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by twopoint718 17y ago
Yeah I didn't notice what people were talking about for a bit. I almost always use highlight + middle-click. This: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html is an interesting article about the different avenues that text can take under
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by twopoint718 17y ago
The case was: NEW WORLD COMMUNICATIONS OF TAMPA, INC., d/b/a WTVT-TV, Appellant, v. JANE AKRE, Appellee. The source (that I found) is LexisNexis' compilation: "FL Courts of Appeal Cases from 1957"
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by twopoint718 17y ago
That's what enriched text was supposed to be for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text . I say "supposed" because it seems that it has not really caught on. I consider HTML to be inappropriate for e-mail. Seems to be down at the mome
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by twopoint718 17y ago
It seemed to me that in Tokyo many streets had names. It seemed more likely to have a name if it was multiple lanes and ran more or less straight for a significant distance. Also, to me the word "opposite" seems misplaced. I think that "com
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by twopoint718 17y ago
From the mailing list, my impression on the most frequently asked/discussed topics: * Laziness: Does something hold onto the head of a list or does it drop it. Memory characteristics of the same. Unexpected memory usage. * Compilation: When
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I think the answer to how the average person finds out about Wave is that because this is something that Google is doing, it will be reported on in the popular press; much like Twitter.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Have used roundup for a while. Pretty bare-bones, but it is being used in a helpdesk-type environment rather than bug tracking. It has e-mail, command line, and web interfaces to suit different types of users.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
That's exactly my point (which was not meant to be a technical suggestion for implementation, I'm aware of the problems involved). My question is basically, "where do e-books and DRM leave the public library?" In my opinion, if a business m
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by twopoint718 17y ago
What about a system where you can download an e-book for free, read it for a month or so with the option of rolling-over that term for another month -- as long as someone else hasn't requested it? In short, where are libraries going to be i
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I know it is somewhat jargony, but FLOSS, meaning Free (Libre) and Open Source Software, is what "Free software" means. I think that makes clear that OSS is FLOSS without the "FL." The problem (often mentioned) is that "free" is overloaded
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I feel like Clojure is CL-flavored Scheme. It's a lisp-1 with strong emphasis put on functional style (except for TCO, but loop/recur are a good explicit workaround) and then it has tons of libraries (via Java) and CL-style macros and more
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I had a similar experience, if I'm interpreting this correctly, in that my university was pretty focused on the theory. I had a lot of CS courses where we were programming in "pen and paper." When we did write code it was often Java, but yo
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Ask HN: In-memory Webserver
2 points by twopoint718 17y ago|5 comments
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Or as Guile http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html suggests, if you're going to add a scripting/extension language to a program, they have a way of growing in size and complexity; just use guile.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Emacs actually does have a kind of DSL for dates. In diary-mode you can specify recurring dates like this: %%(diary-anniversary 14 2 1940) Dad turns %d Check out the EmacsWiki for more examples: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wi
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by twopoint718 17y ago
That is really an amazing article, I couldn't agree more.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I get the irony, but I suppose here it is so that the ads all get a second hit.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Clojure would look something like this: (defstruct mountain :name :latitude :longitude :country) (struct mountain "Zugspitze" 47.416667 10.983333 "Germany")
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by twopoint718 17y ago
That's exactly it. You can't trademark "Sci-Fi" and you can't trademark "Domain", but these things, you can. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/07/sci-fi-channel-reboot...
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Same here, but it seems that all the Lisp and functional action happens on the coasts.
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Or a new programming language that we haven't even heard of. Emacs (and Vi(m)) will typically have a programming editing mode long before v 1.0 of the lang comes out (c.f. clojure-mode)
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I think it depends on the category, but yes, I can see that. In the more technical areas there are the predictable "Here's a homework question that I'm sort of trying to disguise" and, what the article said, "How do I build a forum." What Y
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I still love that motto.
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Ask HN: Any good SIM-only carriers or plans in US?
3 points by twopoint718 17y ago|3 comments
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I've seen something like this in restaurants before. They have some kind of grease-pencil/crayon and a black-backed pane of glass that's lit with UV light. It glows pretty nicely. Does anyone know what this is exactly?
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by twopoint718 17y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Having a chain of signed PGP keys that allow you to infer the trustworthiness of someone hasn't seemed to catch on. Are there any good articles on how this idea developed, and succeeded and or failed (I'm sure
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by twopoint718 17y ago
or http://dodgit.com/
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by twopoint718 17y ago
On #5, the code isn't doing what the author may think: (let [#^int a 2 #^int b 3] (cons a b)) a and b are not hinted to be primitive types. Type hinting is purely for objects. Use hinting to make it clear to
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by twopoint718 17y ago
Textbooks are indispensable for really getting the material down, but I've found it much easier to read lectures. Feynman has great examples of this type of work: "The Character of Physical Law" or "The Feynman Lectures on Computation" are
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by twopoint718 17y ago
International Editions have saved me a ton of money. I found out about this when I started seeing big C++ books (the really thick ones) around the lab with a big sticker on it that read "not for sale in the USA" (or similar). These are th

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