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Digital Rights Ireland's successful EU court case against mass surveillance(digitalrights.ie)
1 points by markdennehy 12y ago|0 comments
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by markdennehy 12y ago
You mean "App Store did a really good job copying a standard practice in the software world to a specific domain that Steam was doing a really good job in already, and though brand and lock-in, managed to survive where on pure merit, i
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by markdennehy 13y ago
So... stop using a debugged and stable tool whose limitations and problems are well-known and understood and replace it with six bits of software duct-taped together, two of which aren't working yet (if they even exist), without any id
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by markdennehy 13y ago
That's not what I'm advocating. What I'm advocating is not wasting time and effort rewriting working tools just because the rewrite would be newer. Which is not what you're saying I'm advocating.
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by markdennehy 13y ago
(a) To some of us, that's not that long ago :D (b) Vim is an IDE. No, seriously, if you can run the debugger, the compiler and a plethora of other tools from within it, it is an IDE. You might not like it, but... (c) IDE, DDE, doesn&
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by markdennehy 13y ago
Or you could just use LaTeX, which has been used for writing books for decades (the word you're looking for is "debugged" and the phrase is either "well understood" or "well documented"). And yes, there ar
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by markdennehy 13y ago
Newton would have some things to say about that, but you wouldn't hear him because of your doppler shift.
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by markdennehy 13y ago
Why expend manpower and energy improving a working solution just to do so when you have so many other broken things that need fixing first? That's a fairly self-answering question. There's a reason the expression is "If it&#x
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by markdennehy 13y ago
> It baffles me why in 2014, some developers still prefer to work as if UNIX System V had just been released. Because (a) some of us aren't convinced that things like IDEs give a better view of what's going on in the system; (b
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by markdennehy 13y ago
1) You run latex twice only on really large and complex documents like books, and if you're writing books (not editing, see antipope.org for details) in Word, then you need professional help. 2) Markdown and LaTeX are designed for diff
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by markdennehy 13y ago
Because if you want to argue over the meaning of the word billionaire, you start with why we shouldn't have changed the meaning of the word billion :) When you're talking about personal wealth, there's a real danger of money
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by markdennehy 13y ago
You might give more credit to the hundred or so people (all the equivalent of our PhD graduates today) who were doing the actual work for him. Edison's contribution was to pay them enough so they could eat and live, and point them at a
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by markdennehy 13y ago
> It's well agreed upon that paper trading is nothing like trading with money on the line. It's ALL about psychology. It's also pretty well agreed on (mainly from scientific studies into the actual results of investors) th
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by markdennehy 13y ago
Wow. You do get, don't you, that there's no real difference between personal wealths of $100 million and $1000 million? And that there shouldn't be? Why do so few people get that there's a ceiling here? You earn enough m
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by markdennehy 13y ago
> It turns out people like Woz need people like Steve Jobs, and people like Steve Jobs need people like Woz. The former is truly unlikely and the latter is desperately true but omits the context completely and paints things in an almost
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by markdennehy 13y ago
Churchill's an interesting example to bring up in what has become a thread about hero worship. The man was revered during the war and in all the gosh-wasn't-it-a-romantic-age reminiscences since; so much so that they gloss over th
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by markdennehy 13y ago
> And yet, who else in modern history has driven as many companies to such such success, and lead the creation of so many great products? On the former, it's a fairly modern phenomenon for anyone to start multiple companies that suc
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by markdennehy 14y ago
You know what you call a product you don't put much effort into for some time and which is still in daily use by happy users? Working. /mutter.
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by markdennehy 14y ago
The point is not how provincal or remote we are; the point is that this would establish a legal precedent. It's common for legal precedents to be cited across the border between the UK and Ireland; and if this showed up in the UK, it's now
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First Job: Small startup or large company?(stochasticgeometry.ie)
1 points by markdennehy 14y ago|0 comments
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by markdennehy 14y ago
I've seen some folks do that, and hats off to them; but I learnt vi before emacs, and despite trying to learn emacs a few times over the years, I just never did get to the point where I'd feel comfortable using it for work. So org-mode was
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by markdennehy 14y ago
My pleasure. I just wish someone had shown me the cornell system before year one of college :(
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by markdennehy 14y ago
Vimwiki, amongst other things (and I'm still learning) supports not just its own wiki syntax, but also markdown and mediawiki (there's an option to be set and it has to be after v2.0); it has a decent diary system with automatic index page
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by markdennehy 14y ago
Exactly, and you're also assuming I could trust the data to dropbox. Sorry, but no, I'll trust photos and nonsensitive personal data to it without too much worry, but NDAs are legal contracts and the whole cloud storage thing and EU law are
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by markdennehy 14y ago
vimwiki does support markdown out of the box as of v2.0, though you have to set an option for it... let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/my_site/', \ 'syntax': 'markdown', 'ext': '.md'}]
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by markdennehy 14y ago
It sounds interesting, but one of the things I didn't want was something tied to a specific system. This is a notebook that goes across several jobs - and depending on where you work, you could be using JIRA, or Mantis, or bugtac or somethi
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by markdennehy 14y ago
Yup, and using dropbox was something I was looking at for vimwiki as well, but the whole "stored in the cloud" thing and the whole "NDA, sensitive data" thing didn't mix (especially in the EU, where you have a whole host of other things to
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by markdennehy 14y ago
Ah, feic. It's Cornell format notes - for some reason I keep calling it Cambridge, I don't know why. Google Cornell Note Taking System, and learn it; if you ever have to take notes at a conference, seminar, lecture, meeting, phone call or a
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by markdennehy 14y ago
Absolutely; and I keep mine still for doodles that become patent ideas (signed and dated), for taking cornell notes of meetings and phone calls, and that kind of thing. I prefer these though: http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/en/content/medium
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by markdennehy 14y ago
Fark. Apparently landing on HN at 1800 on a friday is a fast way to kill your server :D Think it's fixed now... though it might not be a speed demon...

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