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by peatmoss 8y ago
I recently bought the author’s book to brush some cobwebs off parts of my SQLing. Over the years I’ve seen Markus’s blog posts and guides posted here on HN. I’m always impressed when I see an individual focus on a topic and build an identit
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I’m not necessarily a fan of telling people “you’re an X person” (other than whimsically like as in “you’re a gentleman and a scholar”). But I am a fan of biasing feedback in favor of praising good actions rather than condemning the faults.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I loved Window Maker back in the day, but macOS consistency (other flaws not withstanding, macOS is exceptionally consistent) goes a lot deeper than what a window manager can do. The consistency in macOS derives directly from the NeXT APIs.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
To be clear, I don't want to / don't have time to personally support the non-technical users. I'd just wish there were a better default answer than Gnome.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
It's a hard balance. Dvorak is vastly better than Qwerty and is ubiquitous. I have seen Colemak pretty commonly, and Workman once in a while. I don't doubt Workman might be marginally better than Dvorak, but I don't know if i
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I think we see some of that already, given the persistence of XFCE and Mate. Still, for the vast majority of people trying Linux, the recommendation is "use Ubuntu" which means "use Gnome." And the number of people tryin
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I'm running bits and pieces of XFCE (via Xubuntu) with XMonad and dmenu :-) That said, what document viewer do I use when I want to read a PDF? Evince was the standard GTK/Gnome option, but it has hamburgerized everything to a sta
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Some day there will be a backlash against UX design that fetishizes minimalism, hiding features, and rearranging the deck chairs every six months. And on that day, when the masses go searching for a simple, organic interface that has logica
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by peatmoss 8y ago
My wife switched (she was already a touch typist) and it was only a few days of diminished productivity for her. I think I might have been the bad case :-)
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I went a long time before learning to touch type properly. I had a fast-ish quasi touch / hunt and peck style I suspect similar to what you describe. I ended up learning to touch type by 1) switching my keyboard to dvorak in software 2
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Interesting! I bought one a few years ago, and other than slightly cheaper plastic extrusion, I can’t tell that there’s anything worse about this than a classic Model M. To your second point, when it came time to get a mechanical keyboard f
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Seconded. They’ll even build you a custom keyboard layout. For example, I have a dvorak keyboard that doesn’t need to be messed with in software. You can get them in PS/2 or USB configurations.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Part of the reason for Apple betting big on Intel was power efficiency. But with Ryzen going to 7nm before Intel makes it to 11nm(?) reliably, I have to think that Ryzen with integrated GPU starts looking damned attractive.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Wellington is the most beautiful city I’ve ever lived in, maybe the most beautiful city I’ve been to, and it’s where we assumed we’d be living when my wife and I moved to NZ some years ago. We spent 9 months before giving up and moving to A
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Indeed this feels like the most satisfactory explanation for the Fermi paradox. I’m just starting on the third book, and am starting to think the eye-popping $1 billion that Amazon is rumored to be paying / have paid to allow them to m
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I suppose if the universe is in fact a hologram as some scientists have hypothesized, and we’re just living in a 3d projection then we could say reality is faking it :-) But the current gen video hacks and future raytracing are pretty hard
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I recently upgraded to a 1060 6GB card (at inflated prices, because it didn’t look like there’d ever be a break in the storm). I got to thinking, I doubt I’ll ever feel much need to upgrade the screen I game on from 1080p to 4k, mostly bec
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by peatmoss 8y ago
There is reasonably good library support: https://github.com/edn-format/edn/wiki/Implementations
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I am sad that EDN hasn’t achieved popularity as a format. It seems like a better specified, less verbose format. As a bonus it plays well with Paredit-like editor modes. Alas, the curse of being better, but later.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I am a former Mac user who has “come home” to Linux and BSD in recent years. Between the sad state of the Mac ecosystem (I like both the hardware AND software less today than I did 7 years ago) and the repost about desktop Linux UX this mor
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I wonder if a front panel could be developed to work in conjunction with an emulator. As it was explained to me, the few systems that you can’t play with are mostly because they’re easy to mess up and hard to reset. It sounds like you have
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by peatmoss 8y ago
For those unfamiliar with the organization at work here, the Living Computer Museum is a gem of a museum located just south of Downtown Seattle. It’s chock full of amazing historical computers that you can actually use for the most part. I’
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> I do certain charitable things You’d likely get some encouragement from your manager to do that under the auspices of volunteer time off. If you wanted to give money to a bonafide non-profit, Salesforce would match. From my vantage poi
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by peatmoss 8y ago
You’re being downvoted for what I suspect is a combination of moral disagreement and disagreement that one can practically do this without dire consequence. But, this is an interesting thought exercise. I read some of these stories, and thi
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I keep waiting for an article wherein the author details their move overseas and renunciation of US citizenship to start a debt-free life in Germany or Australia.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Generally cities prevent people from building infrastructure willy nilly. Buldozing houses or seizing public land for a new highway isn’t something that companies are allowed to do... I’d posit for good reason. Typically P3 agreements are i
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by peatmoss 8y ago
It's worth noting that public-private-partnerships can lead to some perverse situations that are pretty antithetical to democratically-led governance. Companies that build the infrastructure typically have expectations around revenues
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I very much hope you are right and I am wrong. The iPad Pro seems to be trying to mitigate some of those issues—at least for the growing segment of the populace who’d prefer to do everything on their phone. I don’t like where Apple is going
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by peatmoss 8y ago
The iPad Pro is the future of Apple. I am beginning to suspect that general purpose computing has no future apart from Linux—and even then, those of us clinging to it are going to start looking a lot like Amiga enthusiasts who’re keeping th
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Certainly connecting light rail to other destinations has also yielded improvements to airport ridership. But that doesn't change that downtown to airport, by itself, was a relative ghost town. We already had a major destination (downt

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