preavy

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by preavy 10mo ago
amok
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by preavy 9y ago
“Listen. You don’t live there. You live here. With your people. Go to work. Get your money. And come on home.” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-work-you-do...
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by preavy 9y ago
Why do you think data-handling is unrelated to the level of freedom in a country? Please don't be so naive as to equate the UK and USA with Putin's Russia.
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by preavy 9y ago
You are wrong to be ambivalent. Russia is a vastly less free country than the United States. For example, please see https://freedomhouse.org
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by preavy 12y ago
I agree that you should use the same Emacs version. On the Mac I recommend http://emacsformacosx.com/ . I have my .emacs.d symlinked to a folder in Dropbox. So to set up on a new machine I just have to install Dropbox and ma
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by preavy 12y ago
I disagree. I have been using the same init.el across Windows and Mac for several years. Hardly anything needs to be tailored but you can inspect the system-type variable if it is really necessary.
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by preavy 12y ago
Without going too far off-topic, does anyone know anything about a SQL Server driver for Node.js? There was this, but it hasn't been updated in a while. https://github.com/Azure/node-sqlserver
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by preavy 13y ago
I prefer Emacs, but sometimes think Vim works better on laptops as everything is right under your fingers. Emacs is much more comfortable on a full-size keyboard. So I wonder whether there's any correlation between Emacs/desktop and Vim/lap
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by preavy 14y ago
BBC Programme pages with embedded iPlayer change the title of the page to contain a ▶ (play symbol) when the content is playing. E.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qrn4y Perhaps this is common but I hadn't seen it until recently. EDI
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by preavy 14y ago
I have a possible correction. Might dbl-all not be better named sqr-all? Thanks for the article by the way.
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by preavy 14y ago
In Chrome I'm used to being able to right-click on part of the page and go straight into Inspect Element. IE 10 still doesn't have that. As far as I can see, there's no autocomplete in the console. I would also really miss one or two extens
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by preavy 14y ago
On one aspect, font rendering, they have overtaken Firefox and Chrome. HN for example is way more readable on IE10.
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by preavy 14y ago
After using it for a few minutes on W7, it feels at least as snappy as my normal browser, Chrome. More surprising for me is that the font rendering looks better than Chrome. Hmmm.
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The future of decentralised social media(peterreavy.com)
2 points by preavy 14y ago|0 comments
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by preavy 14y ago
Not only does Chrome on iOS sync bookmarks, but it allows you to see what tabs are open on Chrome on all your other devices and what tabs were last open on devices which are currently switched off.
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by preavy 14y ago
I would miss caps lock. As soon as I see >2 upper-case letters in a row, I use it. I don't know how people bother to type long acronyms and other words in caps without it.
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by preavy 14y ago
Since my dad had built a ZX81 from kit, we were on the Sinclair mailing list. I remember reading the promotional leaflet announcing the Spectrum. I could hardly believe what it could do. This leaflet would have been classic Uncle Clive hype
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by preavy 15y ago
Posterous took investment not only from venture capital, but also from users who believed and trusted that the service would find a way to make money and stick around. It hasn't repaid that investment. This feels like a turning point to me
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by preavy 15y ago
I was more annoyed by the little head to the left of the tabs in Chrome which indicates the current profile. I don't use profiles. But I've just discovered that the head goes away if you delete the sample profiles that they created when the
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Halt the Silicon Valley histrionics(ft.com)
3 points by preavy 15y ago|0 comments
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by preavy 15y ago
The story is on the front page of this morning's Financial Times (UK edition): http://www.politicshome.com/timthumb.php?w=450&src=%2Fim... Story here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9aac5f80-b924-11e0-bd87-00144feabd...
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by preavy 16y ago
"I HAVE observed few obvious subjects to have been so seldom, or, at least, so slightly handled as this; and, indeed, I know few so difficult to be treated as it ought, nor yet upon which there seemeth so much to be said." - Jonathan Swift,
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by preavy 16y ago
The Excito Bubba Two looks promising. Has anyone here used one?
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by preavy 16y ago
Currently either a reviewer has 2 choices: 1. put a review on Amazon, but hand over ownership of the review. 2. put a review up on a personal blog, and maintain ownership but get no readers. Micro-formats offered a way to publish reviews an
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by preavy 18y ago
Belle du Jour