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by kaens 15y ago
The article says "for mom", which has a vastly different connotation than "for a woman". In fact, the word "woman" doesn't appear on the page. I clicked expecting subtly (or not-so-subtly) sexist. I got a small review after clicking a modal
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by kaens 15y ago
I just read this, and absolutely thought it was worth reading (and paying for). I, unlike you, love art museums, but I'm not incredibly good at knowing what's going to look clean, let alone pleasant or useful in a UI -- I write a lot of cod
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by kaens 15y ago
Seriously? That's well above many people who are perfectly comfortable with their financial status and do not feel it to be a burden on their lives. I suppose it's a subjective thing, but it strikes me as a bit much.
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by kaens 15y ago
It's followed here much more often than in other "known" discussion sites, other than perhaps metafilter. I haven't been incredibly active for a while, and I remember one distinct downturn in the quality of discussion, likely due to a surge
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by kaens 15y ago
If I had to guess, it'd be the rise of distributed computing.
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by kaens 15y ago
Just a note for anyone using 23 and waiting with bated breath: I've been building emacs from trunk on a regular basis, and using it as my primary editor, for about a year now. It's very stable -- I have so far had to find out about a breaka
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by kaens 15y ago
Yes, generally when "Help" opens the documentation for all the features of the program. Last time I used it was circa 2000, microsoft word, I think. I now use man pages and google mostly.
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by kaens 15y ago
I guess the question then becomes "why is xargs with a pipe easier?", or "why do you view xargs with a pipe as easier?".
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by kaens 15y ago
Every study I've seen like this is indicating that they're faster to learn for the average joe, and possibly faster for certain types of tasks (stretching an image), not that they're faster in general -- I'm not even sure what exactly that
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by kaens 15y ago
The "single - for single-letter -- for fullname" option style was popularized by gnu getopt, by far the most popular style. Find has been around for a while and probably doesn't update to that style because of the huge amount of stuff alrea
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by kaens 15y ago
osCommerce and their codebase being more horrible than Magento doesn't make Magento any less horrible.
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by kaens 15y ago
This is incredibly tough. I've found that if they can't go at least a bit more in depth about whatever it is, or if they can't point to relevant examples of whatever they're talking about, that can be an indicator of them being full of it
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by kaens 15y ago
I thought you weren't supposed to really "sit" most of the time on a bike -- mostly more of a crouch type of thing.
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by kaens 16y ago
It being illegal or immoral doesn't make it impossible . It's a minor semantic quibble, but a bit of an important one. For it to be impossible, you'd have to have some sort of situation where the people or materials needed to gain or apply
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by kaens 16y ago
While stuff like the sites and collections suggested can be pretty awesome for improving the way you think about algorithms, and the nitty-gritty of writing an application (especially one that does something interesting), the harder (or at
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by kaens 16y ago
IIRC, it was made for the express purposes of providing something better than that which was poorly named and didn't know how to really prevent people from reading it. Unless I'm just missing a joke here.
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by kaens 16y ago
"ln -s something somewhere"
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by kaens 16y ago
And for English speakers, "Scott's Boots"
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by kaens 16y ago
It's not about the size of the business, it's about putting profit motive for a small amount of individuals over the lives and/or well-being of many individuals. you cant really be for one and against the other. This is like saying that a
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by kaens 16y ago
Yes. I did. It will be very challenging. I, quite a few times, spent more than four hours with a pencil and paper making my way through 2-4 pages of material, as since my background was lacking, there were parts where I had to figure out
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by kaens 16y ago
I'm very familiar with Debian (and Ubuntu), and Arch. Unless you really need capitol S Stability, I would recommend running Arch, assuming you're comfortable with a unix environment, or willing to learn. It's a very clean minimalist distr
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by kaens 16y ago
Yup. It gave me a nice intro to formal systems / number theory iirc. Intro only though, and it was only a small part of the book.
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by kaens 16y ago
I can't believe no one has mentioned Concrete Mathematics by Knuth & friends yet. It's incredibly well-written. Very challenging, yet totally approachable and accessible to someone with even just a rather basic (even foggy) understandin
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by kaens 16y ago
Have you read http://www.unc.edu/~mumukshu/gandhi/gandhi/hofstadter.htm ?
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by kaens 16y ago
Reddit is a bit anti-entrepreneur Parts of it, certainly. It definitely has a generalized semi-anti-capitalist vibe, and yes, anti-bigco. I don't think too many of those people are against entrepreneurship in the sense of individuals (o
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by kaens 16y ago
I personally don't tend to find those types of jokes very funny, but I think that's mostly because I've heard a lot of them. I think that what you state here absolutely happens, but I think that there's also a good bit of actual nerdy women
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by kaens 16y ago
Sure, and I wasn't talking only about the example, but about the trend itself.
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by kaens 16y ago
Because groupthink is inherent in the upvoting/downvoting system. I'd almost argue that groupthink is inherent in human interaction in groups larger than one. Almost. Forums and mailing lists are certainly susceptible to it, even though i
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by kaens 16y ago
Do you read with no threshold, and read through entire threads? Read sorted by worst (or lowest or whatever it is)? I used to. I stopped when the noise got too annoying to sift through, but I would see good comments hidden to most people by
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by kaens 16y ago
There are a lot of people (myself included) that do not think that there are taboo topics of conversation, or taboo topics of jokes -- humor relies at least partially on delivery and unexpected turns / clever twists, which are largely indep

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