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by reeses 16y ago
I have to say that I've never considered using an XML for a DSL. Most of the reasons I've written DSLs usually involve a desire to avoid writing more code. The closest I've come to writing an XML-like DSL are the many Lisp-lites that I've
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by reeses 16y ago
You could be able to squeeze a novel out of this idea. Or, at the very least, an episode of a crime-related TV show. "They're funding their program through WMDPool.com! Trace the IP address!"
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by reeses 16y ago
I remember reading about Steve Roberts building chording keyboards into his "handlebars" on his Winnebiko years ago. Since he had well more than 2^5 bits using both hands[1], he was able to assign macros that helped significantly with his
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by reeses 16y ago
Hah, you had the same idea I did about five minutes after I posted my comment. It's quiet...almost too quiet... :-)
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by reeses 16y ago
I'm surprised that you didn't get the "Oh my god, Malcolm Gladwell is the devil!" crowd after you with this one. :-) Much of the Gladwell posting here recently seems to be of the,"Look, I can make up an article or book with no intellectual
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by reeses 16y ago
Why is it interesting? Is it interesting for a reason that would guide one to post it here vs. Reddit or Slashdot, which are both wider ranging in their topics of discussion? You state an opinion as if it were fact.
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by reeses 16y ago
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." So we agree, then? Good. Glad to put that to bed.
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by reeses 16y ago
How are you measuring the minimization of the harm and cost? Where is the methodology? What hypothesis were they testing when they conducted this "experiment?" What are the second order effects on public infrastructure? And social engine
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by reeses 16y ago
Plus, you can donate to metafilter and feel good about yourself. :-)
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by reeses 16y ago
I think you took it a step further and went meta. I asked a basic question about this particular article, and you drew back and made an observation about the forest. I think you're absolutely correct. What does a vote mean? What does a f
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by reeses 16y ago
Nope. I'm a descriptivist. However, I do see that you are one of those who prefers an ad hominem attack to one based on the issues, or on facts. Unfortunately, that's all I can respond to with your post, as you haven't addressed any issu
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by reeses 16y ago
That was precisely my point. If this article had the sort of analysis and data that would be included in the sort of paper published in a social science journal, then it would be appropriate. I think the fact that almost all of the high-r
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by reeses 16y ago
Why precisely is this Hacker News material?
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by reeses 16y ago
I had great luck with the "opposite" of #1. I happened to watch some English language movies subtitled in French and it was a great way to slam a lot of written vocabulary into my head very quickly in an engaging way. That and some other
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by reeses 16y ago
PG&E is...PEOPLE!
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by reeses 16y ago
Is the game hackable? I figure it'll be worth $5 to see if I can have someone execute a mission to "remove nanobot surveillance drones from the surface of my transport using a mild detergent and slightly pressurized water."
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by reeses 16y ago
There's a big confusion between morals and ethics, and they are often used interchangeably, which is what some of the posts to which you are replying have done. This is definitely an ethical issue, which is (yes, yes, it's ironic) a corners
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by reeses 16y ago
There's a revision history available under the File menu. I went back to the 700s and it was still trashed. If you can find the last good version, you can revert.
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by reeses 16y ago
I haven't seen it yet but I'll watch it. Thanks for the recommendation. As for pirating[1], it's a surprise to see so much support for it on HN. I expect it on digg or even Reddit, which have a different (i.e., younger, less industrially
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by reeses 16y ago
One of the comments clarifies that ext4 won't be used for the entire storage subsystem: # 23 Brian Swetland Says: December 13th, 2010 at 8:35 pm Yup, our main motivation here was to select a filesystem to work on top of emmc which has buil
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by reeses 16y ago
There was enough demand that Linksys created models just for this purpose (the WRT54GL and friends). It's an easy upgrade for a technical person. Download custom firmware, upload to router, reboot. The same people who would upgrade their
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by reeses 16y ago
I was wondering if it was intentional (besides alphabetical) to put the JWs next to the Jews. "Don't go to college" vs. "I will die if you do not go to college." Then again, rich man, heaven, all that jazz. We'll see who has the last laug
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by reeses 16y ago
"Technically", there definitely is controversy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_linguistics It's great fun to find out when someone is inclined in one of those directions, be
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by reeses 16y ago
I transitioned in a few ways. One, I intentionally changed my stride for distance training while wearing Nike Air Free Everyday trainers. Two, I did short runs on the sidewalks barefoot to toughen up my feet. (It's gross.) Three, I star
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by reeses 16y ago
The big win with an SSD, even with a 1.5Gbps interface, is the seek time. It's amazing how much faster simple things like "du" are with an SSD vs. a spindle. Seriously, if you can at all stomach opening your laptop again, a 120GB-240GB SSD
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by reeses 16y ago
I think my father tried this exact experiment with me. He gave me a copy of Atlas Shrugged when I was twelve and asked me to read it and tell him what I thought. Neither of us were (or are) objectivists, but it's one of those books that po
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by reeses 16y ago
This is the biggest obstacle to getting web developers moved over to Git at work. I am moving the team to task branches over the next few months, and the whole idea of branching/merging/pushing/pulling is proving difficult for them to inte
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by reeses 16y ago
"Feynman is another example of a writer who exposes his interest in a wide variety of stuff(Brazilian drumming for eg) but he isn't yawn inducing." Do keep in mind that Feynman's biographical books (Surely You're Joking, etc.) were not writ
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by reeses 16y ago
No doubt. I've built/run ATG sites for about nine years now and they're the only company with worse pricing models, worse sales policies, and less honest CEOs than Oracle. I'm actually hoping the acquisition brings some sanity to their li
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by reeses 16y ago
It's turtles all the way down.

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