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by jff 9y ago
How frustrating is it to change GOPATH? In each GOPATH, create a file called "source" or something, and put the following in it: export GOPATH=/home/ubercow/project2/ Or even: export GOPATH=`pwd`
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by jff 9y ago
Don't forget Java, Pascal, Ada, Lisp, Algol, Basic, Ruby, Awk... By this metric, the best programming languages are Perl and Fortran.
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by jff 9y ago
I took a seminar class in Go in my final year of school, in the spring of 2010. I was hooked pretty early. It was a very chaotic time to be writing Go; the language would change from week to week, so if we did a pull from the Go repo, there
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by jff 9y ago
I would think you'd still be better off just staying in the house, especially if you can use your garage as a decontamination zone / airlock to avoid bringing a bunch of alpha emitters into the house. Edit: assuming you're ta
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by jff 9y ago
Shades of the Soviet Union's method for spying on the US Embassy's Selectric typewriters: https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-fi...
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by jff 9y ago
If we want to adopt the Chinese and Indian methods of academic success, we should start teaching 4 year olds how to plagiarize--your average Chinese 7th grader is copying work at a level surpassing even a 12th grade American child!
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by jff 9y ago
He's referring to 'bacha bazi', which as you point out is a cultural construct.
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by jff 9y ago
You forgot to include "Endlessly write justifications of how important philosophy is" and "Misunderstand the abstracts of scientific papers, then write essays based on those misunderstandings"
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by jff 9y ago
Yes, in interviews etc. he's struct me as an "ideas guy" who got stuck on the same idea for 30 years. You'd think in that time he could have just coded the damn thing.
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by jff 9y ago
I'm curious, what are the tax implications of this? You're spending money, you're receiving money--does it tell you at the end of the year how much you've taken in vs how much you spent, so you can report it as taxable i
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by jff 9y ago
> I think we are better off with boost Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back ;)
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by jff 9y ago
It's not what you're asking, but I've always had similar problems with tiling window managers. They want to use a lot of keybindings, typically keyed on Alt as the modifier; the problem is that lots of programs such as Emacs
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by jff 9y ago
Making Money is worth reading, still.
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by jff 9y ago
Not tangential, they call this out in section 2.1 of the paper. I'd paste it but the formatting does not copy/paste well.
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by jff 9y ago
Agreed; 'Raising Steam' made me so sad I couldn't finish it (I thought it was a much better story when titled 'Making Money', and even better when it was called 'Going Postal').
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by jff 9y ago
Personally, I'm just fine at impromptu public speaking, or giving a presentation, or just talking intensely for an hour or more, but 5 minutes of reading aloud gives me a dry mouth and tired jaw. Like you, I can't wait to be done.
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by jff 9y ago
So you're saying all Japan needs to do is station high-powered lasers near all North Korean missile sites? Seems easy enough.
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by jff 9y ago
From TFA: "And in January 2016, the Interior Ministry ordered a ban on a right-wing website, “Altermedia Deutschland.”" That is of course one instance, but if this is the first time a left-wing website has been shut down by the Ge
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by jff 9y ago
> For eight hours from midday until evening (the exact times shift a little based on my waking and sleeping schedule; 2PM to 10PM is a pretty common schedule for me), I eat like a responsible adult. Minimal junk food, desserts in moderat
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by jff 9y ago
Every time I've watched a landing, the video feed is janky. One might speculate that they don't want to live-stream an embarrassing failure but that seems a bit odd when it would be more embarrassing to have an explosion during la
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by jff 9y ago
I swear there's a pervasive feeling among bicycle and mass transit advocates that if the experience is too convenient, it's not morally right. A bicycle is morally right because it takes effort and gets you to work a bit slower th
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by jff 9y ago
> Wanna tax something, try fossil fuels Revolutionary!
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by jff 9y ago
> find it outrageous I have to pay various fees to use/access my money while it is used to enrich others. Where are you banking? My bank pays me interest, even on my checking account, and I don't need to worry about a burglar t
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by jff 9y ago
That's the end goal of the "We finance everyone!" car dealers, right? Get you in a high interest rate loan and either the client eventually pays it off (paying $15,000 for a car worth $4,000) or they default after 6 months an
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by jff 9y ago
I'm glad to see someone bring up Star Trek and CBS's streaming service. They seem to think the new Trek series will save CBS All Access; I would contend that CBS All Access will kill their Trek series. I've heard from people
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by jff 9y ago
Seems like it would put you in a position to publish a, say, quarterly collection of the results. Combine that with a Patreon or something similar if other people enjoy the stories that come from the prompts, and you might break even while
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by jff 9y ago
I'd be frightened too if I was writing an article on Techcrunch that could potentially be seen as supporting the memo too much, since as we've seen that's the sort of thing that gets people fired once Twitter finds out about
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by jff 9y ago
You're thinking of security guards, not bodyguards. yellowapple was pointing out that she has armed bodyguards near her when she's out and about, yet she advocates for disarming the regular folk like us--"one law for me, anot
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by jff 9y ago
> I read that Feinstein owned a home there. They should set up a website taking donations: every dollar donated would increase Feinstein's annual parking costs by a dollar. I'd donate to that, as long as the money went to the A
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by jff 9y ago
Lot of articles re-hashing NIST 800-63 since it came out last month. Here's the original source: https://www.nist.gov/itl/tig/special-publication-800-63-3

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