davisdude

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by davisdude 1mo ago
If you enjoyed this, you may enjoy the book _When Information Came of Age_ by Headrick. The chapters on maps and postal systems in particular have some overlap with this article.
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by davisdude 7mo ago
It's been a while since I read it, but I enjoyed _Jacquard's Web_ by James Essinger, which covers this in some more depth
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by davisdude 6y ago
This may not work for your case, but if you're good with Vim you could try the `:TOhtml` command, which converts a range into an HTML file matching the theme you're using.
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by davisdude 8y ago
I would disagree that it's the "wrong" analogy to make... maybe just different. To me, insider trading is analogous to court siding, in that, in both cases, someone is seeking to use "private information" (informati
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by davisdude 8y ago
This is an interesting concept. I'm somewhat surprised the author didn't draw a connection between the stock market and insider trading, which is more analogous in my mind than card counting in black jack.
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by davisdude 9y ago
Related: the Changelog podcast did a really good interview with the developer[1]. It's pretty long but worth the listen IMO. [1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/280
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by davisdude 9y ago
Automatic updates aren't always a bad thing. Sometimes they can be very beneficial. I just finished reading a book [0] about the Conficker worm, which infected people's computers by causing a buffer overflow in an unprotected port
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by davisdude 9y ago
> I don't think most teens need smartphones, honestly. In today's schools, some teachers plan activities where students use their smart phones for specific projects, so this is becoming increasingly harder to do.
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by davisdude 9y ago
Yeah. The trouble is, I have a very clear idea of what I'm doing when I start it, but then I get busy and drop the project for weeks to months at a time, only to pick it back up again. Sometimes I remember exactly what was going on. Mo
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by davisdude 9y ago
That describes my experience with some of my GitHub projects fairly accurately. Actual commit I did a few days ago: > Begin rewrite of rewrite of rewrite