seanb

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by seanb 5mo ago
I'm not going to sign up for a free trial unless I can see the pricing information up front.
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by seanb 4y ago
Lots of comments here suggesting that the water use is no big deal, but please note that Google is not using river water, they’re currently evaporating 29% of the municipal water, which comes from the aquifer, in a very dry region. The aq
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by seanb 5y ago
Drop the `solar` subdomain: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to-build-bike-ge...
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by seanb 6y ago
SSB Protocol Guide: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
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by seanb 11y ago
Does this offer playback speed controls? I watch a lot of non-fiction video content, but a lot of it is too information-sparse to watch at 1x.
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by seanb 13y ago
Cling, from CERN, provides a REPL: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling There are also clang-based auto-complete and syntax-checking plugins for sublime, emacs, and presumably others. Another emacs package I&#
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by seanb 15y ago
I'm not on Lion, but even on Snow Leopard, Sublime will only show a tab for a file if you double click the file in the sidebar, or edit the file (which Convert Tabs to Spaces is doing). Though there might be a Lion specific issue aside fro
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by seanb 16y ago
I find mathematical notation to be very read-friendly. Reading a paper from an unfamiliar field can be tough, as knowledge of the standard notation is typically assumed (as is the case when reading code from an unfamiliar programming langu
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by seanb 16y ago
The thing I'd really like to see in a portable computer is a touch-interface/mouse-interface hybrid. For example, you dock your iPad in a keyboard docking station (with mouse), and the interface morphs into standard OSX, with all the power
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by seanb 16y ago
Ah, good ol' At Ease. The crippled app-launching interface it provided seemed to be entirely responsible for the nearly universal hatred of Apple computers by students at my high school. Compared to Windows 95, At Ease gave the impression
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by seanb 16y ago
St Cloud, MN (An hour west of Minneapolis) No remote, unfortunately. eBureau ( http://www.ebureau.com , http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/ebureau/ ) We're looking for a (junior) programmer. Must be comfortable on a unix-like OS (we
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by seanb 16y ago
"My students need iPads to assist them in English, Social Studies and Creative Writing!" ($10,648 to go) I bet they do. (Of course, a lot of the requests are reasonable, but I'd like to see the donations go to students a bit more impoveris
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by seanb 16y ago
Getting enough sleep? Definitely worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAw1z8GdE8 Personally, I found that taking a full-time programming job destroyed my out-of-office motivation and productivity. It might be worth trying a jo
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by seanb 16y ago
Another headphone to consider is the AKG K81 DJ, for around $60-80. It's a closed supra-aural design (sits on your ear). I haven't tried them personally, but I've heard they sound fantastic.
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by seanb 16y ago
I code almost all day wearing a pair of these. Without music playing, they mostly block out a conversation on the other side of the room. With music, the outside world is nonexistent. The biggest downside is a weak plastic headband casin
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by seanb 16y ago
So the idea is to turn a large empty building into a datacenter.. How is this interesting or original? Google asks what new business types would become possible given a lot of bandwidth, and you answer "datacenters!" ... Why does this sor
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by seanb 17y ago
https://www.revolutionmoneyexchange.com/ Payments to you from your customers are free, and it's free to transfer money to and from a bank account. Apparently AmEx is buying Revolution Money... hopefully they aren't planning to kill it off
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by seanb 17y ago
Interesting idea. "But if we did that, who would drink Coors and drive forklift for Walmart and not complain about it?" Robots? If the education system elevated more of the population, there would be a shortage of blue-collar workers, more
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by seanb 17y ago
Unless it has been diagnosed as carpel tunnel syndrome, I would guess that the wrist pain is actually a more general "repetitive stress injury" (RSI). Proper posture helps a lot for this, as does taking regular mini-breaks to let your wris
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by seanb 17y ago
Sure, but it's the massive parallelism of the hardware behind "the mind" that allows a human to intelligently filter information quickly. Our serial conscious thought is in no way indicative of the amount of (parallel) processing that goes
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by seanb 18y ago
An option perhaps, but "just install git" seems even easier.
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by seanb 18y ago
I mostly agree, but have been using git almost exclusively lately. The big draw for me is the ability to (easily) commit locally (and roll back those commits if I mess something up), then push commits to the "master" repository selectively
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by seanb 18y ago
Just out of curiosity, what part of the world are these puddles in? Assuming that all technology won't be disappearing anytime soon, it's probably safe to share ;)
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by seanb 18y ago
I'm thinking of picking up something similar for traveling. What model are you using?