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by wtbob 9y ago
> If there was one thing I could ask of Vim (or even emacs), it'd be a consistent high-quality default user experience. FWIW I find both Prelude ( https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude ) and Spacemacs ( http:/&
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by wtbob 9y ago
> Majority in what way? Not necessarily a majority of the people. The people are irrelevant, because the United States is composed of the States, not of the people. The majority of the states, through their electors, elect the President
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by wtbob 9y ago
> Did you sleep through the 200 and 2016 elections, or are you confusing people with acres? Are you confusing the states with the people? The United States are composed of the several States, and the States elected Messrs. Bush & Tr
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by wtbob 9y ago
> You're assuming that a majority of country should cede their right to having a say for the president, because acreage. The majority of the country elects the President, because the United States are composed of the several States
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by wtbob 9y ago
> They also need to keep detailed log books, plan out routes, pass inspections -- and know how to talk civilly and constructively to DOT inspectors. An eighth grade education will not get you there. Especially on the last part. I don&#x2
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by wtbob 9y ago
> Isn't it just better to keep companies small? That depends on what you're trying to achieve: the bigger the goal you're striving for, the more people you'll need for it. Yes, technology is an amazing lever, but it&
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by wtbob 9y ago
I generally feel my heart sink whenever I see dang or sctb post — it is almost always a negative contribution to the discussion, of the form 'we have detached this thread, because we don't like it, for opaque reasons.' I like
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by wtbob 9y ago
Great article (honestly: it's worth a read), but it doesn't display properly on a half-widescreen window (at least not mine, at least not in Firefox). Remember when the Web was supposed to be device-independent? That was really a
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by wtbob 9y ago
Yeah, I'll agree as an American that $55 for code which can do primitive OCR is probably really, really cheap. Your client should have treated you better. > The only thing you can—and should—do is be ruthless yourself. Negotiate
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by wtbob 9y ago
> I hope this question is relevant enough to the thread to ask here: what language did the people of Turkey, and by extension most of the Turkic-speaking countries, speak before the Mongolian invasion? The people of Anatolia spoke Greek
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by wtbob 9y ago
> Similar to the differences between Olde English and today's English. I think that you're thinking of the Modern English of Shakespeare's era or Middle English (e.g. 'Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote'),
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by wtbob 9y ago
Worse, if you make two or three replies quickly, you get blocked for hours and hours. It's terrible!
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by wtbob 9y ago
In the long run, I think that's the right location for things like IoT devices: there's no reason for my thermostat to dial back to the cloud when it can just connect to my central computing unit in the closet, exactly like it c
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by wtbob 9y ago
The old Firefox sync protocol used secure keys to encrypt user data; the new protocol uses one's Firefox account password to encrypt it. A memorable password is a low-entropy password, which means it is an insecure encryption key. Moz
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by wtbob 9y ago
Firefox Sync used to be protected with high-entropy keys; now it's protected by a (likely) low-entropy password. Moreover, even if one uses a high-entropy character sequence as a password, Mozilla are able to target one with malicious
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by wtbob 9y ago
Nor with JavaScript disabled. I'm actually trying to figure out what it actually is.
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There's just no getting around it: you're building a distributed system (2013)(queue.acm.org)
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by wtbob 10y ago
Yes, I use them. I prefer them to any online service because they are completely under my own control. I do wish that I could securely sync them, but ever since Firefox completely broke the security of their Sync system, there's noth
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by wtbob 10y ago
Well, my computer won't display an image apparently inserted with JavaScript, although it could if I wanted to grant execute privileges on it to computers-are-fast.github.io Does anyone have a link to the image(s)?
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by wtbob 10y ago
It's not so much morale (although that is important) as it is about effectiveness: someone effective at Marine combat won't be effective at Air Force combat, and vice versa, and similarly for the Navy and the Army. They're
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by wtbob 10y ago
'Up to date' doesn't mean 'bleeding edge'; a two-month-old (or even year-old) distribution can be up-to-date.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Hey, guys, I just had a great idea. Let's ban bombs, knifes, and driving into people. That would fix the terrorism problem. They started banning guns almost a century ago. While it did probably reduce the number of gun murders,
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by wtbob 10y ago
> But as a civilian, I'm not sure why I'd give a shit. I hope you give a shit about the effectiveness of theprotection others are delivering you. The sort of person who works well in the Air Force is not the same sort of perso
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by wtbob 10y ago
Surely the right answer would have been to enable users to report spam invites, and to kill spam-sending domains. Kinda like what is already done for email. Could probably repurpose a lot of the existing infrastructure.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Hangouts is also solid proof that no-one at Google uses a non-Chrome browser on Android: trying to open a meeting hangout invite with anything other than Chrome as the default browser … opens a link to Google Play, not the Hangouts app. I
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by wtbob 10y ago
You're arguing against the concept that writing one's own Lisp is necessary , and you're right: it's not necessary to implement Lisp to appreciate it. The post you replied to, OTOH, was arguing that writing one's o
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If you are really in a hurry and can't commit to learning the hundreds of forms in Common Lisp, Scheme is a minimalist alternative. There are 25 special forms in Lisp, and the standard forbids the creation of more: http:/&#x
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by wtbob 10y ago
Passed CL in buzz & hype, no doubt, but certainly not in power & suitability for large projects.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Thank you for responding; I do appreciate that. Isn't '"People in the cities" (who tend to be strongly left-leaning) literally want to give money to the less well-off people in rural areas to help support them. It's
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by wtbob 10y ago
I'd love to replace my nearly 20-year-old fridge, but there is literally no fridge on the market with anything approaching its build quality, not even for thousands of dollars. Everything is pot metal & cheap plastic, and I know

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