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by ssprang 6y ago
Reminds me of this user testing story from the early Macintosh days: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt
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New Spaceship Speed in Conway’s Game of Life(niginsblog.wordpress.com)
6 points by ssprang 11y ago|1 comments
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by ssprang 11y ago
How about TeX?
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A Machine for Keeping Secrets?(linuxjournal.com)
2 points by ssprang 11y ago|0 comments
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by ssprang 12y ago
I replaced the one in mine with an Intel card (7260NGW) and it works fine under Linux.
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by ssprang 12y ago
Briggs saw the worst of this during suicide crises on the bridge when drivers passing by would yell out, "Go ahead and jump." Despicable.
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by ssprang 12y ago
The official GNU Emacs Manual is good. I've slowly been working my way through it. It's a free download: http://shop.fsf.org/product/Emacs_Manual_24/
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by ssprang 12y ago
> You don't own yourself. Everything you do is an interaction with the world (including your own body and mind), which belongs to everyone equally. This is an extreme view. How can we even begin to talk about desires and rights unde
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by ssprang 12y ago
Fundamentally, why shouldn't people have a right to privacy? Are you saying that there isn't any information about yourself that you'd want to keep private? Why are the details of my life anybody's business but my own? &
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by ssprang 12y ago
> Knuth accused me quite harshly (IMO) to be some kind of Stallman fan talking nonsense about licenses and did not acknowledge the bug. Strange. Knuth appears to be a significant GNU supporter: http://www.gnu.org/thankgnu
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by ssprang 12y ago
Reminds me of "The Centrifuge Brain Project" http://vimeo.com/58293017
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by ssprang 12y ago
Actually, the one on MELPA appears to be a different implementation. There was some discussion about it on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/21mklt/2048_puzzle_in...
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by ssprang 12y ago
I implement laziness "manually" all the time in Objective-C. For example, imagine something happens which invalidates a property which must be calculated (say, a bounding box for a graphical object). Instead of immediately recompu
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by ssprang 12y ago
Yep, just like GNU: https://www.gnu.org/pronunciation/pronunciation.html
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by ssprang 12y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21d1u2/we_were_in_ta...
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Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year(collectorsweekly.com)
166 points by ssprang 13y ago|186 comments
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by ssprang 13y ago
Sure, but his bitcoins probably aren't just sitting around either. The fear was that he'd be kidnapped/tortured in order to acquire them. If we're allowing for that, it seems like anyone with sufficient wealth would be a
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by ssprang 13y ago
Is there a particular reason why he'd be at risk for this versus any other well known wealthy person? Are lottery winners worried about this?
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by ssprang 13y ago
I've never heard of either of them. It's not possible for two people to have the same name?
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by ssprang 13y ago
Singer's book talks about finding and supporting effective charities. Here's one I now support that seems pretty direct: https://www.fistulafoundation.org It also made me rethink what I am doing with my life/caree
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by ssprang 13y ago
"The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" by Peter Singer. After reading this I dramatically increased the amount of money that I donate and began supporting several new charities. "Lying" by Sam Harris. T
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by ssprang 13y ago
There's often a countdown timer as mentioned in the article. You know exactly how much time you have until it's a solid "Don't Walk". Usually, I will pass several people already in the crosswalk at my normal walking
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by ssprang 13y ago
He was ticketed for starting during the flashing "Don't Walk" signal. That seems more like a yellow light to me. In other words, there's still plenty of time to cross if you're a fast walker. Don't walk too fas
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by ssprang 13y ago
I really doubt this will have much effect on any of the competing apps. Brushes was already downloadable for free (with an optional in-app purchase). Many other painting apps of various capability are available for free too. Perhaps more da
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by ssprang 13y ago
I had a very basic version of this running on the Mac a while ago. It could open Inkpad/SVG documents and all of the editing tools were usable, but I never got around to implementing the rest of the UI (inspectors, etc.) so it was pret
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by ssprang 13y ago
To expand on my motivation for open-sourcing Inkpad and Brushes: The biggest reason is the ideological element. For all the usual reasons, I’ve come to feel that software should be free/open-source. I feel really good now that these ap
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by ssprang 13y ago
Ah, the disadvantages of being a perpetual lurker...
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by ssprang 13y ago
I've heard that some people are already re-signing and successfully submitting other developer's binaries. So, I suspect there will be some submitted clones eventually. It's possible Apple would reject them for being "to
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by ssprang 13y ago
Why not? I feel the overall value of the app is increased this way. There are many other much bigger free software projects.
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by ssprang 13y ago
Brushes, a painting app for iOS, is now open-source too: https://github.com/sprang/Brushes I posted links to both of these in the past few weeks, but they didn't get any traction. I guess I have bad timing. I was

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