jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
If HN isn't the place to have an honest discussion about the merits of a project's architecture, then I don't know where is. The author of this has some very good ideas and I don't doubt that they are technically profici
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'll say what I said the last time Finalterm was discussed here (and what I often say when 'improved' terminal emulators are thrown around): Much of what is being provided here could and should be implemented in the shell,
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by jlgreco 13y ago
To be clear, my issue is not the HN policy (as far as I understand it). I am 100% A-Okay with HN moderators reverting editorialized titles. My issue is with the HN moderator[s] who are not using common sense while executing this policy. W
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think that submitters should edit titles if they think the original titles are unreasonable. If moderators think that the edited title is unreasonable, they could revert or otherwise change it. Basically, everyone should operate as the
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This re-titling, if I understand correctly, is already a manual process, right? So this is less "Hey PG, could you wash my dishes and do my laundry" and more "Hey PG, could you please stop loading up my dishwasher with dir
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I would argue that is a lesser problem than nobody who is interested in PHP clicking through to the HN discussion because they don't have any indication that the post is about something they are interested in. Anyway, re-titling horrib
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think that this proposal would ultimately be to the detriment of HN. I don't want to have to click through your blog to get to the article, even if you have the purest of intentions and aren't just looking for ad impressions, j
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ah, good to know; thanks.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Interesting idea, though it won't scale as easily as plugs would (since plugs require less hardware at each location). Of course plugs have more hassle and can be unplugged by teenagers who thing they are clever, so there is probably
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Huuuh, curious. Maybe comments that include the string 'goo[dot]gl' are auto-killed?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The shape of that windshield seems sub-optimal for holding back any significant water pressure. Could the prop actually be submerged at all?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Stumbled implies some sort of accident. If I trip on the sidewalk, break my arm, and go into debt with the medical bills, that is a stumble (figuratively, and literally ;). If I blow all my cash and go into debt paying for cool tats to in
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The continuing problems with buffering on youtube have caused me to resort to youtube-dl/mplayer.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There are a few, but they tend to keep pretty quite. HN tolerates creationism/evolution denialism far less than it tolerates climate change denialism.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Exactly. The solution to this threat was dispelling the notion "getting hijacked means a short vacation to Cuba" and replacing it with "getting hijacked means that I get to kick a terrorist's face in" . This so
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Yeah, really absence of evidence is evidence (though not proof ) of absence, unless the absence of evidence can be explained as "well we haven't bothered trying to find evidence." (In other words, if I don't look in
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ah you see, no terrorist plots actually means that our tiger^Wterrorist repellent rock is working!
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That seems more like luck of the draw than an adaptation. They're not domesticated (like livestock or cats/dogs) and probably have not been relying on humans for very long. Furthermore, IIRC they are more reluctant to breed in ca
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> brown snakes ... they will kill you ten times over if they decide to. You had me concerned there for a moment until I figured out that you weren't talking about the "brown snakes" that are in North America.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That's a good point; this wasn't exactly dynamite fishing.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I wonder if anybody would be upset if I ate a crow.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Being delicious is a great adaptation though, although it dooms individuals to a premature death, it has secured the future of the species. As long as humans are around, pigs and cows will be as well. If we weren't so keen on descri
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Somewhere about as smart as dogs, if popular trivia is to be believed. Interestingly, there isn't a universal taboo against eating dogs either, taboos against eating dogs are heavily cultural (while taboos against eating humans are fa
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I am not ignoring the primary point. My point about golf-carts and better golfers maps back onto branching and better programmers. To spell it out explicitly: I believe that modern version control systems, specifically ones that provide
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Tell Michaelangelo that he can only carve stone with a sewing needle and he may a sculpt you something nice, but I doubt it would be David .
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Okay, that I can agree with. I just think it is misleading to say they are based on change lists since changelists can be derived but are not actually stored. (And in the case of git at least, the changes you derive may not be changes tha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Let's define "revision" to be "what the entire codebase looked like at some particular point in time" and "changeset" to be "a list of changes between one specific revision and the next specific
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How do you figure that git tracks changesets, not revisions?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I find it plausible that a golf cart could make somebody better at golf. Without the cart, a non-trivial amount of exertion is spent on a tangentially related task (getting from hole to hole) instead of on the primary task (getting the bal
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The blacks becoming non-black is a show-stopper on AMOLED screens where black is actually properly black.

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