We tried this in our building for years. Problems: It's expensive to have maintenance clean up the dog poop (and the dog owners actually complained about the additional expense) and it's almost impossible to catch them in the act since they only do it when nobody's around. It sucks to have to use doggy DNA, but it sucks more to step in dog shit walking out your front door.
I agree it's ridiculous to have to resort to doggy DNA but it's the only thing that finally forced dog owners in my building in Boston to stop letting their pets poop right in front of the building's door. Nobody wants to navigate a minefield of dog poop to get in or out of their home and it's incredibly frustrating and irritating that your fellow residents don't care enough to clean up after their dog.
What's really ridiculous is that Doggy DNA is necessary.
Yeah, tivos are expensive, I agree. I think you can find wifi adapters that will work for less than $70 though, mine was free with my tivo during a special offer.
The thing is, if you want the features tivo has, there's really nothing better. If you're fine with the what roku does then yeah, save your money.
I don't know for certain because I do have tivo service, but I'm pretty sure that you do need it to get movies. By the way, I bought tivo's "lifetime" service option. It's expensive, $300, but I was planning on keeping it long enough that I thought that it would eventually pay off. I'm not sure they even offer that anymore though.
Anyway, there are probably cheaper options if you only want movies.
Tivos have been able to use Wifi instead of telephone lines for years now. In fact, you have to if you want to use their Netflix or Amazon movie download service.
I'm pretty sure there are incremental backup solutions for OSX (Retrospect, SuperDuper!, among others), not that I've used them. Maybe you meant free+included in OSX, if so, then I agree. In any case I don't think rsync holds a candle to TimeMachine, for one reason (and most importantly to me) Time Machine provides a versioned backup of your disk. Rsync just does incremental backups, there's no going back to a certain point in time as you will be able to do in Time machine.
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Yes, I understand that. But since atoms in Erlang have no associated value, I don't see how the fact that another module uses the same atom could cause any confusion. Maybe if you gave an example.
I'm considering Erlang for a project, so I honestly would appreciate knowing how this might be problematic.
It's the key mappings for Meta that are the big problem. I want my Meta key in the same place on both Linux and OSX, and that place is the keys to the immediate left and right of the spacebar. For some reason, I can only get xterm and rxvt to do that for me. That's ok, but it'd be nicer if I could just use the standard OSX terminal with the nicer font rendering. (I normally use Konsole on Linux.)
Thanks, but yeah, I think I've tried them all. The only one that I can get to work like a normal Unix terminal WRT key bindings and emacs, is xterm from Apple's X server package (or rxvt I think.). Even then, it took some tweaking to have Backspace/Delete and the Apple key-as-Meta work properly locally and on remote Linux hosts.
I've used Linux on laptops for many years, but recently I haven't been able to get current Linux distributions (Fedora or Ubuntu) to work correctly on my IBM T40. By work correctly, I mean suspend/resume and Wifi with WPA. After weeks of trying to get these things working I gave up and bought a MacBook Pro (though I still use Linux on non laptops.) Now I have the added benefit of being able to attach an external monitor and have it work immediately, without restarting X or whatever (which as far as I know is a feature not supported by any distribution of Linux.)
I'd still rather use Linux on my laptop, for openness reasons and because OSX isn't great for working in Unix shells (e.g. no decent terminal), but the general ease of use of OSX has spoiled me and I don't expect that to change in the near future.
How much time have you spent writing Lisp? I ask because I was initially uncomfortable with s-expressions (as are many people) but after a certain amount of time something in my brain flipped, and now I'm much *more* comfortable with them. Part of it had to do with the fact that I'm drawn to writing code in the functional style (imperative code in Lisp *is* uncomfortable) and part was just getting my brain to see the structure in the parens.
French surrender jokes are the favorite joke of people who know just enough history to know that the French surrendered to the Germans during WWII. These surrender joke tellers probably learned this history when they read someone else's surrender joke and then figured out what it meant. It makes these people feel smart that they now know enough history to make this joke. There's probably some internet law that states that any story involving France or the French will eventually accumulate a surrender joke in the comment area. Jokes like these are the essence of not funny.
I haven't used windows at all yet this century:) so maybe that's why I don't recognize the 'LH' Allchin is referring to in the directly linked document for this story, context being: "We need a simple fast storage system. LH is a pig and I don't see any solution to this problem." What's 'LH' refer to? thanks!
Re:Performance, anyone?
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I suggest you forget about Lambda calculus and learn Lisp just like you'd learn any other programming language. Peter Seibel has made his excellent, non-migraine-inducing book "Practical Common Lisp" available for free on like at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ He leads you through building a streaming MP3 server in Lisp, which is quite fun.
Re:Performance, anyone?
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I agree with the marketing point, but disagree with points 1 & 2. Lisp is a general purpose language that I find to be well suited to a large variety of problems. Lisp has an unfortunate association with AI from the 1980s, but it is not specifically an AI language, it's just a language that makes hard problems like AI possible.
I think the real reason Lisp isn't more popular is that most developers don't want to spend the time to learn to write code that uses parenthesis instead of curly braces and semicolons. That's too bad, because Lisp is really a mind-opening language.
The only thing I guess I wouldn't use Lisp for is low level code, like drivers or other "OS level" stuff, because *nix is so heavily C oriented.
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Have you looked at PLT Scheme? I'm not sure it meets all your requirements, but I think it might come close enough. http://www.plt-scheme.org/
Re:Fedora's version of KDE lacks polish, attention
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I haven't found KDE to be buggy, but I really do dislike the second class citizen nature of KDE in Fedora.
For some reason I have no desire for an HDTV. I don't look at my current $200 TV and think that I wish the picture were better, I don't want to spend $1000 or more on a TV, and I think a lot of the "content" I've seen on HDTV looks pixelated and that bothers me. So HDTV doesn't sell itself to me.
anywho, Macs don't have any advantage in the field of programming, seeing as C# is fairly popular today, which is written with Microsoft's Visual Studio.
Hey, that's the stupidest comment I've seen in days. Congratulations!
I've tried Ubuntu (acutally Kubuntu) and I'm going to give it a test drive again today just for fun. But I keep comming back to Fedora. I've been using RedHat, then Fedora, for years at work and at home. Maybe it's just that I'm used to it, but I really do prefer this distribution. The RPM dependency problems of the past seem to have disappeared with the new package tool, "yum" (which automatically resolves and installs dependencies) and I have yet to see a distribution with such excellent anti-aliased font support. Fonts in Fedora look much better to me than fonts on my coworker's Windows machine, but not quite as good as OSX. Finally, I've really come to appreciate the open source-only policy of Fedora (& RedHat), both philosophically and practically.
My only problem with Fedora is also one of the reasons I like it so much for workstation use: distributions are released often, and old distributions are deprecated just as quickly. That makes it inappropriate for production server installations. This isn't the worst thing in the world, though, but it would be nice to use the same distribution on both development and production machines. I can live with this situation though, and IT demands commercial support anyway, so that seems to preclude Fedora too.
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We tried this in our building for years. Problems: It's expensive to have maintenance clean up the dog poop (and the dog owners actually complained about the additional expense) and it's almost impossible to catch them in the act since they only do it when nobody's around. It sucks to have to use doggy DNA, but it sucks more to step in dog shit walking out your front door.
You don't live in a city, do you? That's a very expensive proposition where I live.
I agree it's ridiculous to have to resort to doggy DNA but it's the only thing that finally forced dog owners in my building in Boston to stop letting their pets poop right in front of the building's door. Nobody wants to navigate a minefield of dog poop to get in or out of their home and it's incredibly frustrating and irritating that your fellow residents don't care enough to clean up after their dog.
What's really ridiculous is that Doggy DNA is necessary.
Yeah, tivos are expensive, I agree. I think you can find wifi adapters that will work for less than $70 though, mine was free with my tivo during a special offer.
The thing is, if you want the features tivo has, there's really nothing better. If you're fine with the what roku does then yeah, save your money.
I don't know for certain because I do have tivo service, but I'm pretty sure that you do need it to get movies. By the way, I bought tivo's "lifetime" service option. It's expensive, $300, but I was planning on keeping it long enough that I thought that it would eventually pay off. I'm not sure they even offer that anymore though.
Anyway, there are probably cheaper options if you only want movies.
Tivos have been able to use Wifi instead of telephone lines for years now. In fact, you have to if you want to use their Netflix or Amazon movie download service.
Hmm.. that didn't work well for me. I tried it, but I ended up in an editor with functionality that was one step above punch cards.
I'm pretty sure there are incremental backup solutions for OSX (Retrospect, SuperDuper!, among others), not that I've used them. Maybe you meant free+included in OSX, if so, then I agree. In any case I don't think rsync holds a candle to TimeMachine, for one reason (and most importantly to me) Time Machine provides a versioned backup of your disk. Rsync just does incremental backups, there's no going back to a certain point in time as you will be able to do in Time machine.
Yes, I understand that. But since atoms in Erlang have no associated value, I don't see how the fact that another module uses the same atom could cause any confusion. Maybe if you gave an example.
I'm considering Erlang for a project, so I honestly would appreciate knowing how this might be problematic.
> Atoms. They're used for some things I might use constants for in another language, I think. I'll have to get back to you with some code examples.
Atoms in Erlang don't have a value, so I don't see how you'd use them as constants.
It's the key mappings for Meta that are the big problem. I want my Meta key in the same place on both Linux and OSX, and that place is the keys to the immediate left and right of the spacebar. For some reason, I can only get xterm and rxvt to do that for me. That's ok, but it'd be nicer if I could just use the standard OSX terminal with the nicer font rendering. (I normally use Konsole on Linux.)
Thanks, but yeah, I think I've tried them all. The only one that I can get to work like a normal Unix terminal WRT key bindings and emacs, is xterm from Apple's X server package (or rxvt I think.). Even then, it took some tweaking to have Backspace/Delete and the Apple key-as-Meta work properly locally and on remote Linux hosts.
I've used Linux on laptops for many years, but recently I haven't been able to get current Linux distributions (Fedora or Ubuntu) to work correctly on my IBM T40. By work correctly, I mean suspend/resume and Wifi with WPA. After weeks of trying to get these things working I gave up and bought a MacBook Pro (though I still use Linux on non laptops.) Now I have the added benefit of being able to attach an external monitor and have it work immediately, without restarting X or whatever (which as far as I know is a feature not supported by any distribution of Linux.)
I'd still rather use Linux on my laptop, for openness reasons and because OSX isn't great for working in Unix shells (e.g. no decent terminal), but the general ease of use of OSX has spoiled me and I don't expect that to change in the near future.
How much time have you spent writing Lisp? I ask because I was initially uncomfortable with s-expressions (as are many people) but after a certain amount of time something in my brain flipped, and now I'm much *more* comfortable with them. Part of it had to do with the fact that I'm drawn to writing code in the functional style (imperative code in Lisp *is* uncomfortable) and part was just getting my brain to see the structure in the parens.
French surrender jokes are the favorite joke of people who know just enough history to know that the French surrendered to the Germans during WWII. These surrender joke tellers probably learned this history when they read someone else's surrender joke and then figured out what it meant. It makes these people feel smart that they now know enough history to make this joke. There's probably some internet law that states that any story involving France or the French will eventually accumulate a surrender joke in the comment area. Jokes like these are the essence of not funny.
I can't believe they still make Pabst!
I haven't used windows at all yet this century :) so maybe that's why I don't recognize the 'LH' Allchin is referring to in the directly linked document for this story, context being: "We need a simple fast storage system. LH is a pig and I don't see any solution to this problem." What's 'LH' refer to? thanks!
I suggest you forget about Lambda calculus and learn Lisp just like you'd learn any other programming language. Peter Seibel has made his excellent, non-migraine-inducing book "Practical Common Lisp" available for free on like at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ He leads you through building a streaming MP3 server in Lisp, which is quite fun.
I agree with the marketing point, but disagree with points 1 & 2. Lisp is a general purpose language that I find to be well suited to a large variety of problems. Lisp has an unfortunate association with AI from the 1980s, but it is not specifically an AI language, it's just a language that makes hard problems like AI possible.
I think the real reason Lisp isn't more popular is that most developers don't want to spend the time to learn to write code that uses parenthesis instead of curly braces and semicolons. That's too bad, because Lisp is really a mind-opening language.
The only thing I guess I wouldn't use Lisp for is low level code, like drivers or other "OS level" stuff, because *nix is so heavily C oriented.
Have you looked at PLT Scheme? I'm not sure it meets all your requirements, but I think it might come close enough. http://www.plt-scheme.org/
I haven't found KDE to be buggy, but I really do dislike the second class citizen nature of KDE in Fedora.
For some reason I have no desire for an HDTV. I don't look at my current $200 TV and think that I wish the picture were better, I don't want to spend $1000 or more on a TV, and I think a lot of the "content" I've seen on HDTV looks pixelated and that bothers me. So HDTV doesn't sell itself to me.
anywho, Macs don't have any advantage in the field of programming, seeing as C# is fairly popular today, which is written with Microsoft's Visual Studio.
Hey, that's the stupidest comment I've seen in days. Congratulations!
Maybe you should get better admins then. Our fortune 500 customers are switching to Linux in droves.
I've tried Ubuntu (acutally Kubuntu) and I'm going to give it a test drive again today just for fun. But I keep comming back to Fedora. I've been using RedHat, then Fedora, for years at work and at home. Maybe it's just that I'm used to it, but I really do prefer this distribution. The RPM dependency problems of the past seem to have disappeared with the new package tool, "yum" (which automatically resolves and installs dependencies) and I have yet to see a distribution with such excellent anti-aliased font support. Fonts in Fedora look much better to me than fonts on my coworker's Windows machine, but not quite as good as OSX. Finally, I've really come to appreciate the open source-only policy of Fedora (& RedHat), both philosophically and practically.
My only problem with Fedora is also one of the reasons I like it so much for workstation use: distributions are released often, and old distributions are deprecated just as quickly. That makes it inappropriate for production server installations. This isn't the worst thing in the world, though, but it would be nice to use the same distribution on both development and production machines. I can live with this situation though, and IT demands commercial support anyway, so that seems to preclude Fedora too.