because under the hood, they're both Lucene.
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   by ink_13 7y ago

   I think you misunderstand. That's a dealbreaker, not an upside.
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   by ink_13 7y ago

   Sounds like the infamous Trains of CS452 at the University of Waterloo. There's a class the ruins people; it seems they do nothing but live in a lab for three months. They walk away having written a bare-metal real-time operating syst
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   by ink_13 7y ago

   Have you tried mapping Caps Lock to Esc?
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   by ink_13 7y ago

   Ah, you have discovered one of the Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names[0]. [0]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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   by ink_13 7y ago

   That's not a memory-safe error.
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   Hexagonal Cross Stitch(isohedral.ca)

   104 points by ink_13 8y ago|7 comments
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   by ink_13 8y ago

   > Linux has a reputation for Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome, and these licensing issues certainly contribute to that I don't think the author understands with NIH means in practise, and this completely misplaces the blame. It&#x2
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    by ink_13 8y ago

    I use The Old Reader: https://theoldreader.com/ It's 95% like Google Reader used to be.
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    by ink_13 8y ago

    What? "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
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    by ink_13 8y ago

    You can see the top Patreon creators on Graphtreon: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators Even going back in time (Graphtreon keeps historical data), there's less porn there than you suggest.
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    by ink_13 8y ago

    Unfortunately, for people with even moderately complicated prescriptions (e.g., even mild astigmatism), there's no substitute for in-person fitting, as the lens centre must be precisely located.
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    by ink_13 8y ago

    Winkler's book looks pretty good, yes. You'd probably also enjoy the works of Martin Gardner, who wrote a recreational mathematics column in Scientific American for 25 years, which has been collected across many volumes.