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by yangyang 17y ago
It was probably "meant to be used" (or at least originally written) on a physical terminal rather than a terminal emulator. Nothing wrong with moving with the times. A graphical emacs session does offer plenty of benefits, not least having
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by yangyang 17y ago
Indeed. But it's not like using Emacs on any other platform.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Not wishing to get into an argument or stray off-topic too far, but Emacs (Carbon Emacs, at least), works absolutely fine on Mac OS. I've had no problems with it, and I use lots of extra libraries.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Indeed. I did read the article and I'm aware of that anyway. I was responding to the comment.
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by yangyang 17y ago
> The broker buys 250 of the shares to sell to the person who wants to short the stock. No. The entity that wants to short will locate (or get their PB to locate) shares to borrow that they will then sell, in order to short. They will
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by yangyang 17y ago
It's disallowed because it can cause failures to deliver if a borrow can't be located. Lots of fails can lead to systemic problems.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Well what he describes isn't how options work either, it's more like futures (assuming his $100 was the futures price for next Friday).
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by yangyang 17y ago
What this article is getting at is naked shorting. That ban included "normal" shorting (borrowing shares first).
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by yangyang 17y ago
There are keyboard controls already: the arrow keys work (at least on Firefox on Mac OS) to go forwards and backwards and turn, + and - to zoom.
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by yangyang 17y ago
CDOs are not necessarily just composed of mortgage derivatives. They can be put together from bonds, CDSs (synthetic CDOs), syndicated loans (CLOs), other CDOs (CDOs squared), a mixture of these and other debt instruments.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Not sure which came first, but they've had the Mitsubishi Jet Towel in Japan for years: http://jettowel.mitsubishielectric.co.uk/main.htm
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New York helps tomorrow's employers(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by yangyang 17y ago
"Rubberized keys"? I've got a couple-of-years old white plastic MacBook and the keys certainly aren't rubber. Have they changed to be like calculator keys now?
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by yangyang 17y ago
I used to to use yasql as a sqlplus replacement, it was pretty basic but much better.
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by yangyang 17y ago
org-mode for Emacs ( http://orgmode.org ). It's made a big difference to my life. I've finally got a reliable place to keep notes, a good way to schedule stuff, nice todo lists, a quick way of publishing stuff to HTML / PDF, all accessible
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by yangyang 17y ago
Service wash at a laundrette. They're still reasonably commonplace I think.
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Tiled backgrounds designer(bgpatterns.com)
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How-To Guide for Descriptors [Python](users.rcn.com)
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Metaclass programming in Python, Part 3(ibm.com)
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by yangyang 17y ago
Kind of misleading title - it implies that the whole of GMail ran out of storage space, whereas it was in fact just this guy.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Curious to know which features you miss in GMail?
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by yangyang 17y ago
SLRs use phase-detect actually, using separate AF sensors. Contrast-detect is used in compact cameras (non-SLRs) and optionally in live-view mode on some DSLRs.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Depends how long a lens you're using. You'd need a pretty fast shutter speed at 600mm+.
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by yangyang 17y ago
I'm sure it will. I'm generally only installing fairly small packages, with bigger stuff the stow method would probably get tiresome.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Interesting. I tend to just build stuff myself from source and use GNU stow. I'm amazed I hear so little about stow, it's so useful. I just configure with a prefix arg of something like /usr/local/stow/package-version, then use stow to inst
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by yangyang 17y ago
Auto-focus on most cameras (those that use phase / contrast detecton AF, at least) doesn't emit anything, unless you mean emissions from the circuitry used to control it. Some cameras have a AF assist light for helping the AF in low light,
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by yangyang 17y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about de facto couples.
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by yangyang 17y ago
I thought one's spouse is one's husband / wife, and one's husband / wife is married to you, by definition.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Original Times article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article68...
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by yangyang 17y ago
Exactly. And what of cameras that use CMOS sensors (like most DSLRs)? Or old-school film-shooting paps?

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