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by orib 18y ago
Would you make a list of all the good websites and organising them for others to read? Aren't you posting on a site that does just that? Manual contributions of stuff that people found interesting? Or were you thinking more of something l
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by orib 18y ago
How about figuring it out by reading the answers and analyzing them? Using my brain to critically assess what people tell me has always worked for me, and I usually -- for any nontrivial problem -- end up combining the ideas from all the (c
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by orib 18y ago
I think this H316 tops that quite nicely: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=927 Not only does it store recipes, it has an integrated cutting board!
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by orib 18y ago
Although you can get stuff into space with a supergun, getting stuff into space without smashing it to bits from the acceleration is a good deal harder. As for solar power satellites, if you're talking about powering earthbound stuff with t
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by orib 18y ago
Ugh. again, if you're going to tear on something, please... at least be right about it. For example, If your code base is 50 million lines in any language, you're doing it wrong, and it's going to be a pain to maintain. C++ has little to
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by orib 18y ago
Really? On my Debian system, at least an old version of the software is in the repositories 90% of the time, and simply doing: sudo apt-get build-dep $PACKAGENAME gets all the stuff I need to build the software, and then all that's
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by orib 18y ago
In general, you'll be working on your own on an open source project until it's actually useful enough for someone to want to try it, but just barely broken enough that they want to contribute a patch.
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by orib 18y ago
The typical one is 60 gig/month
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by orib 18y ago
<rhetorical question> So which of the tab button locations is well designed, and which is not? </rhetorical question> It doesn't matter which one is used, so long as the application sticks to the platform conventions, an
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by orib 18y ago
That's nothing to do with the keyboard and everything to do with bad UI. I could just as easily come up with a poorly thought out rant about how my options panel moves from "tools->options" on Windows to "edit->preferences" on Linux
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by orib 18y ago
Ask first and get the answer in writing. Most of the time places will be quite reasonable about it.
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by orib 18y ago
Sure, but with open source vendors, you can fix it yourself if it's broken, and it's important enough. That's the essential difference. All vendors suck to different degrees. Nothing ever works perfectly. Open source gives you the ability t
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by orib 18y ago
All of the above to various degrees? I'd want to at least get a vague feel for what each of them is good for, how it interacts with the system, and the general thought processes that accompany it for each one of them, so that I could say th
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by orib 18y ago
If you're presenting your own work -- and it seems like they're trying to give a very strong bias towards this -- then I don't think repeat presentations would be a major issue. I definitely agree that you need care to prevent things from d
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by orib 18y ago
I.. seriously hope that this is a joke.
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by orib 18y ago
I don't see it as being especially unfriendly to newbies. Perhaps a bit nerve-wracking, but "Bring something cool to show on your first meeting. And make sure it's actually cool. We'll ask lots of questions" seems like it may actually be fu
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by orib 18y ago
For that sort of work, you get exactly 4 commands to replace svn's 3 commands: git-clone git-commit -a git-push git-pull --rebase With git, though, you tend to use it's advanced features a whole lot more. Why? I guess it's par
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by orib 18y ago
Better workflow. There are tons of times I want to try something locally without affecting the main repository. It hurts trying to keep uncommitted experimental changes from messing up local upstream, while still switching back to the old c
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by orib 18y ago
Yeah, thanks for the reminder. That page was put up a while ago. Comments = email; that site is just plain old static HTML + 6 lines of awk to shove in the stuff that gets duplicated across pages (navbars, etc). I can't be arsed to do more.
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by orib 18y ago
I wrote something similar to this a while back: http://eigenstate.org/git-quickref.html The rest of the site is effectively void of information, though, although I keep wanting to put stuff up on it. I need to get around to writing up an
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by orib 18y ago
Uh. Right. Because the refills for disposable cameras are so much more expensive than the actual camera. If they sold refills at all, then the camera wouldn't be disposable, so unless this was some sort of joke...
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by orib 18y ago
Not at all. I buy the cartridge. I want to maximize it's utility. Brother is artificially placing restrictions to prevent this maximal utilization. It's good for their business, but so would sending someone with a club to force me to buy mo
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by orib 18y ago
Milk I buy by the gallon. Toner, I buy by the cartridge. There is no contract I sign when I buy it to leave 1/3 of the toner in the cartridge, and no implicit agreement. The only reason people don't yell about this sort of thing more is bec
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by orib 18y ago
The terms were that I get a toner cartridge that I get to use as I see fit. Nothing more, nothing less.
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by orib 18y ago
Perhaps. I was giving my first impression, but I strongly get the feeling that the author didn't really try using C++ for any real project, and had already decided against it long before he ever did anything with it.
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by orib 18y ago
You forgot the biggest problem; You don't want to force several hundred millions of lines of code to be rewritten, of you want the porting to be trivial and the changes to cause compile failures ("oh. sorry. we've turned that into a keyword
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by orib 18y ago
He makes very few good points. There is much to mock about C++, but he hasn't hit on any of them. Actually, it's pretty clear by some of his comments that if he's used C++, his knowledge has long rusted ([] to initialize arrays? sorry. no.
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by orib 18y ago
Bigger screen, but the same resolution as the Bold. The text on the Bold is so much sharper than anything else -- I can read it at the smallest font setting at arms length, no problem. Besides, the keyboard isn't just for typing novels. I t
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by orib 18y ago
Don't gobble it down. Savor every bite. You'll enjoy it more, and you'll feel fuller on less food. So yes, slow down while eating it.
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by orib 18y ago
Yes. Food isn't only calories. If it was, we'd be able to live off of nothing but sugar water. Food brings in not only calories, but various other nutrients that your body needs to keep itself in good condition. It can also bring in things

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