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by tbirdz 13y ago
You might want to change the name from Arc to something else. Arc is the name of a lisp dialect written by Paul Graham, and is the language Hacker News is written in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_%28programming_lang
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by tbirdz 13y ago
> I can be a racist bigot, but if I'm a good programmer I will not prevent login for the users 晴輝, Abd al-Aziz or 湘. However, if you were a programmer with a very insular mindset, you could create a system without support for such n
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by tbirdz 13y ago
If you're not quite ready to whole hog on the functional purity aspect, I'd suggest you take a look at OCaml. OCaml supports many modern programming amenities, such as Garbage Collection, Higher-order Functions, Static Type-Checki
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Or maybe comp.compression
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by tbirdz 13y ago
How long until "Method for adding an indicator to show if a web page is playing audio" is patented?
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I understand what you are saying but it just seems a little silly to me when the "silly mnemonic" is exactly the same as the "actual meaning" except for the word associated with one letter -- xzf meaning extract zee file
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I fail to see which of those things require a VPS. You could easily do them from having a local Linux install, or even a Linux VM. It sounds more to me like you are saying every developer should gain experience working in a Linux environmen
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I have heard people say this before, and it always makes me wonder. Why not remember it as "extract zipped file" instead of "extract zee file"? That is after all a more accurate description of the flags you are giving ta
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Until your karma count goes above a certain amount, the downvote function is disabled. So it could be the case that these new users are simply unable to downvote, not that they refuse to do so.
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I have been using this setup for a while (see my reply to the parent for more details), and I have found it is more comfortable to curl thumbs than to have a pinky outstretched to the Caps Lock position. The problem I had with the outstretc
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I map ctrl to alt, and alt (meta) to the windows key. I also map backspace to caps lock. This is similar to the old lisp machine keyboards emacs started on. For example, the space cadet keyboard: http://world.std.com/~jdosta
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by tbirdz 13y ago
This is all well and good for enforcing behaviours that a person could naturally fall into, but what if you wanted to someone to do something they had never done before?
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by tbirdz 13y ago
If you like Deluxe Paint you might want to check out grafx2. It's a GPL licensed graphics program inspired by Deluxe Paint. I've been messing around with it a bit, and it's pretty cool. Would probably be useful for sprite art
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Here is a backup screenshot I took of the page, in case ubuntuforums is taken down and you want to see what the fuss was all about. http://imgur.com/hUX3f1F
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by tbirdz 13y ago
If you view source on the page you can see a link to the song. It's being played from an invisible embedded youtube player, so you can get the link from there.
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Ubuntu Forums has been hacked/defaced(ubuntuforums.org)
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I don't pay for any SaaS. This isn't any kind of judgment I'm passing, I'm not trying to say "noone should psy for SaaS" or anything like that, just weighing in my own preferences.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
RSA refers to Rivest-Shamir-Adleman and ECC refers to Elliptic curve cryptography. They are both algorithms which take different approaches to public key cryptography. RSA has been in use for longer than ECC and it's considered to be m
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Personally I do avoid illegal drugs, and many legal ones such as alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, etc. so I don't think it is really fair to assume hypocrisy on makeset's part here. That being said, I did find their comment to come off
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by tbirdz 13y ago
If anyone is looking to purchase one of these, I would like to point out that you can still get them straight from china by purchasing them from lemote directly, from their store at alibaba. I got mine from here last march, it was about $20
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I wonder if Debian will make a similarly flattened new logo for their Iceweasel version of Firefox.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
It's not like having DRM is really stopping piracy, especially in Netflix's case. For example their new original series of House of Cards and season 4 of Arrested Development were both pirated (I assume using some kind of desktop
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by tbirdz 13y ago
GOG is a DRM free game distribution service, and they seem to be doing well even despite the ease of pirating a DRM free game.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Well it depends on the book store really. For example Barnes and Noble lets you return books up to 2 weeks after purchase. Amazon allows you to return kindle ebooks, but I'm not sure of their policy on physical books. And of course you
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by tbirdz 13y ago
However, note that most commercial lisp implementations, such as LispWorks, Allegro CL each have a free (gratis, not libre), albeit limited, personal/noncommercial edition as well as evaluation and trial licenses for their other versio
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by tbirdz 13y ago
The first edition of this book is a classic, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Machine Learning. It's really cool that a 2nd edition is coming out, I can't wait to read it!
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>I'm curious how the funding was going before this, I can't imagine it was getting much traction. The kickstarter blog post mentions that they couldn't stop the project from receiving funds, so the project must have been f
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Somewhat related: There's another site called http://offbeatr.com/ which is like Kickstarter, except it is exclusively for porn, sex toys, erotic art/literature/games, and other such adult projects. I don&#x2
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by tbirdz 13y ago
One of the key things about FizzBuzz is testing divisibility by 3 and 5. There is a lot of software you can write without using the % operator, so perhaps there are large amounts of self trained programmers who never learned about this?
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by tbirdz 13y ago
The book looks really interesting, as OCaml is a great language, but I don't see why it is necessary to grant the authors permission to "Read your public information." and "Update your public repositories (Commits, Issue

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