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by rwl 16y ago
With firefox, you can hit the quote key and search the links, pressing enter to navigate to the page. F3 goes to the next result. Didn't know that. That's handy, thanks! Firefox also has the Vimperator plugin that gives vim-like nav for
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Ask HN: graphical browsing for keyboard jockeys?
4 points by rwl 16y ago|6 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
I'd rather not have yet another way for the government to track my every move and communication. I do like the concept of having a single destination for communication, regardless of my location, but I don't want the (US) government involv
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by rwl 16y ago
Have you tried Debian? I run Debian on a desktop, but my sense is that its hardware support for netbooks lags a bit. I'd be interested to know how easy it is to get working on an Eee PC. (And the OP might as well: a Debian base install s
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by rwl 16y ago
A $8.5 billion subsidy to cover this last year's losses could have bought 20 million Americans iPads/netbooks. What, exactly, would that achieve? Not the same function that the USPS does. Sure, 20 million more people would have a device
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by rwl 16y ago
This is interesting -- I didn't know the Federal Reserve was allowed to turn a profit. I guess it makes sense, though. My instinct is: well, that's great! (Proof that a government entity can be run profitably!) But even if it couldn't
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by rwl 16y ago
The price isn't that important, as long as it's not so high that it excludes people from using the mail system (when's the last time you tried to send a letter via Fedex? I bet it didn't cost $0.20). The important thing is that we have a p
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by rwl 16y ago
"If you think about the USPS as an independent corporation, it would be crazy to think about these results..." I agree. But why should we think of it that way? The Postal Service was originally conceived as an essential piece of national i
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by rwl 16y ago
Looks like the recommended way (according to the tutorial) is to use RPy. I imagine there is some support for pyplot, too, given the Numpy/Scipy integration.
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by rwl 16y ago
I wonder what your PhD program is? Well, I haven't got a specific focus or dissertation topic yet. (Not sure how it works in Europe, but here in the U.S., a Ph.D. typically involves doing coursework first, which is where I'm at.) But I
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by rwl 16y ago
Good point, I haven't used emacs in 8 years, but I know a couple of developers who use it with a lot of passion, even though I imagine its hard for non developers to use it. Well, don't be afraid! I'm not a "developer," and I do 99% of m
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by rwl 16y ago
Ugh, why can't this person have a simple comment form? Even enabling all the scripts on the page, I can't seem to post a comment on the blog. So here's the one I wrote... Have you tried Org Mode? ( http://orgmode.org ) I find it totally
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by rwl 16y ago
Dear igravious, We're so much alike, it's scary. I, too, studied philosophy and math. I, too, am currently pursuing grad studies in the humanities (in my case, a philosophy PhD program). I, too, am a mostly self-taught programmer. And I
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by rwl 16y ago
Please, then: let me invite you to do so here!
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by rwl 16y ago
A lot of people have been making this claim in this thread, but I'm a little bit skeptical. For one thing, I'm skeptical of the idea that competition always improves products in a commercial setting (though it surely does under some circ
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by rwl 16y ago
What's wrong with relying on GNU? It's Free software that will love on as long as the concept does. You can be assured that GNU will never have the rug pulled out from under it by a corporate affiliate, anyway.
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Debian to accept non-packagers as Debian Developers(debian.org)
15 points by rwl 16y ago|8 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
Multiparadigm languages are here now and feel like the future. This is one answer to the problem raised by the article: certain things (like I/O) are less natural to do in a (purely) functional language, so a language which supports multi
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No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?(spiegel.de)
3 points by rwl 16y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
Everybody need to specialize or find themselves a niche within the economy and get good at what they do so they don't get out-competed. ... The issue of "governing" should take care of itself much like every other profession take care to s
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by rwl 16y ago
> We should teach programming because... We you know? It really isn't quite as urgent. Well, if you only focus on job preparation, maybe. But education is not just supposed to prepare people for work; it's supposed to prepare them to b
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by rwl 16y ago
Wouldn't a fork be running smack into a patent suit? I confess to not understanding the Java ecosystem at all , but I do know that Oracle just sued Google over their alternative Java implementation...how could a fork avoid this?
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by rwl 16y ago
> Hardware can be expected to work on Windows. If they don't, it's the hardware manufacturer's fault. Sorry, this is an unreasonable expectation, and one that should be corrected, not reinforced. The "average user" has no right to expe
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by rwl 16y ago
Why? The "average computer user" is precisely the kind of person who is likely to have commodity hardware that is supported by Ubuntu. Would you not recommend it because you can't guarantee that Ubuntu will work with all her hardware?
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee(eff.org)
3 points by rwl 16y ago|1 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
> Software is no more "mathematics" than are circuit diagrams, chemistry nor books. Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry-Howard_isomorphism
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by rwl 16y ago
Send your email to: Bilski_Guidance@uspto.gov The FSF's suggested text is: Software patents hurt individuals by taking away our ability to control the devices that now exert such strong influence on our personal freedoms, including how we i
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U.S. Air Force Wants Soldiers to Be Like Batman(escapistmagazine.com)
3 points by rwl 16y ago|0 comments
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by rwl 16y ago
> The problem with evolution in general is that it doesn't select the best approaches, it selects the most popular ones. Not sure what you mean by this. At least in a biological setting, natural selection selects for `adaptive' feature
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by rwl 16y ago
> This article makes it seem like Lisp is in a state of continuous evolution. In which case I don't see a good enough argument why Clojure isn't part of that. That's because the author isn't saying that. The point is more like this: Cl

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