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   by jfb 13y ago

   If you can hit your target with sufficient energy, you don't even need an explosive.
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   by jfb 13y ago

   It's not at all clear that fighter aircraft are going to be doing much in any future conflict with e.g. China regardless of how quickly they can shoot down 30 year old technology.
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   by jfb 13y ago

   It's not like the fast jet jocks who run the Air Force are really doing much to justify the decision to split out the Army Air Force, anyway.
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   by jfb 13y ago

   If you're on a Mac (as I am) it leaves an Emacs application running (complete with menu bar and app switcher icon) that you can't interact with. But otherwise, --daemon works great.
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   by jfb 13y ago

   Which is how many units per year, exactly? A piece of a declining business is a pretty thin reed to hang your future survival as a company on.
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   by jfb 13y ago

   Huh. This works for both -t and -c in emacsclient, with a vanilla build of pre-24.4. It didn't for ages, so thanks for getting me to check this out again!
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   by jfb 13y ago

   18Gb/sec.
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   by jfb 13y ago

   Historical accident.
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   The Poor Usability Tell(ribbonfarm.com)

   1 points by jfb 13y ago|0 comments
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    by jfb 13y ago

    Exactly. The system should be resilient to the assholery of the individuals, as far as possible. It's not a surprise that TSA, which is new, high-profile, and huge has fucked up incentives.
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    Ask HN: A good modern Unix internals book -- does it exist?

    1 points by jfb 13y ago|0 comments
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    by jfb 13y ago

    This was very interesting, thanks. Sorta-OT, I wonder if there's a modern equivalent of Vahalia's Unix Internals: The New Frontiers [1]? [1] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337378.UNIX_Internals
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    Digital maps' unsung hero: how the geocoder puts us on the grid(theguardian.com)

    25 points by jfb 13y ago|5 comments
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    by jfb 13y ago

    Apple buying NeXT.
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    by jfb 13y ago

    I mean, I don't use Gmail, or G+, but isn't innovation in messaging a good thing? Mail needs a good rethink, and yeah, maybe I'd prefer it to be by someone other than Google, but I have a hard time seeing malicious intent h
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    by jfb 13y ago

    I actually don't understand the sound and fury over this; it seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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    by jfb 13y ago

    John McPhee is a national treasure.
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    Google will make it easy for strangers to email you(marco.org)

    75 points by jfb 13y ago|105 comments
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    by jfb 13y ago

    It's likely the case that Norwegian civil society would have been strong enough to produce good results regardless of the model.
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    by jfb 13y ago

    Here's a cool lat/lng pair: 40.2526, 58.4394. Check it out on a satellite view.
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    by jfb 13y ago

    All the great human artifacts are messy; because humans are messy. I appreciate the bracing asceticism of Scheme, but I love the impossibly complicated English language.
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    by jfb 13y ago

    The C preprocessor is terrible, but rampant cpp insanity is much, much less prevalent these days -- the C culture has made its peace with the technology. A similar accommodation would doubtless happen with JS macros, particularly as there&#
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    by jfb 13y ago

    I think the ferry idea is interesting, because the Bay is totally underutilized. I used to live in the Mission and work in Oakland, and I'd just bike to the ferry terminal. Aside from being a relaxing way to spend your morning commute,
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    by jfb 13y ago

    Yeah, graph storage is not a problem that is amenable to a SQL solution. ISTR that this very thing basically killed Friendster.
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    by jfb 13y ago

    Fewer killer jellyfish. For now.
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    by jfb 13y ago

    I use and love Apple hardware, but if you're not going to use OS X, does it make sense to pay the price in driver potential wonkiness?
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    by jfb 13y ago

    That's not what HiDPI mode does; rather than rely on the (uniformly crappy) on-board scaling logic on the display, the computer sends a full resolution picture that it has scaled already. And there's no reason to think that this w
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    LG launching its first 4K monitor in January with 31-inch ultra-widescreen panel(engadget.com)

    1 points by jfb 13y ago|0 comments
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    by jfb 13y ago

    Who cares? It doesn't make the language any better.
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    by jfb 13y ago

    Find a local who'd get you some time? If you're in either Toronto or San Francisco, drop me a line.