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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…

No issue with AU credit card here. Is a credit card and not a debit card though

Is it still difficult to obtain a suica / pasmo card in Tokyo? Last time I was there it was difficult to obtain the card.

Obsidian is made by the team at dynalist - it would be amazing if they added the outlining features from Dynamist into obsidian

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 focu…

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…

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…

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...

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

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 windo…

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/…

Just in case you were wondering what kind of shots this rig can produce.... http://24x360.com/gallery

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 apparen…

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…

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…

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 exa…

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 a…

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…