marvy

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by marvy 9y ago
> There is a programming language which captures all patterns in its spec? No, but see https://blog.plover.com/prog/design-patterns.html and the follow-up https://blog.plover.com/prog/johnson.ht
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by marvy 9y ago
Fair question. I could not have done better. But still.
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by marvy 9y ago
This made me giggle: Q. What's so great about ISO standardization? A. It is often said that one of the advantages of SGML over some other, proprietary, generic markup scheme is that "nobody owns the standard". Whil
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by marvy 9y ago
Agree on both counts.
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by marvy 9y ago
No, not exactly. Read some of the other comments. Like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589943
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by marvy 9y ago
Makes sense
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by marvy 9y ago
According to my calculations, you shouldn't need too much more than 25 to 50% magnification or so. Details and assumptions below: I don't know how far you sit from the screen, nor which websites you typically visit, but unless I
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by marvy 9y ago
You can manually make the window narrower of course, but it doesn't play nice with tabbed browsing. In particular, you now face a choice: 1. Make the current window narrow. But when I switch to other tabs in this window, I need to ex
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by marvy 9y ago
This is 99% of the way to a correct solution. But I think it would be better if pressing Escape would dismiss the help screen, rather than another press of F1, so that the few people who intent to use help don't accidentally dismiss i
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by marvy 9y ago
I started making something with DuckDuckHack, soon realized I bit off more than I can chew. I wanted to delete what I did so at least the name would be available to someone who wants to do a good job, but have no idea how to delete it.
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by marvy 9y ago
Fine :) The fact remains: given you knew what was meant, you could at least have answered the question as intended, in addition to nitpicking. (I would never tell someone to stop nitpicking. Well, almost never.) See also https:/&#
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by marvy 9y ago
This preserves the structure better: > As someone who's never used Solaris [...] I'm curious: can someone [...] Notice that you left out the subject (I), left out the verb (am), and replaced a colon with a comma!
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by marvy 9y ago
If you have indeed used Solaris, you could have left a more useful comment. Your creative use of ellipsis is totally cheating by the way: you did not preserve the structure of the sentence.
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by marvy 9y ago
But suppose you DON'T try to patent it. You just invent it and try use it or sell it. What then?
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by marvy 9y ago
So basically you're saying that any independent invention of the same thing is also classified.
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by marvy 9y ago
How can that work? You need a security clearance to read them? What if someone else invents the same thing before the patent expires?
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by marvy 9y ago
To: ftftytfty. Your comments show up as [dead]. No clue why. Maybe contact someone official. (dang?)
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by marvy 9y ago
The feature is still there, but the mechanic is different. More clicks needed, but more discoverable.
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by marvy 9y ago
Now you made me think. I agree this sounds really hard, but it's not clear that this requires hardware changes. After all, transport protocols are written in software. In fact, I don't think that this needs changes to the trans
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by marvy 9y ago
Someone has to give the obvious (possibly wrong) answer, and it might as well be me. If you've already identified someone who you think is better than you, why not ask how they do it?
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by marvy 9y ago
If this made the entire state one giant district, then it would give real power to third parties. But a district with just 5 representatives is not enough to pose a huge threat. They would get some more power, but surely not much. Or per
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by marvy 9y ago
Thanks! Though I'd rather read yours. A couple of hundred lines seems less intimidating than a couple of thousand. Though still I doubt I'll get around to it.
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by marvy 9y ago
Well, I mostly was. Long lines are _generally_ inconvenient. Everything from portrait screens to websites that won't use the full screen width to someone who wants to a printout of the code for some reason (even printing in landscape
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by marvy 9y ago
At home, my desktop has a resolution of 1366x768. (I usually use my laptop, which is higher than that, but whatever.) At work, I have monitors in the "portrait" position, so I only have 1080 horizontal pixels unless I'm wil
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by marvy 9y ago
That is COMPACT. I always thought that a window manager was supposed to be big. This fits in one file! (A note on code style though: some of your lines are a bit too long. Have pity on those with small screens. Seriously, it's not
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by marvy 9y ago
PDF info says 2002
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by marvy 9y ago
I agree with the last point: asking questions on tex.stackexchange is a GREAT way to get help. Sometimes you run into an "impossible" problem and some wizard will show up and fix it in minutes.
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by marvy 9y ago
So you're saying this whole paper could have been avoided if they just used clang. And it seems you're right.
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by marvy 9y ago
Obviously you don't want silent autocorrect. You use this to get suggested corrections when things don't compile.
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by marvy 9y ago
I wanted something like this.

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