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by npsimons 12y ago
Just start reading manual pages; I've come across quite a few grammar errors that could use cleaning up, I just haven't had the time.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Oh, I dunno, what have you got to hide? And before you say "nothing" realize that there's a hell of a lot more laws on the books than you think. You don't even have to dig very far for laws against things that shouldn&#x
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by npsimons 12y ago
This article quite wrongly assumes that the government is always justified in issuing warrants, not to mention the current excesses in the form of rubber stamp, overbroad, secret warrants that you can't even be informed of. This alarmi
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by npsimons 12y ago
I dunno, I used to think that Ellison was one of the biggest assholes around; judging from that little exchange, I'd wager Sinatra was a bigger one.
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by npsimons 12y ago
You might find this amusing: http://jezebel.com/every-healthy-morning-habit-you-should-ad... Please forgive the Gawker media owned link; it's worth it. On a more serious note, this also can be applied to the #YouCanLea
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by npsimons 12y ago
Exactly. Even among other technical groups, you will find those who would rather be "in the weeds" than having to deal with people problems (people suck).
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by npsimons 12y ago
See Sarbanes-Oxley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act
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by npsimons 12y ago
There is that as well. If I did use GMail, it would probably be through a non-web client.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Part of my comment on GMail was an implicit jab at the monoculture it engenders. It was crystal clear to me that this attack isn't limited to GMail. I would like others to consider what other service could be spoofed like this with any
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by npsimons 12y ago
And some would argue that truly timeless writing will transcend any timestamp you put on it, but the timestamp still has immense value. You can, and should, make the strategic decision that you'll primarily write things which retain t
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by npsimons 12y ago
1) It didn't work for me; probably because I'm using NoScript. 2) Also, I don't use GMail; say what you will, it's another defense against this. 3) Never, ever enter important credentials to a site you didn't open f
882.
by npsimons 12y ago
Considering that there are multiple widely used code review systems based on git that aren't based on pull requests, I can safely say your premise is null and void. Not to mention I can't quite parse the broken grammar of your sec
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by npsimons 12y ago
Dunno, I've been very happy with egg. But then, due to a large part of my career being maintenance, I've fallen into a lot of self-discipline patterns that tend to keep me out of messes.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Plus a lot of his complaints seem to be about the modularisation of modern languages - which seem an odd complaint to make in my opinion. If anything, I'd personally argue that things like importable, self-contained, chunks of code is
885.
by npsimons 12y ago
(Replying as edit window is gone) So the whole reactionary "USA isn't America" thing seems a bit overblown and misguided at best; see for example http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/a_fin
886.
by npsimons 12y ago
as people will say "America" when they mean the USA. Name another country with "America" in its name.
887.
by npsimons 12y ago
it's exactly the same as with America (the continent) Where is this continent called "America"? I've never heard of it. I've heard of "North America" and "South America", but those are separate
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by npsimons 12y ago
Not to steal your thunder, but TUT (Templated Unit Tests) does this as well, and I've found it works very nicely even in embedded and cross-platform: https://mrzechonek.github.io/tut-framework/ It's lightweig
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by npsimons 12y ago
I would be surprised if Coverity was integrated into any open source project's build system. All due respect to the Coverity folks, and Coverity is a great tool, it's still closed source. To be honest, I suspect the Coverity folks
890.
by npsimons 12y ago
To me, this seems to ring true - growing up I knew our neighbours (and so did my parents), but now I can't name any of my neighbours. The problem seems to me to be one of a disconnect, or different priorities: I have hobbies, things I
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by npsimons 12y ago
Thanks for that; maybe it's the confirmation bias speaking, but I couldn't agree more with that, especially parts like this: "More importantly", because all means to reach our ends often fail, and then all we're le
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by npsimons 12y ago
I was half expecting you to realize that you answered your own question before you asked it (why do you implore novices to try out the command-line?). But what the hey, I'll throw out some links that go better into why Emacs is still
893.
by npsimons 12y ago
The real interesting corollary here is that no matter what level you are at, you will probably want to leverage a language that's as powerful as possible, since you will be able to accomplish more with less lines of code[1]. A few mont
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by npsimons 12y ago
While there are many cogent points to take away from the OP, I feel that the attack and attribution of motives to very large, very faceless organizations is misguided at best. I'm sure there are some who value the revenue that comes in
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by npsimons 12y ago
Extroversion is among the best predictors of happiness, Well of course it is! No one ever meets the shy happy people because they never go out!
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by npsimons 12y ago
Sierra Nevada. An interesting follow up that just occurred to me: there was a surge in PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) through hikers back during the dot-com bust. The theory was that lots of unattached moderately wealthy suddenly jobless young p
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by npsimons 12y ago
I just took a weeklong backpack trip. Sure, getting out for an overnight on the weekend is fun, but there's something that happens after more than a couple of nights on the trail. You forget what day it is. You lose track of time, and
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by npsimons 12y ago
Expect is one of the few reliable ways I've found to automate crufty, closed source things. Say, like a perforce client pull that uses a caching proxy so that the proxy is up to date for actual human pulls.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Hey Facebook users! There's a lesson to be learned here; in case you missed it: It had no where to go but away. That data was never on the Internet; it existed in a proprietary format on a proprietary network, far out of reach from th
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by npsimons 12y ago
Perhaps because for the longest time it was being said it wouldn't be supported; the FAQ still says no network transparency: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html I can understand and emphasize with the feeling that

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