mbillie1

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by mbillie1 11y ago
> I would have no problem with public speculation about the manner of or motives behind the death of any of my friends or family. Perhaps not, but speculating on cause of death is nonetheless considered in extremely poor taste. Most peop
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by mbillie1 11y ago
> If you curse out a cop, you're probably up to no good I just want to point out that this is an overwhelmingly class-based statement. If you are materially comfortable, especially if you're white, you would likely never have t
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by mbillie1 11y ago
vi keybindings are ubiquitous, so familiarity with the editor is beneficial outside the editor. Just offhand, both ncdu and tig (which I have used in the past hour) respond to vi keystrokes. It's not as hard as it first seems to learn,
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by mbillie1 11y ago
https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line/pull/12
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by mbillie1 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/ Some of us like fullscreen windows...
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by mbillie1 11y ago
I love oh-my-zsh but am confused why this is news... it's been around for years, almost everyone I know in OSX either uses it or has used it at some point in the past. I do love it though!
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by mbillie1 11y ago
> Just because upper-class enclaves exist as goals to lure the beguiled doesn't mean they're actually utopias. Very well put.
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by mbillie1 11y ago
> Why are kids killing themselves in utopia? Why are some of the worlds most intelligent, rich, and power adults burying their children? I think the ideas that Palo Alto is "utopia," and that intelligence, wealth and power are
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by mbillie1 11y ago
Not to mention that daily exercise will improve your overall happiness / mental health noticeably. Run, bike, find a rock climbing gym and learn how to rock climb, anything. It is important in so many ways for people like software deve
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by mbillie1 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Computers communicate with one another constantly. There certainly does seem to be something different about us, but I've yet to see any scientific or philosophical proof that our self-aware
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> But if we make machines that are smarter than us and have desires It is a hypothesis that human desires - the conscious processes involved in thinking "I want such-and-such" - influence human behavior. Consciousness is not wh
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by mbillie1 12y ago
Virtually all of these discussions of AI come from the very peculiar way in which we view our own intelligence. It's only the notion of a "conscious will" or whatever unifying feature we find in reflective self-awareness that
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by mbillie1 12y ago
Well... I may be biased as one of those folks who uses both vim and emacs, but: there is a big (positive) difference in my opinion between evaluating code in-line, right from your source file, in your editor, than copy+pasting it into a REP
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by mbillie1 12y ago
Anecdotally, as an engineer, I have found maintaining personal relationships (even those I did not initially suspect would be fruitful) has been invaluable to my career and has lead to some very interesting job offers, at least one of which
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by mbillie1 12y ago
It is a helpful context in which to view the seemingly "logical" arguments you hear all the time from politicians and moralists of all persuasion. A reminder that a good-sounding, intuitively appealing argument can have absurd or
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by mbillie1 12y ago
One of my favorite paradoxes, I recall learning this in a formal logic class in college. These sorts of mental exercises are fascinating and well worth doing. The point of paradoxes is not to "solve" them, the point is to understa
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by mbillie1 12y ago
NYC bureaucracy is on a whole different level from KS, TN, etc. NYS in general has ludicrous amounts of regulation compared to most states, and NYC is the creme de la creme.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
Living in SLC, this is super exciting. I cannot wait to ditch Comcast (who has raised my rates for the same service every 6 months over the past 2 years) as soon as conceivably possible.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> some languages are insanely complex to implement I don't understand this, is there more to implementing a language than creating glyphs for its character set? I wouldn't think the linguistic complexity would matter at all, on
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by mbillie1 12y ago
http://www.upout.com/blog/san-francisco-3/5-castles-that-are...
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> Oh c'mon, he ordered a hitman inside a play the FBI fully staged for him. There was never any harm done to anybody. I'm not sure this line of reasoning makes a lot of difference. We judge criminal intent, not simply outcome,
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> Google releases high quality hardware with their OS to prove that a good machine could be make with it, but at a price that does not compete with others. That is a very interesting notion that I had not considered at all, but can that
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> If you can't be around a clothed woman without breaking down mentally just because she is clothed in a certain way, that is your problem. Yes, thank you. The whole "I'm a victim of being attracted to pretty people"
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> It'll be really hard to ever make that appealing How about folks drinking beer on the street, the ceaseless outside speakers, and totally shameless flaunting of the sex trade on every corner? I'm not a prude, but there is som
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by mbillie1 12y ago
While I'm sympathetic to the situation folks find themselves in with skyrocketing housing prices due to an influx of tech workers, sentiments like “Nobody wants change,” and "[residents who] want to halt the city’s growth" ar
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by mbillie1 12y ago
I appreciate the points made, but without comparisons on a point-by-point basis, I'm still left wondering what the specific linux runes are to replace OS X - even for this one user.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
It's not too often that the top response to the Stackoverflow threads I find via search comes from the main author of the software, but antirez is all over it with Redis - above and beyond, definitely one of the people I most strive to
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by mbillie1 12y ago
All I can think of is this: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/wikileaks-to-leak-... "They have no right to do this. Open Source does not mean the source is somehow 'open'. That's my cod
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by mbillie1 12y ago
That article was an amazing read.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> Your point only makes sense if there is a divine set of rules that makes some things right and others wrong. There's a difference between absolutism (which I am arguing against, btw, and my argument against conviction is consisten

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