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by jfb 12y ago
Much, much, much the worse is "rm -rf ~ /blue". I don't give a crap about 99% of the stuff outside of $HOME, but of course, the stuff in $HOME is the stuff that's trivial to destroy.
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by jfb 12y ago
There are more axes to gaming quality than simply polygon performance. You have to be specific about what is superior.
573.
by jfb 12y ago
Get a Macintosh. Emacs key bindings are ubiquitous.
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by jfb 12y ago
Use a for loop? for f in *.md; do pandoc $f --to html > $(basename -s.md $f).html done EDIT to fix the adjectival basename call.
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by jfb 12y ago
I really am at a loss to think of something that email as a standard (and SMTP as a protocol) is lacking that requires a replacement. Postage. Solve the spam problem with economics. Can't be done with SMTP.
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by jfb 12y ago
With ensime [1], I use my editor (Emacs) and get much more sophisticated tools than you might think possible. It's not perfect, but it provides pretty nice inspection tooling. [1] https://github.com/ensime
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by jfb 12y ago
I have no idea how you people survive to adulthood.
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by jfb 12y ago
I was bitten by a brown recluse as a kid; I had a scar the size of a quarter on my leg from the skin necrosis. The only lasting effect was an acute arachnophobia.
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by jfb 12y ago
Any chance to link to the Schmidt Pain Scale[1]! 1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek. [1] http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/05&#x
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by jfb 12y ago
Most of the commenting on a new language, particularly here (as opposed to on e.g. Lambda The Ultimate) is from people who aren't going to write a single line in it in anger; it's not surprising that idle commentary would focus on
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by jfb 12y ago
I think you can see the argument that putting this into the standards is a different order of lossage than simply having various implementations.
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by jfb 12y ago
Actually, if you ask me today, after dealing with Scala's idea of how the Option type should work, I might say that nil propagation is the best thing about Objective-C.
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by jfb 12y ago
This is in my opinion the best thing about Objective-C; it clearly delineates the object/class and C dichotomy, making it easier for a C programmer (or a Smalltalk programmer!) to pick up. For years, the only changes from vanilla C wer
584.
by jfb 12y ago
Yeah, there was a little package called "Bluephone Elite", IIRC, that did this.
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by jfb 12y ago
You get used to it.
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by jfb 12y ago
Yes, it is. I read it in a public policy seminar my freshman year in school and it's had a huge effect on how I understand politics and power. In some ways, I like it better than the magisterial "Years of Lyndon Johnson". Hig
587.
by jfb 12y ago
We've accepted this crappy universal platform because it distributes software well. Given that until very recently, the overwhelming majority of software consumers were also software producers, one can see how this attitude would be
588.
by jfb 12y ago
emacs in daemon mode can manage both tty and window manager sessions, and lately, it's started working on OS X! I build git HEAD every week or so and this feature is fantastic. I can ssh into my main work machine and be right back in E
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by jfb 12y ago
I use homebrew in /homebrew for exactly this reason. The homebrew folks make noise about this, but I don't install language specific packages via brew, so I've never had a problem.
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by jfb 12y ago
My favorite formulation of this family is: "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb" -- which leads neatly into: "C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog". I used to really have a thing about
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by jfb 12y ago
William McNeill, in Plagues And Peoples [1], makes the point that there are disease gradients that strongly influenced the movement of peoples and the development of culture, and that this gradient in China maps almost precisely to the ri
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by jfb 12y ago
They might just be very tiny cities.
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by jfb 12y ago
Per Raz, Berlin, &c., these problems of conflicting goods arise precisely because values do not form a simple taxonomy with one supreme overriding ancestor. It's hard, and messy, because we have to balance several legitimate claims
594.
by jfb 12y ago
Yes, exactly; for each site that 1Pwd can recognize as distinct, record the restrictions. Even share these restrictions. And perhaps people could put attributes on their password entry elements (or header metadata) that would describe the l
595.
by jfb 12y ago
As a half-way step, they could aggregate and normalize the various stupid rules that sites impose and then automatically generate valid, maximally secure passwords by default. Eventually, 1Password (or similar) could handle e.g. changing th
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by jfb 12y ago
Don't conflate the Universal Service Obligation with door-to-door delivery; my dad has to go to the post office to pick up his mail. Of course, he lives on the Big Island of Hawai'i so it's a small price to pay.
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by jfb 12y ago
Nick and Chris would never explicitly admit it, but in unguarded moments it seemed clear that they missed their old idea, the one they’d come up with on the boat, the one that had served a broad and stately social purpose. Their moments of
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by jfb 12y ago
Yes, I could've read the documentation more carefully, but it's also easy to get sucked down a rabbit hole building stuff from scratch for the sake of exploration. Sometimes building at a lower level helps you appreciate and unde
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by jfb 13y ago
H.264 defines a number of profiles and levels that define the acceptable tools from the overall suite that a conforming decoder implementation can rely on. "Baseline" uses very few of these tools, relative to the more sophisticate
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by jfb 13y ago
Storing mail in mbox is such a terrible, terrible, terrible idea that anything would be better.

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