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by tbe 14y ago
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson
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by tbe 14y ago
I write norwegian on a US MacBook just fine. All the weird characters are available by pressing the Option key. When I first got the laptop I switched layouts between coding and writing mails, but after a while I found that learning the key
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by tbe 14y ago
Cool idea to use Markdown's code snippet feature for literate programming :) I guess you could do this in any language by incorporating something like the following into your project's makefile: sed '/^\t/!d; s/^\t//'
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by tbe 14y ago
> 3.13 Do not program "defensively" suggests that the programmer should allow functions to crash if given unhandled input types. This does not work in most other programming languages to create a fault tolerant application. Incidentally
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by tbe 14y ago
So now we finally know why the maya calendar ends on 21 dec 2012 - they were waiting for the E17 release just like the rest of us! End of the world speculations were just confusions with the phrase "when hell freezes over", which has also b
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by tbe 14y ago
CPU quota
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by tbe 14y ago
And then something like Plan 9 could finally be for the masses. Just less elegantly implemented by Google than what Bell Labs did back in the 80s. Come to think of it; perhaps Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are already working on this in Google'
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by tbe 14y ago
Agree. I've found the web view in Pocket (and probably other apps with built-in web views) to do a better job of displaying HN comment pages than any of the browsers I tried, though. Simply because it wraps the comments at a comfortable lin
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by tbe 14y ago
The one thing I don't love about my HHKB is its lack of dedicated F-keys. Any suggestions for a good alternative?
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by tbe 14y ago
A Smalltalk compiler for the Objective-C runtime exists here: http://etoileos.com/dev/docs/languages/smalltalk/
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by tbe 14y ago
sed '$G;1h;1!H;$!d'
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by tbe 14y ago
Slightly off topic, but does it annoy anybody else that when TVs "upgraded" to 1920x1080 as de facto standard, computer screens were downgraded from 1920x1200 as a consequence? Why do computers need to be 16:9 all of a sudden??
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by tbe 15y ago
I'm more confused about the name of the company. To me, Square was the maker of Final Fantasy and other role playing games in the golden years of 8- and 16-bit video game consoles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_(company)
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by tbe 15y ago
The reason why Apple and their ilk use an old version of GCC, is that newer versions are licensed under GPLv3 which does not work for them. For the same reason they are switching to LLVM. So if Clang supports C++11 well enough, Apple switch
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by tbe 15y ago
Indeed. I'd say it's about twice as old as Mac OS X. The first version of OS X was released 10 years ago. BBedit about 20 years ago, at the end of the System 6 era.
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by tbe 15y ago
The problem with / and ' is that they might start the search in a region of the page not currently visible. The hit-a-hint solutions limit the search to the visible portion of the page, which is much, much more productive. You typically hav