smitty1e

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by smitty1e 7y ago
I'm allergic to paywalls. While I can't fault their capitalism, life is just too short. There isn't ANY lack of diversion elsewhere, for example, here.
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by smitty1e 7y ago
Recalls Steven Wright: "He told me that he had spent most of his life working on a research project for the government trying to find out who financed the Pyramids. He worked on it for 30 years, and they paid him an incredible amount o
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by smitty1e 7y ago
Spacemacs is peanut butter meets chocolate. Apps like Magit and org-mode with vi's modal editing are truly superior.
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by smitty1e 7y ago
Is is a paywall? It looked as though one could opt not to pay a thing. I'll come back when I'm ready to pay.
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by smitty1e 7y ago
Looks as good as "Building Git", which I'm currently enjoying. https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ If it will get me over the monad hump with Haskell, all the better.
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by smitty1e 7y ago
The Tower of Babel is among the oldest project management case studies in human history, and seems to enjoy frequent repetition. People don't scale, no matter what the "homo bureaucratus" minority might wish.
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by smitty1e 7y ago
Sometimes the idea of Wikipedia excels the actual site.
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by smitty1e 7y ago
It seems that the one-size-fits-all tool is a tough row to hoe. Part of the reason that LaTeX works at all is that it targets, as you note, (essentially) .pdf. Trying to pack so much precision into a web/os tool and make it performan
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by smitty1e 7y ago
For really mind-blowing possibilities, try org-mode[1] under emacs, along with org-babel[2] and LaTeX export. You can pretty much write and execute your technical paper and your source code simultaneously in arbitrary languages. I recommend
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by smitty1e 7y ago
There is the expectation of IDLE, no? Isn't that a tkinter product?
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by smitty1e 7y ago
Is there a limit to how constructive the feedback can be? What do we know? Software configuration management is a heinous problem. Python gets it more correct than most. Let us rejoice, be patient, and respect everyone's good-faith eff
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by smitty1e 7y ago
I blew up on CivIII in the 90s and have not been able to play anything more intense than "Just Get 10" on my phone since then.
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by smitty1e 7y ago
I'm hoping that finishing the excellent https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ will give me enough git-fu to start making some modest contributions.
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by smitty1e 8y ago
> High level software engineering is a team sport, not an individual one. #Truth Floating out there in the cloud, you have to be a DBA, a network engineer, a browser jockey, a middleware dev, a sysadmin, a security specialist, an archite
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by smitty1e 8y ago
1. I've never upped my game enough to contribute to a project, much less put something on github. So, to the vast swath of people who are cooler than I: thank you. 2. TFA really gets at the classic issue of working vs. managing. Techni
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by smitty1e 8y ago
When you can't fathom something between 6 and 7, it may be a smoot point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_meas...
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by smitty1e 8y ago
Genuinely intriguing stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem
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by smitty1e 8y ago
Whoever wrote that was probably shooting from the Hipp.
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by smitty1e 8y ago
If we dare to point out that humans all have 23 chromosome pairs, we can obviate much of the tension. If one were to wax cynical, one could nearly begin to wonder if some component of that tension were not of the "self-licking ice crea
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by smitty1e 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law