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by tsm 13y ago
GitHub takes advantage of open source ideals to build its community...but doesn't open source its own software to give back to the community. It seems a little hypocritical. I'd feel much better if GitHub had a useful open source
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by tsm 13y ago
I wrote Rails for a startup this summer, and had access to my own T60 and a MBP they gave me (I also did iOS, so it was necessary). I worked on both, but definitely preferred the Thinkpad. I run Crunchbang, so everything ran perfectly fast
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by tsm 13y ago
It's always annoyed and confused me that GitHub Enterprise exists. GitHub is founded on the premise that open source is a good idea...yet for self-hosted git management the freedom-friendly solution is...GitLab. So good for GitLab for
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by tsm 13y ago
I use and enjoy vimium too...but it doesn't help with editing text fields.
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by tsm 13y ago
If you use Firefox, I recommend the It's All Text! plugin, which opens $EDITOR in a new window and seamlessly transfers its contents into the textfield you care about. I think a Chrome version is in the works, but there's nothing
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by tsm 13y ago
These details are befuddling. "Personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed". It can't be accessed because it's somehow stored elsewhere, or it can't be accessed because of the encryption? That is, do
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by tsm 13y ago
This is why I love having FB messages delivered via email. I get to read the content without triggering the read receipt, letting me reply that night or the next morning without possibly offending the sender. The downside is that recently F
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by tsm 13y ago
I've done ICPC for the past two years, and will probably get dragged into it this year (small CS program at my school). We don't practice, and usually end up in the top third regionally. Not great. But it's just not worth my
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by tsm 13y ago
If it's useful to other people--and obviously it is--it was worth writing, so congratulations on shipping. That said, put me in the category of crotchety old Vim users (even though I'm only 20) who really don't have a use for
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by tsm 13y ago
If you read the HIG, Apple wants devs to use the splash page to show a picture of the app's UI elements--just with not text. All of Apple's apps do this--if you open up the address book, for example, it'll show you a picture
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by tsm 13y ago
It's back up now.
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by tsm 13y ago
I got excited--it looks great in ELinks! But doesn't actually work (none of the buttons are clickable). http://i.imgur.com/zH5E2Ib.png
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by tsm 13y ago
It's called a no-compete clause, and has very specific language about not making a product that'd be in the same space as something the company you just left makes.
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by tsm 13y ago
I'm now terrified about what 7-year old accounts I have that used an @yahoo for password resets. Bank: clear. Facebook: clear. Gmail: clear. Guess it won't be too bad. I thought about snagging something short and nice (like my ini
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by tsm 13y ago
It's not incorrect, just misleading. If I made a Python descendant named Monty and said, "Monty retains the functional goodness of Python", wouldn't you give me flack since that's not the main point of Python? What
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by tsm 13y ago
To a degree, yes. But that's because CL is roughly speaking the set union of all Lisps available in the '80s. Scheme was off doing its own thing, and knew it. Even today, languages make it clear where they're coming from. The
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by tsm 13y ago
That's fine, I can accept that Racket favors FP. The point isn't that Racket tries to be functional, it's that Lisp as a whole doesn't.
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by tsm 13y ago
No. Behold, a set of unique numbers: {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 359334085968622831041960188598043661065388726959079837} So there can be many unique things. Also, it could be argued that the last element is the "most unique" in that it has l
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by tsm 13y ago
I'm a Common Lisp programmer, and am beginning to get tired of phrases like "But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, ...". It's becoming increasingly dishonest to peddle Lisp as a functional language th
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by tsm 13y ago
APPLE: Approach and welcome the customer. Probe to understand their problem. Present your solution to their problem. (And make sure something happens now .) Listen for lingering issues. End with a polite good-bye and ask them to come back.
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by tsm 13y ago
Working as one of two programmers at a startup has really reinforced this for me. As a student and even when I worked at BigCo, I loved taking the time to do things myself, do things Right (with the capital R), and so forth. Now, since I&#x
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by tsm 13y ago
https://lobste.rs/ . But it's a pretty small community and is invite-only. (Existing members...an invite would be appreciated :) )
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by tsm 13y ago
[Replying here due to HN's threading limits. This is in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825892 ] Anyway, I fail to see a significant difference between Finder and Chrome's appearance: http://i.imgur.com/sgfMXOy.png If C
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by tsm 13y ago
What are you missing on your Mac? It has the system title bar, the system-provided x, -, and + buttons, and (on my Mountain Lion, at least), the system-provided full-screen button in the top-right. What more could there be?
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by tsm 13y ago
It's turned on in all four accounts. At times all of the unread counts show, currently none of them do, sometimes refreshing helps, sometimes it doesn't. It's a known issue. So far I haven't found a good solution or explanation. https://co
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by tsm 13y ago
Anyone else think the title is a bit too linkbaity? Only the Sith deal in absolutes... ("Never log into a Google account on a friend's machine", in case it gets changed later.)
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by tsm 13y ago
Did you even read the article? It's not about security...
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by tsm 13y ago
Multi Sign In is more useful to me though (now that I'm used to the UI). I really value having my first four tabs look like this: http://i.imgur.com/cnSZtTW.png (ignore the favicon inconsistency...it's a known and frustrating bug in Chrom
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by tsm 13y ago
That's awfully condescending and presumptuous, don't you think? I've taken zero Coursera courses (but did take the original AI course with Norvig and Thrun), but have been busy taking max credit loads at school, TAing, becoming the lead dev
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by tsm 13y ago
Incidentally, Lisp doesn't even represent boolean values as 0 and 1, it represent them as nil (equivalent to '(), the empty list) and anything-but-nil. Indeed: * (if 0 "truthy" "falsey") "truthy"

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