tommorris

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by tommorris 17y ago
Yeah. Faster ZeroConf resolution. Make ad-hoc wifi more useful. Fix up wireless security so I can have encrypted traffic going between my laptop and the base station while still making it open access. Get everyone to adopt IPv6 so I don't h
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by tommorris 17y ago
The moral of this recent flux of letters and e-mails: Steve Jobs needs to start a blog or get on Twitter.
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by tommorris 17y ago
Depends on how you define 'underpowered'. The iPad is underpowered in that it can't run Vim or emacs. If you are a developer, being able to run a text editor is the baseline for a device. Why would you want a cheaply built laptop? So when y
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by tommorris 17y ago
schacon says in the comments on the linked post that they plan to have write too, although that might be a subtle April Fool's joke. That said, schacon has been working on increasing compatibility between VCSes like producing hg-git. It'd
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by tommorris 17y ago
"the internet is not "special" and should be censored like books, films and newspapers." Yeah, as little as possible, thanks. Can this man really see no difference between Google - a private company - setting rules for their own site and th
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by tommorris 17y ago
I thought they already did this a few years ago - http://github.com/blog/31-back-to-subversion ;) Oh, but this time it actually works!
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365Git - a snippet of git use and explanations posted every day(365git.tumblr.com)
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by tommorris 17y ago
Elsewhere in the thread, I posted some recommendations on books on philosophy of religion from a non-theistic perspective. I guess I should probably list some books on philosophy generally. 1. Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy A
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by tommorris 17y ago
I don't agree that the arguments in the God Delusion are too bad. He does take some real liberties with Aquinas, but all the scholarly dressing you apply to Aquinas doesn't really improve the arguments. Dawkins deals with them too hastily,
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by tommorris 17y ago
I respect you enough to think you are a person who can find more useful signals of respect than the ability to memorise and abide by arbitrary rules laid out by the unseen gods of menswear. ;)
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by tommorris 17y ago
I reject the significance of the question, and I reject the purported method used to answer it. First, defang it of the direction of causal fit problem. Does being in a state of greater educational attainment dispose one towards happiness?
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by tommorris 17y ago
Why would an iPad be more convenient on a plane? Well, cramped conditions make it almost impossible to use a laptop in cattle class. But no such problem for a smaller device like an iPad (or, I find, a netbook - 2x3hr batteries for my netbo
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by tommorris 17y ago
Widespread adoption of GNU/Linux on the desktop. (Prompted by...) Widespread adoption of LISP by developers. (Both of which cause...) The Singularity! (But, sadly, Ray Kurzweil dies a few days before the Singularity happens.) Okay, okay, pr
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by tommorris 17y ago
Be sure that you are aware of the laws on where you travel to. In the United Kingdom, the police can seek a warrant that requires you to either decrypt a specific piece of data or to surrender any encryption private key or password under Pa
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by tommorris 17y ago
Yes, my mistake. When in doubt, do what is correct rather than what I say. My typewriter homekey bindings have been wrecked by Vim use.
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by tommorris 17y ago
I'm somewhat surprised - but gratified - to read my post on Hacker News. I posted it mostly as a sort of very dry, tongue-firmly-in-cheek public memo to various people I know who are always telling me why I really need to "get with cloud co
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by tommorris 18y ago
I see a lot of that kind of writing: it's taught quite consistently to fine arts students, where it does actually have a use in persuading funding bodies to give money. If you say to a funding body "We want to look at the relationship betwe