threedaymonk

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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Desktop fragmentation!
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Sibilant: JavaScript with a Lisp(sibilantjs.info)
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Do you have any basis for thinking that? I ask because my perception is that the cost of OS is effectively zero for almost all computer users: Windows or Mac OS comes free* with the computer. * Free and bundled together at a sharply discoun
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
> If that we're not the case, HN would remove the usernames as well. That doesn't follow. And, funnily enough, HN does deemphasise the author by showing the name in small grey text. There are plenty of reasons to attribute po
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
> Scoring, ranking and sorting people is important for the future of the web. [...] You need some sort of analyses/score/rank to value the content shared by someone. This strikes me as some kind of variant of the ad hominem f
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
To be slightly pedantic, I used the term "potency" specifically because that does have a pharmacological meaning: it's a measure of drug activity in terms of concentration. "Power", on the other hand, is a rather il
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Potency is a pretty misleading comparison. There are drugs that are prescribed in μg (mcg) doses, and drugs that are prescribed in mg - mistaking μg for mg has caused deaths. The LD50 of caffeine for an average male is about 14 g. That&#x27
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
It's only Times [New Roman] because that's what your browser is set to use by default. Imagine: a world in which you could choose your preferred font for reading websites! Sure, most people would choose Comic Sans, but that would
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
"an otherwise horrible reading experience." What's horrible about the article? It's straightforward, conventional typography of the sort used in printed books for a long time.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but my disdain for Quartz comes from the fact that following a Quartz link on the device I'm using at that moment seems to have a less than evens chance of delivering readable text. For a site that&#
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Pretty much everything I read on my Kindle looks the same in terms of font, styling, etc. Far from being "bleak and characterless", it gets out the way and lets me read the story, which is what I'm there for.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
If that were the case, we'd need separate codepoints for every letter used as a unit of measurement, from A for ampere onwards. In fact, it's just there for legacy reasons, as pointed out elsewhere: the convention for units of mea
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
It seems that, no matter how many times I look for the way to see raw text, I never remember that it's "<>".
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
American people are really hard to understand. The way they pronounce "can" and "can't" the same, and the paucity of vowels in their phonemic inventory (cot/caught and Mary/merry/marry) is most perple
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
I find relative numbers distracting (because they change), and don't use them, but that's definitely not a problem in Vim: you can jump to a specific line very easily by typing e.g. "123G", regardless of whether line numbers are visible.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
"Ten below", "ten below zero", and "ten degrees below zero" all seem natural to me (BrE speaker), but I'm not sure about "ten degrees celsius below zero". That strikes me as an attempt to shoehorn units into an ambiguous* idiom. It doesn't
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Of course. A true Perl user has no need for sed, when there's "perl -pi -e".
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
> it does, you know, make sense to conduct society's business during daylight hours. Not necessarily! In hotter parts of the world, they deliberately avoid conducting business during the middle part of the day. (That may come with earli
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
That's a good post that I hadn't seen before. Thanks. It's a matter of continuing puzzlement to me that, despite the fact that more robust and better-abstracted methods of producing output exist, the dominant paradigm in web development is
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
You fixed header processing? That's great! I wrote an HTTP proxy server. Every site on the internet I ever tried worked through it except HN, which went into a redirect loop. I investigated (insofar as HN's hair-trigger banning allows suc
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
git reflog will save you from any amount of rebase-induced chaos. Pick the last good point, reset --hard, and carry on.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Every complaint I've read about rebase is this same one, over and over, and I think it's based on a false premise. > Rebasing destroys your history, and therefore destroys the point of using a VCS. The answer, of course, is don't do th
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Or polygraph (lie detector) machines, widely used in the US, but considered unreliable pseudoscience in Europe.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
I wrote something similar a while back (in 2005, apparently). It's not quite how I'd write it now, but I'm not too embarrassed by my code from eight years ago! http://po-ru.com/clock.js
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
It's a manifestly false assumption, too. We've had free movement in the EU for quite some time, and yet Greece is not empty. Migration waxes and wanes with economic factors, but most of the population stays home, where their family, languag
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Some of them take a very long time to appear: the human liver can store up to five years' worth of vitamin B12! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12_deficiency
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
I had - chose to have - braces in adulthood, and I was very, very aware of the fact that it was in essence a cosmetic surgery. It certainly made me less judgemental about other cosmetic procedures.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
That if/else syntax is used in K&R's The C Programming Language, the source of Unix (and thus of FreeBSD etc.), and it's pretty common in JavaScript. It may not be the most common syntax in modern C, but it's hardly weird or obscure.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
One technique that I saw recommended recently (here, possibly!) that works really well for version-controlled LaTeX documents is to write each sentence on a separate line. Single line breaks don't affect the finished product, but separating
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
My apologies! In that case, I join you in sadness.

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