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by parennoob 13y ago
I don't see why this is the most downvoted option. It does seem on point that the piece doesn't have any hard polling data about worldwide reactions to the recent NSA revelations, and the stuff about alternative services mostly re
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by parennoob 13y ago
What meaning of speculate do you mean? There are two that are nearly the opposite of each other (making this an almost-Janus word): 1. To meditate on a subject; reflect. 2. To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evid
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by parennoob 13y ago
I really like the screen theme that they have got (with the battery and Skype notification). Looks a bit like Google Now if it had transparency. Does anyone know if that is an existing theme or mod?
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by parennoob 13y ago
Isn't that @holman's theme on your website? I don't recall him open sourcing it. (Unless it's the other way round, which I doubt.)
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by parennoob 13y ago
I know no .NET, and very little go. But from a layperson and Python programmer's perspective, since you asked which is more intuitive -- When I look at the .NET statement, I'm a bit confused. Does that mean you are using some classes define
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by parennoob 13y ago
Yeah, I did too. Thanks for responding to criticism in a prompt, civil, and understanding manner. :)
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by parennoob 13y ago
Pop-up ad offering a download of an ebook by the author within a minute of viewing the site. I'm not so sure this guy has learned 'how not to be spammy'.
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by parennoob 13y ago
There has to be some sort of balance between criticism and "maintaining a professional attitude" (whatever that phrase means -- I have never understood it). A lot of times "be professional" is used to silence criticism of truly horrendous s
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by parennoob 14y ago
I guess I still prefer a catchy title to preachy ones that extensively use RFC 2119 keywords. e.g. "Why you SHOULD profile Ruby code to catch expensive regex bottlenecks" :) Personal preference though.
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by parennoob 14y ago
> Americans have no duty to import Haitians to make America a dump like Haiti. Americans who feel sorry for Haitians can send them money. I sincerely fail to understand why some Americans always assume everyone wants to emigrate to the
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by parennoob 14y ago
Sometimes overpopulation and a lack of education is an important reason for poverty. If a lot of the more well-off people in underdeveloped countries freely travelled to the more developed ones, a percentage of them would make efforts to im
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by parennoob 14y ago
H'm, I have indulged in this as a thought experiment plenty of times, and actually think it might ease the pressure of immigration, specially on countries like the United States. Although I suppose the complications of things like benefits
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by parennoob 14y ago
It might be a cool idea to somehow build a tool that does this for Netflix/Hulu. I generally go to movies in the theater with people I know, but it'd be interesting to have 'shows' of a movie on Netflix, and chat about it with strangers wat
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by parennoob 14y ago
This comment seems slightly overwrought and racist to me, specially this part, "US citizens who walked into a college STEM course saw the TA and half of the students from Asia or India, turned, and walked out." -- Really? I don't see an opt
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by parennoob 14y ago
I'm confused by their conflation of STEM (in particular CS) grads and IT workers. For example they say, “For computer science graduates employed one year after graduation . . . about half of those who took a job outside of IT say they did s
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by parennoob 14y ago
Nice trick to hoodwink emacs :) It didn't work though. I understand what you're saying in the rest of your comment though -- basically I will have to learn some elisp. Thanks for the help.
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by parennoob 14y ago
I have tried this, and it works fine... almost :) The only problem I have is that doesn't give you some of the GUI goodness. For example, I find CEDET's code folding incredibly useful when I want to get a bird's eye view of my modules, and
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by parennoob 14y ago
I have a similar emacs setup with cedet, autocomplete, and whatnot, but I have one problem -- things like "evaluate this buffer" don't work when your python environment is on a remote server (due to work constraints I am obliged to do this)
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by parennoob 14y ago
Snarky as this is, I'm sorry to say that it's probably correct. I've never had to have any configuration or other problems with f.lux on OSX, it just works there. On Ubuntu, it just doesn't work. :) (Ubuntu user since 2004, OSX since abou
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by parennoob 14y ago
Try the one-shot option. 'redshift -O 4700' should set both your monitors to 4700K.
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by parennoob 14y ago
I don't think Google is 'actively working against an open web', but the shuttering of Reader in order to make way for that ghastly Google+ makes me reconsider every time they open up a new service (didn't even glance at Keep, for example. R
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by parennoob 14y ago
With Google Reader recently announcing the shutdown, and now this, closed-source cloud-based solutions for organizing and processing my data have started looking increasingly unattractive to me. I guess the only safe way to retain all of yo
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by parennoob 14y ago
My initial reaction to this was: "Yep, glad to see one of those self-entitled students get called out for his disrespectful behaviour by a Professor." But then I started thinking about the way my Professors in college had behaved about this
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by parennoob 14y ago
Absolutely. It was so....innocent. I remember discussing scientific stuff, Harry Potter, and the new online games with people on Yahoo chatrooms and IRC. I took a look at Yahoo chatrooms some time recently (well, in the last five years anyw
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by parennoob 14y ago
Being a non-American person in the United States (and a 'person of colour', as I believe the term is), I have sometimes had to deal with people ridiculing my culture in a mostly unintended way. At first, I used to be just angry at them, and
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by parennoob 14y ago
Nice, so if I understand correctly, this defines a function to return a simple html response any time a request is started.
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by parennoob 14y ago
Ah, thanks. That was very helpful, specially the second link.
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by parennoob 14y ago
If this article's premise is correct, Yahoo is buying Summly in order to generate more news about Yahoo rather than the intrinsic value of Summly. However, this article is adding to the flood of news about Yahoo acquiring Summly, thereby gi
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by parennoob 14y ago
Wow, definitely something I am going to check out. From a quick look, it seems that your Lisp code for the example looks a lot like HTML itself. For example: (defun blogpage (&optional (posts *posts*)) (html-frame "Re