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by rue 15y ago
> This statement: "If you are certain about something, it's time to re-examine your assumptions." Seems pretty certain to me. No, you're just perpetrating rhetorical nonsense like “intolerance of intolerance is intolerance (and theref
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by rue 15y ago
I've htns mapped to <^v>. There's no need to restrict yourself to the default mappings.
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by rue 15y ago
> Say you are throwing two outdoor parties a year, but otherwise will not serve more than 8 people. The best solution, if you start with nothing, is to buy a set of dishware for 8, and then throwaway plastic cups and plastic knives twi
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by rue 15y ago
It should be possible to simply embed or shell out the editing to an external program… I think this'd be the ideal solution.
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by rue 15y ago
> Adderall/Desoxyn/Methamphetamine/"Speed" are a great example Small clarification: Adderall isn't methamphetamine, it's amphetamine. When discussing street drugs, for some value of safe, it is a considerably safer substance. (Real, l
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by rue 15y ago
> I come from a country that suffers this "war on drugs" I don't think anyone's disputing the toll the “war on drugs” is exacting – often outside the US, as is typically the case with these things. The problem is the idiotic approach
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by rue 15y ago
That's…not that many.
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by rue 15y ago
“There's no such thing as bad publicity” is a highly profession-dependent proposition.
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by rue 15y ago
“Shortens life” isn't the same as “doesn't prolong life”, I surmise.
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by rue 15y ago
I think there's a meme in the term “greatness”. Perhaps a better formulation of the rule is the more traditional one, that it takes 10 000 hours to reach your peak at whatever it is you're practicing. It's not automatic (you still have to d
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by rue 15y ago
> As is common, the article presupposes that decentralization is unambiguously progress, but that isn't true in all respects. It is, in the sense that a decentralized VCS is, essentially, a superset of a centralized one. … Blobs are
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by rue 15y ago
A possible reason is that they believe they'd be less successful if they actively tried to broaden their consumer base. Whether that's correct, I couldn't say, but it's certainly not an impossible scenario.
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by rue 15y ago
Enumerator solves typical generator scenarios reasonably well, and are easy to implement for your own classes. They use Fibers internally, and include Enumerable. Enumerator supports both internal and external iteration.
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by rue 15y ago
Same here, actually. Although in dvorak, they're htns :)
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by rue 15y ago
Ruby's had the much more featureful Pry for some time now: http://github.com/pry/pry . (And there have been various projects to provide some sub-capabilities for years.)
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by rue 15y ago
If you touch-type, keeping fingers on the home row is essential. So, yes, it's a huge waste.
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by rue 15y ago
Such as?
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by rue 15y ago
> What happens if the result only mostly works? You fix the other parts, or revert to a previous version of your source tree.
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by rue 15y ago
> You're wrong about plugins so I'll assume that you mean addons here, which use a completely different interface. I personally found Chrome's plugin “API” to be pretty terrible… I use Vimperator on FF, and not only are the Chrome alt
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by rue 15y ago
> […] but so the company who were hiring me didn't find what I was asking for too high to pay. But you weren't.
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by rue 15y ago
That's correct, I used “stimulants” in the narrow sense and should have been clearer. I don't have much information on modafinil or other substances in its class so I can't speak to it except to say that the early studies seem promising (I
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by rue 15y ago
> But it was up to the task of running Twitter for a few thousand users, […] (Tens of thousands, actually, perhaps hundreds?)
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by rue 15y ago
First rule of making it in Scandinavia: have a more concrete plan than “disruptive startup idea”. 1. ??? 2. ??? 3. Profit!
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by rue 15y ago
> [Amphetamine] allows you to stay up three or four days perfectly lucid Nope. No known stimulants negate the need for sleep, nor do amphetamines significantly “increase your clock speed” (certainly not by the amount necessary to coun
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by rue 15y ago
It's quite possible that too much vitamin D could be bad for you, so going overboard might not be a great idea either. Pretty much all formats are preferable over tablets, yeah. Drops, kids' “candy” versions &c.
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by rue 15y ago
Scala, with its “type-level programming”, crazy operator overloads and weird DSLs, is at a similar precipice as C++ was back when people started doing insane stuff with template metaprogramming (around the time of Alexandrescu's “Modern C++
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by rue 15y ago
I'm not keen on exposing undefined to external code; it inflates it into a “valid” value like null has become.
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by rue 15y ago
For the sake of accuracy, China's had little to do with communism for decades now.
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by rue 15y ago
With timezones, there's two pieces of information that one needs to be aware of: the given time, and the offset from your local time. Without timezones, the only information needed is the given time. Each party knows their local context, so
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by rue 15y ago
> People who live close to the equator or in the middle of time zones tend not to see much point in DST. The day length doesn't vary much at the equator, and if you are in the middle of a time zone then the offset doesn't vary too much

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