peatfreak

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by peatfreak 10y ago
> I can't tell whether you are being sarcastic or not. Me too. Sometimes one informs or inspires the other, but so far it seems that is about it.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> Just give in to our new code overlords and go with the flow. No. They are turning coding into a monopolistic monoculture. Not everybody loves pull request-based workflows, you know.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> a "social" coding experience Do people still buy into this? I feel this phrase was just a marketing ploy by GitHub.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
I still use MacPorts because it's actually a proper package management system. Homebrew is not, and its limitations started to show a long time ago. The obnoxious assertion that Homebrew should take complete control of /usr/l
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> How utterly despicable. > Perhaps Paul Davis could apply, and claim to be Pauline Davis for internship purposes. How utterly reactionary. Moreover, do you realize just how despicably transphobic or queerphobic this statement is? The
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by peatfreak 10y ago
I can't tell if you're serious, or this is just brilliant satire.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Does anybody else find that, even though this might have been a "sensible" decision, particularly for people who have a vested (i.e., financial) interest, that now a lot of the "wow" factor and everything that made Ether
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> The reason it's not on the list is I just didn't see what it had to offer that isn't covered in later books. It's concise and readable. Every word is used for a reason.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> I can't believe he didn't mention Gilbert Strang. This should be the starting point for everyone, IMO. Not everybody loves this book, you know. A lot of people find its sloppy, disorganized, chatty style quite irritating. &gt
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> A beginner player would not appreciate the difference between a $200 guitar and a $2000 guitar. Someone struggling to find the finger positions for a simple chord isn't going to notice the action, fret shape, fingerboard radius, t
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by peatfreak 10y ago
You know what would be AMAZING? If there was a Coursera course (or some other MOOC course, books, etc) that explains how archive.org works from the foundational technologies upwards. So, like, you could build your own mini version of archiv
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by peatfreak 10y ago
What the hell was that drivel supposed to be about?
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> My impression so far was that Google more or less created the whole machine Learning movement How did you get this impression? It has little basis in reality.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
I looked at the README but I can't understand what this project is or what it is for. Is it something for collaborative editing?
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> Without real consequences, what is the incentive to participate if the rules can change when they don’t always go in your favor? Yes. This should be the very core of the argument, with a focus on the words "conseqeunces" and
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Why is the choice between these two? Both are very limited in what they can do for documentation of any complexity.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
What a great book! I wish they'd publish a new edition (the latest was ten years ago). Has anything as good been released since? What is the current "standard reference" on DNS and BIND?
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Oh yeah, and even in regular work too. I've noticed a lot of peer pressure in many different environments, sometimes team members feel obligated to provide a "me too" or "thumbs up" or whatever, out of fear of being
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Thanks for providing these links.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
It's not necessary to buy a domain and host one's own server. For example, there is https://savannah.gnu.org/ , which is where Emacs itself is hosted.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Why is so much Emacs stuff hosted on GitHub these days? It seems antithetical to the spirit of the project as a whole.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Like pretty much most things.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
But of course screenshots and videos made in OS X are available, especially considering Emacs has been running on that OS since forever. The point of interest here is that it's on an FSF website. Otherwise I don't see why you wo
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Yes. I doubt that somebody who was so close to the GNU project as to have authorization to change the main Emacs website wouldn't know about this. Clearly it's just a simple mistake, easily fixed.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Even in videos and screenshots that are endorsed by the FSF? I find that hard to believe.
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by peatfreak 10y ago
> I can imagine Richard asking for new videos to advertise the GNU platform instead. Me too. He often asks for corrections in light of these types of oversights (at least, it looks like an oversight to me).
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by peatfreak 10y ago
Hmm, I'm not so sure that's what the intention is. The FSF is adamant that non-free software should not be promoted if there is a free equivalent that can do the same thing. So I'm also surprised that OS X features prominentl
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by peatfreak 11y ago
> smart people Uh, I'm not so sure about this. Programmers tend to have a bad habit of severely overestimating their own intelligence. This is one of the things I dislike about the profession: Everybody is so self-assured of their
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by peatfreak 11y ago
Can you give me a recommendation?
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by peatfreak 11y ago
This is a good opportunity for us to be positive and to list up-to-date resources that clearly list laptops that work on Linux, or what to look for, what models are good and not-so-good, what is Free and mostly-Free, etc, etc. I am looking

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