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1. 361.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   I only wonder whether humanity will be able to resist the urge of selling it as a bottled water at some point...
2. 362.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   Almost like Logo (-;
3. 363.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   At least Arch has `js`package which gives you js command to obtain JS shell; in fact it is just Mozilla's SpiderMonkey. Anyway, the best option for "standalone JS" is node, mainly because it has a sane way of importing code from other files
4. 364.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   My setup is Arch at Toshiba R830, with toshiba_acpi and uswsusp.
5. 365.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   I'm not saying that it is a bad idea on its own -- the terrible idea is that they will most likely remove menus and shortcuts because "HUD is better". Not always.
6. 366.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   This is based on a stupid idea that keyboard shortcuts are fast only because they are done on a keyboard. But this is simply false -- they are fast because they are simple gestures I can train and perform without thinking about it. Same app
7. 367.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   Quite a lot windows-only software works with Wine, .net stuff runs on Mono and there is still ReactOS -- open source OS written from scratch, binary compatible with Windows.
8. 368.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   So does my Linux pc; it also wakes up when I open the lid, equally instantly.
9. 369.▲
   by mbq 15y ago

   But this does not work this way -- it seems it just blindly consumes char before and after / and converts if this fraction has a glyph in the font. Also, what you suggest is hard to implement since there are numerous localisation-dependent
10. 370.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    Got me; I tested 3431/4147 and then made an error when posting a comment; this is my original screenshot: http://imgur.com/MajJD
11. 371.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    I know -- the problem is the syntax. You can't safely apply this to any document, because it may change the meaning of it. Such things should only exist as unicode characters or character entities.
12. 372.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    Yup; or when they actually created a vector font to reproduce bitmap design: http://www.fonts.com/aboutfonts/verdana.htm Later they were lagging with smoothing techniques because of this pixel-perfection.
13. 373.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    BTW, this feature is a complete fail -- say I write 3431/5147, and what do I get? 343(1/5)147, so not only still ugly, but also incorrect mathematically.
14. 374.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    Well said, except it is not true about the ice melting under pressure -- a weight of a human is not enough (same holds for skating). The ice is slippery because of its anomalous behavior on the boundary, which is still not fully understood
15. 375.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    Obviously they respect Mozilla's do-not-track?
16. 376.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    tl;dr it parses HTTP headers with Ragel, which is a really nice idea; the state machine part is a yummy bite.
17. 377.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    Great, now go and convert Linux kernel to OOC; I'm sure Linus will merge it right away.
18. 378.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    Well, the problem is that whenever I try to use any of this magical features it usually turns out that it either cannot do this one tiny detail which I desperately need, make me rewrite huge part of the code to do minor change or is a compu
19. 379.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    My package got published today... I hope it's only correlated |-:
20. 380.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    I hate this superset/subset idea -- those are just different languages, with separate philosophies and totally incompatible practice sets. Merging is an equal madness as merging Haskell with Python. On the other hand, from a fully practical
21. 381.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    I remember older versions of Office making HTML; two pages of some cryptic stuff after exporting Hello World doc...
22. 382.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    But those Win/Mac/Linux buttons would be simply a wrong solution -- the idea is to peak a standard that will work with a certain application, not OS. You just can't make it simpler without sacrificing functionality. Clueless user will of co
23. 383.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    Yeah... do it exact and no hit will survive; do it with Bonferroni and nothing will really change. And in fact it is only checking two-way relationships, which is already a minor fraction of "all sorts".
24. 384.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    This boils down to a following old algo: 1. plot all possible scatterplots 2. order them due to an area of white space left 3. claim the top-whatever novel exciting relationships. This way it is anti-robust and produces too much false-posti
25. 385.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    The funny thing is that the screenshot ( http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6532001299_e08f052149_b.j... ) on which this post is based is actually a request of making and unavoidable decision (how the phone should present itself to the comp
26. 386.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    There are also tmux and NX.
27. 387.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    WYSIWYG in HTML with JS? I doubt there is a more painful way to obtain even marginally consistent formatting...
28. 388.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    The problem is that Gnome authors didn't gave a chance to try -- they've just made a beta version lacking most functionality of the previous incarnations and shipped it along with all problems of fresh version of Gtk and systemd saying "Loo
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    by mbq 15y ago

    One more benchmark for Clojure fans: R> system.time(sum(runif(3000000))) user system elapsed 0.100 0.000 0.101 R> system.time(sum(runif(30000000))) user system elapsed 1.037 0.020 1.058 not a
30. 390.▲
    by mbq 15y ago

    Buying a real netbook is way easier... and you have a better keyboard (-;