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1081.
by jff 14y ago
http://new.weavesilk.com/?d07y Simply doodling, when out pops the angel of death. Lovely :)
1082.
by jff 14y ago
As someone who has had his house invaded by box elder bugs, there's at least one type of tree I consider to be over-abundant :)
1083.
by jff 14y ago
> And thanks for the completely unnecessary downvote. Have another, for whining about it!
1084.
by jff 14y ago
Check out http://swtch.com/plan9port/ , it's a huge project that runs on (to quote the site) Linux (x86, x86-64, PowerPC, and ARM), FreeBSD (x86, x86-64), Mac OS X (x86 and Power PC), NetBSD (x86 and PowerPC), OpenBSD (x86 and PowerPC), Su
1085.
by jff 14y ago
I use Google Latitude to share my location with my girlfriend. As another poster points out, it's really handy when we're meeting somewhere and trying to figure out how long until the other arrives.
1086.
by jff 14y ago
Get over it and just use your slide rule. Get over it and use punched card decks, timesharing is a fad. Get over it and use FORTRAN. Get over it and just use Windows.
1087.
by jff 14y ago
The comments on that post are horrible.
1088.
by jff 14y ago
The Romney word cloud was clearly election-based. To look at Obama's, you'd think it was a collection from a Groupon mailing list or something. Same goes for the subject line analysis: Obama's subject lines have the same qualities as spam s
1089.
by jff 14y ago
The thing is, 20 years ago maybe you developed on a Sun box, then the guy down the hall tried to compile it on his HP machine and it crapped itself because of some Sun-related assumption you made in setting things up. Then you mail it to a
1090.
by jff 14y ago
Autotools will go to great lengths to check if I'm running BSD 4.2, or a specific version of Xenix from 1987, but just you try running it if your "ls" doesn't have a -i flag! Apparently, a filesystem not based around inodes is just inconcei
1091.
by jff 14y ago
I think he was referring to MDMA when he said "X"
1092.
by jff 14y ago
Ham is not an acronym.
1093.
by jff 14y ago
Somebody never watched Dune.
1094.
by jff 14y ago
What about the other reports that mention votes for Romney being changed to Obama? It's just that "votes get switched to Romney" will make the Internet go ballistic--it's still a problem either way.
1095.
by jff 14y ago
I started out writing code in Emacs, with highlighting turned on. I loved it and couldn't deal with an editor that didn't have highlighting. At some point, I started using Acme a lot for working on Plan 9. I ended up doing a bunch of work o
1096.
by jff 14y ago
Can I suggest trying a light grey font on that dark background, or even better (in my experience) black on white or very mild yellow (see Acme). In my experience, when I use green on black too long, I see purple when I look away.
1097.
by jff 14y ago
Much like another poster, I walked into the AT&T store and asked for a prepaid SIM. I handed over $10 in cash and got a SIM card with $10 credit on it. By logging in to their website, I was able to allocate the $10 between voice, texts,
1098.
by jff 14y ago
Man I really hate to break it to you but Linux (and almost certainly OS X) has many privilege-escalation bugs at any given time. Any executable you run on any operating system could potentially be a virus; the main thing protecting you on L
1099.
by jff 14y ago
source.android.com has build instructions for the stock distribution; you just need to figure out what the device name for your phone is (Nexus S == "crespo", IIRC) and specify that as the target to "lunch". You'll get a zip file you can th
1100.
by jff 14y ago
Wifi + sftp client have helped me manage my ebooks on my phone, copying them from my Linux box. You ought to be able to do something similar, just get on your home wifi network and pull over your music.
1101.
by jff 14y ago
And it's not just that you'll get updates--you'll also be able to grab the source directly from the Android site, make any tweaks you like, and build your very own image for your phone. You should be able to run bleeding-edge Android as it
1102.
by jff 14y ago
You really need to try it, if nothing else it will broaden your experience so you can compare vi vs. emacs vs. acme. Myself, I watch vim users spend so much time just trying to get their cursors to the appropriate part of the file/line, and
1103.
by jff 14y ago
"Uh oh, another story about success in Go, better post some FUD!" Nobody's yet come in to say how using Go on a 10-year-obsolete computer (32-bit PC) may have problems with garbage collection, pretty unusual for a Go post.
1104.
by jff 14y ago
The mousing is what adds a crazy amount of power. You end up with dozens of files on screen, some showing text, some just displayed as the "tag" line. You use the mouse to rapidly jump around them, select text from one, paste into another,
1105.
by jff 14y ago
Using ssh and screen gives you a 1975 interface to the computer. You've just made your own dumb terminal, doing EVERYTHING on the remote system except printing out a stream of characters to the local screen. It's not even as smart as the Bl
1106.
by jff 14y ago
"...can you guarantee that the server itself won't go down?" No, but neither can I guarantee that the hard drive in that Macbook you've been abusing for the last 3 years won't suddenly fail and wipe out your work. One nice compromise that I
1107.
by jff 14y ago
yeah WAKE UP SHEEPLE (christ, dude)
1108.
by jff 14y ago
Macbook Pro, vim, and git. Honestly, when there's a discussion of people's work setup on HN, that's kind of what I assume it's going to be.
1109.
by jff 14y ago
If it had all of those things, it wouldn't really be Plan 9 any more. Grab a decent Linux box, shove it under your desk, and use VNC or X forwarding to display those programs on your Plan 9 terminal. You can keep your storage on a Plan 9 fi
1110.
by jff 14y ago
I tend to grip my Nexus 7 with my left hand and use all the fingers on my right to type. It's faster than typing on a phone and I find it easier than trying to grip with 2 hands and thumb-type.

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