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by lflux 14y ago
See Bryan Cantrill's talk from LISA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=playe... , where he has a good comparison of not anthromorpizing Larry Ellison and Oracle. Paraphrased, "Think of him of as a lawnmower. The lawnm
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by lflux 14y ago
Fire hazard maybe? Trash cans were removed from commuter trains in Stockholm since they were constantly being set on fire. They're on our buses though. Go to England and you won't see trash cans in train stations at all.
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by lflux 14y ago
"Nav is a lightweight solution for Emacs users who want something like TextMate's file browser, or the Eclipse project view. Unlike these two, Nav only shows the contents of a single directory at a time." Which is where it fails to be as us
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by lflux 15y ago
Only Scandinavia really. All my french and spanish friends are really really jealous of our 100Mb+ connections here in sweden.
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by lflux 15y ago
Never heard of him either but looks like my flight tomorrow just got less boring
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by lflux 15y ago
All grocery stores around me use a sealed cash system. I've been more often stuck behind people wanting to pay with cash when the cash scanner breaks down compared to the card machine being down.
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by lflux 15y ago
Yes, Visa, MC and Amex take a cut. This infuriated shopowners to no end when they raised their tariffs, prompting a wave of "no charges under 50kr" or "3kr extra if you're paying with card (under x kr)"
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by lflux 15y ago
In Sweden, they're all TFTs these days. Even the non-touch ones.
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by lflux 15y ago
We solve this by having most everyone use jabber to communicate, so minor interruptions are less frequent since they are shifted to IM.
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by lflux 15y ago
DT770s are one of the "standard" studio monitoring headphones, and seen pretty often among touring sound techs (esp the M version which is the one meant for drummers due to higher volume and isolation). I've used a pair of them since 2005 f
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by lflux 15y ago
Neither those nor emacs-nav come close to working and looking the same way the file tree drawer in TextMate (or other IDEs) does. speedbar only shows directories, not files, when I navigate dirs in it.
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by lflux 15y ago
Generally I use vimdiff when working with tests and use it for diffing between the expected output and the real output. It's run in the terminal as opposed to inside my huge emacs process and I don't really know why else I don't use ediff,
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by lflux 15y ago
Why I still use emacs: I've been using it for 10+ years and my fingers and general workflow are very very used to it. I regularly use vim (for quick editing and vimdiff), but keep coming back. If only emacs had a "project drawer"/"tree draw
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by lflux 15y ago
It's an e-commerce startup that's dogfooding by selling stickers, if that makes more sense.
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by lflux 15y ago
Nothing, YAJL got a lot of things very right. We use it in our C daemons for a bunch of things. Not having to unpack the whole JSON into memory is pretty handy.
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by lflux 15y ago
ts=3? Is this some sort of subtle troll to irritate all factions of tab stop religions?
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by lflux 15y ago
Far from. In Stockholm, for a child she would have paid 120 SEK (~17 USD) for an ER visit. That is assuming she was a resident or in possesion of an EU/EEC insurance card. Going price for an ER visit without EU insurance would be 1650 SEK (
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by lflux 15y ago
I'd say it's good for talent since you don't have to pick a startup depending on what benefits you get (vacation time, health insurance, parental leave) due to the government providing well enough to begin with. Of course employers here can
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by lflux 15y ago
In Sweden you wouldn't get 2.5 months of accrued paid vacation, it's more like 10 days, as the first 120 days (of 480) (pa/)maternal leave is counted towards vacation. Then again you have the legal right to take 25 days of vacation per year
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by lflux 15y ago
It can, but this system was running on a Compact Flash (real small, I think maybe 32M usable space) so swapping was out of the question. This was also before CF got good and started mapping in good sectors when bad got overwritten.
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by lflux 15y ago
The mmap() implementation is awesome. I used to write code for a network hardware management computer which ran OpenBSD on a memory-constrained Soekris (quasi-embedded environment more or less). The fact that OpenBSD's implementation return
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by lflux 15y ago
It comes with the operating system, no need to re-link against a different library or a different LD_PRELOAD path.
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by lflux 15y ago
Yes, by setting the MALLOC_OPTIONS environment variable. See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc
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by lflux 15y ago
Looks great, but I can't set an international return address without a state. I'm a registered voter in the US, but haven't been a resident for a long time. Guess I'll just email my rep.
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by lflux 15y ago
I'd love to move to Berlin just for the hacker scene that is there, centered around Chaos Computer Club. The open source / hacking / copyleft scene seems bigger there than other places in Europe, at least from what I felt when I was there f
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by lflux 15y ago
'Ship spinning' also covers an easier way to access certain well-used menus for managing your ship, without having to open the 'Ships' window. The 'spinning' part is a minor loss, not being able to easily access cargo/fuel/hangars is a majo
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by lflux 15y ago
This gave me the idea to try http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org he mentioned on my logs, and I'm already finding a bunch of stuff to fix after a quick run.