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by rnadna 15y ago
Me too.
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by rnadna 15y ago
I found it necessary to escape the backslash echo -e $"$(print_tick $number)\\c"
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by rnadna 15y ago
Is this great news, or good news, or nothing too exciting? Dunno. It might be interesting to learn how many people read this in another browser, popped over to firefox to update it ... and then returned to their other browser. We may be
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by rnadna 15y ago
Web-based "apps" have this great feature: updates require no work on the part of the user. And they have this terrible bug: updates require no work on the part of the user. With real (i.e. native) software, users get to decide. Important
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by rnadna 15y ago
Even those who don't know whether the word "data" is singular or plural tend to be consistent ... not this crew. "All data is transferred with a 128 Bit SSL coding and are even secured by your log in on our Group Business Platform."
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by rnadna 15y ago
One thing: you don't get used to things that won't work on a tty, e.g. when connecting to another machine over ssh.
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by rnadna 15y ago
PS. I switched to VIM.
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by rnadna 15y ago
TM-1 was wonderful, so TM-2 should be fantastic. New users will love it, I'm sure. As for the original TM-1 users, they may just have moved on, after the long wait for their favourite features.
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by rnadna 15y ago
0 (zero) does not work.
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by rnadna 15y ago
Many people find it difficult to see which of two large numbers is greater, unless they are reading on paper and take up a pencil and count the groups of three. This issue must come up a lot in simple-English. The solution is to introduce
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by rnadna 15y ago
I used to use powerpoint for my classes. A few years ago, something messed up, and I could only use the blackboard. Guess what? Best. Class. Ever. Now, my scheme is to teach the way people taught 100 years ago. I talk to my students.
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by rnadna 15y ago
Good article. Too bad the nutjob repubs don't read the NYT.
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by rnadna 15y ago
A few times a year, I download the latest version of star-office / open-office / libre-office and try it on a MSWord document from work. My most recent attempt was 2 weeks ago. I have yet to see a correctly-formatted result. In the beginn
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by rnadna 15y ago
It might help to have a multi-dimensional system in which karma is measured by (k1, k2, k3, ..., kn). Let the reader specify thresholds for each, as they see fit. For example, k1 could relate to humor, k2 to historical insight, etc. If yo
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by rnadna 15y ago
Would we even have a software industry if the original people patented conditional statements, loops, variable assignments, etc?
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by rnadna 15y ago
Um, regarding "MWh = MWx365x24xCF", isn't an hour 3600 seconds, so isn't the factor 3600? You seem to be converting using days in year and hours in day, yielding a factor-of-ten error.
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Apple appstore broken [wild lion release](discussions.apple.com)
1 points by rnadna 15y ago|0 comments
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by rnadna 15y ago
Yesterday I got an email from a journal asking me to submit a paper. They needed it within 2 weeks. And it would be published 2 weeks thereafter. After I spewed coffee through my nose, laughing, I clicked the "spam" button. Publication i
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by rnadna 15y ago
Interesting. Perhaps I'll try this out for my display http://emit.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley/skyview/tab=results&#3... of light levels (an early-stage project designed for high schools).
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by rnadna 16y ago
I like the idea, and there are several aspects of the georgify format that are pleasing. My main comment is that there is far too much vertical whitespace. The compactness of hn is pleasant to the eye, and it lets readers scan headlines q
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by rnadna 16y ago
You're right about the live results being entertaining. Possible google docs has something to contribute, after all. Not that I'd be able to use it in most of my work, because off-site storage has legal implications, where I live.
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by rnadna 16y ago
This is amazing . It is quite a thrill to be able to read such things in a browser, instead of having to slog to the library or do an inter-library loan. And the indexing is very well done, even with English translations of titles.
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by rnadna 16y ago
In the sciences, most of the primary sources are closed, and so linking wouldn't be too helpful. The material also tends to be so technical that only experts in the field can read it. As for that class of secondary sources (e.g. review
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by rnadna 16y ago
I modified slightly the suggestion for bash prompt, to read as follows (the 'git' stuff is pretty standard): function count_tasks { ~/bin/t | wc -l | sed -e's/ *//' 2> /dev/null | sed -e s/0//' } export PS1="\h:\W\$(pa
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by rnadna 16y ago
I lIke THis
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by rnadna 16y ago
It should be apple doing this, but I'll take google, if that's all there is. Macports, fink, brew -- these are all interesting, and those who work on them are generous and to be admired. However, none of these is perfect, and fragmentati
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by rnadna 16y ago
FYI, the link to the Cleveland article is broken. It should read https://secure.cs.uvic.ca/twiki/pub/Research/Chisel/Computat...
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by rnadna 16y ago
APL is like that first girlfriend, no longer a possibility for romance, but remembered fondly.
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Do you understand IPA pronunciation?
8 points by rnadna 16y ago|13 comments