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by nemoniac 14y ago
Awesome? Really? Not in the slightest. The CMO just sent him yet another useless, contentless message. If he had any sincerity he would have first looked into it, then fixed it and only then replied to say that he had fixed it already.
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by nemoniac 14y ago
Hipsterism is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. With apologies to Oscar Wilde (and to hipsters everywhere)
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by nemoniac 14y ago
Talk about backing the wrong horse.
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by nemoniac 14y ago
I hate to dump on this but IMHO what the world has been waiting for is not a Mathematica clone in Python. Neither do I think it would be a step in the right direction to funnel Python development through the browser. There are those who wil
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by nemoniac 14y ago
I use these Smart cars all the time https://www.car2go.com/ If they made C1s available too, I'd certainly use them.
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by nemoniac 14y ago
Could you update the penumbra README? I'd like to try it out but the instructions are outdated.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
These are all potential wins. However, having tried the tour and the example code, a concern is the memory usage on the client side. Even for simple examples, it's very high. Prohibitively high for mobile usage. Would you care to comment o
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Unicode has a gazillion code points and it's discouraging us from writing our own language? Really?
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Technically they're not umlauts. The ä and ö are separate letters. </pedantry>
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Show of hands: Who is actually going to do this? Who isn't?
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by nemoniac 15y ago
There has been a whole bunch of approaches to this over the years, some of them kernel level and others in user space. Search for "checkpoint restart" to find some links or start here: http://checkpointing.org/ It's all pretty dated thoug
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Read a little further. He has a special needs kid. I don't know how demanding that is for him but I do know that getting the worklife/homelife balance right and finding time to exercise can be quite a challenge even with regular kids. A
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Emails have a semantic layer standard. it handles iCal and vCard. And not only that, it's extensible. See mailcap and MIME. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailcap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
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by nemoniac 15y ago
The EU is making some surprisingly good decisions lately when it comes to matters such as data and "intellectual property". I'm glad to be living here.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
> C-style stacks are going to beat Lisp-style closures It has been a long time since the "λ the ultimate..." series of papers gave the lie to this myth.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
The term "pointless programming" sounds much more fun.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Interesting comment. It made me think how Lisp programmers spend their time extending their core language every time they use a macro. Does it mean that Lisp programming is about creating challenges for code readability for future maintai
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by nemoniac 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. The above pretty much expresses why I've been a serial Thinkpad user for years now.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
This morning I did what I should have done a long time ago: configure gnus to do all my RSS reading. It took me an hour but it was an hour well spent. Until recently Google Reader was just good enough but with the recent changes, it became
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by nemoniac 15y ago
You can "quite literally" keep your data in two places in the cloud at once.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
The "average" is a totally inappropriate statistic for reporting this kind of data. The Ofcom report should have used the median.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
The central argument holds: a machine process implemented in hardware is in essence no different from one implemented in software. But you can drive that argument in two directions. 1. The hardware invention is patentable therefore the soft
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by nemoniac 15y ago
My experience was quite the opposite. SICP was a "learn about computation" book with a lisp-like language as the least-unnecessary-complexity way of expressing it. In comparison, Python has way too much cruft.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Excellent library but they need to fix this piece of misinformation: "A project that is released as GPL cannot be used in any commercial product without the product itself also being offered as open source." This is false. A project releas
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by nemoniac 15y ago
The European database right lasts for only 15 years from each "substantial modification" of the database. The work in question dates from 1991 and contains mostly historical data so presumably those rights have expired.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
This is a great approach to writing a custom reader: http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/Prag-Parse.html
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by nemoniac 15y ago
At the risk of making a serious quesiton out of this... Suppose one of your not-so-tech-savvy mates asks you to set up and host a straightforward blogging solution for him. No bells and whistles needed. Which open-source solution would you
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by nemoniac 15y ago
By what sense of entitlement does the columnist expect preferential treatment by Google or anyone else merely due to the fact that you have a religious group? By coupling charitable activities to religious activities you raise questions abo
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Long before Unity, Ubuntu began to frustrate me for two reasons. Gratuitous changes in the default apps and failure to separate concerns. I switched to Arch and I'm much happier with it.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
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