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by sedachv 10y ago
In 2007 darcs was still popular for a lot of Free Software projects. 2008 is when I noticed people starting to migrate to git.
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by sedachv 10y ago
Web programming in C and CGI is alive and well: http://www.learnbchs.org/tools.html (mirror: https://archive.is/d1BXC ) http://kristaps.bsd.lv/absdcon2016
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Flour, rice, noodles only go bad if you get moths. They can develop mold, which sometimes is not noticeable, but will attract booklice. I have had that happen to a bag of rice. There are also rice weevils.
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by sedachv 10y ago
A packet of Maruchan ramen with two cans of beans/peas is the most optimal meal I have been able to come up with considering satiety, minimal preparation and clean-up time and effort, and nutrition. Less than $2, years of shelf-life in
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by sedachv 10y ago
This is not the first time I have heard similar arguments from "car people" and I don't understand why any classic car collectors would be against self-driving cars (well, rhetorically I do not, I understand that a lot of cla
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by sedachv 10y ago
Here is an example of a DSL I made in Common Lisp for doing compile-time URL checking in a web application: http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2008/11/compile-time-inter-app... Common Lisp makes it easy to compose DSLs
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by sedachv 10y ago
> If you were around for LiveJournal, it's more like that. LiveJournal is a good comparison here - it never went away, is still popular in some communities (Runet), and is not worth very much money because most Internet users in the
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I'm not certain this has been thought through sufficiently. If an organization is in a position to confiscate the camera from a journalist, they're almost certainly ALSO in a position to extract the encryption password from t
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by sedachv 10y ago
> After the first month or so in a space this size, it doesn't feel that big. You just get kind of used to it, although you kind of appreciate the space. Who does the cleaning, you or your partner? I never got used to cleaning a lar
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by sedachv 10y ago
> LA base salaries are similar to the Bay Area, but very very behind when including stock (RSU/options) and bonuses. Can confirm. This has been my experience as a programmer in Los Angeles who has been approached and interviewed by
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Both parts need to change. The "they aren't hurting anybody so leave them alone" people need to understand that they are hurting themselves and need to have their freedom of choice taken away. One of the big functions of
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by sedachv 10y ago
> And what's the alternative? The alternative is the same as for every theory: do not assume your hypothesis is correct until you have empirical evidence, and do not assign your moral values to theories. Obviously the idea of evolut
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I have never had a problem spending money on educational material that was way beyond what you can find in public libraries (Internet these days). Cool story, rich bro. Taschen and Elsevier are actually very good publishers to compare,
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by sedachv 10y ago
The same reason libraries deaccession books even when they have spare shelf space, and, unless you are a hoarder, you get rid of/donate/sell unused items from your dwelling. Sifting through hoarded garbage has a huge cost - your t
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by sedachv 10y ago
> it is not the most important mapping project in the world Sorry for the aside, but what do you think is the most important right now?
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by sedachv 10y ago
Agreed and similarly disappointed. Can we please change the title to point out that this is specific to ReactJS?
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by sedachv 10y ago
> In a nutshell, I'm arguing that I will win at the biological imperative because of my drive to work and succeed. No, you are just using the same flawed reasoning over and over again. The way it can also work is that a bigger and m
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I disagree. The drive to work and/or be productive is one of the reasons we're the apex predator, and not our prior evolutionary human-like variations. It's not "society" that says you have to work, but your DN
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by sedachv 10y ago
Climbing/ski/surfing bums and dirtbags live out of their cars. They probably spend more actual time engaged working (as opposed to meetings, distractions, commuting, breaks, administrative overhead, etc) at their sports than the 1
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by sedachv 10y ago
Rural depopulation needs to happen if for no other reasons than environmental. We should be focusing on returning as much land as possible to natural ecosystems. Urban living is more efficient in terms of resource consumption than rural liv
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I have a number of friends who ended up becoming officers and I sympathize with a lot of their struggles. Oh yeah, I am not saying that all cops are bad or that you will get killed if you call them. Just that there are risks to doing s
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Seriously, though; how is my life negatively impacted (in actuality, not hypothetically), in a way that I can notice the difference, by letting Google track me? People have lost their freedom because their Google search history was use
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Sure, these ideas sound nice, just like how "small government" and "free market", but how well do they work in practice on a large scale? Serious question: do you know anything about the history or workings of the I
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Your friend has developed a bias because they're constantly around people who have been (or at least claim to be) wronged by the police. Absolutely. Which is why I am glad he pointed these risks out to me - no one else who is unbi
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by sedachv 10y ago
A friend of mine works as a public defender in Los Angeles (and prior to that, worked as a public defender in San Francisco). His advice is to never call the cops in all but the most extreme situations. The risk of them maiming or killing s
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by sedachv 10y ago
> The guy who isn't making much to begin with isn't rewarded - it only makes his labor less valuable. What? How does that make any sense? The labor market is a market because supply and demand still apply.
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by sedachv 10y ago
I love popular math book recommendations, but that particular one gets pretty terrible reviews: http://www.ams.org/notices/200009/rev-gray.pdf
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by sedachv 10y ago
> this was presumably before people accepted mathematical concepts as being as real as anything else Maybe as "unreal as anything else" would be a more accurate way to put it. Mathematical realism and even any kind of Platonism
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by sedachv 10y ago
Take a look at Nash's publications: http://www.ams.org/notices/199810/milnor.pdf After his first hospitalization in 1959 Nash only wrote two more papers in the 60s. Nash's schizophrenia definitely put a
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by sedachv 10y ago
People like Terry Davis and Yayoi Kusama are outliers. Can you name any other schizophrenics that have accomplished impressive things? The only reason they are able to keep working is a lot of support from others over the years to help them

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