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by merijnv 14y ago
> why don't languages provide the ability to do this kind of thing automagically, I mean marking some code to be executed at compile time and act as a code generation feature? There's certainly already languages that do this type of thi
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by merijnv 14y ago
What do you mean by bandaging the standard? And why are extensions scary? In general none of the extensions change the behaviour of valid "standard haskell" (beyond adding a small handfull of new keywords, rendering those words illegal as v
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by merijnv 14y ago
I use my DX exclusively for reading scientific papers and stuff from Project Gutenberg, I just connect it over USB and copy PDFs/epubs/txt/html on there and everything works just fine. So yes, it works just fine without an Amazon account. G
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by merijnv 14y ago
Have you tried hg-git? I've been using it as my sole way of interacting (well, other than the web interface) with GitHub and I haven't run into any showstoppers.
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by merijnv 14y ago
Easy, the company that is depending on me is not physically there, watching and judging me. Sure they probably are watching and judging me, but as long they're not physically present that makes all the difference to my mind...
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by merijnv 14y ago
> This is definitely the first hurdle I encounter. The handful of times I have attempted this, I end up thinking about not thinking (isn't that silly?), or a song comes into my head, or I hear a noise in the distance, and attempts to cl
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by merijnv 14y ago
For longer and more interactive shell interactions you can use job control, if your shell supports job control (bash, zsh and pretty much every reasonable user shell in existence). Ctrl-Z will suspend vim and drop you back into your shell,
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by merijnv 14y ago
A counter example: He mentions graphing data as one option. I'm pretty sure people with excellent GNU plot skills can make a GNU plot script that does what I want in 10-20 mins, and I really can't be arsed to figure it out myself everytime.
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by merijnv 14y ago
Curriculum Vitae. You can think of it as a long form resume if I understand the US notion of a resume correctly. They are commonly used in place of resumes here (Netherlands, and presumably larger parts of the EU).
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by merijnv 14y ago
> This "give money and something MAY happen, eventually" model is going to collapse on itself. I'm not so sure, crowdfunding is certainly very attractive for people that have a track record of delivering but a consumer base that is to s
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by merijnv 15y ago
The problem is (probably) that you are watching github.com/yourprofile, which doesn't show the dropdown. When you go to github.com itself you will see the dropdown for selecting organisations in the top-left.
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by merijnv 15y ago
Sure, for programming linux (any unix, really) is superior (personally I use OSX). But, for just desktop usage (browsing, e-mail, video, music) I much prefer Windows to linux. OSX vs Windows is a bit of a toss-up, I prefer OSX because of th
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by merijnv 15y ago
>> "While being free is a top concern for you and many others, for some (perhaps many) usability might be their top concern and they may be willing to sacrifice freedom for usability" > False dichotomy. I disagree, he's not stat
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by merijnv 15y ago
> "6 ÷ 2x" gets parsed as "6 / (2 * x)" Edit: I'm probably wrong about precedence for 2x, which should be stronger. Which would leave 2(1+2) still really ambiguous. I guess the true lesson here is to always parenthesize explicitly or us
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by merijnv 15y ago
I believe there's even a "screen-compatible" default config file that ships with tmux.
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by merijnv 15y ago
vim-slime apparently also works with tmux, which has a much more understandable documentation in my experience. Might be worth taking a look?
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by merijnv 15y ago
Sure, I'm just pointing out that their existence greatly diminishes the motivation to write a good (free) text editor for OSX. There are plenty of nice GUI editors for OSX, but most (all?) seem to be paid editors. The end result is that you
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by merijnv 15y ago
There is not a lot of incentive to create a free Notepad++-like text editor for OSX. OSX already ships with two excellent free text editors for the commandline (Emacs & vim) and there's GUI versions of both. Any Cocoa/OSX specific GUI e
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by merijnv 15y ago
A license is just that, a license to use the code. The copyright holder of a piece of code (or really any other copyrighted data) may license it to whomever they want, however they want. The GPL is just a blanket license giving permission t
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by merijnv 15y ago
Isn't Monte-Carlo non-converging by definition? If the algorithm converged it'd be a Las Vegas algorithm...
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by merijnv 15y ago
To be fair, my travel outside of the Schengen has still been a lot more pleasant than the way the US border is described...
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by merijnv 15y ago
I don't know about programming specifically, but I have met plenty of people aged >50-60 in CS and most of them still seem really enthusiastic about their work.
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by merijnv 15y ago
To be fair, if you can't do calculus you have no business consuming bandwidth of their quantum random bit generator. It is a limited resource (they have a fixed bandwidth at which the random data is produced), so it makes sense to limit the
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by merijnv 15y ago
I don't see how that factors in? I've been playing with GitHub a bit and I use hg. I just use the hggit extension the github guys wrote to interact with git and GitHub.
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by merijnv 15y ago
The reason I trust (to the extend I trust anything on this planet) Tarsnap is that Colin Percival (the creator) is a cryptographer and the FreeBSD security officer. Leading to me have a higher confidence in him than most of the other "secur
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by merijnv 15y ago
> Interactive beats mindless observation. Sort of how the appearance of music and movies let to the inevitable demise of books? I don't think your argument holds. I'm an avid gamer and I still enjoy good movies, TV shows and books. Inte
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by merijnv 15y ago
You can distinguish between nulls which are errors and nulls that are just the actual return value. That is what err is for . The entire reason Go has multiple return values for functions (such as paths and err in this case) is to avoid
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by merijnv 15y ago
The LaTeX executable isn't 4GB, it's 3MB or so (pdflatex/pdftex) or 16MB in the case of XeLaTeX. The 4GB consists of billions of extension/modules/packages for typesetting documents.
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by merijnv 15y ago
> They can't continue to compel you for more and more passphrases for more and more encrypted shadow volumes that they're not even aware actually exist The point is, they can. If you're in some place run by a dictator they can do whatev
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by merijnv 15y ago
ACM Queue is not an academic journal. It's the ACM's venue for publishing opinion pieces by both scientists and people from industry.

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