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by nrr 12y ago
I use acme on a daily basis for Real Work™. Previously, I was an Emacs junkie, but upgrading el-get caused me grief for the last time. I haven't heard of anything about "modern" acme clones, but I've actually found acme
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by nrr 12y ago
I imagine you don't get much of anything with your smtpd running on port 26. (:
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by nrr 12y ago
I live laptop-only, and I buy my disks in triples. I do this even with SSDs because they, despite being solid state, are similarly flawed just like their spinning rust kin. Instead, their exhibited failure modes are less electromechanical a
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by nrr 12y ago
That's a pretty weak argument considering that syslog is entirely UDP and is bound to drop log data, sometimes en masse, most likely even silently. Not a good idea. Why not use something like multilog or svlogd and wire up a tiny proce
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by nrr 16y ago
The only major failing of Perl is that its error handling facilities just flat out suck. Outside of that, it's a very modern language, albeit a little esoteric at times, and writing maintainable systems with it is possible with some discip
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by nrr 16y ago
The only problem is, well, being able to pick the best one. From what I'm gathering, the OP is the not-software business type, and as such, he really doesn't have much of a metric to use to determine whether or not the person he decides on
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by nrr 16y ago
If I were the OP, I'd seriously jump on this opportunity. Having someone do this gratis for an hour in this community can, in some circumstances otherwise, cost an awfully pretty penny.
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by nrr 16y ago
I think the fact that the OP doesn't have the skill to write code is an even more imperative reason for him to pick it up in some form IMHO. As several commenters have already poignantly pointed out, in a company of this size, it really is
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by nrr 16y ago
In looking for a first programming language for a grade school kid, I'm not particularly sure that needing to learn how to write functional or object-oriented code is particularly high on the list of priorities.
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by nrr 16y ago
I'm not exactly sure you got the point of the article here. One of the nice things about BASIC to which the author alludes is that it's a quick and dirty language. The implication is that, by being a quick and dirty language, it is well-s
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by nrr 17y ago
I use names from various books, in no particular fashion. Most of my names are from Tad Williams books, but I've been known to use the names of Anne McCaffrey's dragons as well, with some names from Norse mythology tossed in for good measu
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by nrr 17y ago
First off, this is way too hilarious even several hours after the fact. :) Perhaps one thing needs to be said about the whole high-coercivity thing on transit passes. I kind of figured that the MetroCard (and likewise with, at least, the C
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by nrr 17y ago
I'd argue that they are, undeniably, an awesome thing. :)
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by nrr 17y ago
The gay clown was actually John Wayne Gacy, not Jeffrey Dahmer.
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by nrr 17y ago
Nah, I had the same opinion when I first saw this show up here on HN. At the same time, the chatroulette stuff should be here because, by definition, all of it is a gigantic hack performed by hackers. :)
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The best strategy and currency for foreign travel(noisebridge.net)
1 points by nrr 17y ago|0 comments
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Google yanks OSVDB's Checkout account without notice(twitter.com)
7 points by nrr 17y ago|5 comments
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by nrr 17y ago
The demoscene made me do it. I think the thing that got me hooked was seeing Future Crew's "Second Reality" and having the desire to do that kind of stuff. As far as the second question goes, I think I'd prefer to be blissfully oblivious.
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by nrr 17y ago
Hey, it's a Lisp that allows something akin to [false become: true] in Smalltalk. That's awesome.
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by nrr 17y ago
Even more bizarre is the fact that this runs on my Turion64 X2-whatever running at 2.0GHz exactly how Quake originally ran on my 90MHz Pentium clone. I feel like I've just jumped back 13 years.
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by nrr 17y ago
In his case, it'd probably classify under the fallacy of cum hoc, ergo propter hoc given the abuse of statistics. The seven-digit phone number in the NANP most definitely did not come about because of this; in fact, most quoted phone numb
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by nrr 17y ago
I've found that just having folks enter free-form information works amazingly well too. The caveat is that you have to make sure error handling sucks a bit less; otherwise, you run into people getting frustrated that their country isn't lis
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by nrr 17y ago
That's pretty much what I was thinking while I was reading this. Well, actually, I thought, "Seth, this is nice and all, but can you provide me either first-hand experimental results or published results to convince me that seven is the mag
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by nrr 17y ago
It should also be said that this development house has made good use of Lisp in the past.
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by nrr 17y ago
I use the JASSPA distribution on Windows, but placing this in your configuration might point you in the right direction. global-bind-key backward-delete-char "delete"
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by nrr 17y ago
Kinesis Freestyle. I bought mine for $90 from an online retailer, and I turned around and bought the VIP kit for another $40. In retrospect, I wish that I would've spent the extra bucks on the longer cable connecting the two pieces togethe
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by nrr 17y ago
I've gotten around this by enforcing that kind of thing in software by using the US-International layout. I speak English and German, so while I can transliterate ä, ö, ü, and ß, I don't particularly want to. Instead, I just type AltGr+q
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by nrr 17y ago
Well, granted, piracy's going to happen nonetheless, and it's still going to be a niggling issue no matter how you look at it. Two ways to curtail it: give the foundation parts away for free and charge what people are willing to pay for th
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by nrr 17y ago
Piracy becomes a concern with this model. The one that makes the most sense, that I've seen, is pretty much what Sun is doing right now. Give the (foundation operating environment) software away for free but charge for the polished chrome
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by nrr 17y ago
"I agree. I haven't been much of a fan of the NeXTstep class library since seeing a review in [a prominent publication of the period] several months ago. I have just never been sure what the point of a language written on top of C is... "

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