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by sjm 11y ago
Regardless whether or not it works out in this case, from working traveling around Europe for the last 8 months and always hoping to use the train, I've found it is crazy how much cheaper flights are. I just flew from Berlin to Brussel
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by sjm 11y ago
I just received an email about this. It looks like if you used Uber since November 1, 2014, your reimbursement (if it happens) will be in the form of credit to your Uber account. If you haven't used it since then, Uber will issue a cre
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by sjm 11y ago
There are a lot of reasons why Uber doesn't really work in Germany, most of them listed here already. One I'd like to add is, at least from my experience in Berlin, taxis here are already what you'd get by paying the premium
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by sjm 11y ago
I guess it depends. Setting up a business in Germany might be easier (haven't done it so I don't know, but there's a good startup culture in Berlin so I guess it's possible), but as someone who has lived in Berlin I know
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by sjm 11y ago
Effective C++ was one of the most purely useful programming books I've come across. I no longer actively use C++ but it stays with me. Thank you Scott. P.S. Is the cartoon character referred a defender of the secrets of Castle Greyskul
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by sjm 11y ago
I also thought it was incredibly surprising he even uttered the words "mental health" given how it was looked at back then. It comes across as brave and with much foresight. A very smart man indeed!
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by sjm 11y ago
Do Police really raid Görlitzer Park? I haven't been in Berlin for long but I was under the impression it was fairly tolerated, and it seems like a bit of a waste of police resources to crack down on (what I understand is) just a bit o
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by sjm 11y ago
I actually looked for this and couldn't find it. Where is it? Should definitely be more obvious, unless I'm completely missing something :)
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by sjm 11y ago
This is cool! I was working on something similar but more specifically for my office to democratise our office music with voting and so on, after Soundrop disappeared off the face of the earth. It only supports Spotify at the moment, but th
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by sjm 11y ago
If only Karl Pilkington was still doing "Monkey News".
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by sjm 11y ago
Related article that made the rounds recently: http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120
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by sjm 11y ago
Link seems to be down for me. Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/124820375
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by sjm 11y ago
Not just you — love the Emacs bindings everywhere. It always throws me off on Windows when I'm trying to C-n and C-p around, getting hit with new document and printing dialogs all over the place :)
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by sjm 12y ago
Isn't it a bit worrying to see AMD drop off so much? I've stuck to Intel CPUs since the Pentium 4, but I shudder to think where we'd be today without the competition AMD brought to Intel over the years.
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by sjm 12y ago
Never used a Lite, but I've got a HHKB Pro 2. As far as I understand the Lite keyboards have normal rubber-dome switches which feel like the old mushy keyboards we all grew up on. For what it's worth, I've had my Pro 2 for al
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by sjm 12y ago
You mean like the Atreus? ;) (I'm quite keen to try it some day! Love your work in the Emacs community by the way.)
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by sjm 12y ago
I've been using Emacs for years with a Happy Hacking Pro 2 keyboard (where what is normally caps-lock is control) and never had any kind of "Emacs pinky" issue. Remapping caps-lock to control is a must!
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by sjm 12y ago
C-x C-c :)
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by sjm 12y ago
I agree, and actually find it a bit telling that a game based on a story with such a strong female protagonist feels the need to have a male playable character at all.
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by sjm 12y ago
Could you really not use OpenGL under Windows 95? I seem to recall running GLQuake and GLQuakeWorld a good while before the release of Windows 98. GLQuake was released in 97.
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by sjm 12y ago
But Windows 98SE was one of the best versions of Windows. So good in fact that it was a very long time after Windows 2000 came out that I made the switch. Linux on the desktop still had far too much catching up to do back then. Additionally
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by sjm 12y ago
To add a little consensus, this is almost my exact setup too, though I'm on OS X and use Chrome for browsing. As well as using C-x 2 and C-x 3, I've started using perspective.el ( https://github.com/nex3/perspe
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by sjm 12y ago
I had an idea a while back for this kind of thing, but never stuck with it. I wanted to make something with Amazon Glacier that would be for long-term storage of RAWs for all those people who don't want to ever really delete a RAW file
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by sjm 12y ago
For the problem mentioned in the post (determining whether a given password is valid), how about using a Trie[0]? Wouldn't this work perfectly in this situation? [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
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by sjm 12y ago
That is one part of it, but it has a lot of other benefits too. I recently switched to using use-package to do all my package installation and configuration, and my emacs-init-time improved dramatically because use-package can set up smart
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by sjm 12y ago
Well technically Emacs is just a Lisp interpreter with some text editing facilities by default. With evil-mode it is just as modal as vim throughout.
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by sjm 12y ago
Exactly right! All input in Emacs is just a key-bind. In a buffer focused on text-editing, letter keys (e.g. "a") are actually bound to a function called self-insert-command which inserts the last character typed. Modes like magit
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by sjm 12y ago
From that post, interesting foreshadowing discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7181029
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by sjm 12y ago
Me too! It's also nice that in OS X the basic set of Emacs bindings are built-in (movement and some manipulation, anyway).
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by sjm 12y ago
I recently overhauled my Emacs config — it's on github here: https://github.com/stafu/.emacs.d I'm using a package called use-package, which gets installed via MELPA if it isn't found on first run, then

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