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by mickeyp 12y ago
In Subversion you can explicitly check out a file so others cannot. That's rather important if you are modifying binary blobs of data with no way of merging conflicting changes. Art assets like video and images are good examples. Subve
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by mickeyp 12y ago
No. 16-bit, as I recall, was the upper limit for Voodoo cards. Resolution wasn't a problem. I played Unreal (the original) at 1600x1200x60hz on my old 17" CRT monitor. I had a Voodoo 3 card back then. I still remember staying up a
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by mickeyp 12y ago
I don't know anything about the maritime world, but playing Devil's Advocate you're suffering from selection bias: you're naming instances where humans caused the errors but not factoring in the unreported instances of
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by mickeyp 12y ago
There's nothing stopping you from customizing Emacs to do what you like with keybindings. You can use either BRIEF or WordStar as a jumping off point.
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by mickeyp 12y ago
I've always wondered if it's possible to inductively teach a computer to play Go using some form of machine learning by playing tens of thousands of games; perhaps games with annotations by humans following a simple format to guid
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by mickeyp 12y ago
Emacs, of course, has a wordstar mode that can be activated with M-x wordstar-mode for those of you who're curious enough to try it out. The copyright for that file dates back to 1991, back when Wordstar was still relevant. Like BRIEF
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by mickeyp 12y ago
I miss MUDs. I remember writing a sophisticated bot to farm mobs (mobiles; monsters) for me and my friends so I could watch TV whilst it was grinding away at the game. Great times.
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by mickeyp 12y ago
SQLite is not <your actual rdbms>... it's SQLite. A database that does not enforce column types and lacks most of the advanced features of a real rdbms. Using SQLite will work great right up until the point where it won't an
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by mickeyp 12y ago
Yeah and just as many of those cab drivers are prone to hectoring you when you tell them which way to go... especially when they take a longer route under the guise of it "being quicker." They're also completely reckless and
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Fast-forwarding your commits on top of master/develop was never a good idea. Having a merge marker showing where the commits came from and the branch name is incredibly useful, but that's not a black mark against rebase -- only yo
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by mickeyp 13y ago
I think you mean C-u C-\ and then change the input type to tex. There are other ways of inputting digraphs: C-x 8 RET lets you enter the name of any unicode symbol. I wrote about the many ways of inputting digraphs and unicode here: http:&
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by mickeyp 13y ago
A good University will teach you things you would almost never come into contact with on your own. I will give you some random examples from my own degree. Some concepts are quite practical and others are theoretical, but all of the example
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Gosh I remember that theme! Don't forget the "Island Man" [0] screensaver, Johnny Castaway. We used to spend hours watching him and his antics back in the day. I miss the whimsy of yore. 0: http://web.onetel.net.uk
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Another option, if you're an Emacs user, is to read it in Emacs. Emacs's info reader is very good.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Great list. Another that separates the wheat from the chaff is by making yourself replaceable. To an insecure person (in any profession) this is anathema to maintaining a job; to a confident and professional person it is simply a requiremen
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by mickeyp 13y ago
What's interesting is how many of the words are "negative" or have negative connotations.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
I grew up with Lego. I love Lego -- the older stuff anyway; the newer bricks are too specialised -- and what's amazing about Lego is that it is almost impossible to destroy a Lego brick. I still have all my old Lego and all of my dads&
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by mickeyp 13y ago
That's a wrong conclusion to draw from the term "microframework." Unlike Django which defines in no uncertain terms what you get from it and what you can do with it, in Flask it's all up to you. Yes, for some projects I
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Windows 2000 was a fantastic operating system. My favourite still.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Nice one. The Amiga one (the one with the Workbench dialog) is slightly incorrect. The disk drive reader head doesn't sound right, at least for an Amiga 500, which it ought to be seeing as it's using the 1.3 kickstarter. It's
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Even if you're not an Emacs user I recommend you try out Magit inside Emacs. (And if you do use Emacs, you should definitely use it.) I wrote an introduction to Magit a while back. Magit has a very simple and understandable "conte
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Ten (edit: even five!) years ago I'd agree with you. Back then a source control system was a piece of software you used for keeping a versioned history of your work and to enable you to collaborate with coworkers or friends. It was a t
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by mickeyp 13y ago
The important take-away here isn't the relative merits of each DVCS, but that bzr is not used by anybody any more, and it is impeding the uptake of new contributors to Emacs.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
An unpalatable command line that has no linear mapping between commands and its arguments and what you want to do. It's a great tool, no doubt; but the user interface is terrible. I use Magit for Emacs which has eliminated my need for
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by mickeyp 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - London, on-site (Central) / remote Github: https://github.com/mickeynp/ Blog: http://www.masteringemacs.org/ Jack-of-all-trades full-stack Python developer with a wide gamut of expe
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Strange indeed. Mystery solved though. Thanks for the screenshots - they helped debug it!
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My hope -- and I have yet to try it in anger in 24.4 -- is that these annoying issues are fixed.
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Emacs can do all this and so much more; it can be a far more inclusive and flexible "screen" replacement. I will have to write an article explaining why I feel using Emacs to handle all that is "the more Emacsy way."
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Oh, and what I fixed were the missing angle brackets.
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by mickeyp 13y ago
Sounds like a font or machine issue? I've never had any reports, ever, about this issue and my blog has been around for three years. I also tested it on my Android phone and it looks as fine as it ever does. In SCreenshot #1 where the

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