xiongchiamiov

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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
I own a Nook. I don't know anyone with a Kindle, and one person with an iPad. I'm a 4th-year Software Engineering student at a pretty Linux-heavy university.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Really? In my (admittedly limited) experience, ant was much more of a PITA than things like Rake and Scons.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Python makes simple things hard. It also makes some slightly complicated things really easy, mostly by way of an incredibly extensive standard library. One line for a static webserver (python -m SimpleHTTPServer). Not that much more to e
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Python is my language of choice for most things. That being said, it's not really a good choice for text processing (that is, using regular expressions) or glue scripts - I find Ruby to be an excellent successor to Perl for those. For anyt
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Refactoring support has nothing to do with IDEs. Nothing. An IDE is, well, an integrated development environment - I find the idea of mashing my editor, VCS, build system, debugger, etc. into one tool to be incredibly distasteful. What
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Really, it's about either maximizing freedom for users or maximizing freedom for developers. The GPL is for the former, while the WTFPL is for the latter. Regarding practicality, RMS claims that the GPL forces companies to open-source soft
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
What is the industry you work in?
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
There's not much to creating an account if you use OpenID. Two clicks from the login page, IIRC.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
...But they are real people, and they have real problems, and they just need real help...
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
It's also weird in most professions to work long and hard on something, only to give it away for free. I find that open-source advocates tend to be open-information advocates as well.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
My university's chapter of ACM just puts on silly social events and sponsors talks that are high on marketing and low on tech. Anyone who really cares about the field has given up trying to deal with them and just made their own clubs. I r
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
I doubt that OS X has better driver support than Linux Apple knows exactly what hardware you're using if you buy a Mac, and thus are able to accomodate you quite nicely. This of course doesn't count peripherals, but it's still quite sign
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
What are you basing that claim on, just your own personal experience? It's a pretty extraordinarily claim to say that linux on the desktop requires no configuration, and I think such a claim deserves at least a little bit of evidence above
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Alsa settings can be saved using `sudo alsactl store`; most distros have their startup scripts configured to load up the generated config file when they start.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
So, if you want to communicate about type systems, your communication will contain less misunderstanding if you simply omit the words "strong" and "weak". Point taken.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
You're assuming that the condition of "if" is necessarily a boolean. Indeed. Conditional branching generally needs a boolean value - do we go down this path or not? It's not clear that it is. It looks more like "is the value not an elem
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
VLC is by far the best Vid player out there Only if you aren't watching files with, say, ordered chapters, or comments inside the SSA files. Granted, that's most of the population, but there's a very particular dislike of VLC in the animu
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
The point I was attempting to make is that Java (and all other languages that I know of) are both strongly and weakly typed.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Everyone saying that there's no real definition of strong and weak typing always confuses me. In my view, strong typing prohibits implicit conversion between types, and weak typing allows it. This is, of course, a scale - for instance, Pyt
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
It surprised me, but then I went "huh, that makes sense" and continued on. Guess I'm the odd one out.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Depending on what you use in delicious, pinboard.in may be a good replacement. It has all the things from delicious I used, none of the things I didn't, and a few other cool features (like saving notes directly, rather my my system of savi
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
2) multiple tag filters - i.e. search multiple tags for my personal bookmarks. I don't use this much, but it's comfortable that it's there. I use this frequently enough that I probably won't use trunk.ly without it.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
And if they say nano...
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
It could still be text-based if it uses ncurses. For instance, something like bpython: http://bpython-interpreter.org/screenshots/
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
The problem is that you're using the wrong definition of "link". I also say "link $foo to $bar", but that puts it in the right order: I have a folder. I want to link that folder to some other name, over yonder. " ln -s foo bar". See?
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Firefox 4 feels a lot faster to me, but try it for yourself: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/ . RCs should be coming early next year, if you'd rather wait for a bit more stability.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
I started using Pentadactyl when I switched to Firefox nightlies, and I must say I like it. I can't place my finger on anything in particular, but it feels... better. And faster.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Have you looked into using an online bookmark system instead? Del.icio.us responds at the same rate, whether you have 10 bookmarks or 10 thousand.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
If you're using Firefox, you might find NoSquint[0] useful. It allows you to customize per-site settings for font sizes and colors (as well as more precise global defaults than Firefox does naturally). [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-U
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Ah, thanks. We just restructured our servers in my house, so I need to move gitosis over to a different machine anyway. Might as well try out gitolite instead.

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