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by maxaf 10y ago
One day I'll come across a monospace font that will look & feel as good as the Bloomberg Terminal font.
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by maxaf 10y ago
Will you wear it every moment you're outside of your own private home or office? I thought so. :)
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by maxaf 10y ago
Has the author heard of gj and gk?
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by maxaf 10y ago
While I have little basis for technical disagreement with your statement, I still think the attitude of "not used much - can't adopt it" is detrimental to FOSS in general and to high-touch "hand tools" such as shell
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by maxaf 10y ago
Almost everywhere I travel outside of NYC the question pops up: is tap water safe to drink? New York is notoriously proud of and vocal about this local amenity. Achieving a universal standard in this area would go a long way towards putting
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by maxaf 10y ago
Just because investors are no longer willing to blindly shovel cash into the furnace that is SV's pointless startup culture, doesn't mean they will similarly slow down investments into innovative technology companies that have pro
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by maxaf 10y ago
Pyongyang's metro would make a great setting for that hypothetical "Koreans invade Moscow" movie that no one seems to be filming.
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by maxaf 10y ago
How did this riveting political discussion make it all the way to the front page? It seems to be abjectly off topic for HN.
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by maxaf 10y ago
F# depends on the .NET runtime for everything it does. Yes, you could write trivial programs in F# without delving far into .NET and its standard library. No, you can't go far beyond that without knowing stdlib APIs and using Microsoft
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by maxaf 10y ago
I'd always regretted not keeping my old hard drives when my family left Moscow in 1999. There was the Robotron 1715, which was my first true taste of computing at home. A Compaq-produced 386-SX box was solely responsible for me having
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by maxaf 10y ago
I've had only one job in which work/life balance was non-existent. "Crushin' it" was part of company culture, and I, as an early employee, was a poster boy for it. It never occurred to me that I could have (and shou
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by maxaf 10y ago
Wow, now that's the major difference from NYC. A mortgage payment for anything decent anywhere in Manhattan is far beyond my current means, yet I afford the rent easily enough. I wonder why the UK is so different? Are landlords simply
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by maxaf 10y ago
I find intellectually dishonest the suggestion that not owning a house is somehow going to remove the ability to settle down and start a family. I don't own a house, and most likely never will, by the simple reasoning that I can either
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by maxaf 10y ago
I am still not nostalgic for Flash. Not even a little bit.
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by maxaf 10y ago
Yeah, the keyboard is just a gimmick. I only ever use it to enter wifi passwords. So, in this case less is actually better ! :P
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by maxaf 11y ago
If anything, this is a glowing review of the entire ThinkPad line. Most PC hardware turns into shit after a couple of years of heavy use. Not so with ThinkPads. I'm all for reuse-reduce-recycle, but very few electronic thingamajigs are
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by maxaf 11y ago
My 5.5 year old Kindle 3 is still going strong. I could definitely see a strong case for a backlit display, but the device I have right now is not worse than a dead tree book in this regard. My attitude might seem reactionary, however, I fe
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by maxaf 11y ago
Whatever for would you use vioscsi on a laptop? I'm only asking because the original discussion seemed to be somewhat laptop-centric. Apart from that, now that the initial Xen port is breathing (I ran it on EC2 just before 5.9 was cut
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by maxaf 11y ago
CLI or not, don't you ever close the lid of your laptop expecting it to suspend without whirring its fans inside your bag for hours on end, and then resume without losing its ability to connect to wireless networks? I do use Linux at
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by maxaf 11y ago
I've come back into the warm embrace of OpenBSD this year, and couldn't be happier. On supported hardware (cheapo refurb ThinkPad T420) everything works out of the box. Suspend/resume, graphics, Wi-Fi, sound, etc... Hibernate
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by maxaf 11y ago
Agreed. You're right, there are cases when immediate and overwhelming intervention is justified no matter the human cost. I think, however, that such cases have become more rare as our civilization has matured (as little as it has!) be
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by maxaf 11y ago
Depriving the world's militaries of research brains isn't going to prevent or lessen violence. Those who reach for violence as a commonly used tool will continue to do so, with or without advanced researchers at their side, albeit
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by maxaf 11y ago
Don't you feel like you're pushing a square peg into a round hole? Or do you actually find yourself taking advantage of elisp in harmonious combination with Vim's editing UX?
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by maxaf 11y ago
I alternate between Emacs and Vim every 5 years or so. Emacs gave me superior customizability using a "real" programming language: elisp. Vim, on the other hand, offers a faster, more efficient editing UX. The older I get, the wid
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by maxaf 11y ago
This is exactly the point of long shot R&D: lesser milestones are useful in their own right. Who knows what else might come of it?
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by maxaf 11y ago
Hierarchical view is a no-go, alas. Some people might view this as a feature :)
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by maxaf 11y ago
+1. Yet every time I use a piece of software written in a dynamically typed language, I keep asking myself: how could this be safe???
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by maxaf 11y ago
How's this better than links? http://www.aboutlinux.info/2007/02/links2-cross-platform-con...
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by maxaf 11y ago
Athena ( http://athenapdf.com/ ) does a phenomenal job at turning those HTML pages into convenient PDF files.
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by maxaf 11y ago
Totally off topic, but: I grew up next to the VDNKh metro station in Moscow & therefore appreciate your user name.

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