That's one dishonest headline. Air pollution areas are commonly associated with big cities, where the crime rate tends to be higher. The website clearly turned this into something else for no reason at all other than clicks.
Readit News4lch3m1st commented on Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/pseudolus
This sounds really interesting to me, I have a bunch of items I can think of where this might be useful to automate (for example, my wife and I have different bank accounts, but share a credit card for points reasons... givng my wife a statement is really hard since they "upgraded" their site, and removed the transactions export feature).
But I'm not sure where to start automating this. It would be great to have some examples.
In that case, you might want to check the wiki. There are still some examples missing, but they'll give you a general idea.
Which operating systems are supported? Don't see that in the Readme.
Hello. It was tested on Linux and FreeBSD. Works fine on any of those systems if you have SBCL and dmenu installed, though it might need a few tweaks on program paths of your configuration file.
I plan to migrate this to a more flexible Roswell script in a near future.
Hello. I currently use this daily to automate my workflow. I have no pretension of "selling" this as a very extensible tool that everyone should use, though I agree that I need to improve the README.
I read the whole README and I still have no idea what this does. Something about bookmarking websites and searches in some sort of configurable menu?
Hello, I'm the author. I just found out someone put this in HN again, I hope I can explain.
This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or dmenu frontend. Once you bind it a key shortcut, rofi/dmenu will come up asking you what to do.
Right now I can directly access my favorite websites, open my favorite programs, do web search (and also switch web engine), all without touching the browser directly. The idea is to group a lot of things in a lightweight script, and have a keyboard-only interaction with no extra extensions or programs.
I agree that the README is a little poor right now, and screenshots/gifs would also help on this regard. I'll start working on it pretty soon.
4lch3m1st commented on Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003) purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/d... · Posted by u/tosh
Almost no oop languages are actually oop according to Alan Kay.
I think his OOP is closest to what we'd call actors today.
From his talk on OOPSLA[1], I'd say that only Smalltalk and Common Lisp (through CLOS) were able to perform OO as Kay envisioned.
Erlang is another story: it would probably be better to call it just actor model. But again, Kay himself says[2] that there is not a lot of difference between actor model and his OOP.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Alan-Ka...
4lch3m1st commented on Gitless: A simple version control system built on top of Git gitless.com/... · Posted by u/jackbravo
The other half of the issue is that git's commands don't follow the abstraction. If each command mapped to a single dag operation, it might make more sense. But they don't (revert).
They shouldn't. I'm not saying that Git doesn't have commands that can be hard to understand fully, but the whole point of any abstraction is to hide the "insides" of any operation so you don't have to think about them.
Having commands for each DAG operation will just add more complexity and expose a structure which you shouldn't be handling manually.
The OP doesn't focus on this in the post, but they're a recent grad with no work experience.
Maybe it was a bit of a cattle-call experience, but IBM is sorting through thousands of similar grads and needs some way to screen them for technical positions when many will have no professional history.
If being asked to take some tests, then flown out for a stay in a nice hotel and a big mixer (with some great networking opportunities, btw), then offered a six-figure salary at your first job out of school requires a "name and shame," then the OP sounds a bit entitled.
Though I agree that complaining like this can be a problem for people with zero experience, I don't think it is a valid argument against what OP is pointing out. Most of the process seems to be rooted on automation, which encourages candidates to find a way to bypass the selection system instead of showing actual competence. This means a direct loss on the company's staff quality. If anything, IBM might be losing good people, possibly to other companies.
Not cool. This also seems to imply no support for Atom feeds as well.
I have switched my media channels entirely to RSS/Atom feeds, though I only read them through Emacs. This cannot stop stuff like fake news, but it always seemed important to me to the fact that it makes viewing discussions entirely optional (you have to visit the link for that). The lack of ads is also a plus.
4lch3m1st commented on JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars github.com/nasa-jpl/open-... · Posted by u/ghosthamlet
This is beautiful, and a wonderful project to develop along with some friends. JPL nailed it.