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by aaronem 13y ago
Eh. wget is described as "get w's", which is funny, and it's not as though 'man wget' is a long way away -- even Google knows what to do with that input. The same, I'm sure, is true for 'man lsof&#x27
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, you never have to, but it can be useful, e.g. with C-M-x instead of M-x eval-defun RET. I've never yet had to bind a chord with more than two meta keys, but considering that even Photoshop has three-meta chords (e.g. C-M-S-s, F
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by aaronem 13y ago
Whose employees probably shouldn't be visiting Tumblr in work browsers, and work time, anyway.
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by aaronem 13y ago
You seem to see "insightful" and "rant" as mutually exclusive. I don't agree, but that's merely a quibble; to address the meat of your response, I say that, while of course you're right that no language is
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by aaronem 13y ago
To answer your points in reverse order: It is entirely reasonable to expect newbies to read the relevant documentation; if someone can't be bothered to read and understand one relatively succinct RFC, then any difficulty he experiences
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by aaronem 13y ago
True, a shotgun is not the sort of thing you'd carry for personal defense outside your own property, but for home defense, a 12-gauge pump-action is as good as anything, and better than most -- especially when, as mentioned in the arti
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by aaronem 13y ago
Syntactic headaches mean less than semantic ones. PHP fails to support, or supports quite poorly, many semantics which more competently designed languages handle well. If PHP is your primary, or worse your only , programming language, then
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by aaronem 13y ago
The whole idea behind REST resources, though, is that the HTTP method expresses the action, and the URI identifies the object acted upon. In that conceptual scheme, there is neither need nor place for verbs in the URI; POST /topics&#x2
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by aaronem 13y ago
> Better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission. You can say that again; I forgot this rule, and it cost me quite a good job. It's hard for anyone to argue with a fait accompli .
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by aaronem 13y ago
And? Unless you're going to try to make the point that post-WWII American investment in Europe was done purely out of the goodness of the post-WWII American heart, I'm not sure where you are going with this.
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by aaronem 13y ago
"Resistance is futile."
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by aaronem 13y ago
Not in the slightest, but the besetting flaw of libertarians is the belief that history has nothing to teach them save what they desire to learn, and that the existence of government, in one form or another, throughout recorded human histor
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by aaronem 13y ago
Your common or garden libertarian will construct all manner of complex arguments as to how that isn't so, but there's really nothing in the philosophy which forbids it.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, I don't know about that; I have never seen any philosophical incompatibility between libertarianism or Objectivism and lynch mobs, so long as said lynch mobs are true mobs and not organized by a state actor -- the SA, for example
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by aaronem 13y ago
I don't love libertarians and their ilk any more than you do, but in fairness I have to say this doesn't read to me like a request for government intervention, so much as a "Let's you and him fight" suggestion that
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by aaronem 13y ago
"Movement"? "Comrades"? "Freedom fighters"? Excuse me, isn't this the online equivalent of an open-air drug market he's talking about here?
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by aaronem 13y ago
> The verbiage directly called the kettle black on the supposed "FISA Reform Bill," reminding politicians that the powder is dry if head too far off course. And that (IMHO) makes a big statement. An incomprehensible statement
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by aaronem 13y ago
Because you can recognize distributed narcissism at thirty paces?
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by aaronem 13y ago
History's not the only one. This is just adorable. I'm sure everyone involved feels like a really, really good person, though.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, good! Based on my experience with attempting to run Linux as a first-class citizen, rather than in a VM hosted by an OS which can deal with actual hardware, I feel sure we can all look forward to another decade of "You can't g
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by aaronem 13y ago
There's a big difference between a professional developer and a "rockstar programmer"; the latter may safely be assumed to have no sense of elegance, and to utter all sorts of atrocities in the process of building something t
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by aaronem 13y ago
Well, you could take everything incredibly personally for no obvious reason, or you could consider that no one is actually saying you have to be a "hacker" so-called to participate in the industry.
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by aaronem 13y ago
> "manly man" is a dick who doesn't do his fair share Oh? My wife, back when I had one, never seemed interested in an egalitarian split for chores like, say, replacing the car's serpentine belt and tensioner, or sorti
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by aaronem 13y ago
Having just built rpgfs and played around with it a bit, I have to say your comment amounts to something of an insult against Urbit.
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by aaronem 13y ago
There's a lot of "we don't know anything, so we're going to make this sound as ominous as possible". For example: > Reportedly firing bullets like those used by AK-47s -- an assault weapon favored by terrorists [
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by aaronem 13y ago
What's happening isn't that the canvas is being told "load this image, find some Javascript in it, and execute that", which would make your comment make sense. Instead, it's just being used as a means of getting the
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by aaronem 13y ago
> Yes it probably is an overkill to understand how a db parses an actual SQL Yes, I've thought that, too, but it turns out that, beyond a certain relatively low level of complexity, that's a great way to produce SQL queries wh
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by aaronem 13y ago
Satellites in LEO, probably, albeit at enormously wasteful expense compared to, say, an SM-3, or some other sort of anti-satellite missile. (Ships with the Aegis guided missile system mount SM-3s, and they've been successfully tested a
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by aaronem 13y ago
Yes, but: nuclear weapons in space are prohibited by at least two treaties to which the US is a signatory; any point on the globe worth hitting with conventional weapons would be far easier and cheaper to hit with, say, a cruise missile o
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by aaronem 13y ago
I can think of a purely utilitarian reason to offer a bug bounty: Getting paid a bounty directly by the government is easier and safer than selling an exploit to someone who will use it for criminal purposes. Granted that in an ideal world

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