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by pivo 12y ago
I'm in the US and not a sports fan and I regularly find myself in groups where the topic of conversation is sports. It's a little uncomfortable for me because it's assumed that all men are sports fans in my city (Boston). My
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by pivo 12y ago
Yes, that's definitely true. Plus iPads are not essential in the way phones are. They're luxury items.
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by pivo 12y ago
I used to work for Gazelle, a company that buys used iPhones, iPads, etc. from consumers. We found that the iPads we bought were generally in much worse shape than the iPhones. We believed this suggested that people were using their iPads q
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by pivo 12y ago
That was a typo he meant, "because you do not see the value in what I am trying to protect." He corrected himself in a later email to the thread.
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by pivo 12y ago
Ok, so why do you advocate open spaces? Personally I hate them because they destroy my productivity and that's the one thing I enjoy about work. The trade off is that I hear a lot more office gossip as well as lots of details of my cow
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by pivo 12y ago
Maybe because most people here never ever change their SIM card. You buy a phone and you're basically locked into your carrier until your contract expires, then you buy a new phone because it's the only way to justify the ridiculo
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by pivo 12y ago
Looks like you can host a static web site just using S3: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHostin...
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by pivo 12y ago
Yeah, that was my impression too. My take on it is that based on their reputation they can add a bit of creativity to product design that either is not present, or ignored, in their large corporate customer's own internal design depart
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by pivo 12y ago
Fixing this stupid issue seems like such an obvious thing to do I can't imagine why it wasn't addressed ages ago. Having property notation would immediately get rid of 30% of the code in the codebase I currently work with, and tha
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by pivo 12y ago
This reminds me of a book a friend of mine wrote years ago called, "Mr Bunny's Guide to ActiveX" which I believe originally came with crayons, or at least that was his intention. http://www.amazon.com/Bunnys-G
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by pivo 12y ago
Most people put Apple phones in cases anyway, so does it really even matter much how the bare phone looks? It doesn't to me. The protruding camera lens housing will probably be flush with a case.
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by pivo 12y ago
I have never been more productive than when I'm developing with Common Lisp in Emacs with Slime. It's a really fantastic environment.
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by pivo 12y ago
You forgot to put his family in the photo.
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by pivo 12y ago
> More generally Common Lisp lacks a coherent web based module repository infrastructure like those of other dynamic languages such as CPAN or RubyGem. What about ASDF and/or Quicklisp ( http://www.quicklisp.org ). They wo
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by pivo 12y ago
Boston has one as well: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Guide-g60745-i3496-Boston_Massach... not to scale :)
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by pivo 12y ago
He doesn't, he just created the "fail2ban@mail.com" email account there. So all those fail2ban installations with the default configuration send email to him. Pretty funny, and clever too.
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by pivo 12y ago
> there is judgement in play that can't be offset by technology and especially an actual human with seat of the pants feel and judgement. I thought the same thing at first, but I then I thought that a) These ships are too big and sl
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by pivo 12y ago
Where did you find a GUI Emacs that doesn't have colors? I use http://emacsforosx.com . To set a color theme: M-x customize-themes. You might want/need to install more themes, you can do that with the package manager (M
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by pivo 12y ago
Speaking of Java logging, that's one area that drives me batty. The lack of a good standard Java logging library caused a multitude of logging libraries to be written. Different libraries then of course use different logging libraries,
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by pivo 13y ago
This is not strictly true. If I forgot to quit my RunKeeper app my battery will be dead within a few hours. If the app's doing something like using GPS poorly (which I'd say RunKeeper is) then it's better to force it to quit.
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by pivo 13y ago
I travel by train (Amtrak) often, at least twice a month, and I've never experienced the conditions you've mentioned.
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by pivo 13y ago
Hope it also fixes the "issue" where my 2013 Macbook Pro reboots when it wakes up from sleep if there's a USB drive attached.
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by pivo 13y ago
My conversation spanned several calls with different people who claimed they were escalating my problem to "specialists" who could help me, and me waiting on hold for hours. The last call, starting with the offer to send me anothe
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by pivo 13y ago
Here's how my interaction with Comcast went when someone called and got me to sign up for the deal: Comcast: You can have double your current internet speed plus HBO Go and some other junk for only $4 more per month. Me: <after a wh
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by pivo 13y ago
Agree with the less is more idea when it comes to configuration. An additional benefit to this is that it's more comfortable to use vanilla emacs when you need to work on hosts you don't typically use.
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by pivo 13y ago
It's a lot better, and easier, in Emacs 24.3.x. Just run M-x customize-theme And pick from a list of themes. New themes are installed via the new, built-in package manager: M-x package-list-packages
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by pivo 13y ago
Java may be outdated, but "Java Concurrency in Practice" is not outdated if you're one of the millions of Java programmers still working in that language.
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by pivo 13y ago
Learning Erlang a few years ago was one of the most enjoyable programming experiences I've had in a long time. It took about a day and a half for the syntax and semantics to click
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by pivo 13y ago
I'd love to have a good 39" 4K monitor, but I really don't want any other developer in my office to have one. For some reason, everyone else feels that they should use the entire screen width for code. So we end up with 200 c
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by pivo 13y ago
Ah, yep I misunderstood. Sorry! Unfortunately at my company people insist on writing code in 130+ columns, I'm a little over sensitive about it I guess.

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