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by intractable 9y ago
This is true, to a certain extent. But it doesn't mean that masters for vinyl always have more dynamics left intact. More often than not these days, the same compressed master is used for the vinyl. To combat the groove-jumping problem
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by intractable 11y ago
> Robert Redford, Sydney Poitier, River Phoenix, James Earl Jones, Dan Aykroyd Don't forget Ben Kingsley, another Oscar winner.
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by intractable 12y ago
> I find the contrast to be perfectly fine. Which is why you chose to write your comment in a low contrast colour.
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by intractable 12y ago
I use Gitit [1] as my personal wiki for notetaking. I've been pretty happy with it so far, as it uses the excellent Pandoc as the backend. I have not heard of Vimwiki until now - can you tell me your favourite features? [1] http:&#x2F
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by intractable 12y ago
The article brings to mind this wonderful short story by Ray Bradbury, "Pedestrian" [1] "What are you doing out?" "Walking," said Leonard Mead. "Walking!" "Just walking," h
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by intractable 13y ago
> But in absence of this conflict, or the external meaning that is the cause of the (perceived) conflict, they wouldn't know what to do with their own existence What nonsense. > "Google" is nothing more than a tightly-b
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by intractable 13y ago
I'm interested to know how you manage the risk inherent in project-based billing. In my experience it is simply unworkable: the client will provide the vaguest of specifications and providing them with a set-in-stone price raises unrea
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by intractable 13y ago
> underline an arbitrary line of text with '=' characters. In vim that's 11 keypresses across 3 operations Sounds like a vimgolf challenge to me. Here's my entry: YpVr=
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by intractable 13y ago
I would imagine that it would be much easier for Stripe to acquire local Stripe equivalents and rebrand, rather than trying to navigate the labyrinth of financial regulations in each location. Maybe that's the game plan for Pin? From anothe
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by intractable 13y ago
OO is a subset of imperative. Can you name me an OO language which doesn't support imperative programming?
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by intractable 13y ago
No, the analogies are spot on. Anything in the preceding comments which seems ridiculous has been introduced by the concept of "zero tolerance", which precludes common sense. Zero means zero. If the rules are enforced as written - arguabl
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by intractable 13y ago
More than any other here, your post makes me nostalgic about the old days. Kudos.
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by intractable 13y ago
> And how is Apple waging war against openness? This does not need to be an either / or proposition. _Both_ Apple and Google are doing "evil", in their own way. Along with a bunch of cool stuff, too.
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by intractable 14y ago
> Mandatory urine testing I don't think these are the "IP issues" to which he was referring.
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by intractable 14y ago
In my experience, one of the most significant hindrances has been access to and communication with medical personnel: - Medics, especially specialists / surgeons, have extremely busy schedules, often holding down both public & private p
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by intractable 14y ago
+1 for Pandoc. It's awesome. Also, it needs to be mentioned that Pandoc supports its own set of (IMO) sensible extensions / defaults to Gruber markdown [1]. [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdow...
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by intractable 14y ago
This is one which had escaped me for years: private static bool GreaterThanOne(int @int) { return @int > 1; } However, it would seem to me to fall into the "never, ever use this" category.
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by intractable 14y ago
I agree 100%. I too walked the Camino de Santiago, in 2009. Probably the best thing I've ever done. I came back centred, happy, relaxed and motivated. I met great people, had great times (and trying times - like walking 40km, into a town wi
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by intractable 14y ago
The rage these days seems to be to keep your own dotfiles repo, complete with some kind of install mechanism. My own is here [1] but it covers my whole homedir, not just VIM. I use Rake tasks (originally inspired by @holman, I believe) for
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by intractable 14y ago
I agree. But, I must say: no matter how repetitive these articles, I pick up something new in the HN comments every single time.
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by intractable 14y ago
Every time an article like this comes up, snipMate seems to be mentioned. This particular author even pointed to the old repository which appears unmaintained and has not had a check-in for two years. Where's the love for UltiSnips? [1] Ult
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by intractable 14y ago
Not to mention VIM has been available on Windows for many years, so the gp has probably already eliminated it as an option.
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by intractable 14y ago
I have the same thought process as you, and I find it quite debilitating. It often manifests as a need to know everything about a problem space before even starting on a solution. The upside is that on the whole I produce code that is log
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by intractable 14y ago
Absolutely. After all, that is what most employers will do when the pendulum swings their way.
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by intractable 14y ago
Ahh, the "What every programmer should know about X" articles. So, Ulrich Drepper thinks everyone should know about the intricacies of DRAM refreshing. Zed Shaw thinks we should all know statistics. Some other schmoe thinks we should know a
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by intractable 14y ago
It's definitely wrong. According to [1], 614,631 kg were mined in South Africa (which accounts for about 80% of world production) between 2002 and 2009. Density of platinum = 21.45g/cm^3 = 21.45 * 10^6 g/m^3 = 21.45 * 10^3 kg/m^3 => tot
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by intractable 15y ago
Glad to hear I wasn't the only one...
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by intractable 15y ago
Yes. It's the Italian Restaurant argument all over again. There's room in town for more than one, and everybody you ask will have their own favourite.