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by rukuu001 10y ago
Who remembers (or even saw) the awesome 'Monkey'[1][2] that drilled the following into every kid who watched it: > Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the world." 1 https:/&#x2
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by rukuu001 10y ago
I was literally the only guest in an underground hostel when I stayed there. A very odd feeling sleeping on your own in a rock cave. Even though I found it a bit bleak, everybody in Australia should see this place - it's like visiting
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by rukuu001 10y ago
Thanks for the heads up re Isle of Wight - that story feels almost biblical.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
I've implemented a trie exactly once in my 15 years of professional programming, and I'm so happy I knew about tries when the time finally came :) Edit: swapped used with implemented
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by rukuu001 10y ago
> I would call it "bad image" instead of "bad reputation", because when you look into it, a lot of very stable and maintainable software is written in Perl. Fair enough. I've written a lot of Perl code - some I&#
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by rukuu001 10y ago
1. Because Perl was asleep at the wheel while Python, Ruby et al got popular. 2. Perl has a bad reputation - lots of people wrote really really obtuse code in Perl and called it clever. Maintenance sometimes feels like stepping into an alt.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
> Yes, there are deadly animals but you typically have to be doing something unusual or silly to encounter one in a dangerous way. True everywhere except the far north (North Queensland, Northern Territory and the top end of Western Au
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by rukuu001 10y ago
1. Some Zen practitioners. 2. Philosophers.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
> Plus, what about people who make iOS apps? Or heck, even just develop for the Mac? There's literally no other option than a Mac. The message from Apple seems to be 'get an iMac'. They seem to prefer their developers to b
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by rukuu001 10y ago
I'm currently reading Where Song Began[1] which discusses this, and is super-interesting besides. Has an anecdote of WW1 pilots encountering flocks of dozing swallows at night. 1. https://www.amazon.com.au/Where-Song-Be
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by rukuu001 10y ago
I was thinking that's exactly what it sounded like, which is my hands-down favourite Asimov book.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
This is deeply uncool, but I use Excel. Very fast to make a quick list, but of course awesome filtering/calculation/lookups etc. I have a to-do.xlsx for work, and one for home. Different sheets for to-read, to-call etc.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
Yeah, it's breaking my heart that my next laptop probably isn't going to be an Apple. With specs and quality going downhill and prices going up it just doesn't make sense for me any more.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
Screw 'taste', go for obvious . If you're at BigCo and your codes going to be maintained by disinterested drones/ random contractors/etc, obvious code is better. And lack of checking on entry pissed me off too.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
My 2010 MBP did 18 months backpacking (2014/15) and hasn't missed a beat. It's had constant use otherwise. I can only assume some of got lucky with indestructible chargers.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
But I think picking the detail to be conscientious of is the trick. Important details are just as annoying to check as less important details. IMO, it's the ability to discern and apply elbow grease to boring things that matter, and wa
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by rukuu001 10y ago
React in its basic form is pretty simple, you'll grok it in a couple sessions of playing with it. And since it's 100% view, you can fit it over pretty much anything. This is assuming you're prepared to do rendering in the bro
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by rukuu001 10y ago
Don't know about America, but lots of Australians don't look when they open up that big slab of metal. I've also had to explain the concept of 'blind spots' in car mirrors to a lot of people - and this is something
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by rukuu001 10y ago
Being quotable would put Wilde above Joyce, which I don't think is right.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
I'm surprised at the incredulity expressed here, given MS's history of dealing with OEMs. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Window...
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by rukuu001 10y ago
> turn the people into rechargeable batteries I remember watching that part & thinking hmmm, that's me at my job, except I'm generating money instead of energy.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
Interestingly, my comment's getting down-voted without refutation. C'mon, let's talk :) Anyway, no, I don't know if FB can do that at scale. What I do know is that sites, especially complex ones like FB, like to track us
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by rukuu001 10y ago
You're not using some kind of mobile router/dongle thing for network access are you? Otherwise all that's left is you - how you type, click & otherwise use FB. Edit: and the 1st thing the goddamn site shows me is a pop-up
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by rukuu001 10y ago
Could get traction on Kickstarter with a good video.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
When fasting, I noticed hunger struck hardest at my regular mealtimes. Half hour later it was mostly gone.
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by rukuu001 10y ago
We got all of these in Australia when I was a kid, including Australia's own effort at anarchistic kids telly, Aunty Jack: https://youtu.be/vIqqiK4ncfs
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by rukuu001 10y ago
You're right, but authenticity takes more work than that. > In our heads we know what we want, but we ask for something else I think we know when we're frustrated or angry, but they're reactions to other emotions like fear
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Apple says Australia's banks pose a security threat to iPhones(afr.com)
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by rukuu001 10y ago
I used Harry Potter as my first Spanish book :) I recommend it!
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by rukuu001 10y ago
I heard the owl call my name, by Margaret Craven I get the feeling this is better known in the US/Canada than here in Australia. I found it during an unstable time of my life and it helped a lot.

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