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by antidoh 14y ago
“But when she visited Ohio Northern, she was won over by faculty and admissions staff members who urge students to pursue their dreams rather than obsess on the sticker price. “As an 18-year-old, it sounded like a good fit to me, and the sc
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"You're getting a Dell, dude." I guess that was a typo, one too many commas.
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I hate these. Who wouldn't. Firefox: View/Page Style/No Style turns the page into plain, readable text. Think of all the effort someone went through, to take perfectly good content and deface it.
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Despite the vague "stickin' it to the man, we're all in this together" vibe (which I like), I'll note that his T&C is ten browser page-downs worth of text. Which is fine ...
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The news is that he's part of the Big Content establishment, or at least he's as much a part of it as he chooses to be. He makes networks millions. And despite being part of that establishment, and having as much motivation as any other DRM
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"if you master the techniques in this book, you’ll never need another text editor. In 120 Vim recipes, you’ll quickly learn the editor’s core functionality" If you're a heavy vim user then you probably already know the editor's core functio
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by antidoh 14y ago
http://lwn.net/Articles/140350/ It's fine. I have nothing against it. I just generally like doing as much as I can in the terminal, when that makes sense. gitk is OK, but I like tig. Personal quirks.
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Tig is the only git viewer that I like.
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It must have gotten to the point by now that the mere length of a privacy policy, or EULA, is enough to convince the court that there effectively is no policy or no agreement, signed, seal broken or not.
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Not working there.
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An OTA broadcast-based model [for TV] was a bit stronger than a fad. What was it that made it old-fashioned and bereft of really interesting content? Oh yeah, HBO and its ilk. It always amazes me when dictators who succeed via coup d'état t
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by antidoh 14y ago
I wouldn't say absurd. Certainly you can use C functions in C++. But if you want to eliminate the use of most or all C++-only features, the only way to guarantee that is to not use C++. White or blacklists can be circumvented, intentionally
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Haven't read through it, but it definitely looks like it was inspired by the FreeBSD Handbook, and aspires to it. I'm glad it's out, I'll need something like this when I eventually move from Ubuntu to Debian.
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Floppy drive -> dresser, dresser drawer, kitchen cabinet ... File cabinet. Although I suppose not-old people don't do paper anymore. Plastic storage container? Warehouse. Glovebox (and why is it still called a glovebox anyway?). Boo
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I love watching my kid discover things that I've forgotten or gotten used to. There is nothing new under the sun, but there's always another newb.
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And that's sometimes what the "right" way is, just a way.
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"The right way" is not always enforced by the language. It's often just conventions agreed to by the dominant community. "Pythonic" is a word that you'll hear a lot, if you haven't already.
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Not because he couldn't answer these things, but because he'd only done the one intro Python course. Or the one intro C course, for that matter. Jobs where those things matter depend on much more than having got your feet wet with C and m
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Python has less syntactic sugar: semi colon-terminated statements, braces, etc. It doesn't make Python "better," but to a newb, the less the better. If less comes in a real language, so much the better. Variable declarations ... you could g
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Ironic environment for an article about an airplane overburdened with mission creep.
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All the govt would have to do is shut off the internet via the telcos and backbones. They don't need the internet, we do.
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Good thing they didn't patent it, so others can use it.
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Just installed it. Works well.
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One of my favorite things about DDG is the bang, and my absolute favorite bang (when I use one) is !g. Because the URL for the resulting page is just the search, without all the cruft. !g googol https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=
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When I first heard of Pair, I thought it was Pair. So I'm not surprised.
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"Yes, it's a rant. Why? Because probably the author is tired of explaining the same things over and over to the XML defenders" If one is tired of talking, one's best option is to shut up.
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"Not an obvious win as far as I can tell, wouldn't like to fix an ummatched bracket in a document ending in >>>> rather than e.g. </form><div></body></html>. But your mileage may vary." HTML w
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Indeed. > Robbery is not just another way of making a living, rape is not just another way of satisfying basic human needs, torture is not just another way of interrogation. And XML is not just another way of writing S-exps. >| I u
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"Related: I wince every time someone says it's the FBI's job to catch criminals, and we should make it easier for them to do so. No, it's not their job to catch criminals, period. Their job is to catch criminals while protecting everybody's
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I think because I'm a programmer I rely less on spellcheck than non-programmers, because what I write is full of words mashed together as one (spellcheck if flagged by Firefox's spell checker (and BTW the "if" in "spellcheck if" wasn't flag

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