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by maw 19y ago
'“You rely on e-mail, cannot do a lot of talking and the subtleties can get lost. So you do miss things.”' Having worked remotely for nearly four years, I've concluded that the problem lies with people who are bad at communicating -- at lea
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by maw 19y ago
Unfortunately, bzr is still pretty slow at log. It's also slow at branching a remote repo, and subsequent merges or pulls from that remote repo. On the bright side, it used to be unusably slow (for large projects, anyway) when doing thing
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by maw 19y ago
What you know is wrong. Some lisps are interpreted, some are compiled. SBCL is one of the compiled ones. If you're interested in scheme, bigloo is an option; there are surely others.
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by maw 19y ago
(I don't honestly think it's a good name, but it fits with the pattern at least. Most of the names I see I find kind of tasteless. I much prefer names not based on misspellings.)
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by maw 19y ago
Dollr.
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by maw 19y ago
1) A better mail transfer protocol. I don't view spam as inherently inevitable, but with SMTP it seems to be. 2) Internationalization from the ground up. Domain names are still effectively limited to 7 bit ASCII (even though "dots" are re
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by maw 19y ago
I found it to be so, yes. What see on news.yc is black text over a beige background (except for posts' metadata, which is grey over beige).
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by maw 19y ago
I wouldn't know. Small, grey text over a black background? Forget it. Tab closed.
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by maw 19y ago
The downside to the time limits is that, often, interesting programs get cut off too soon. Podcasts will get better as better people start doing them.
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by maw 19y ago
A little too sure of himself? Really? I'd say the opposite: he qualifies almost everything he says, and, besides, his essays tend to be, for lack of a better way to put it, a snapshot of Stevey's mind at a given point in time. I agree wit
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by maw 19y ago
Never would have thought that someone could come up with a better cvs? Really? I bumped into cvs' limitations the first time I committed a badly named file. Also, making it out like the history of open source version control tools goes cv
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by maw 19y ago
Zeno's paradox (deliberately?) confuses a thing — motion — with its measurement. You can always measure something with higher resolution, but so what?
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by maw 19y ago
Hardly anybody knows about opportunity cost. And in the case of many poor people, all they have in abundance is time anyway. Sad, but true.
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by maw 19y ago
The nerdiest scheme I encountered was naming machines after elements, and matching the last part their IPs with the atomic number of the element in question.
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by maw 19y ago
Many of the offices I've worked in have named meeting rooms after cities. But there was never any confusion -- I guess when you say "the meeting's in Milan in 5 minutes" there isn't any ambiguity. (I did try to get out of a few meetings in
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by maw 19y ago
But it's the Solaris kernel that remains competitive. Solaris' userland is crap^Wunimpressive compared to what you get on a Linux distro.
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by maw 19y ago
You got it right. http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Code_Contributing_FAQ has more information. Other companies with a split proprietary/free model require copyright assignments for contributions as well. So, too, does the FSF, although for r
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by maw 19y ago
It would take more than a technical solution -- currently many people who handle luggage are not really accountable to passengers. (They're probably not paid too well, either.) I learned this the hard way when my wife (foolishly, to be sur
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by maw 19y ago
No.
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by maw 19y ago
Who? I have no idea who she is.
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by maw 19y ago
Not bad -- or off base -- until he goes all "I'm smarter than you" at end.
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by maw 19y ago
I don't understand the lack of folders complaint. Labels achieve the same thing, and more flexibly, even, since the same message can show up in various places, and its read status is what it should be. I use evolution for work email and us
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by maw 19y ago
It's new. They rolled out a few changes recently.