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by marchdown 14y ago
What do you use for wireless scanning?
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by marchdown 14y ago
I've read it as "Interactive visualization of commute times for all US citizens." the scary thing is that in another ten year this may well be reality, given the path we're on.
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by marchdown 14y ago
> Go peruse your local grocery store's gift card section and see how many you relate to, then consider that in order to be profitable most of those cards must relate to most people. (Those that don't are replaced by those that do.) But.
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by marchdown 14y ago
Because that's beautiful, obscure and tangentially relevant?
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by marchdown 15y ago
For some reason, adoption has been really slow so far; it is disappointing to see so many beginners pick Python 2 over 3. I believe that even MIT and Coursera teach Python 2.
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by marchdown 15y ago
This is a strong point, and the one rarely acknowledged at that. Many people stop at pointing out that efficient markets cannot be gamed, and almost all exploitable inefficiencies have been ironed out already. In correctly observing that mo
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by marchdown 15y ago
Okay, so some part of our risk estimation ability comes from risk-evaluation-specific heuristics that have developed in ancestral environment. But how much impact does this have on the result of any serious evaluation? How easily do the anc
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by marchdown 15y ago
Trusted or not, but would you care to publish your build, on bittorrent maybe?
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by marchdown 15y ago
How is GNU not libre? Because the end user cannot run GPL'd software for certain purposes with no strings attached? I'm sure that the point you're raising has been discussed to death in a thousand flamewars, but I happen to be unfamiliar wi
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by marchdown 15y ago
That would be great. Do you know any other apps (other than emacs, that is) that provide a similar sort of discoverability? And on the similar note, is there a way to make emacs's tips be even more prominent?
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by marchdown 15y ago
Both Windows and OS X have conventions in place to help with discoverability. Windows menus items have certain letters underlined, and you can hit Alt+underlined letter to open a menu, then Alt+letter to select an item or submenu. It provid
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by marchdown 15y ago
This is an incredibly underappreciated functionality. OS X's help menu is a close equivalent to ido-mode in emacs. You hit Cmd+Shift+/ and type in first few letters of the name of some command you're looking for, select it in the drop-down
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by marchdown 15y ago
They can eavesdrop on encrypted mobile phone connections? Do you have a solid source on that?
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by marchdown 15y ago
There are two interlocked selection mechanisms: politicians select the issues they pursue, and sponsors select the politicians whom they want to give voice (and money). In dumb evolutionary environments and in anthropics, there is no direct
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by marchdown 15y ago
It just occurred to me that some might not see the parallel between the "nighty-niners" and the bolsheviks. Both words mean "members of the majority".
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by marchdown 15y ago
I wonder if these restrictions could be circumvented somehow by transporting components in a form which is technically a functioning assembly.
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by marchdown 15y ago
Thank you for outlining the problem and digging up links to introductory articles. This make it much easier to wrap the head around.
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by marchdown 15y ago
Notepad++ uses Scintilla, the core component of GTK+ editor SciTE, so that basically any non-Windows platform that runs X11 is covered. Notepad++ is somewhat nicer though. Sublime Text on the other hand feels simultaneously like a fresh bre
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If you haven't seen Sublime Text yet, give it a spin.(dl.dropbox.com)
4 points by marchdown 15y ago|4 comments
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by marchdown 15y ago
I'd love to listen to something like this, but don't know even where to start looking. Could you provide some pointers?
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by marchdown 15y ago
If you're serious about fundamentals be sure to at least skim Fieldings's PhD thesis[1] which lays the ground work for HTTP, especially the chapter on REST. His ideas are powerful, clear and very influential, but have been misunderstood t
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by marchdown 15y ago
grecy wrote in response to our common parent comment: > > I was thinking of speech in the constitutional sense > Remember, many countries don't have a constitution and don't care for yours. For some reason I can't see a reply
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by marchdown 15y ago
> the scope will expand and expand until children are being listed as sex offenders for taking photos of themselves. The fact that this is already happening gives me chills. We really need to openly discuss and codify the reasons behin
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by marchdown 15y ago
Shouldn't that be (cond &body res t )?
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by marchdown 15y ago
> Now, if you mean that no one is writing full-scale professional desktop or web applications by piping together sed and awk, then of course you are correct. That very much depends on where you draw the line. If Ruby on Rails, Wordpress
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by marchdown 15y ago
> Org mode can do absolutely everything. Ask and you shall learn. How do you capture different kinds of information — ideas, references to books or websites, events, addresses? What do you do more often — review agenda or search for spe
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by marchdown 15y ago
I know the theory pretty well, but writing actual regexes always felt so slow and frustrating that I really welcome this kind of rote hand-holding tutorial. I might finally learn the arbitrary DSL that everyone seems to have settled on.
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by marchdown 15y ago
Does BI stand for Business Intelligence here?
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by marchdown 15y ago
Hey, Americans. This whole mess is truly unbelievable from over the pond. Aren't there legal procedures in place to stop this unconstitutional, incredibly annoying, intrusive and expensive fearmongering campaign? Yeah, it was introduced at
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by marchdown 15y ago
These fines were never paid. It's like saying that all the popcorn in a movie theater would cost more than the theater itself. It doesn't make much sense to compare the two numbers.

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