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by kaens 18y ago
I use emacs, and won't be switching to Vim anytime soon, but I'd like to say thanks for writing what seems like a really good book and releasing it for free. The world needs more of this.
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by kaens 18y ago
Pretty much the first thing I do these days is swap Caps Lock and Control on my keyboard layout. Emacs is the reason I started doing this, now I wonder how I ever lived without it.
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by kaens 18y ago
Thanks. I'll give PC a read, and perhaps drop cperciva a line. I'm pretty fascinated by cryptography, and I like to be decently well-informed, but I don't see myself focusing on it anytime soon.
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by kaens 18y ago
I've read AC, and found it good for getting a handle on what's going on in cryptosystems. It definitely didn't leave me feeling like I was anywhere near prepared to implement one. (And the book's a bit dated). Since you seem to have a lot
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by kaens 18y ago
No, it shows that you're good at a particular type of problem-solving, which can be indicative of you being a good "programmer" all-around, as designing and implementing anything "larger" tends to involve the same type of mental processes
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by kaens 18y ago
Auto-Copy as in the firefox extension? Or what? I think you're going to need to be a bit more specific here.
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by kaens 18y ago
It's useful for passwords if you use a password manager or equivalent technology. What? Why?
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by kaens 18y ago
After, huh?
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by kaens 18y ago
It would also be trivial to write a program to update the dictionaries to include the flipped / reversed / other silly unicode trick version of everything already in the dictionary. I wouldn't assume that this would help against dictionary
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by kaens 18y ago
Seconded. You're already in emacs, and orgmode is excellent (and it should be already there). Spend a day or two learning it, and then use it - you won't regret it.
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by kaens 18y ago
I think you misread the comment you were responding to, and the comment that it was responding to.
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by kaens 18y ago
The trick is to do a killer job for a decent client on a non-trivial problem. Then you're set. Finding a decent client can be hard if you're going through sites like elancer or guru - but they're there. There are even ones with nice, intere
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by kaens 18y ago
I don't think I would even run a Wordpress blog at this point in time. I run a cherrypy site, and the amount of scans it has received for Wordpress vulnerabilities from bots is astounding. See: http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=
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by kaens 18y ago
If I had a site that was scrape-worthy, I wouldn't care about it if the people were respectful about it (wait a second or to in between requests, don't hammer my server). From the business side, I could see them getting a bit grumpy about i
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by kaens 18y ago
I don't think that edge cases like you described happen very often at all. You're right, you always do have to break others consent. Unlike what it seems that you think, I do not think that all actions need to be evaluated in the context of
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by kaens 18y ago
Exactly. It has a lot to do with the ambiguity of language, particularly english.
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by kaens 18y ago
While I've never been diagnosed, I suspect that I have something very similar, or exactly the same as you do. The only way I've gotten around it is by making the vast majority of my income through freelance work, and by finding more permane
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by kaens 18y ago
By "common morality", I did not mean a base set of "this is right, this is wrong" absolutes. I meant that in all existing moral codes, the base parts of them are derived from the concept of consent. Your "simplest" example is a can of worms
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by kaens 18y ago
Along with the points other people have made, trueaction if condition else falseaction is marginally more clear than condition and trueaction or falseaction , at least to people who aren't used to seeing and/or used like t
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by kaens 18y ago
That's the normal python idiom for the ternary operator in other languages if I'm not mistaken. Its lambdas are still crippled, for the same reasons people called them crippled before, which is fine for python, IMO. If I recall correctly, t
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by kaens 18y ago
I tend to agree. Most people I know who would label themselves as an atheist, myself included, do not have any supernatural beliefs, unless you get ridiculously nitpicky on the semantic side. The term itself doesn't exclude belief in the
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by kaens 18y ago
I don't consider it to be, but it certainly is for a large portion of the USAs population, mainly due to differing interpretations of what the word means, and the common perception (at least in small-town USA) of atheists being amoral as we
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by kaens 18y ago
"Where there is no God, all is permitted." As much as I like Dostoyevsky, this is bullshit in this context. Perhaps "Where there is no God, as well as the lack of critical thought about what is best for group survival, all is permitted" I
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by kaens 18y ago
It may make sense in the technical sense, but I for one have never met someone who claimed to be atheist that believed that humans had a soul that continued after death. I've met ones that didn't discount it as a possibility, but not any
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by kaens 18y ago
http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/ in combination with http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/
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by kaens 18y ago
I haven't watched The Corner, but I have read the book, and stayed in some very ghetto places in Baltimore when I was in my hitchhiking / train-hopping phase. The book The Corner is an excellent read, and is quite accurate. People who have
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by kaens 18y ago
Lots of people vote without considering anything at all, or without being aware of proposed solutions. Hell, I'd guess that the majority of voters yesterday were not very well informed about any of the proposed solutions.
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by kaens 18y ago
How does being forced to vote preclude you being informed about the issues? Furthermore, it doesn't really sound like they're forced to vote - it sounds like they're forced to drop a piece of paper in a box that may or may not express a vot
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by kaens 18y ago
To be frank, I think most of this tax-related drama would be solved if people had a much more direct say in what their taxes went to support. I don't think that most people who view taxes as theft would view them that way if we were using o
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by kaens 18y ago
Why? Someone's actions, or lack thereof, do not necessarily mean that their points are invalid. It does allow you to create a moral judgment of them, but that does not mean that they can not make a poignant criticism of a political and so

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