zzygan

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by zzygan 1y ago
There is a few solid prepackaged systems around now. Doom emacs is very comprehensive. Similar systems also exist rather than starting from nothing. Elisp is a programming language that supports many ways to do things so there is lots of wa
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by zzygan 2y ago
No issue with AU credit card here. Is a credit card and not a debit card though
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by zzygan 3y ago
Is it still difficult to obtain a suica / pasmo card in Tokyo? Last time I was there it was difficult to obtain the card.
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by zzygan 5y ago
Obsidian is made by the team at dynalist - it would be amazing if they added the outlining features from Dynamist into obsidian
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by zzygan 5y ago
I love org mode for writing and that side of org is brilliant. It’s not just a task manager. In fact I’d love just a note taking tool that doesn’t care as much about tasks but focuses on a outstanding org mode note taking experience on mobi
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by zzygan 7y ago
The complexity is exactly is issue. So while it’s possible to implement on the .net runtime without type erasure, it’s hard. Plus the only reason type erasure is bad is if you want reflection. Which in FP languages with a solid type system
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by zzygan 7y ago
Disagree. Type erasure is actually one of th best possible decisions made by the java designers. Languages that have higher kinded types (Haskell, Scala)are virtually impossible to implement without type erasure. This is why the .net runti
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by zzygan 11y ago
Definitely a myth. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/phys-ed-the-benefit... Study Review: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/126/5/e1199.ab...
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Critical Thinking: What Is It Good For? (In Fact, What Is It?)(csicop.org)
5 points by zzygan 11y ago|1 comments
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by zzygan 11y ago
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing... There were earlier versions of that article as well. Joel kinda popularized the notion of those kind of problems
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by zzygan 12y ago
Is there a way to do XMonad style layouts with this system? Since moving to OSX, I've missed Xmonad badly. The big thing that has been lacking is the ability for newly opened windows to automatically be placed into a grid, according to
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Leading Australian Telco storing data on behalf of US government(smh.com.au)
104 points by zzygan 13y ago|28 comments
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by zzygan 14y ago
Credit card penetration is pretty high in Australia. Its a few years old, but as of 2009 at least 65% of Australians have credit card debt. http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Fe...
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by zzygan 14y ago
Just in case you were wondering what kind of shots this rig can produce.... http://24x360.com/gallery
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Jullian Assange running for the Australian senate(theage.com.au)
4 points by zzygan 14y ago|0 comments
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Twitter in legal battle over 3rd party access to its data(smh.com.au)
1 points by zzygan 14y ago|0 comments
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by zzygan 14y ago
This must have come out of the ITA Software acquisition.... (Heading "Attention required" 'You must follow the ITA convention of using...') They were a big common lisp user apparently. Google is normally very specific on the languages allo
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by zzygan 14y ago
I just finished installing helm in emacs. Of course its something completely different. Always confusing when something open source appears that has the same name as something else entirely. Not that it matters overall. http://emacs-helm.g
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by zzygan 14y ago
Yep, there is also the stipulation that no Shops in London are allowed to sell hot Chips unless sold with Fish aka Fish and Chips, because McDonalds has exclusive sponsor rights on Chips. I should say that English Chips really are nothing l
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by zzygan 14y ago
Zonal Marking is a fantastic site for tactical minded football fans. Highly recommended. Not overly surprised that its referenced 2 or 3 times on HN. Switzerland is the closest example of Chelsea/Inter in the case of Spain. Switzerland shu
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by zzygan 14y ago
Pirlo for Italy was 34 for this years Euro's, and look at the tournament he had. Its possible if Xavi is rested appropriately that Spain can have the same effect in Brazil. Scary actually. Stats are important to Football, but pure data is u
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by zzygan 15y ago
This is a good article, however the guy who has been pushing this for years and years now, is a man called Dan Lavry. In fact he wrote a very good, rigorous explanation a few years back,in very readable and well written form. http://www.la
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by zzygan 15y ago
Payroll is a really weird beast. In some ways business apps can be a challenge, and in others a real pain. Payroll is definitely one of the harder business problems to make generic. I've just come off a payroll project that has been 2 and h
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by zzygan 15y ago
Its very nifty. Much appreciate someone taking on the behemoth that is iTunes. I cant help but think of Audion when I see a paid music player on OSX. http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
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by zzygan 15y ago
Very interesting idea. I need to figure out a way to teach my kids about money and cashflow using something like this method. However, as cool as this story is, I swear I read it in one of Rich Dad Poor Dad books. Maybe this is the source
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by zzygan 15y ago
Excellent links. Very interesting. The problem I see is precisely the point you raise " Given that Australian venture funds don't see the opportunity it isn't at all clear why the government would think differently" Is there a way to help v
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by zzygan 15y ago
If its not open source, then the same thing will eventually happen that happened with reflector. I'll stick with ILSpy when I work on .NET/mono
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by zzygan 15y ago
Minor quibble. The latest versions of chrome(12 onwards) let you de-obfuscate JS code, and set breakpoints in the cleaned up code. Just right click in the source tab pane, and the code get prettified.
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by zzygan 15y ago
As an Australian citizen who has recently traveled to the US under the Visa waiver program with the sole purpose of working (I was sent to the US by my employer), I can say pretty definitively that they dont have an issue with working as lo
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by zzygan 15y ago
This is definitely the case here in Australia. Apparently Australia has one of the highest TV piracy rates in the world due to the fact that TV networks here would wait a very long time (6 months or even more) between a show airing in the U

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