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by xrt 12y ago
thank you for this. i've never understood why credit cards are printed w/ spaces between the numbers, presumably to reduce transcription errors, but 99.9% of web forms force you to enter the number without any spaces.
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by xrt 12y ago
This is a doddle in PostScript. http://www.jasonpratt.org/software/graphpaper/
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by xrt 12y ago
Think this might make those "Fork me on GitHub" badges a little less popular? I sincerely hope so.
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by xrt 12y ago
I really hate writing things in reverse, but a decent style in Bash is to put everything in functions, w/ a main() at the top: #! /usr/bin/env bash set -e -u bar='bar' main() { foof
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by xrt 12y ago
LISP 1.5 manual (MITPress)
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by xrt 13y ago
It would be very useful to delineate this list by command type and availability. The ones I wanted to check out (ndiff, rs, iftop, mtr, ...) must be in packages, since they don't respond in either OS X or vanilla Debian.
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by xrt 13y ago
So a middle finger gets fewer downvotes than a technical commentary. awesome.
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by xrt 13y ago
They lost me when they went to 21 bits.
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by xrt 13y ago
The -3 arg is not available on OS X. Odd, since it's been in BSD Unix since forever. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cal
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by xrt 13y ago
My favorite example. The chosen answer to the "Where's Waldo?" solution is 7 lines long . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8479058/how-do-i-find-wal...
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by xrt 13y ago
I should think OCaml or SML should be added to the mix. Neither has Async built in, but the other points are handled quite well. http://ocaml.org/description.html
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by xrt 13y ago
Why was I not made aware of this sooner? $10 for 1-10 users? Nice. (also not affiliated)
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by xrt 13y ago
The design reminds me a bit of my "sunflower" iMac, which was a really nice machine.
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by xrt 13y ago
dbx is a company and a noise reduction format. It competed w/ Dolby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbx_(noise_reduction)
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by xrt 13y ago
It's been sad to watch Markdown eclipse Textile http://txstyle.org in popularity. Textile provides a more complete mapping to HTML than Markdown, while remaining easy to use. Its primary flaw is translating line breaks into HTML line brea
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The Lambtex Manual(lambdoc.forge.ocamlcore.org)
1 points by xrt 13y ago|0 comments
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by xrt 14y ago
Beyond complexity management, breaking a design into many small programs opens it up to a rich set of well-known and proven OS services. Things like hardware memory protection, multi-processor support, queues, mutexes, monitoring, and cross
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by xrt 14y ago
Is there any way to view the .textile files rendered properly w/in Github? They are rendering the same as raw for me. Am I missing something?
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by xrt 14y ago
> Also, I want to know how to make Evernote better! Email me and let me know. I've got a few ideas. What is your email address?
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by xrt 14y ago
Awesome. Any chance you could update the C compiler to something post-C89?
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by xrt 14y ago
Robin Williams devotes a chapter of her book, "The PC is not a Typewriter", on the subject. She concurs. http://www.amazon.com/Pc-Not-Typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/09...
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For the Love of God, Let Me Put Spaces in My Credit Card Number(fastnlight.com)
1 points by xrt 14y ago|0 comments
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by xrt 14y ago
Bic, Med, Blue, 29c. Best pen ever.
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10 Essential Vi Tips(fastnlight.com)
1 points by xrt 14y ago|0 comments
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by xrt 14y ago
How is COS separate from PostScript? It looks like a straight PS dictionary.
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by xrt 14y ago
I genuinely thought this was put together as a rather good joke until I studied it a bit. Is the object managed by this factory a singleton?
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by xrt 14y ago
Meta: This is a problem w/ HNs layout, but using a fixed pitch line of 144 chars makes the entire page wide enough to require horizontal scrolling. Correction: for Chrome, just the comment, for IE9 the entire page. Is there a bullet list ma
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by xrt 14y ago
jibe
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by xrt 14y ago
The network stack? Well, I guess that's been removed, but it took a while...
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by xrt 14y ago
Wouldn't it be better to simply have a Gig-E port?

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