kaens

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   by kaens 16y ago

   I use an emacs org-mode file that is in my github repo of configuration files and other things that go on all the machines I use. Org mode has a bit of a learning curve, but it's powerful and flexible. That's another way of saying it's a ma
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   by kaens 16y ago

   I agree that many ideas seem silly after they've sat for a bit, but I disagree that you shouldn't keep track of your ideas. I get a lot of ideas. I keep track of them. If they fizzle, I remove them from the list. I simply don't always have
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   by kaens 16y ago

   This would be a great feature. I have some projects floating around in various places that I haven't worked on in years, some of them very stupid looking back at them, and all of them not incredibly high in code-quality. I still get support
4. 184.▲
   by kaens 16y ago

   Try posting at http://www.reddit.com/r/favors .
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   by kaens 16y ago

   Say what you want about the quality of reddit overall, this is a pretty good resource.
6. 186.▲
   by kaens 16y ago

   Mogwai, Boards of Canada, Autechre, etc.
7. 187.▲
   by kaens 16y ago

   Try some Boards of Canada
8. 188.▲
   by kaens 16y ago

   You don't need a prescription for it where he lives.
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   by kaens 16y ago

   Once I notice a rather bad habit (such as using left shift for : - uncomfortable on a dvorak kinesis), I simply bound the combination to an exclamation mark so I'd notice every time I did it. That's a really good idea! I might bind some b
10. 190.▲
    by kaens 16y ago

    True, but it generally takes quite a bit of time to get to the point where you're "money profitable" with C compared to higher-level languages that are in popular use.
11. 191.▲
    by kaens 16y ago

    http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html
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    by kaens 16y ago

    The thing I'm going to be most concerned with when switching to the Kinesis, regardless of whether or not I also switch to Dvorak on it, is making sure that I'm actually using my fingers "correctly". Right now, I type mostly correct in QWER
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I'm running a similar stack, although I'm only using a Thinkpad T410 at the moment. Arch+Xmonad+urxvt+tmux+emacs+git and a lot of reading and tweaking gives me a machine that is fine-grained for how I like to work, and allows me to be so mu
14. 194.▲
    by kaens 16y ago

    Ahh, in that case learning C is a veritable goldmine! Edit: Also, if you use linux and end up going down the rabbit hole a bit, C is a prerequisite.
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    by kaens 16y ago

    You still have the choice to not listen to anything, and it's hard to remove yourself from choice to the point where "this productive thing I want to be doing" is the path of least resistance compared to a bunch of other more immediately "r
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I, like many here, would strongly recommend learning C. I don't know if I'd call it "profitable" to do so at the moment, assuming you mean profitable in the money sense. C is a good language to learn, and a lot of interesting, well-paying j
17. 197.▲
    by kaens 16y ago

    You wipe the disk and install OpenBSD.
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I wrote that. Whether or not I think an idea, or the implementation of an idea, is harmful has no bearing on whether or not I think it should be barred from discussion.
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    by kaens 16y ago

    All my code is bad code, it just hasn't matured yet. It normally takes three to six months for it to do so.
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I'm not making fun of you. I'm saying that women being more successful entrepreneurs in their 40s may not be tied to them being women , but to them being twice as old and experienced as a 20 year old
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I'm really starting to get the impression that people think that I've been arguing that there aren't any biological differences between males and females. I probably should have worded that sentence as "fundamentally different in regards
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I'd be glad to. I'll email you either tonight or tomorrow, probably tonight.
23. 203.▲
    by kaens 16y ago

    Phrased like that, it's a much more appealing idea. A lot of companies strike a bit of a middle ground by doing contract-to-hire types of things.
24. 204.▲
    by kaens 16y ago

    Does the research and experience show that businessmen in their 40s are on average more capable than their younger counterparts? I bet it does!
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    by kaens 16y ago

    Cultural enforcement starts at a very young age. Yes, I'm well aware of that. It's more or less what I've been talking about. A) Provide an environment in which this is possible B) Say that choice A is condescending because it's only du
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I'm on the same page regarding gender and the need for an effort for "human friendly spaces". I've been phrasing things in a binary-gender manner because gender being a spectrum is a bit tangential and distracting to the point here, and is
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    by kaens 16y ago

    You have given me a mechanic that accounts for a minor discrepancy in behavioral patterns, not a large one. No evidence of women not getting involved in tech because they felt inadequate as women? This is something that people have been scr
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I'm fairly certain that the percentage of women in startups is much lower than can be explained by purely biological means.
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I do not doubt that men are more predisposed to risk, or that testosterone does not play a role in the decision-making process of humans, but I do not think that these studies show enough of a discrepancy to account for the low amount of wo
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    by kaens 16y ago

    I think that what needs to be addressed is the cultural idea that math and programming and "science stuff" is a male thing. On a more abstract level, I think what needs to be addressed is the cultural idea that $FOO or $BAR are a $GENDER