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by xtho 16y ago
Because java did make it and python doesn't compile to machine code (with the exception of using a jit compiler maybe)?
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High Prevalence Of Insomnia And Poor Quality Of Life In Software Engineers(medicalnewstoday.com)
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by xtho 16y ago
The e-mail pops out on your desktop pc or whatever you use. You can then copy it to the kindle via usb or whatever you prefer.
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by xtho 16y ago
I don't know. I think it would be better to have ruby 1.8 and ruby 2.0 around and to state clearly that some code requires this or that version than having to deal with ruby 1.9 that is still close to 1.8 but not close enough not to break c
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by xtho 16y ago
It's not a habit but when I think 30 years back I'd actually say that what killed most of my creativity are computers and the Internet. They simply offer too many distractions and cannot replace the intimacy of working with pencil and unlin
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by xtho 16y ago
Yes, that question was an easy one.
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by xtho 16y ago
Allow users to add tags to posts. Make it possible to restrict the posts on the frontpage (when logged in) to a list of tags.
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by xtho 16y ago
With the introduction of additional data structures (lists, dictionaries that can also be used for prototype-based programming) in vim7, I don't think vimscript is that bad. And you can also use python/ruby/perl/tcl/scheme/lua/whatever when
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by xtho 16y ago
> The best hot water kettle w/ temperature control I'd suggest to forget anything hi-tech when drinking tea. Better go for a small, plain teapot like this one: http://www.everyonestea.com/data/everyonestea/image/ETS/teap...
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by xtho 16y ago
Since vim integrates with the world and doesn't try to rebuild it in lisp, you can use the google command line client. An example from the docs (from the command line): google docs edit --title "Shopping list" --editor vim
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by xtho 16y ago
Considering how they implemented closures, I wonder what that revolution would look like.
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by xtho 16y ago
Something went wrong when they built the earth. It shouldn't be spinning.
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by xtho 16y ago
From the page: "George Bernard Dantzig, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. ... George Dantzig (himself the son of a mathematician) received a Bachelor's degree from University of Maryland in 1936 and a Master's
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by xtho 16y ago
:-)
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by xtho 16y ago
The existence of a black swan doesn't imply that swans are usually black. A. "There are examples where newcomers to a field found a novel solution that senior experts have missed." B. "It is often the ignorant who succeeds." B does not foll
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by xtho 16y ago
> eat at a Europeans house I like the notion but do you actually think that it makes no difference whether you are in Italy, France, Germany, Finland, Poland, or the UK?
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by xtho 16y ago
> It's often the foolhardy and the ignorant that [...] sometimes end up succeeding. Please name some examples. How often is sometimes? What is their probability of success compared to that of domain experts?
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by xtho 16y ago
> Rolling release means that you don't have to do distribution upgrades. This goes beyond the OP's question. How does arch handle changes in essential components like the switch to upstart in ubuntu? Does this work well with rolling rel
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by xtho 16y ago
Logic programming languages [...] have not had significant impact on the computer industry. Mercury is a new logic/functional programming language Mercury is "new" and admittedly interesting since 15 years now. Please so
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by xtho 16y ago
It think it's more like "abandon Perl/php/javascript/whatever in favour of Python/Ruby/Lisp/whatever". As long as there aren't more than 10 books written about the yet unborn data-cruncher saviour and as long as the brand new alternative is
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by xtho 16y ago
Pressing <a-s-f10> works ok with gnome. Or run either: silent !wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,fullscreen or silent !wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,maximized_vert,maximized_horz
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by xtho 16y ago
But isn't that the point of a social news website that the community (whose members should of course have similar preferences as you have) does the filtering for you by upvoting interesting articles. Otherwise I could run such a filter over
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by xtho 16y ago
I just tried to send an e-mail. After a few seconds I got tired looking at the "Loading" label, so I switched to html mode. I personally wouldn't say it's slow. I'd rather call it broken.
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by xtho 16y ago
There still is the question of how much time you're willing to spend to hunt down bugs in the interpreter/standard library/framework or to work around certain idiosyncracies that once upon a time might have looked like a cool idea. Will a "
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by xtho 16y ago
Interestingly I recently attended a talk by Loic Wacquant[1] about prisons in the US, the US as penal state. This somehow fits. [1] http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/wacquant/
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by xtho 16y ago
I personally think it's rather irritiating that you go off on such weird reasoning when somebody offers you a place to stay. The difficulties with that line of reasoning become obvious if you start thinking about whether Turkey or Marroc ha
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by xtho 16y ago
He blogged about cleaning up his (home) office.
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by xtho 16y ago
The characters you listed are defined in latin-1. They really don't serve as a good example for the urgent need to use unicode.
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by xtho 16y ago
Some people call that innovation.
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by xtho 16y ago
You should really ask that question on Digg, Ask Yahoo, and maybe the Bing support forum.

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