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by yangyang 17y ago
I really didn't get on with aquamacs. It'll do your head in if you use emacs on other platforms. You can use other emacs builds on mac OS. I use Carbon Emacs. Emacs 23 has a native cocoa build now.
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by yangyang 17y ago
I used vim for over 12 years before switching to emacs. The thing that made me switch was looking at some insane vim-script to indent Python (or something like that - I don't rememember). I love emacs now. Yeah it takes ages to learn, movin
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by yangyang 17y ago
Something can't be "quite unique". It's unique or it isn't.
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by yangyang 17y ago
A 3 minute screencast for a simple commandline tool? What's wrong with an annotated transcript?
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by yangyang 17y ago
> Cool design, but it seems like something that should be done on a municipal level... It is already in some places - see reed beds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedbed#Treatment_ponds
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by yangyang 17y ago
Yep - and set up / setup.
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by yangyang 17y ago
They say of the Mighty Mouse: "inexplicably copying the ThinkPad’s red nipple instead of using a scroll wheel" That's completely incorrect. The Mighty Mouse has a mini trackball, the trackpoint is a pressure-sensitive stick.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Grade B and C CTOs set technology trends? I doubt it.
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by yangyang 17y ago
That looks very good. I really hope they become commercially available and commonplace.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Well if you want to try it out for a few minutes, as I guess most people on here will, it beats rebooting your PC (or figuring out how to even make it boot on a MacBook). It's not like it's full featured enough for daily use anyway. I can't
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by yangyang 17y ago
If someone can't grasp concepts as simple as those without "friendly metaphors", they're going to struggle with programming.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Interesting and impressive. The 64 bit floppy image runs fine under VirtualBox if you select a 64 bit OS.
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by yangyang 17y ago
A friend's Hyundai had the indicator stalk on the left, this was several years ago though.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Nobody is ever going to agree on this. Different things work for different people. Everyone's got their "I did this and lost loads of weight" or "this didn't work for me" story. Some form of exercise combined with less and better food is pr
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by yangyang 17y ago
Absolutely. Here's the government press release: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2009_0138
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by yangyang 17y ago
Vim's :help is extensive. Try :help quickref. vimtutor is good for getting started too.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Don't get me wrong - it's not a bad collection. I'm just commenting on the HN headline.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Not really "advanced": most of this is pretty basic - includes cursor movement, searching as well as some more interesting stuff.
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by yangyang 17y ago
I've seen this kind of "desktop in a browser" thing before and it seems a bit daft to me (and it certainly isn't an operating system). There's so much scope for better metaphors than the "desktop" one. Google's apps are a good example of th
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by yangyang 17y ago
This really winds me up. Pro photographers seem to have a complete lack of understanding of competition. Their industry is becoming commoditised. The amateurs aren't going to go away, and they're going to produce better and better quality w
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by yangyang 17y ago
> One known fact is that Goldman was pulling down USD $100,000,000 per DAY in profits from their automated trading systems. That's a hundred million dollars. A day. I don't think that is a "known fact" at all. All I've found is "more th
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by yangyang 17y ago
Why do Goldman's profits have to be mentioned in so many articles about this "code theft"? Does the fact they've just made lots of money, regardless of what actually happened regarding this programmer, change the meaning of right and wrong?
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by yangyang 17y ago
I'm not saying there are none, but what 'results' can you achieve from tweeting (that aren't achievable more efficiently elsewhere)?
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by yangyang 17y ago
The bit about VaR is inaccurate. VaR is not a measure of leverage, it's supposed to be the amount of money an institution may lose over n days with an x % probability. The increase in VaR could have come from changes in vol, the yield cu
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by yangyang 17y ago
I think I'd find "avoid the web" a better productivity tip :-).
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by yangyang 17y ago
It depends on distance. 1 mile, 6:30 min/mi, half marathon 7:40 min/mi. There's quite a good formula that Pete Riegel came up with to predict your speed over a certain distance: T2 = T1 x (D2/D1)^1.06. There's a caculator on this page: htt
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by yangyang 17y ago
I wouldn't say that forefoot landing (part of the POSE method) is strictly "better" - it's a hotly debated point. Many top runners do not run this way.
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by yangyang 17y ago
In case you need reassuring: "The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010."
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by yangyang 17y ago
The shareholders probably benefit more than the customers.
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by yangyang 17y ago
And you'll pay him handsomely for the privilege.

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