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by kbob 15y ago
Has anyone spent significant time in both? How many milli-emacs of functionality does Sublime have? Emacs is over 35 years old (starting from the ITS version), so it's due to be replaced. But it's also really really entrenched.
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by kbob 15y ago
Suppose FizzBuzz were a perfect proxy for programming ability. Some programmers are FizzBuzz-capable, and the rest are FizzBuzz-failures. Members of both groups interview for jobs. A FB-capable programmer goes on three interviews, gets a
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by kbob 15y ago
Retiring at 35 is an unrealistic goal unless you either inherited a bank or want to live under a bridge. Since you have one income and two kids, saving 3-5% is pretty good. The easiest way to save money is to have it deducted from your pay
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by kbob 15y ago
I'd like to see the average salaries of the people providing this work. I expect most of them are in the range of $40-80 per hour (annualized), or about 20% of the total. If that number is right, the customer is paying 25% for the work, 25
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by kbob 15y ago
28c3 is the 28th Chaos Communications Conference.
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by kbob 15y ago
You have successfully argued that the data is too valuable to purge. You haven't argued that it's not worth backing up. In this case, it sounds like it should be stored in Documents and backed up. (Are you the original article's author?
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by kbob 15y ago
As a user, I can't imagine a class of data that is so important it should never be reclaimed to save space, and is so worthless it should not be backed up. The important use case is what should happen when you lose your phone/tablet and buy
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by kbob 15y ago
It's a little bit alarming that Sauce Labs even considered any strategy other than pristine VMs for everyone. The dangers outlined in their article should be immediately obvious to everyone. Maybe it was immediately obvious to Sauce, but t
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by kbob 15y ago
How would I find one of the forks?
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by kbob 15y ago
The next hacker currency should keep Bitcoin's strengths, i.e., decentralization and anonymity, and lose its weakness, the fixed supply. Is anyone working (in public) on the problem of designing a currency that adjusts its supply algorithmi
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by kbob 15y ago
Right now (8/25, 11:54 AM EDT) AAPL is down 1.1% from yesterday's close. That's a pretty mild punishment.
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by kbob 15y ago
Do these countries recognize and count their lesbians? Is it socially acceptable for lesbians to live together? If not, that would go a long way to account for this growth in single women. 20 seconds of Googling convinced me there's no co
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by kbob 15y ago
The advantage of a second box is that you can use the main and test machines side by side. if you switch drives, you're cut off from your main development environment while you're using the other system. There are disadvantages too, of cou
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by kbob 15y ago
Those specs are generous compared to the hardware on/for which 2BSD was developed. I have used Mini Unix on a PDP-11/45 with 32 Kbytes (16 Kwords) of core memory and dual 2.4 Mbyte hard drives. I once took a class, 6.031 at MIT, where we di
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by kbob 15y ago
You are correct. I should have had two oversimplification disclaimers in that sentence. (-:
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by kbob 15y ago
Three comments. 1. I can't comment on the original article. Are comments closed, or am I dumb? 2. The author seems to have assumed a web server responding to bursty traffic. Several people have pointed out workloads to which the 0.7 heuri
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by kbob 15y ago
Minor usability critique: It wasn't clear from the wording whether you meant personal income or family income at the first question. It appears that you meant family taxable income.
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by kbob 15y ago
Has anyone found a list of the badges available?
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by kbob 15y ago
Most people who've chosen either career retire without falling into paranoia. As for others demanding continued output, I'm not seeing that at all. For example, my employer is offering people over 50 early retirement incentives.
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by kbob 15y ago
Who is the old programmer that Shaw interviewed for this section? He should have credited him.
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by kbob 15y ago
I have never bought a MacBook, because I don't understand how you're supposed to survive without a dock. I have two desks. When I drop my ThinkPad onto the dock on either desk, it lights up the second screen, external mouse and keyboard,
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by kbob 15y ago
2005 Lotus Elise 2002 BMW M Coupe 1998 BMW M3/4 2002 Subaru WRX and a minivan. 2.5 of those cars are my wife's. I spent the weekend working on the Elise, I'm installing a clam hinge kit to make the drivetrain easier to access. http://www.
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by kbob 15y ago
In the subject line, "praise" is misspelled as "blame". The approximation that 2^10 == 10^3 is incredibly useful in many contexts. The "kilo" prefix just makes it clearer and easier to remember.
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by kbob 15y ago
COBOL was the earliest effort I know of to allow non-programmers to create applications. Its English-like syntax allowed managers and business analysts to describe what they wanted the computer to do without programmers' help. Or such was
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by kbob 15y ago
Like K&R, the official docs were written by the language designers/implementors. I think that's important: it eliminates a level of misunderstanding (between the designers and the writers).
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by kbob 16y ago
Nothing's wrong with it; it just doesn't go far enough. It doesn't define a standard module system or macros (beyond syntax-rules), exceptions, or record types. Most R5RS implementations offer those, but they're all different and incompati
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by kbob 16y ago
I'd guessed either New York or London.
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by kbob 16y ago
If you liked this, you'll love the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. I'm amazed nobody mentioned it. http://www0.us.ioccc.org/main.html
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by kbob 16y ago
Pointing a new English writer at Wallace is like pointing a Lisp newbie at the SBCL compiler for a code sample. I love his writing, but it is dense and hard to comprehend. It is not, IMHO, a good example for a beginning writer.
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by kbob 16y ago
I can't pick just one. (So I didn't vote.) I use both. I use Python mostly for scripts and small projects of a few hours' duration. Some projects are in 2, others are in 3. My most recent project switched from 3 to 2 halfway through.

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