iron_ball

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by iron_ball 12y ago
As a sometime cyclist, I agree that cyclists should abide by traffic laws. I assume this was downvoted for tone. The premise is undeniable. Bicycles should obey the laws. Greater rule adherence means a more predictable, and thus safer, stre
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Never seems to be.
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Even the most obvious of sarcasm is poorly adapted to the comments section of Hacker News.
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by iron_ball 13y ago
And as for remote work?
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Follow-up question: "Should you?"
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Well, I agree. First, North Korea would have to allow foreign journalism. Right now, as I understand it, a North Korean contact who was known to be "cultivated" by a foreign journalist would be hauled up on charges of espionage an
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by iron_ball 13y ago
I'm assuming they could have just used a well-known and well-tested library.
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Edit: replaced snarky response with this. It's not just startups -- businesses tend to focus on earning money. I don't know if we can realistically expect private industry to take an interest in social or economic problems. At the
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Spoiler: there are like six books where _nothing ever happens at all ever_. Enjoy!
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Or in .bashrc: bind "C-p":history-search-backward bind "C-n":history-search-forward
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Absolutely. Christianity is just one possible frame.
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by iron_ball 13y ago
God cannot feel pride, for that would imply the possibility of failure. God is beyond most human emotions, probably all, for that reason: our emotions imply their opposites, while for God, there are no alternatives other than what is -- whi
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by iron_ball 13y ago
The Microsoft Natural is my pick. Split enough for ergonomics, good key response, not very expensive. http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-A11-00337-Natural-Keyboard-E...
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by iron_ball 13y ago
Sole OP response in a thread full of questions.
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by iron_ball 14y ago
Ruby users may also be interested in adding pry to that setup: http://www.alanmacdougall.com/blog/2012/03/27/using-vim-slim... (disclosure: my own blog)
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by iron_ball 14y ago
On the other hand, most of this rogues' gallery is digital agencies or sites made by digital agencies. Sadly, those businesses market to unsophisticated customers on the basis of flash and dazzle, and usually any attempt at user advocacy is
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by iron_ball 14y ago
I really want the term "kebab-case" to catch on.
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by iron_ball 14y ago
Nice to see an Old Man Murray shoutout. Last I heard, one of the writers of that site and other web classics was working at Valve, so maybe some of the wit and wisdom can live on.
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by iron_ball 14y ago
I love Dwarf Fortress, but I would not characterize it as "playable."
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by iron_ball 14y ago
Charles (www.charlesproxy.com) makes this kind of thing pretty easy. Well worth the money, in my book.
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by iron_ball 14y ago
Well, honestly, why should it be necessary?
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by iron_ball 14y ago
I live in New York, which has one of the best public transit systems in the US, and I think driverless cars are freaking amazing, even (or especially) in the context of a city with effective public transit. For one thing, they could solve t
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by iron_ball 14y ago
You imply that those who find fault with the studies are acting from "religious" motives instead of good faith. I don't find that suggestion constructive. Can you defend the substance of the studies to the extent that others are attacking i
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by iron_ball 14y ago
What's specifically wrong with RequireJS? I haven't heard much discussion of it, and you only addressed Browserify in your comment.
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by iron_ball 14y ago
You can use that as a buffalo sentence: police police police police police police police. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo... (and can I just say that this is an awesome Wikipedia URL.)
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by iron_ball 14y ago
jEdit has had this feature for a long time. It's one thing I miss, having moved to Vim.
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by iron_ball 14y ago
If you want your Pry experience to be even more SLIME-like, try combining it with vim and tmux. You can write code in vim, and send arbitrary lines or blocks to the terminal for seamless execution. This has changed how I do a lot of things,
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by iron_ball 14y ago
Counter-anecdote: I have a T520 and I'm perfectly happy with it. Get the full HD screen, it's worth it. I admit that I'd prefer the old 4:3 screen size, but that's just not the way of the world anymore.
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by iron_ball 14y ago
I love Linux for general hacking, but not having Adobe tools is a huge blow when it comes to working on a design. It's almost insurmountable.
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by iron_ball 14y ago
And AS3, if you're into that sort of thing (self-plug): https://github.com/amacdougall/underscore.as

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