wry_discontent

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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   I have a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, and it's awesome. I can use a million emacs key chords all day and it's painless for my pinkies.
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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   I've had relative success with org-mode. I figure that's the emacs mode you're talking about. I have a capture template that automatically catalogs the entry to the right date. It comes up in a new window and I just write wh
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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   Maybe I'll finally be able to understand music.
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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   When are we going to get people in government who have the slightest clue about computers?
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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   My life? No. My projects? Absolutely.
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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   To completely fair, that's how most regular people make decisions too.
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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   I feel the same way. I always think in language and can't conceive of thinking productively another way. Sure, I can imagine a shape, but that's not something that I'd consider really thinking. Additionally, for me to reall
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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   My first thought was that Vonnegut realized this decades ago
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   by wry_discontent 10y ago

   People don't just happen to channel their free time back into their work. A full time job is still 40 hours a week. Depending on what you do, that might be exhausting, you may not have the energy to pursue leisure activities. I doubt
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    by wry_discontent 10y ago

    You definitely can watch tv in a more active way and see underlying themes in most shows, even if they're unintentional.
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    by wry_discontent 10y ago

    Why am I supposed to care? Facebook isn't a news source. They're a software company. They're under no obligation to be fair and balanced.
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    by wry_discontent 10y ago

    > just as it's easy to write, it's also easy to manage and measure people writing it I think you nailed why I don't care for writing Java perfectly.
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    by wry_discontent 10y ago

    I always remember this from Slaughterhouse Five. God, I love Kurt Vonnegut.
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    by wry_discontent 10y ago

    cant-stand-ya
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    by wry_discontent 10y ago

    I've written a handful of Clojure and Emacs Lisp, but I don't get macros. How is a macro different than passing a quoted list to a function? Maybe I just need to start slinging more lisp, but I don't see how they're par
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    by wry_discontent 10y ago

    In what world is Java halfway to lisp?