claystu

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by claystu 2y ago
You are getting downvoted, but there are obviously tens (hundreds??) of millions of people of faith--not just Christians--who would instantly reject any product with a demon as its mascot.
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by claystu 2y ago
As a regular Linux/OSX/Windows user, here are the three (3) questions that I would need answered before switching: 1) In a world with Kali Linux, Arch, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc... what does FreeBSD give me that I don&#x2
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by claystu 2y ago
I coded a simple, attractive Calorie Tracker that works across desktop, tablet, and mobile: https://www.calories.claystuart.com/
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by claystu 3y ago
What resources did you use to figure out how to do that? This is an interesting use of spreadsheets.
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by claystu 4y ago
That's not a systematic bias. The senate was DESIGNED from the beginning to be immune to population differences: each state gets two senators, regardless of population. It was one of the compromises that convinced the small states to j
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by claystu 4y ago
Congress is limited to what it can legislate with the remainder defaulting back into the jurisdiction of the states as part of the Federalism system of checks and balances. Check out Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, wh
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by claystu 4y ago
Pace v Alabama was from 1883. Perez v Sharp was a California case from 1948--an odd case to cite since it had no controlling authority outside of California. Regardless, Loving v Virginia (1967) was decided by unanimous decision--and that&#
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by claystu 4y ago
Improvements in car seats would be my guess. Plus, vehicles were required by law to include special latches for anchoring car seats starting around the early 2000's. It was surprisingly tricky to properly install a car seat before thos
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by claystu 5y ago
What was it like to use a BBS? In a word: awesome. I was lucky enough to go to middle school in the late 80's with a kid who loved computers even more than I did and actually ran his own BBS on a 286 with a 20? megabyte hard drive. I a
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by claystu 7y ago
I wanted one for the Forth environment too! OLPC's Forth Tutorial: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons
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by claystu 7y ago
You can overflow buffers all sorts of ways in C.
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by claystu 7y ago
The Amish. No joke. My dad's from there. The guy who lives next door to my grandparents drives a truck for the Amish since they can't.
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by claystu 7y ago
Tax incentives. It's how we encourage a lot of good samaritan behavior. Offer tax deductions for trees and watch forests pop up everywhere.
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by claystu 8y ago
Your suggestion of parsing out the in-code documentation would go a long way towards documenting the libraries, provided the documentation is of high quality. However, that still doesn't address the bigger question: how do I program in
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by claystu 8y ago
Let me take these in reverse order... Here is a link to Python's docs( https://docs.python.org/3/ ). It's still a little busy, but you can go a long way just by using the Python Tutorial (helpfully subtitled wi
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by claystu 8y ago
TLDR: Pharo needs mountains of high-quality documentation equal to Python's docs or Java's docs if it seriously hopes to attract server-side or desktop mindshare among developers. Long Version: In 1980, Smalltalk had some of the b
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by claystu 8y ago
I don't see anything in your response about success. It's true that if you want credit for completing a major, then it is necessary for you to actually complete the major, but that still doesn't equate to graduating at or nea
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by claystu 8y ago
How in the world does "being compliant to authority" contribute to university success? What major emphasizes compliance over learning the material and doing the work?
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by claystu 9y ago
This looks great! I have two questions: 1) Can you resize the notecards for easier management 2) Can you export to .docx for publication submission?
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by claystu 9y ago
The page says last updated November 22, 2016...they might
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by claystu 9y ago
How do you get started with GUI programming? I can't seem to find anything on this for Pharo6...and barely anything for earlier versions (which I'm assuming are now obsolete).
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by claystu 9y ago
I believe it. If he owns everything free and clear--I'm betting he does--and he avoids big purchases and fancy trips, he can basically get by on purchasing nothing but food, electricity, phone, and gas. Tack on some clothes and reasona
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by claystu 10y ago
What's the explanation for the huge drop in sales? Those single engine airplanes are still around? Deregulation of the airlines has resulted in cheaper commercial air travel? More telecommuting? What? I'm genuinely interested in t
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by claystu 10y ago
For those who haven't seen it, Weird Al's song "It's All About The Pentiums" should be required Hacker News watching: https://youtu.be/qpMvS1Q1sos
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by claystu 10y ago
Did you mean to reply to me? I ask because your comment appears to be disagreeing with arguments that I never made. My major point was that (1)the coast, by itself, was not a critical factor either pro or con. (2) What appears to matter whe
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by claystu 10y ago
The location of ancient capitals probably has more to do with the importance of trade and food production than avoiding coastal storms or flooding.
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by claystu 10y ago
i.e. they would be wildly popular if they just didn't have any competition?
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by claystu 10y ago
"I wish Perl would do an inplace edit of a file without creating a backup, though." It's been a while, but I think the -i command line switch accomplishes what you want here.
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by claystu 10y ago
>What do the graphical environments gain you Simplicity. In my IDE, I start it up and then program. With emacs, it always felt like I spent a lot of time curating the editor. Part of that was because customizing emacs is fun--I have this
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by claystu 10y ago
> emacs & slime[1] I've spent a lot of time with emacs, and slime was what I used when I was exploring Common Lisp: both SBCL and CLISP. Emacs is really powerful and I'm fairly at home with it, but I've come to prefer

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