kleiba

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   by kleiba 16y ago

   It's debatable whether aligning the mapping operator - be it a colon or a hash rocket - is a good idea to begin with. The point has been made in the past that if you edit the map so that the longest key changes, you'd have to realign all ot
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   by kleiba 16y ago

   Yeah, that's what it boils down to - but I have to say deep down I don't really like that idea. Often times, the questions asked by people new to SO are legitimate questions, and not necessarily your typical "newbie question" à la How do I
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   by kleiba 16y ago

   Off topic, but to me personal, what has become an even bigger annoyance is floods of newbies (< 10 reputation points) that ask a question and never come back to tick off the correct answer. Some of them even write a comment to thank t
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   by kleiba 16y ago

   I guess it comes down to your expectations - if you expect to use one operating system exactly the way you use another one, then why switch at all? There are some things that GNU/Linux is better at, and others that Windows is better at. Tha
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   by kleiba 16y ago

   Rename that article to "Why driverless cars would be nice."
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   by kleiba 16y ago

   This is all good and well -- but good luck with XML data. :-(
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   by kleiba 16y ago

   There's always a trade-off between the expressablity of a programming language and its complexity. I think Lisp may (still) have a slight advantage when it comes to that balance, i.e., it is more accessible for novices. And adding more thin
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   by kleiba 16y ago

   That would be awesome! Perhaps we could have an animated character have that conversation with us... how about an intelligent paperclip or something?! Wouldn't programming become so cool!?!!
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   by kleiba 16y ago

   Microsoft gets a better overview of your home ;-)
10. 3190.▲
    by kleiba 16y ago

    That's a great point!
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    It’s a project I’ve been wanting to build for a while, [...] I think that makes it more than 24 hrs from concept to launch. I suppose you already designed a good deal of the website in your head, if not layout-wise then certainly function
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Seconded. Even after years of using Emacs, I still have to stop for a moment every now and then and think: holy shit, what a motherflippin' piece of software! ...and I get really happy :-)
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    I never thought putting two or three lines of elisp code in my .emacs file for every package was such a big deal. Actually, as much as I love apt-get on my linux box, I also like the (perceived) feeling of control when I modify my load-path
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    This article has nothing to do with programming. It makes a general point about usability though: you should have it in mind when building a system.
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    It's possible to release code and media under more than one license simultaneously.
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    I always find it absolutely fascinating to see how many people ride their bikes whenever I'm in the Netherlands. Where I come from, I think you'd have a really hard time seeing somebody ride a bike in public who's older than 30 years. It's
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    more like Textmate -> in what sense?
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Yes, these points are exactly the ones you have to pay attention to when running -nw. For instance, I run gnome-terminal -x /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen instead of gnome-terminal -x /usr/bin/screen directly, or else I get
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Interesting timing: just two days ago, I spent a good part of my afternoon making "emacs -nw" running inside GNU screen to look more or less exactly the way my standard windowed Emacs looks. That included mostly fiddling with terminal setti
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    The people behind this service should beware of copyright violations - just because a video has been made accessible to the general public by their authors does not necessarily mean that others have the right to translate the contents of th
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    I think you're right, the whole "problem" he's addressing stems from the fact that someone called the original graphics a Venn diagram when they shouldn't have. However, I do think that one of his alternatives is actually quite good, and do
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Wait, you can get regular coffee at Starbucks?
23. 3203.▲
    by kleiba 16y ago

    Thanks, and many karma points to you!
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    This is exactly the reason why I shouldn't become an enterpreneur: apparently my reality distortion field is totally incompatible with everybody else's. If somebody had walked through my door a couple of months ago and told me: "Here's this
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Where I live, the tab water tastes as good as bottled water, but I've been to other places where the water contains notable doses of chlorine. I think it's those cases where bottled water is the better alternative.
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Too bad, Notch just announced that he's giving up. His entry to Ludum Dare 19 won't be finished, but the source code of what he did so far can be found here: > http://mojang.com/notch/ld19/
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Define "perverts".
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Funny, I use four "apps" more than any other software on my computer: Shell, Emacs, Firefox, Thunderbird. That's it. Sure, every now and then, I'll run some other program, say, Evince, Synaptic, Nautilus, or occasionally even The Gimp... bu
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Interestingly little information in this article besides the headline.
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    by kleiba 16y ago

    Awesome - they've fixed C-n since this was first posted on HN!