themckman

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by themckman 7y ago
If you’re looking for a service manager written in a lisp, there’s always GNU Shepherd. Written in and configured with Guile scheme.
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by themckman 8y ago
For those interested, some of the underlying libraries that make up Docker for Mac (and, I think, Windows) are written in OCaml (or have components written in OCaml): VPNKit[0], DataKit[1] and HyperKit[2] (qcow2 support is implemented in OC
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by themckman 9y ago
That's a great question and one that I've struggled with myself. Best I can do is tell you to find a guitarist who you respect and appears to play without effort, find videos of them playing and try to emulate what they do. Practi
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by themckman 10y ago
rip
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by themckman 10y ago
> Apparently, every computer science problem has easy to understand solution that’s easy to implement but awfully slow in practice. I have been doing some data structures/algorithms review as I haven't really used much of that
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by themckman 10y ago
One thing I've noticed recently at SEA is that there appears to be some sort of privatized PreCheck. I've had some guy come around with brochures for the company offering minimal lines/waiting to get through security if you s
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by themckman 10y ago
I presume this is because you actually click the trackpad rather than turn on tap-to-click. Gotta turn on that tap-to-click. It doesn't take too long for my wrist to start hurting whenever I used someone's MB without tap to click.
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by themckman 10y ago
> And you are basing this on what, exactly? I made that statement based on my limited ability to extrapolate how our species might deal with the two scenarios. It sounds much, much easier to me, while still being incredibly challenging,
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by themckman 10y ago
> > assured doom > This part of your statement is actually a little bit of the problem here, too. Can you define more clearly what you mean by this? That was my question. I appreciate your summary of the situation and I think your
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by themckman 10y ago
> assured doom This part of your statement is actually a little bit of the problem here, too. Can you define more clearly what you mean by this? I'm very interested in exploring the issue better, but having to constantly sift throug
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by themckman 10y ago
I was kind of hoping it would be an article about all the Lisps and Schemes.
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by themckman 10y ago
> People should be rewarded for doing good things, and given disincentives for doing bad things. That's a powerful concept and I think the world would be a better place if people would get behind it in politics. I remember seeing a
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by themckman 10y ago
You don't just sign up to be a resident in another country. You have to be invited. I know its fun to say "Screw this! I'm moving to Canada", but it doesn't work like that.
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by themckman 10y ago
Why shouldn't they exist?
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by themckman 10y ago
Where and how do you shop now?
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by themckman 10y ago
As a current job seeker, its certainly helpful to see the range I can expect when the process gets that far. I might suggest that you offer two modes for input: exact and range. In the case of range, maybe, warn them if their range is crazy
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by themckman 10y ago
The German language appears to have a lot of good words for app names. In fact, a lot of times when I'm trying to come up with names for apps and such, I usually just head over to Google Translate and start translating mundane English
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by themckman 10y ago
What is an ethical incentive?
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by themckman 10y ago
I'd guess your parent is referring to the part about his old Uncle down the road which I assumed was a lie, myself.
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by themckman 10y ago
For a little context, some rough voter totals going back to 2000 (in millions): 2016: 126 2012: 129 2008: 131 2004: 122 2000: 105 While, certainly, there were less votes cast than the last two elections, it doesn&#x
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by themckman 10y ago
I actually have some money in Germany that I was waiting to bring back until after the election, hoping for a Trump win and a collapse of the Dollar relative to the Euro, but some of the stuff I've read suggests that it might actual do
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by themckman 10y ago
I was able to find a job rather quickly on berlinstartupjobs.com if you'd like to consider Germany as an option. Germany is a rather good option for working abroad as getting a visa is pretty easy if you have a college degree and make
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by themckman 10y ago
> You've never been to the deep south, much the south, have you? I have been to the south (maybe not the "deep south") but your general assumption that I don't have a great understanding of the people that reside ther
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by themckman 10y ago
So, I voted for DJT (I like calling him that, for some reason). I didn't vote for him because I agreed with any of his policies (as best I can tell he never actually presented any during the course of his campaign) or because I thought
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by themckman 10y ago
The country was designed initially so that the Federal branch (i.e. the remote branch) of the government was limited in its scope and power. The State and local branches of government are supposed to be the ones with the power as it pertain
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by themckman 10y ago
I started my career as a Tribune employee (eventually working for a Tribune/Gannett joint venture). It was right after Sam Zell bought them. I recall him bringing in a million dollars in cash and placing on the floor of basement where
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Gannett terminates pursuit of Tronc(usatoday.com)
2 points by themckman 10y ago|1 comments
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by themckman 10y ago
There's actually a Vagrant plugin to use Veertu as a backend. You can find the underlying CLI that the plugin uses in /Applications/Veertu Desktop.app/Contents/SharedSupport/cli if you want to script it yoursel
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Listening, Growing and Adapting(veertu.com)
72 points by themckman 10y ago|23 comments
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by themckman 10y ago
You might want to consider checking out Pex ( https://pex.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ ). It helps you create a single, executable artifact for your Python project very similar to an UberJAR.

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