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by xelxebar 9y ago
I'm assuming autocorrect helpfully fixed "perigee" to "pedigree" for you. It's a nice little malapropism though. Anyway, minor point but "perigee" usually means closest approach to Earth ; "-gee
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by xelxebar 9y ago
For the fellow logophiles out there: http://phrontistery.info It's one of the coolest dictionaries of obscure words I've run across! Similarly, the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is quite excellent: http://ww
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by xelxebar 9y ago
FWIW, this answer sets off the scam warning bells in my head. There are two main reasons I think. First, you originally call the developer well-respected and then when pressed reveal that you really meant "personally like". This c
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by xelxebar 9y ago
As a math grad student, I really feel you on the crickets thing. My research is some obscure application of agebraic topology to general relativity. Over the years I've played with all kinds of ways to relate what I do to people. These
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by xelxebar 9y ago
It seems more like Highly Selective Skepticism at best to me. Straight naïve skepticism in the "question everything" sense tends to converge around scientific consensus unless you start from several wildly different and confident
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by xelxebar 9y ago
The idea of hosting issues along with the repo seems intriguing. Does anyone have experience doing the same with git? Seems like some people are doing it: https://github.com/duplys/git-issues
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I can't recommend these two YouTube channels enough: * Every Frame a Painting [0] * Nerdwriter1 [1] They've really increased my appreciation for film and film-making overall. I feel like my movie-watching has changed significantly
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I came here to recommend this book too! It's a text that definitely allows one to go as deep as they wish very fleshed out references, a good appendix, and lots of comments on directions that can be explored more deeply. It's a bo
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Hmmm. I wasn't considering the offendor's perspective. Here I'm mainly thinking of us on the recieving end. From this standpoint, by blaming Linus or whomever for our emotional reactions, we end up disempowering ourselves
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by xelxebar 9y ago
There's also some good, previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15721268
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by xelxebar 9y ago
No. It explicitly acknowledges that words can bother us. The point is that those feelings are our own and merit investigation in their own right. I find it often pays to ask, "Hmm, why would I be bothered by that?" in place of say
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by xelxebar 9y ago
> legitimate leadership technique What do you mean? If by "legitimate" you mean effective, then sure; linux kernel development seems to be humming along and providing value to lots of people. If by "legitimate" you me
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by xelxebar 9y ago
This is a good point. Options and flags aside, GNU coreutil's cat reduces essentially to a simple while loop around 'read' and 'write'. So without the heredoc read blocks until stdin contains characters. IIRC, the i
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Ask HN: How “minimal” can a server go?
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by xelxebar 9y ago
It's an interesting phenomenon. Personally, I find that the longer I mess around with ∗nix, the more I rely on older tools (e.g. man pages instead of google, coreutils bins instead of other specific tools, etc.) This also has the side
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Just fyi, you don't actually need the heredoc. This works just as well: cat > myfile.txt You can terminate input by sending ascii EOT (Ctrl-D). It makes sense once you realize that heredocs are just a way of explicitly sett
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by xelxebar 9y ago
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by xelxebar 9y ago
This is taking Betteridge's Law of Headlines a bit far... I just had to look this one up though, so for posterity: https://doi.org/10.2307/2387687 .
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by xelxebar 9y ago
"However unlikely" This is where probabilities bite us. If the probability is small enough then the expected death toll will drop to almost zero which merits little worry, despite how horrific said event mightt be. It sounds like
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Whoops :/
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by xelxebar 9y ago
This sentiment is basically the default from my experience and one I know all too well myself. It's a lot like makefiles and shell scripts in this way. I can't really comment on what Knuth did right or wrong, but for me reading Th
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Hmm... I'm not sure how you'd reliably do this. AFAIK routers don't usually bounce back a notification to origin every time they route a packet. You'd have to do some kind of traceroute and then look up the ips in the ge
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Since you bring up concatenative programming in general, I recently came across https://concatenative.org and think some people here might like it.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I've been learning about basic circuit design recently and realized that I don't have any clue how things relate to the underlying electrodynamics. Does anyone have some good textbook recommendations that derive things like Ohm&#x
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by xelxebar 9y ago
This is a good point. Methods matter. I tracked down the exact references: [0] A. R. Brown and W. A. Sampson, Program debugging: the prevention and cure of program errors. Computer Monographs, 18. 1973 [1] Thomas J. Ostrand and Elaine J. We
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by xelxebar 9y ago
The article mentions another Coding Horror one at the bottom [0]. I found this tidbit from there interesting: "In Code Complete, Steve McConnell cited two studies that proved it: "A pair of studies performed [in 1973 and 1984] fou
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by xelxebar 9y ago
> 3. The CPU eco-system including ARM's is a bit sclerotic. Silly question, but what do you mean by "sclerotic" here? I had to look up the word and only found medical definitions.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Thank you (and @marcoperaza) for unpacking things a bit. I was mostly unaware of the sideband technologies that go along with the basic tag and attribute structure, and your comments about the community and "guilt by association"
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Sure, but licences are not free to obligate anything at all. A lincense cannot legally obligate otherwise illegal behaviour, for example. It just wouldn't hold up in court. My question is about how far licenses can circumscribe non-ill
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I'm genuinely perplexed at that animosity towards XML. In that second link I'm unable to find any substantive problem other than that "XML endtags make it too verbose". That seems like a legitimate thing to worry about w

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