jff

35 ms·

301.
by jff 11y ago
That's acme, Plan 9's answer to emacs that does a really good job of managing tiled (text-only) "windows". It also served as an inspiration to the wmii tiling window manager on Linux
302.
by jff 11y ago
And they will fight you every step of the way, every time you suggest they use the indentation character for indentation.
303.
by jff 11y ago
cmdrtaco's screenshot is a great example of how, back in 2002, we hadn't yet learned "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
304.
by jff 11y ago
Your indentation levels will show up correctly, and that's really all that matters. Relax. Or, if you really care, switch to Go and use gofmt.
305.
by jff 11y ago
Well, except for the Lyx and KDE founder, Matthias Ettrich, who calls out his use of proportional fonts in his email on that very page!
306.
by jff 11y ago
"Why doesn't traditional outsourcing work? Well, because I came up with a competitor for it!": > Present us with your requirements, be it a web system, mobile app, or Big Data who-knows-what. We will give you our best team
307.
by jff 11y ago
I'm on the same page here with you--I agree that packet radio is pretty useless for internet access. It's pretty useless for anything except talking to other amateur radio operators, and all they want to talk about is radio and, s
308.
by jff 11y ago
Well, hams are doing their thing on their bands, and if somebody comes in and stomps all over the bands ( cough WINLINK cough ) it's kind of a dick move. Luckily, most of the ham bands are so low in frequency that they're not re
309.
by jff 11y ago
The problem is you're not allowed to use Amateur Radio for anything "useful". You can chat with your friends, but for instance you'd never want to use it for email or online banking because encryption isn't allowed.
310.
by jff 11y ago
And here we find direct evidence of the effects of over-consumption of cannabis.
311.
by jff 11y ago
I once had to do a team project with another student who did all his coding in Wordpad, god knows why. His indentation was more or less random. I wanted to murder him.
312.
by jff 11y ago
She'll tell you it's "a distraction"
313.
by jff 11y ago
Good thing all those guys are drinking at 10am every day in a bar , if they were doing it in the privacy of their homes they'd have a drinking problem!
314.
by jff 11y ago
The authoritarians that run NYC are tremendously contemptuous of the common man. See: anything Bloomberg has ever done.
315.
by jff 11y ago
I've found the exact opposite... by turning on Battery Saver mode, it disabled all the extraneous animations and transitions and actually made my old Nexus 4 feel responsive again!
316.
by jff 11y ago
> my car insurance costs more than if I were a woman. You missed a very important word.
317.
by jff 11y ago
They explicitly say that it does, in the third paragraph.
318.
by jff 11y ago
Those are all either 1) a derivation of the general "starfleet arrowhead" or 2) a ripoff of the UN flag. Most of them are also afflicted with awful outdated-looking gradients.
319.
by jff 11y ago
See today's submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10198353 , where the PDF discusses precisely that case and why it's bad.
320.
by jff 11y ago
Predicted by a 3 year old comic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large
321.
by jff 11y ago
Used to play with these a lot as a kid. User "__bb" must have also spent some time on a cattle farm because everything (s)he's said about the magnets has been spot on.
322.
by jff 11y ago
> You obviously need to address the core issues of homelessness first. But then what? Once someone has marketable skills, mental health treatment and is in a better condition to contribute to society, do you ask them to leave the city be
323.
by jff 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
324.
by jff 11y ago
He was probably thinking more of 9P fileservers, rather than disk filesystems.
325.
by jff 11y ago
*BSD guys seem to do pretty good without a GNU coreutils.
326.
by jff 11y ago
http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/
327.
by jff 11y ago
Here's another well-researched article suggested by this highly credible news source: http://www.disclose.tv/news/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment_dur... (creepypasta if you don't recognize it)
328.
by jff 11y ago
My current daily work machine is a Thinkpad X61; according to the corporate property tracking system, it was acquired in October of 2007. It's never been upgraded, but with a dual-core 64-bit processor and 4 GB of RAM I can run most th
329.
by jff 11y ago
> It involves less testing, hiring and retaining better teachers, and making sure kids are not in poor broken homes. ah, hide the hard one at the end :)
330.
by jff 11y ago
Yes, Oberon is referenced here: http://research.swtch.com/acme.pdf

More ›