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by msg 16y ago
You obviously don't watch Oprah. My wife does. Oprah's been skyping in and out of viewer homes for months.
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by msg 16y ago
:-) I'm not sure if we're talking about the same terminal. M-x term is a terminal emulator that acts like xterm and obscures all the great emacs stuff. I think that thing blows. M-x shell is a fully-featured shell that also happens to be a
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by msg 16y ago
Oh no you di'int. Some of us just like to have infinite scrollback buffer, rectangle select, bookmarks, regular expression replace, in our remote shells. And all our other customizations. Emacs isn't the be-all end-all tool (it doesn't run
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by msg 16y ago
Very similar discussion a little while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1563021
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by msg 16y ago
That is right. Norvig doesn't see what Facebook is good at and ask how it will make money. He turns the question on its head, looks to a successful business model and asks how Facebook could be used for it. And it is an uphill battle for Fa
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by msg 16y ago
I agree. Until you can reliably sue a doctor in Sudan or Hong Kong for messing up your liposuction, it won't take off. Also (US), your insurance company will have to buy off on procedures from doctors they can't appropriately vet, which wil
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by msg 16y ago
He talks about this specifically. "JRuby also appears in Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A), formerly the Android Scripting Environment, of which more later." "But maybe we’re barking up the wrong tree; both Python and Ruby are written in C
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by msg 16y ago
Steganography is a misnomer for this kind of message. Steganography is about maximizing data payload while remaining undetectable. E.g., you want to send messages covertly without Big Brother knowing. Watermarking is about maintaining messa
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by msg 16y ago
You're assuming that dissatisfaction and regret mean the activity was bad. What if you overindulge in learning and regret knowing all kinds of details about Lisp? Some outside observers don't consider your time wasted, quite the contrary. B
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by msg 16y ago
You seem to have very high standards for puns, and very low standards for Freudian slips. Here is the epic pun you are looking for: http://puzzlet.org/personal/wiki.php/KnockKnock/SoThisGuy
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by msg 16y ago
It is the first work to use the word "robot". I think that was in Asimov's preface to some edition of "I Robot". But no, I haven't read it.
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by msg 16y ago
If you have the context to sit a level above the conversation and can see that the issues being talked about are clearly peripheral, you know enough to redirect the conversation to the core issues with a good question. If you don't, you can
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by msg 16y ago
Here's where C is taking you. After you understand pointers and structs and have futzed around in the Unix command line for a while, you probably have enough to go on to something like Linux Programming by Example. This book walks through G
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by msg 16y ago
You're playing the wrong game.
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by msg 16y ago
And here are some great instructions for major systems. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey I ended up doing this on all three of Windows and Red Hat (work) and Mac once I got used to it.
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by msg 16y ago
Right. I actually did not spot the gCaptain article, but I did see that the domain and the author matched. Thanks for pointing out the first half though!
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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning(mariovittone.com)
611 points by msg 16y ago|127 comments
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by msg 16y ago
Here's the link and the header: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec... Inventors: Zehr; Gregg (Los Gatos, CA), Whitehorn; Symon J. (Los Gatos, CA) Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Seattle, WA) Appl. No
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by msg 16y ago
Maybe this is dumb, but I opened this at work and it was a little more graphic and NSFW than I expected.
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by msg 16y ago
I do the same thing with Tabkit and Ctrl-Tab. They're indispensable.
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by msg 16y ago
Golden handcuffs. /ducks
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by msg 16y ago
There is a fair amount of stuff in Paul's first letter to Timothy that talks about who should be leaders in the church, as in deacons or elders. They should be people above reproach and so on. You can interpret this directive or similar to
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by msg 16y ago
Or if you need the precision and speed that a physical keyboard provides (until Swype or something changes the game).
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by msg 16y ago
He also talks about the success of a plugin system, like iApps, in shrinking the skill pyramid.
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by msg 16y ago
Not sure if you needed the sarcasm tag, but the one-on-one discipleship, accountability group, and small group study have been part of Christianity since Jesus gathered his fishermen. Some religions, like LDS, make these issues official in
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by msg 16y ago
I suppose I buy that money is a kind of gateway. But what does it open into? What freedom? What possibilities? If you begin with the end in mind, you'll have a reason to suffer for the money to buy the freedom you want. Without it you'll ju
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by msg 16y ago
At 23 I was less than one year married and working at a textbook publisher for $8 per hour. It was an ok job, I guess. It got me into CS, so I'll be forever grateful. But I was going nowhere. It took me a while to find what I really cared a
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by msg 16y ago
If you want the Cliffs notes of the textbook, read Date's Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners. You might want to read it a couple of times though.
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by msg 16y ago
4) i don't like the various different user interfaces i have to get to know. i am used to the web browser interface. i know where everything is. if there was one standard magazine app UI and one standard newspaper app UI, i might feel diff
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by msg 16y ago
Just let them change their mind already! Signed, every web developer in the world

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