gavinpc

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by gavinpc 4y ago
See also this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5830571/why-did-father-o... Which leads to this link: https://groups.google.com/g/clojure/c/OnagUrQZ1NE/m/Uwm8fv
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by gavinpc 4y ago
Good info, thanks! For better or worse, it had already shipped.
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by gavinpc 4y ago
I just ordered a Framework yesterday. I'm not interested in the 12th gen chip, but is there any other reason I might want to cancel & re-order today? i.e. would I be getting an older design? edit: Someone also brings this up on t
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by gavinpc 7y ago
Umm, Firefox? Or am I misunderstanding?
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by gavinpc 7y ago
If you want to play with this data, it's available in various formats [1] I happened to use this last week because we needed test data for a community tree in an app we're building. There are nine communities, and we needed test
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by gavinpc 7y ago
> make it good Are you arguing that Firefox is not even "good," or just not perfect? (I use Firefox on a Mac all day and the only kind of "resource hunger" I've observed can be pinned to the web pages that it&#x2
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by gavinpc 7y ago
An inspiring team doing interesting work. But see previous https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Capstone,+a+Tablet+for+Thinkin...
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by gavinpc 7y ago
Ha, that is always my go-to story for that idea. So far I've never met anyone who's heard it. Great autobiography.
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by gavinpc 7y ago
Thanks, I did search a bit and at any rate couldn't find an actual source for the quote itself.
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by gavinpc 7y ago
"There are dark corners in the Bourne shell, and people use all of them." https://books.google.com/books?id=KJQRAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=P...
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by gavinpc 7y ago
I started to write this up then remembered answering a similar question a while back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398098 I'm still on that "detour," but still a believer. Edit: some dead links ther
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by gavinpc 7y ago
Have you tried Tup? http://gittup.org/tup/ I used it on a project with many thousands of files and hundreds of (mostly dynamic) build rules. This was a literate program, and most build steps required the extraction o
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by gavinpc 8y ago
This kind of as-you-type evaluator is extremely valuable to me. I've written a few tools to support this in emacs, and I use the JS one all the time.[0] I also wrote one for Graphviz (which outputs to an SVG buffer), and sometimes I&#
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by gavinpc 8y ago
At least "Bomb" would be short. "Full Metal Jacket" is a dreadful name in every sense, worsened only by the author's cringeworthy backstory. To paraphrase the parent, it reeks of immaturity. I "wouldn't
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by gavinpc 8y ago
> In 2018 it is fully possible to use authentication libraries So — getting back to the OP — which libraries?
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by gavinpc 8y ago
Yes, that was my fault, I overlooked "result," and I also appreciate the clarification. I think the point remains that, while this is not a breaking change from a contractual viewpoint, most type systems would deem it incompatible
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by gavinpc 8y ago
> When have you ever had to unnecessarily break API compatibility because something you thought was an Option[T] result turned out to be really a T, always? That would be a breaking change. And should be, if you're into that sort o
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by gavinpc 8y ago
It is kind of heartbreaking. But, although my current manager is excellent at supporting his team and would never think such a thing, let alone say it, the truth is that, unless you're a professional researcher, you really do have to
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by gavinpc 8y ago
It takes one to know one. (Or so I would like to think.) Rich's writing, presentations, and example of overall conceptual discipline and maturity have helped me focus on the essentials in ways that I could not overstate. I'm gla
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by gavinpc 8y ago
Same (from my uncle, who then worked at Martin Marietta on the shuttle tankers). While I enjoyed reading through them and learned a number of concepts, his books helped demonstrate that I was not going to become an electrical engineer. I
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by gavinpc 8y ago
I ported a FoxPro app to VFP in 2012. I had worked on the original one in DOS and ported it to FP for Windows around '96-97, so I knew the IDE's pretty well. But by that point I couldn't stand anything but Emacs. So I got
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by gavinpc 8y ago
You know, I also got my (official) start in an xBASE language (FoxPro), and while I am obsessed with the history of inventors like Englebart and his successors, those xBASE environments had more going for them than I tend to remember. &quot
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by gavinpc 8y ago
A fine article, but since the author singles out NPR and Wikipedia, I would just like to say a word in their defense. And then some other words. Thank God for Wikipedia, it is a miracle. Long may it stay antifragile! And long may NPR use
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by gavinpc 8y ago
Or be from MIT? Not sure which debate you saw, but I recently watched an Intelligence Squared about "the promise of AI" in which he made a similar argument, along with many others. His team jumped 29% percent audience agreement
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by gavinpc 8y ago
Your point is clear... but as to the example, unless I'm misunderstanding your notation, the premise is that 2 = (p/q)^2 which is not the same as 2 = p^2/q^2 as you have in (2).
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by gavinpc 8y ago
The "Living Shakespeare" recordings from the 1960's are 50-minute productions that can make the plays much more "accessible." I hesitate to link this (because it's been parked for a while), but you and the OP m
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by gavinpc 8y ago
I spent a lot of time with Gutenberg epubs in a former life, and I found that their quality was far better than most other digitizers with comparable scale. However, the tables of contents were extremely inconsistent and I had to essential
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by gavinpc 8y ago
I'm surprised no one (including the OP) has mentioned "American Tune," which I thought was lifted from a Bach piece but which it turns out Bach himself lifted: > The tune is based on a melody line from a chorale from Johan
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by gavinpc 9y ago
I love Tup, and have used it in production builds. It is the optimal solution for the problem that it solves, viz , a deterministic file-based build describable with static rules. To start using it, you probably have to "clean up&qu
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Very nice. Doesn't work if cookies are blocked. Use a try/catch to feature-test localStorage. So many times but it's not getting to me.

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