stewbrew

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841.
by stewbrew 14y ago
When I got my Thinkpad W500 with a 1920x1280 display four years ago people complained over the Internet about those tiny pixels you can hardly see. It didn't have a funny name though and was just a display.
842.
by stewbrew 14y ago
OT when did blogspot begin to suck that much? with javascript disabled, I get an empty page. With javascript enabled, I see a stupid animation while I have to wait for something to finish.
843.
by stewbrew 14y ago
I'd like to comment on this blog post but unfortunately I cannot remember anything the author wrote. I wonder why he did that. Taking notes about things you read is good academic pratcice for ... a few hundreds? years.
844.
by stewbrew 14y ago
Just add a jitter.
845.
by stewbrew 14y ago
IMHO such lists are rather useless without information about the state of the compiler, indicators for active development, financial situation (who pays the bills?), community size etc.
846.
by stewbrew 14y ago
I guess it's a matter of what counts as "Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research".
847.
by stewbrew 15y ago
How do you configure leechblock to act this way? I wasn't aware that leechblock could do this -- even after checking its options. :-/
848.
by stewbrew 15y ago
Lout is around since the early 1990s. The fact that it didn't take off probably indicates that it's no viable alternative. Do they really still require users to explicitly mark paragraphs?
849.
by stewbrew 15y ago
I think that would be called anchoring, wouldn't it?
850.
by stewbrew 15y ago
Take courses in philosophy and mathematics/statistics. I think it's important to engage in discussions with peers so just reading books at home won't be of much use unless you already have some basic training. But you'd have to define what
851.
by stewbrew 15y ago
Are you suggesting that slavery and colonialism (whose consequences still hold on today) were better? Maybe we aren't fucked up enough for space exploration yet.
852.
by stewbrew 15y ago
It seems they don't watch German television shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrKvweNugnQ
853.
by stewbrew 15y ago
I think a PL to explore novel concepts will hardly ever make it into mainstream. Those languages from the 90s reused concepts that were developed decades ago but were eventually put into a form accessible for the masses. New problems will a
854.
by stewbrew 15y ago
The average altitude is getting smaller which could be read as "getting lower" if one really wanted to.
855.
by stewbrew 15y ago
I'm not sure though whether "prefer" (prefer for or as what?) actually measures popularity ... but what kind of popularity anyway? Fanboy-fellowship? People actually using it for work that earns them a living? Hearsay/gossip? With respect t
856.
by stewbrew 15y ago
A rather useless question. The word "prefer" is much too vague. I'd be rather interested in how much experience people actually have with these languages and whether they plan to continue using that language in future projects.
857.
by stewbrew 15y ago
tcl (as embedded interpreter) had its killer apps. tk was IMHO for quite a long time the only reasonable way to provide a cross-plattform GUI. It simply lost traction (due to the developments described in that article but IIRC also due to t
858.
by stewbrew 15y ago
To make myself clear, I personally don't care that much about older articles. Anyway, I think it's good hn practice for older articles to put the year in title ... since many users might expect "news" or are old enough to have been pointed
859.
by stewbrew 15y ago
The N in HN is supposed to mean "News". Imagine a news paper that reprints issues from six years ago.
860.
by stewbrew 15y ago
So the bit about "no more need to abuse objects as dictionaries" is a bit odd. Since most things are objects, you get the power to treat functions, types, literals, etc in interesting ways. I think this was about performance of th
861.
by stewbrew 15y ago
Do people here have suggestions about how to best make vim screencasts? What would be the best way to capture key presses and their results in vim? Any recommendations? Since it's basically about text and key presses, I'd assume that one wo
862.
by stewbrew 15y ago
So, shyness is a social problem now?
863.
by stewbrew 15y ago
I wish I’d convince a serious hacker to bring things to the point where <?d writeln("Hello, world!"); ?> could be inserted in a web page. OMG!
864.
by stewbrew 15y ago
"They need to learn from Google how to present a new language" You mean like choosing a name that is easy to search on the internet?
865.
by stewbrew 15y ago
I am well aware that rats don't have to "understand" these processes. There is a shift in perspective underlying this argument though that doesn't help when discussing whether a rat is capable of recognizing another rat's distress (i.e., em
866.
by stewbrew 15y ago
Given their mathematical and statistical skills, somebody will soon start hiring rats as financial consultants. Do you really think this is the simpler explanation?
867.
by stewbrew 15y ago
"What this demonstrates is that rats will go to another rat's aid, and nothing about their internal models for doing so." The notion of aid implies it has a mental model of the other rat and that it consideres the other rat as a rat that ne
868.
by stewbrew 15y ago
vi != vim I guess running a terminal locally causes some pain too?
869.
by stewbrew 15y ago
This could be because :dir is not a vim command.
870.
by stewbrew 15y ago
The headline is simply wrong. "So from a superficial analysis anything since 1.10.99.902 could be vulnerable." That's not _every_ linux screen locker. E.g. ubuntu 10.04 isn't affected.

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