npsimons

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by npsimons 12y ago
Nice. Ad hominem. What's next, are you going to call me misogynistic? How about homophobic? Would you be happier if I phrased it as "I'm not excusing his behavior"? Because that's essentially the same meaning, just
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by npsimons 12y ago
A very good essay! What's interesting is that I have this vision of Richard Stallman as one of those people who has lived that conscious life and avoided inner rings, by standing by his principles.
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by npsimons 12y ago
I believe that while Linus' attitude could be better, it is understandable. Not that I'm excusing it, it's just that almost all the times you see someone pointing out him being an asshole, you can go back up the email chain t
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by npsimons 12y ago
You might be interested in "The Rock Climber's Training Manual" ( http://rockclimberstrainingmanual.com/ ). Not that I'm near there (yet), but I've got the book for exactly that reason, and it seems s
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by npsimons 12y ago
Disclaimer: I have yet to do a big wall climb, but I've done a fair few multi-pitch single day routes, and I know people who have done big wall climbs. Typically it's assumed that "big wall" means you spend at least one
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by npsimons 12y ago
From one point of view, the history of computing has been one of trying to maintain data integrity, which in turn makes it harder and harder to permanently delete anything. On the other hand, I can think of very few downsides to a more tole
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by npsimons 12y ago
It's getting harder and harder to find actual BL-5Js, not just cheap knockoffs that won't hold a charge. I've been through at least three already, still have about 4 left. But I'm with you on the "nothing better&quo
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by npsimons 12y ago
So, while I may be a baby-killing enabler (I work for the DoD), at least I've never bundled crapware with my software. The truth is, if you look far enough, you can always find something to be guilty about. I'm not going to blame
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by npsimons 12y ago
Step 1: Get an N900 Joking aside, this is really cool, and I'm glad there are still people out there who recognize the value (and want it this badly) of a handheld Linux terminal. Meanwhile, the batteries on my N900 keep getting shorte
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by npsimons 12y ago
Maybe for just a small code segment, a comment is a lot more convenient than going all the way through git for it? I don't get this; stashing changes, branching, even just copying and pasting something from history in git, are all ve
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by npsimons 12y ago
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the tru
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by npsimons 12y ago
And how do you know what the code is doing? One of the most effective ways I've found is to look at the tests. If there are none, even better: I can get a really good feel for how the system operates by writing tests, increasing covera
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by npsimons 12y ago
In the past two days I've dealt with just such a beast, and the answer is simple: start with just one, whole system test. If you've got an output file which is "known good", it can be as simple as running the program and
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by npsimons 12y ago
While most of these seem like common sense, it's surprising how few people actually practice these. Might seem repetitive and "I've already seen this" to some, but I hope many will learn something new (and implement it!)
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by npsimons 12y ago
To be perfectly honest, I'm sick of Chrome being pushed down my throat at every turn (including in emacs-w3m; if I'm using emacs-w3m, I'm pretty damn sure I know what Chrome is and I consciously choose not to use it). Yes, I
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by npsimons 12y ago
Also, while it's promising that this doesn't increase heart rate or blood pressure, weight is just one factor in overall health. True, but it's a very telling factor. Past a certain upper threshold, weight will have adver
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by npsimons 12y ago
I don't really understand the comments here, and especially on the article itself, deriding this research because "people should just get off their butts and exercise" or similar. The problem is, from a libertarian/rug
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by npsimons 12y ago
Because I'm addicted. No, seriously, I can't stop - I've been hacking on C++ and Python code since 6:45 this morning, and I haven't even stopped to check email or work on other things I'm supposed to be doing.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Nice picture - where's the content? Comes up blank.
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by npsimons 12y ago
The problem is twofold in America: first and foremost, no one wants to hear that they need to lose weight and exercise more, they just want a quick fix. Second problem is that there's so much profit motive involved that companies are e
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by npsimons 12y ago
I was afraid this would be one of those pieces that the morbidly obese would cite to say that "preventive medicine" in the form of exercise or just weight loss in general is dangerous, but it's actually a fairly good piece. T
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by npsimons 12y ago
Why is this being downvoted? Sure, the Woz is awesome, the video is charming, but the headline is definitely linkbait, and I as well very much appreciate the TL;VWL.
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by npsimons 12y ago
I don't have to imagine what a programmer doing this jump would do, I can look to my father, who started out writing programs on punch cards in high school to be sent to the university, and maybe a week later he'd get results back
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by npsimons 12y ago
Other more "obscure" options also come to mind: Emacs Lisp, Smalltalk, etc. Wasn't there also something in Plan 9's GUI like this? The whole saving to a file first thing is just a convention, and one that got me thinking
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by npsimons 12y ago
Exactly. We've already seen Islamists try to enforce sharia in England; if we had wanted a theocracy, we would have let the Christofascists take over long ago. And before anyone goes claiming oppression of differing cultures, the secul
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by npsimons 12y ago
Exactly; not sure where I found it, so completely unreliable, but I once read that pharma companies advertising costs were something like 85+% of budget for a drug.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Yeah, this reminds me of a similar article from the same source (IIRC) about "issues" with disabling the oom-killer and replacing it with your own. Interesting, probably something that needs to be addressed, but not necessarily a
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by npsimons 12y ago
Google is aggressive in recruiting; I still get emails from Google[1] asking if I'm willing to relocate yet (I'm not). If small companies want good people, they're going to have to dedicate some time and effort towards gett
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by npsimons 12y ago
Debian has ports to FreeBSD and HURD; systemd doesn't support anything but Linux. I would assume that this would make systemd a non-starter in Debian (especially since there are no technical reasons systemd couldn't be ported). Th
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by npsimons 12y ago
$ [git init|mkdir RCS] $ $EDITOR somefile $ [git add somefile && git commit|ci -u somefile] Not that hard to use git as a replacement for RCS. A few extra commands (not going to quibble over the fact that RCS requires checkout befor

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