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by jff 13y ago
I built a 7-key chording keyset based on the Spiffchorder. It should be adaptable to almost any configuration. Mine came out a bit blocky and hard to use due to crappy buttons.
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by jff 13y ago
My colleagues and I often lament how gcc is just so much smarter than all of us. Usually after spending a day figuring out why our code wasn't working, only to discover that gcc was doing something "clever".
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by jff 13y ago
My email address? Oh god no!
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by jff 13y ago
UEFI? Closed the fucking tab, we're done here.
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by jff 13y ago
So what you're saying is that these non-TeX users are unlikely to successfully solve P=NP? I'd say that sort of upholds his premise.
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by jff 13y ago
I thought the time saved by lifehacks was usually devoted to writing blog posts about how you've been doing X for 3 days now and it's amazing.
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by jff 13y ago
The reason for Emacs using a different set of key bindings (C-u catches me all the damn time) is that Emacs had its genesis outside of Unix. Emacs keybindings and the endless crusade to force "info" as a "man" replacemen
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by jff 13y ago
Does it have any of these things today? I ask of genuine interest. I've been bitten pretty often by the lack of threading.
729.
by jff 13y ago
Writing a single sentence fragment per slide for 75 slides does not make poetry.
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by jff 13y ago
Ah, that explains Ruby's concurrency situation. (It's a joke, I understand the difficulty involved with concurrency in interpreted languages. But given that both Elisp and Ruby are well-known for having trouble with threading, wel
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by jff 13y ago
"Well I would write things in Go, but I keep hearing about this generics thing so I'm just going to complain about it instead"
732.
by jff 13y ago
Animals aren't people.
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by jff 13y ago
After the GSA stunt a few years ago, you bet conference budgets have been cut. Departments are given a set budget for each conference--if I remember right, the DOE allocates $100k max per conference. Sounds like a lot, but then you see what
734.
by jff 13y ago
But oats and wild rice have even more protein.
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by jff 13y ago
That was my question coming out of the article: why exactly do we want quinoa? The native Americans stopped growing it because it didn't yield well enough. Modern farmers have had trouble growing it here in the US. And I've neve
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by jff 13y ago
I went to "theSummit" last year as a speaker. The speakers were all asked to wear blinky badges so people could find them and ask about their talks. Unfortunately, in proper party fashion, they had the DJ playing crap music so lou
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by jff 13y ago
We had buses to do exactly that. The "sports bus" departed at 6 p.m. every day; there weren't a lot of the buses, because not everyone did afterschool activities, but everyone who needed a ride got on the appropriate bus (eas
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by jff 13y ago
You'd better hope ambient temperature is less than 50 degrees.
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by jff 13y ago
Won't work very long, it operates using the temperature differential between your hand and the interior of the flashlight. Which, based on the quoted "still worked at 50 degrees F", means you'd have to stick your phone i
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by jff 13y ago
Do you know the origin of the name, "New Jersey approach"? It was these guys. These guys invented the New Jersey approach. Go is the result of 40 years of OS and programming language work primarily done at Bell Labs in Murray Hill
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by jff 13y ago
It's a (rather poor) take on the name "Go". Boldly GOing. But by all means, ascribe it to some mental failing of Go programmers, any more so than say Scala programmers.
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by jff 13y ago
Well, to start with I decided on a directory structure. I went with yyyy/mm/dd/n where the given post is the nth of that day. I then wrote some code to compile an archive.html page when accessed by traversing the file tree de
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by jff 13y ago
Here's why: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dom96
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by jff 13y ago
I wrote my own in Go. It's not hard.
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by jff 13y ago
It's sarcasm, dumbass.
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by jff 13y ago
Persons holding clearances are not allowed to confirm or deny any purported classified material, so I would expect any NSA disavowal to take some time if it occurs at all.
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by jff 13y ago
The success of the Valvemobile will be in no way affected by the hood ornament, I suppose. To un-knot the twisted metaphor, I'm saying Valve already got past the wailing 10 years ago. Their Steam model already enjoys widespread success
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by jff 13y ago
Would it surprise you that a person might take a 30-minute bus ride to avoid a 15-minute walk? Wouldn't surprise me.
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by jff 13y ago
I see the utility anywhere a simple, repetitive task is performed with interaction from the physical world. The canonical student example is the soda machine. Sure, you could put a small Linux system in there and write Python code, but then
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by jff 13y ago
People ignore warnings. Want proof? Go grab damn near any open source project and compile it. It's almost guaranteed that the default compile options, chosen by the authors, will generate dozens if not hundreds of warnings. Everyone&#x

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