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bitstream

37 karma · joined October 6, 2011

Haskeller and Racketeer by choice, insert language here by demand.

Enjoy reading about AI, PLT, and Math.

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bitstream··on The single most useful Emacs feature
The kill ring gets my vote.

Regional undo/redo is a close second.

bitstream··on PragDave: Followup on the EMail Experiment
Yes, the 'Zero' is a bit hyperbolic. At a bare minimum I'd of course still have Russian-Brides and Nigerian Prince's to keep me company...
bitstream··on PragDave: Followup on the EMail Experiment
I think you're missing a key distinction. My clients, wouldn't begrudge me a vacation. They would however, be quite offended if my autos-responder told them their message has been deleted. Quite frankly, it comes off as rude. You wouldn't forgive 'BigCorp' for replying to you this way, why should a small business be any different?
bitstream··on PragDave: Followup on the EMail Experiment
If I took this approach with my clients, they'd award me with a zero inbox count for perpeturity.
bitstream··on Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.
As a developer, my decade long honeymoon with OSX may be waning. On the other hand there is still nothing that comes close to OSX for my nontechnical friends. And no... they cannot use Ubuntu. (I have scientifically-worthless empirical evidence)
bitstream··on Racket 5.2 Released
The new plot library is brilliant! Thanks to all involved.
bitstream··on Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
I don't think the problem here is their OS, rather it'll be their network structure. So instead, perhaps that should be:

"Oh please tell me they didn't connect directly to the internet".

bitstream··on Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
This seems about as random and undirected as Stuxnet magically appearing at five Iranian nuclear plants.
bitstream··on Occupy Wall Street Demands
The problem is these demands are being retroactively refined by every special interest group along the spectrum.

What do the people on the ground really want? And who are they going to take it from, to get it?

Actual demands I've heard from the group range from the whimsical: 100% free tuition, ending all foreclosures, and ending the fed. To the more sensible: lowering rates on tuition loans, long-term mortgage restructuring (to keep people in their homes), and reapplying Glass-Steigal.

Without cohesive and unified demands, I don't see how this 'movement' will achieve anything more than noise. Surely even 'occupiers' have jobs to attend? (Did I just say, "let them eat cake"?)

bitstream··on Sean Parker on Steve Jobs
It's sad, but that's the viewpoint I came away with as well.
bitstream··on President Obama on Steve Jobs: "He Changed the Way Each of Us Sees the World"
Very apt.

There is an easter-egg from this 'Think Different' campaign in OSX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different#Mac_OS_X