telemachos

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by telemachos 14y ago
It's a John Doerr quote[1]. Here's the opening paragraphs from an article which discusses it: Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr is said to have once described his investment philosophy as "no conflict, no interest." In other words, w
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by telemachos 14y ago
How high are you setting the bar on "numerate person"? People make terrible choices all the time despite knowing and understanding all sorts of things (math, health risks, harm they may cause themselves or others) because they have emotio
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by telemachos 14y ago
I agree with your main claim about the value of mathematical literacy, but your example is terrible. It's not really about math at all. It seems to be about decision making and many people's tendency to choose very faint hopes, no matter ho
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by telemachos 14y ago
The sharing command is new to desktops, but not new to OSX. I've used it in shell scripts on a Snow Leopard (10.6) server. (It's very useful if you are creating or updating the permissions for hundreds of shares at once. The manual method
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Interesting new Unix commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion(apple.blogoverflow.com)
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Fiddling with spelling shibboleths while the economy burns(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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by telemachos 14y ago
Either I'm misunderstanding you, or you misunderstood me. The /Application folder itself is owned by root: achilles /$ ls -ld Applications/ drwxrwxr-x+ 55 root admin 1870 Jul 20 06:54 Applications/ But that wasn't what I mean
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by telemachos 14y ago
From what I can tell, the app defaults to (1) no password and (2) a base user of $USER . Maybe a better way to put it: whoever you install it as is the owner of the app's folder in /Applications. That will be your base user. I think they'r
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by telemachos 14y ago
I love Inconsolata, except for one small thing: the curly quotation marks. If you have that same quibble, good news: Inconsolata-dz[1]. Inconsolata with straight quotes. [1]: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-dou...
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Grep Trimming(ithaca.arpinum.org)
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Rails, Objects, Tests, and Other Useful Things(noelrappin.com)
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by telemachos 14y ago
We all do it sometimes, and it's no big deal. I just couldn't pass up the smile.
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by telemachos 14y ago
Without arguing for or against it, I'll just say it's the first book JGC recommends in his linked post. :)
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by telemachos 14y ago
As a counterpoint to the Strunk and White recommendation, please take a look at this: 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice [1]. (Note that it doesn't primarily object to the stylistic advice in S&W, which it calls "vapid" but "mostly harm
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by telemachos 14y ago
I've used Postgres.app recently on Lion. What problem did you have?
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by telemachos 14y ago
I no longer fall into deep pits of yak shaving, but I'm not sure I agree with the opposite extreme either ("use the absolute vanilla defaults"). But I would expect that there's a natural progression (sort of like the many "evolution of a &#
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On Configuration(sstephenson.us)
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Google Service Drops Support for Opera(planetbotch.blogspot.no)
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Stupid answering machine program code(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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Http... something(blog.absurd.li)
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by telemachos 14y ago
Worth saying: this is not another minor update of Wrox's Beginning Perl . There have been a number of revisions of Simon Cozens's Perl 5.6 (5.8?) era Beginning Perl , but this is a completely new book (other than the title). Cozen's origi
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PerlyBook (create epub or mobi books from any Perl module on metacpan)(perlybook.org)
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by telemachos 14y ago
I love the Harvard Bookstore, but the Cambridge neighborhood (or maybe Boston more generally?) may be a bit unusual. Cambridge also supports an outstanding independent bookstore focused on books in foreign languages (Schoenhof's[1]), a smal
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by telemachos 14y ago
Ah, fair enough. I really only meant to cite the one example - since I found it so striking when I first saw it. (It had never occurred to me to use sed for head that way.)
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by telemachos 14y ago
> -T seems useful doesn't it? How else would you get that info? The long (-l) format already provides the month, day, hour and minutes. -T adds only seconds and the year. No utility can possibly provide every format option that someone
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by telemachos 14y ago
Getting rid of good things would be bad, but is sed 10q really "ridiculously complex"?
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by telemachos 14y ago
> A lot of legacy has been shed. An example I remember from the UNIX to Plan 9 command translation page[1]: UNIX Plan 9 head sed 10q [1]: http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/pla
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by telemachos 14y ago
> No, ls has dozens of tangled options because the philosophy is to "do one thing and do it well ". Do you mean that in order to truly do well its one thing (list information about files), that ls had to incorporate things like these
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by telemachos 14y ago
No. It may be unintentional, but the tone of stiff's comments is highly condescending. Exhibit A: Whatever you think about James's choices in this library, he has clearly thought a lot about OOP. It's just silly to start a comment with "Y
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You don't have to use Bundler to create new RubyGems(postmodern.github.com)
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