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   by zacharypinter 18y ago

   I wonder how difficult it would be to update git to support special-handling of binary files? Perhaps a .gitbinary file (similar to .gitignore) which basically tells git to ignore a directory unless a specific command (say git binary sync)
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   by zacharypinter 18y ago

   I like the idea of there being some sort of investment required for voting. Everybody interested in voting can, but there's a barrier to entry that helps people be informed voters or at least passionate about voting. However, like you, I fi
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   Technical Content on the eSlick Reader(zacharypinter.com)

   1 points by zacharypinter 18y ago|0 comments
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   by zacharypinter 18y ago

   I've tried using Tramp several times over the past few years on multiple operating systems and environments. However, it has always been unbearably slow for me, even with persistent SSH connections via ControlMaster/ControlPath. Any pointer
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   by zacharypinter 18y ago

   Just skimming the headline, I read that as Box.net was going down. After reading the article I of course saw that Box.net was criticizing others for going down. However, I have to wonder if the confusion of the blog post's title hurts their
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   by zacharypinter 18y ago

   I use slicehost for their VPS, but they have a nice restful API for their DNS servers in addition to a web interface. Their cheapest VPS is $20/month, so with that you could get your DNS.
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   by zacharypinter 18y ago

   That would probably be easier to search for...
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   by zacharypinter 18y ago

   Are there any good videos online for learning the statistics behind R? Most of the R videos I've seen have been focused on the tool, not the statistics behind the tool.
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   by zacharypinter 18y ago

   I prefer the proggit headline: "Where the fuck has this been for the last 30 years? A cd command that learns."
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    Care to mention why?
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    Twitter can definitely be a waste of time. However, there's often some gems of information in the midst of it all. My twitter strategy as of late has been to catch up on tweets while sitting on the toilet. The iPhone helps with this endeavo
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    I think the catch with macroeconomics is that anybody can come by after the fact and provide an explanation for why things happened the way they did. Many of the explanations are not falsifiable, and two competing explanations might both so
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    Conversation view in Mail.app is nice, but it really only threads the messages in your inbox (or current folder). Gmail's threads are a bit nicer since it'll grab all the related messages even if they've already been archived.
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    I think it's time for a new email protocol. IMAP is far too slow and lacks tagging. POP doesn't synchronize read/unread status (or anything else). There's an interesting opportunity here for building a web service on top of email that would
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    I'm still leaning towards the upcoming Foxit eSlick, unless the Kindle 2 has much better support for PDF programming books (ones not purchased through Amazon).
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    I'm really looking forward to reading the first reviews of the Foxit eSlick ( http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/ ). If it works well with Pragmatic Programmer PDF's, I'm grabbing it.
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    To clarify, the idea is not to create a new Emacs or even a text editor. Rather, the idea comes from noticing that one of the redeeming qualities of Emacs is how it provides a framework for keyboard-focused applications. If there's a demand
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    Emacs - Great Operating System, Decent Editor(zacharypinter.com)

    5 points by zacharypinter 18y ago|3 comments
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    3. Supervolcano
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    If only there was a good way to make this work with the iPhone...
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    Interesting... I've been trying to build my servers lately with Ruby Enterprise Edition as the only ruby (a little tricky, since you need ruby to install REE) to avoid the confusion of multiple rubies with multiple rubygem installs. I wonde
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    by zacharypinter 18y ago

    This could serve as a great example of illustrating the difference between theft and copyright infringement. Theft would be stealing somebody's Lamborghini. Copyright infringement is building your own. The standard argument against copyrigh