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by lfowles 12y ago
Related discussions: Inside the Midwest's Secretive and Scrappy Start-up Scene https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4111680 In Defense of the Midwest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9168608
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Silicon Prairie: Tech Startups Find a Welcoming Home in the Midwest(npr.org)
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by lfowles 12y ago
Primarily Ubuntu, I'm not sure if this worked on my laptop when I was using Arch a couple years ago... I'd estimate the behavior has been around since 2008-2009. I've found the option[1], but it's not in my alias list. E
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by lfowles 12y ago
^C also pops up this helpful dialog (after you've already pressed it once to get to normal mode, but the use case is that you're probably mashing it trying to figure out why you can't exit this crazy editor): Type :quit&
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by lfowles 12y ago
Lately, all of my tar use has been `tar -xvf filename`. I don't remember it always being the case that those options would automatically gunzip/uncompress, but they do now!
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by lfowles 12y ago
Also: Accidentally ran `cd`? Run `cd -` to return I think there are some pop/push mechanics for working directory too, but I can't find them right now.
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by lfowles 12y ago
What is "knowing what you're doing?" I'm honestly curious, because I handwrote most of the HTML on my website and I don't know how to have it cleaner than something like this: </div> <!-- footer --
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by lfowles 12y ago
Hah, but aren't most HTML documents a mess of </div></div></div></div> at some point :)
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by lfowles 12y ago
Comes from the perspective of the author, see the note: > This paper is not meant for grading programmers [...] This paper was written to force its author to think, and published because he thinks you lot would probably get a kick out of
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by lfowles 12y ago
Not sure about that specific school, but when I was an undergrad in higher level classes, it wasn't uncommon to have the online masters students in the same section. Only difference was that oral reports from them would be recorded in
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by lfowles 12y ago
Wow, I just looked up that program. I was in my alma mater's online masters program for EE, but eventually had to cut my losses, because each class was ~$2100 total, so about 3x as much as the Georgia Tech program. I hope to see more l
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by lfowles 12y ago
My personal experience is that it has not. The effects wear off in the evening, which lets me mow down on chores/tasks to free up time to be creative without the thought "something else needs to be done" in the back of my min
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by lfowles 12y ago
The game only used the wiimote in the sideways controller-like configuration.
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by lfowles 12y ago
Check out some videos on the UE4 Blueprints system (flowchart programming). I'm pretty impressed at the product they created there, IIRC there are some games made on Blueprints alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZ
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by lfowles 12y ago
You don't have to take Freddie's word to be absolute truth. It's probably going to be a better conversation if you go in with an open mind than if you persistently correct his sources[0]. [0]: http://xkcd.com/
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by lfowles 12y ago
Ahhhh I wish I had a good data connection inside the office, this would be useful.
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by lfowles 12y ago
Any issue with letting _them_ be your news source? "Really, I haven't been following, could you explain what's happening?"
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by lfowles 12y ago
I listen to NPR on the commute. Since I'm focused on driving, any newsworthy event has to be mentioned a dozen times before it gets through to me. A sort of low pass filter for news. I tried to follow newspapers and the Economist, but
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by lfowles 12y ago
Recently moved into a house without a microwave, but we do have a toaster oven, so it evens out. I often wish I had a teeny tiny microwave to melt a stick of butter quickly though.
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by lfowles 12y ago
All roads lead to Rome. I assume this article was posted because it was mentioned in XKCD[0] , which also ends on the grape plasma tangent. [0]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/131/
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by lfowles 12y ago
Well, I'm on a list now..
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by lfowles 12y ago
Similarly, I remember using (PJIRC? ParrotIRC? Something like that from ~2000) to get on trivia game channels when I was in elementary school. Then, years later when I was getting into programming, I found out that this thing I've been
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by lfowles 12y ago
Can confirm: It's certainly not a filthy basement, but it is in Kansas. Commute is great and CoL makes me wonder why anyone would want to live in SF/NYC :)
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by lfowles 12y ago
Would this be better titled "Attention Grabbing Headlines Considered Harmful" ? </snark> I understand that on a website you want to keep people clicking through and viewing ads, but I wouldn't mind if I could get a
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by lfowles 12y ago
I'm still in many casual chat channels. The general topic ones are the best for this, not ones with a strict "Support/Devel for $PROJECT" mentality that shut down offtopic conversation immediately. It's also a matte
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by lfowles 12y ago
I was excited when there was talk about JSON capabilities. Hopefully it gets included eventually. (looks like it will be back on the table in 3.3+). https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/issues/55 ht
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by lfowles 12y ago
It seems that many subreddits also have thriving IRC communities. See: #boardgames on Freenode, which probably has ~150 connected at any given time. So it's not only the big channels!
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by lfowles 12y ago
> Meal planning is hard and it helps to just treat it like picking from a menu than creating a plan out of thin air. Ding ding ding, this is why I subscribe to emeals, there's so much "science" out there about what a meal
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Wouldn't want one of them to go stale.
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by lfowles 12y ago
For me, this is not just a few minute dish with no side effects. It's also remembering to have ingredients on hand, making sure I actually use those ingredients before they go bad, dealing with kitchen clutter, etc..... Hoping I don&#x

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