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by xiaomai 15y ago
Is there a DSL company or another cable company in your area? Talk to them and find out what introductory rates they have. Call Comcast and see if they can match or beat that offer (in both speed and price). If they won't, switch to the
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by xiaomai 15y ago
I bought Land of Lisp when it first came out, but I just barely started reading through it a few nights ago (school keeps getting in the way). I believe the stated intention of the book was to teach any lisp (but the book uses common lisp)
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by xiaomai 15y ago
I love racket. It's basically scheme with a bunch of extra goodness (libraries, language features) added on top. You may have heard of it before it was renamed (it used to be known as PLT Scheme). I've just started working through Land of
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by xiaomai 15y ago
I haven't time to play around with Clojure yet, but what makes you think it is more practical than scheme? The primary advantages seem to be JVM interop (which I don't think would be applicable on in a Node.js setting), and easy multi-thre
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by xiaomai 15y ago
In this case the question was "which phone do you desire?" I think that most people would answer that differently than "which phone do you plan to get."
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by xiaomai 15y ago
By definition, a license that discriminates against commercial use would not be open source, if I understand correctly ( http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd ). That said, the GPLv3 would probably meet your needs well. It ensures that if any
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I hope that's not true of a university like Stanford. I know it's not true for my school (which is nowhere near Stanford in terms of prestige or name-recognition).
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I used to feel this way, but I've had a change of heart. Why shouldn't someone be able to express themselves by having bright pink text on a bright rainbow-unicorn background? It's not my cup of tea, but I bet it makes a bunch of people ha
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by xiaomai 16y ago
Ok, I think I had this wrong and it looks like I've hit a limit on editing my post. Here's the right values (I hope): (All values are in /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default): palette: #070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B5
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by xiaomai 16y ago
agreed, but there is no mechanism for importing/exporting additional color schemes (I guess you could export an entire profile, but that entails quite a bit more than just color schemes).
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I haven't looked into how one can export gnome-terminal color palettes yet, but if anyone else is interested, I think these are the correct settings in gconf: /apps/gnome-terminal/palette: #070736364242:#D3D336368282:#B5B589890000:#CB
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by xiaomai 16y ago
What happens if you fill out the form (for the lazy like me)?
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by xiaomai 16y ago
Why do you prefer identi.ca to twitter? I don't use either, but I have been to both sites. Twitter looks nicer. I wish people did prefer identic.ca, it concerns me that so few popular websites are open-platforms.
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I like launchpad's "This bug also affects me" link. Maybe github could implement something similar.
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by xiaomai 16y ago
The sensible behavior is to install the documentation., so no .gemrc is necessary (to get sensible behavior).
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I didn't like the EliteBook 8440p that I got from work (it felt real clunky), but this refreshed version looks nice.
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by xiaomai 16y ago
sup ( http://sup.rubyforge.org/ ) is like gmail for the command-line. It's a beautiful thing.
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by xiaomai 16y ago
This doesn't come as a surprise to me. I was super excited for the Galaxy Tab when I first heard about it, but the price point is way too high. A non-apple tablet needs to be much cheaper to beat the iPad (I was thinking $300 for the wifi
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I agree that vimdiff is great on a widescreen. I like it so much that I do all my development with vertical splits now (instead of horizontal splits as I used to). ^w v
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by xiaomai 16y ago
Oops, yeah, meant to say "chicken-fried steak" (also "country-fried steak")
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I found it interesting that the chef claimed that frozen food could taste better than restaurant food. I recently bought a few frozen dinners to see what they taste like. The more expensive ones definitely taste better than the $0.88 Banq
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I mostly agree with your post. I did think he pointed out two legitimate issues with Ubuntu right now though: 1. panel stuff jumping around when the screen size changes (I think progress has been made here in GNOME recently). 2. flakey sus
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by xiaomai 16y ago
This wasn't a problem for a long time, but then a major release of release of rubygems came out, and then the switch to gemcutter happened, etc. I've gotten around this by installing everything but rubygems from the regular Ruby packages f
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by xiaomai 16y ago
We used plai in the Programming Languages course I took last semester (which happened to be taught by Matthew Flatt, one of the authors of htdp). plai is a great book too.
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by xiaomai 16y ago
The authors are working on a 2nd edition that seems much improved. Here's a link to the draft: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I think the science on characters/line is sound. It would be really nice if they would add columns for wider screens though (or at least two columns like the print scriptures). Actually, the printed scripture is a good example of followin
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by xiaomai 16y ago
I've tried liking rspec so many times, but Test::Unit really is where it's at. I don't understand the obsession with tests reading like english (Cucumber is much worse in this regard). I'll stick with ruby.
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by xiaomai 16y ago
As far as android is concerned, I'm not sure that Linux experience provides any advantage. The libraries are all standard java stuff or android-proprietary. The development tools are also well supported on all platforms (AFAIK).
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by xiaomai 16y ago
GNUstep is actually licensed under the LGPL, so applications that link against GNUstep libs are not required to be similarly licensed. If GNUstep were GPL, however, the app would also need to be GPL'ed. This is how Trolltech used to charge
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by xiaomai 16y ago
One objection to using HTTPS for everything that I occasionally see is the loading of 3rd party scripts (facebook, ad networks, etc.). The premise of the argument against using HTTPS is that these 3rd party scripts are only accessible via

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