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by kinleyd 11y ago
Miller looks very useful, and so does q. Thanks to the op and to you for the introductions.
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by kinleyd 11y ago
"Rich Hickey gained fame for this because he stated an idea very clearly and compellingly, this is non-trivial and should not be so flippantly dismissed as just recyling old ideas." +100 for this.
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by kinleyd 11y ago
Add VisiCalc and TurboCalc to that list and I'll have to say "Yeah, me too!".
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by kinleyd 11y ago
My thoughts as well. I figure smoking will kill a large proportion well before they hit the age range in which Parkinson's sets in
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by kinleyd 11y ago
The experience described in the article is, imho, quite common. The spontaneous positive ones are of the type you experience in sports, when you are in "the zone". Priceless experience. And the negative ones occur in times of dang
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by kinleyd 11y ago
+1 for Conkeror - close enough to emacs on the browser for me!
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by kinleyd 11y ago
If that is evident, plant another one. :) @jackreichert: Thanks, I've heard that before, but it's always good to hear again.
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by kinleyd 11y ago
Thanks for the link. Daniel Kish's story is inspiring.
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by kinleyd 11y ago
I dropped accounting in my 10th grade largely because I made the mistake of trying to get into the "meaning" of debit and credit. Mnay wasted hours there. Finally in grad school I got it - left and right - and accounting has never
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by kinleyd 11y ago
I'll be 52 this November. Have been coding mostly as a hobby since '83, with peaks in programming intensity at different stages of my life: sometimes to scratch an itch and sometimes doing some contract/consulting work. Still
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by kinleyd 11y ago
That is one beautiful book. I've read it twice so far, and it remains on my read again list. I wish you much happiness in the years ahead.
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by kinleyd 11y ago
For a nation that issues citizenship based on race and origin [2] That's quite a leap you make there. Where exactly in the referenced article does it say that citizenship is based on race and origin? and "categori
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by kinleyd 11y ago
"Large scale eviction of Bhutanese citizens" and "shady regime" are highly simplistic or one sided ways to describe a complex problem that Bhutan does indeed have. Over the course of the last 4 to 5 decades Bhutan has fa
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by kinleyd 12y ago
3 x 23" monitors at 1920x1080[0] is working well for me. Distractions galore, but as someone said, when you're in the zone, you're in the zone. That's when having all that real estate really pays off - it's so much
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by kinleyd 12y ago
My computer seems to be doing that on a random basis. I think I should worry.
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by kinleyd 12y ago
+1 for The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics. I remember learning that system decades ago, and have always kicked myself for lending my copy of the book. I never got it back, and have stopped lending any books I value no matter
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by kinleyd 12y ago
I knew a guy who mumbled so much you could never understand him. It was really irritating, but also the secret of his success. His job was to liaison with a number of governmental/bureaucratic organisations - involving customs clearanc
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by kinleyd 12y ago
Thanks. I did like Abiword but for that problem - it's really lightweight and has the core functionality that I need. I'm presently using LaTeX/emacs for my documents.
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by kinleyd 12y ago
Yes, Calc does have pivot tables, but it is very limited. Even the number of levels (dimensions) that you can nest was inadequate the last time I checked.
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by kinleyd 12y ago
I like AbiWord, but for some reason it keeps crashing on my Arch Linux system. Between Libre Calc and Excel, I've always had to revert to Excel for its Pivot Table features. Libre Calc has thus far made a very weak stab at that for me.
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by kinleyd 12y ago
Thanks for introducing me to dadgum. I read a number of his older articles and I must say his opinions resonate with me. I'm going back in for some more. :)
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by kinleyd 12y ago
Interesting theory, but one which my guess is unlikely to hold up if the study is carried out it in really mountainous, high altitude areas.
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by kinleyd 12y ago
As an Emacs user, switching to Conkeror was great for me. It helped me consolidate muscle memory for the two applications I most use. We have a nice little community on G+ as well: https://plus.google.com/u/0/commu
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by kinleyd 12y ago
True. I don't think I'd be caught routing marjuana anywhere, so I'm going to be more devastated were I to land up in prison. Still, credit where credit is due!
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by kinleyd 12y ago
I agree with you. I think the actual article lived up to the HN link title. I'm impressed by Frederick Hutson - he was sharp to the opportunities that he saw even in prison. Lesser mortals like myself would have been too devastated to
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by kinleyd 12y ago
Thanks for the information. This looks pretty good, will give it a whirl - glad to find it already on the ArchLinux AUR. Edit: I gave it a test run, and found it does the job very well. Thank you again!
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by kinleyd 12y ago
Too frequent updates have been an irritant for me, largely on account of my slow internet connection. I always felt that many of the updates could have been bundled, unless it was a major fix. But no, they kept flowing in![0] More recently
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by kinleyd 12y ago
That makes sense actually, given the belief that native Americans came from central Asia before the ice melted on the Bering Straits. When you compare native Americans with Asians from around the Himalayan region, the features are strikingl
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by kinleyd 12y ago
There's a subgroup of Asians spanning the Himalayas and east Asia that have blue bottommed babies that is generally believed to denote an ancestry that shares Genghis Khan, iirc. Anyone know whether this group is the same as the one th
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by kinleyd 12y ago
I'll be keen to see the nature of UI and reporting tools that emerge from this exercise. I currently use TurboCash, which is a Windows-based accounting solution that works well for me, but I am keen to move away from Windows entirely a

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