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by maw 16y ago
I'm with you for the most part on package management, but Spaces does some really crazy stuff. I'll be in one space, and suddenly get jerked into another. How can that ever be appropriate?
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by maw 16y ago
That would be really nice if it were true. For some people it is; for many more it simply is not.
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by maw 16y ago
I've wondered as well. I worked as a cashier in a grocery store when I was in high school. At our store we had two "main" express lines, one for twelve items or fewer, one for eight. Except for very quiet times, when there was only one cas
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by maw 16y ago
I hate (love?) to be the pedant here, but your stutter and your introversion aren't mutually exclusive. They're orthogonal . As to the stuttering, I think I understand. I don't stutter, but I do have a horrible time hearing when there's
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by maw 16y ago
In Walmarts in Mexico there are many 20 items or fewer registers; these are all fed by a single line. At busy stores during busy times these single lines can extend well over 100m. People complain about the long lines, but they do move qu
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by maw 16y ago
In the long run, having a language with words of diverse etymologies makes a language harder to learn, cf. English. Interesting point. I wonder to what extent that would continue to be the case if words were regularized (with respect to
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by maw 16y ago
I thought function pointers were a well known part of C. How long can you program C before needing to call qsort or similar? Or before you encounter (or create) your own method table? GLib offers closures in C; I've never used them, thoug
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by maw 16y ago
I don't write my passwords down, but I do use reminders in a code of sorts. An example: I have an account with the bank Bancomer. In Spanish, "comer" means to eat, so I refer to it as "eßenbanque". (I know it's "essen"; nobody likely to f
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by maw 16y ago
Sure. But if it came down to lots of time alone or lots of time with forced contact, which would you pick? They both sound bad to me (what do you expect from being incarcerated?); the baked in assumption that what's bad for most humans is
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by maw 16y ago
Assertions such as those in the first paragraph are offensive -- as though we introverts weren't real or normal humans. I don't know from first-hand experience, but as bad as solitary sounds, being confined with other people sounds even wo
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by maw 16y ago
I met a few people last month who still use it for larger projects. My reaction was along the lines of, "Really? No, wait, really? REALLY? Nuh-uh." Unsurprisingly, I suppose, I was told that, since I gave it up as a too much trouble, co
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by maw 16y ago
What do you think you'd call it? I'm not disagreeing here; I've learned something (likely not enough!) from the code of his that I've read.
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by maw 16y ago
Tip 12 looks suspicious, at least for the use case given. I'm not wild about storing passwords on a production machine, but if you're going to do it, don't kid yourself that gaining much by hiding it inside git's db. Still, tip 12 was new
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by maw 16y ago
See the first and fourth paragraphs of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lars_Bak_(computer... .
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Code Quarterly: The Hackademic Journal(codequarterly.com)
2 points by maw 16y ago|0 comments
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by maw 16y ago
A good introductory classic Greek (Attic) textbook. A nice, small tube amp. I'm unlikely to get either since I haven't made these wishes known to anyone who's going to be buying me anything. In any case, they're both the sort of thing you'
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by maw 16y ago
No, I wouldn't. But so what? Putting trust in a service just because it's running on a low-numbered port is ridiculous. If we want trustable services, there are ways to do that, although with mixed track records to be sure. To try to crea
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by maw 16y ago
Traditionally only root could use ports lower than [1024] As an aside, this is one of the more daft aspects of Unix. There's no reason whatsoever that http should need bits to run. The reasons cited for services such as ftp, smtp, imap,
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by maw 16y ago
I wondered about that too. Here's my guess (would welcome confirmation or a more accurate explanation, not least because I'm far from an expert on how TCP/IP works and know even less about Windows): 1) The router blocking outgoing connectio
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by maw 16y ago
Are they properly formatted for the Kindle, though? In the Gutenberg-derived version of Moby Dick that I read, they capitalized words italicized in the original, and replaced £ with L. Aesthetically displeasing, to say the least. I'd pay
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by maw 16y ago
Good question. For my part, I'd be interested in Spanish and French equivalents.
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by maw 16y ago
do we actually need millions of apps if people don't use them[?] If you buy into the 80-20 rule, then yes, probably we do. Much of the software the interviewees use is stuff I use too, but where we don't overlap is where it gets interest
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by maw 16y ago
I think tzs was talking about small programs worth between one dollar and five. Not that specific utility.
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By the Book: How telephone directories transformed America(reason.com)
4 points by maw 16y ago|0 comments
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by maw 16y ago
It's a good point. I stopped reading another well-known site years ago in large part because so much there was outright wrong, and I was afraid that I'd picked up and internalized false ideas, and would continue to do so, in unwary moments
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by maw 16y ago
"Hold still, baby, hold still. This won't take more than two seconds." (Version for people on iOS with an iPhone 3G: "Holy still, baby, hold still. This won't take more than forty five seconds.")
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by maw 16y ago
Do you really think so? Google handily passes the "actually does something useful" test. Facebook, not so much.
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by maw 16y ago
I don't know why you have that impression of Mexico. There has been corruption here since before the recent wave of crackdowns started, and, sadly, there will still be corruption when the crackdowns let up. When most Mexicans think about
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by maw 16y ago
1) It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. 2) You should know what you're going to do ahead of time, and you should have done tests beforehand. The after-hours work isn't that complex if you're doing it right.
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Strange Maps: The Great European Shouting Match(bigthink.com)
4 points by maw 16y ago|0 comments

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