melloclello

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by melloclello 10y ago
Man, Stross has written a whole lot of shitty pulp over his career but some of his short stories are kinda kooky [1] and Accelerando [2] was a ripping yarn [1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction&#x
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by melloclello 10y ago
This is what I was wondering. Thanks!
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by melloclello 10y ago
I thought that was a pretty choice line. Relax, I think we both know what Charlie actually means.
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by melloclello 10y ago
Doesn't the interstellar medium effectively turn into alpha radiation at significant percentages of the speed of light? http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/08/san-trom...
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by melloclello 10y ago
I can't say anything about the feasibility of what you describe, but something about the idea of being a being composed of pure text, no ability to perceive or visualise the world around me except through the medium of text, utterly ho
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by melloclello 10y ago
What app is that, Artlav?
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by melloclello 10y ago
Hi Alan, what do you think of the Unison project? [1] On the surface it's a structured editor for a type safe language in which it's impossible to write an invalid program, but the author has some pretty lofty goals for it. [1] h
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by melloclello 10y ago
All I want, in any text editor, is multiple cursors [1]. It's a really powerful concept that renders a large number of otherwise tedious operations tractable without having to resort to macros or other nonintuitive abstractions. I feel
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by melloclello 10y ago
Isn't Apple working on a new UI framework, UXKit? One could idly speculate that it might be written in Swift...
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by melloclello 10y ago
I think perhaps I would be more comfortable with a Star Wars droid style name like 'AZ', tbh
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by melloclello 10y ago
If Facebook was a physical object, it would be cigarettes.
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by melloclello 10y ago
Lolz
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by melloclello 10y ago
Isn't obesity a uh good problem to have?
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by melloclello 10y ago
Drag and drop's pretty neat I reckon. Pretty nice when things tie into the native APIs in OS X so you can even drag snippets of text between applications. Pretty sure people would have shat their pants when they first saw that working
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by melloclello 10y ago
I love GUIs. Oh dear god, sometimes I just want to click and highlight and drag things around.
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by melloclello 10y ago
I wish I had skipped high school. At best it was a waste of time and at worst it was a highly traumatic experience for me. I guess I'm doing better now but the first few years I spent in the real world were spent desperately trying to
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by melloclello 11y ago
I would imagine any version control system attempting to solve this problem would focus very closely on one particular language or development system. Any pragmatic solution would also have to be a highly opinionated one. For a related idea
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by melloclello 11y ago
I would argue that the trailing comma diff issue is an artefact of the fact that diff works at the text level, not at the syntax level (I can only hope this might be a thing someday)
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by melloclello 11y ago
Man I have used this thing so many times, thank you
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by melloclello 11y ago
This is, at best, a severely autistic view of the world.
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by melloclello 11y ago
Yeah, but all the panels remain white.
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by melloclello 11y ago
I agree, Xcode is definitely the best looking IDE by light years. Now if only it had a dark mode...
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by melloclello 11y ago
Generic typealiases are coming, thank goodness: http://ericasadun.com/2016/03/08/generic-typealiases-are-a-t...
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by melloclello 11y ago
I think this is kind of neat for structured English as opposed to prose. Prose tends to look like vegetable soup, but I pasted a very regularly phrased and structured todo list in here and it looks great. Things like the standard Agile &quo
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by melloclello 11y ago
> My particular bugbear is working with people who refuse to learn SQL as if it's some arcane bit of weirdness on a par with machine code. They've only ever used ORMs and have no idea how to actually talk to their data. /r
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by melloclello 11y ago
That was the smuggest use of emoji I've seen in a while
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by melloclello 11y ago
This is great - I'm self taught and have been working for years with no idea what the stack is - I'd love one for this "heap" thing I keep hearing about, as well.
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by melloclello 11y ago
I always thought SAC was a little like Law and Order: SVU but with cyborgs
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by melloclello 11y ago
Have you considered: you don't really need to play video games anyway
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by melloclello 11y ago
Cannot stop listening to that Gas album. Also Ryuichi Sakamoto has a golden touch. See Loscil, Lawrence English, Nest for more of this kind of music

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