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   by dbbolton 14y ago

   I'm pretty curious as to how the author came up with the answers in that quiz.
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   by dbbolton 14y ago

   I've been using zsh as my primary shell for roughly 5 years. I made an earnest effort in the beginning to read the 400+ page User Guide[1]. Though I learned a lot, it's simply to much information to retain-- especially the things you don't
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   by dbbolton 14y ago

   It seems as though the asker doesn't know about mapping, which wasn't really addressed and would answer the implied "I don't like how this feature works and it's slowing me down" question. It only takes a few lines to work around vim's "hor
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   by dbbolton 14y ago

   This reminds me of when McDonald's openly objected to Webster's (accurate) definition of "McJob" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McJob#History
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   by dbbolton 14y ago

   It kind of surprises me that a photographer and typeface designer would choose #ffffff text on a #000000 background, something that the average person can only stand to look at for a few seconds before needing to rest his or her eyes.
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   by dbbolton 14y ago

   If so, this is almost as absurd as Apple's attempt to trademark an ellipsoid.
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   by dbbolton 14y ago

   But is it fitting to apply the findings of trials with real world birds to the sapient Middle-earth eagles?
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   Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)(sean-crist.com)

   316 points by dbbolton 14y ago|206 comments
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   by dbbolton 14y ago

   >The impact and fall injured my leg and also broke my wearable computing system, which normally overwrites its memory buffers and doesn’t permanently record images. But as a result of the damage, it retained pictures of the car’s licens
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    I think you're reading too much into that statement. When I tweeted about this, a bunch of people said "that's serious; you should contact support". So I mentioned that I contacted support in the post so I would get even more suggestions to
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    Github for Windows bug may delete your files from disk(gist.github.com)

    2 points by dbbolton 14y ago|2 comments
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    Government watchdog: Warrantless laptop searches at border are A-OK(arstechnica.com)

    4 points by dbbolton 14y ago|4 comments
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    >the sci-fi ray gun-inspired Zapper Actually, the design of the Zapper was heavily influenced by the High Standard .22 LR target pistol: http://i.imgur.com/1i9hyvx.jpg
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    The End of THQ(icrontic.com)

    1 points by dbbolton 14y ago|0 comments
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    >“The delusion consisted of the patient’s absolute conviction she was already dead and waiting to be buried, that she had no teeth or hair, and that her uterus was malformed.” How did the researchers know this? Did the patient somehow b
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    I didn't say anything about whether the decision was justified. I only elaborated on the reason behind it.
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    So why was '~' chosen over '^'?
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    The title is misleading. He wasn't actually expelled for finding the flaw; he was expelled because, after reporting the flaw, he ran an exploit program on the school's server without permission, allegedly to see if it had been fixed. Had he
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    I can't get past "Loading your fonts" on Chrome.
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    There's a show on NATGEO called "Brain Games"[1] which featured Robbins on an episode. Normally I don't watch anything on the so-called "educational" channels because they're rarely that and often just thinly-veiled reality shows. However,
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    How would this compare to YAML in terms of speed?
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    Easter Eggs in popular computer programs(reddit.com)

    2 points by dbbolton 14y ago|0 comments
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    I really don't understand why (in terms of number of users) Debian-based wasn't the number 1 priority, let alone why Gentoo was given preference to it.
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    Anything other than #00ff00 on #000000 is apparently just not 1337 enough. It's more important than people actually being able to read the content on your site.
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    IIRC Hershey kept the price of their flagship chocolate bar constant for a long time by making the size smaller until it was no longer a practical option.
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    RebeccaBlackOS releases live CD with Wayland 1.0(lists.freedesktop.org)

    2 points by dbbolton 14y ago|0 comments
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    I feel like you misjudged the tone of my comment.
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    I meant that you have to hit an extra key to actually make use of the mode's default bindings.
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    I'm a full-time Vim user who has never taken to `bindkey -v`. The reason is simple: I'm using insert mode 99% of the time, so using vi keybindings just makes me have to hit an extra key. However, it is useful some of the time. Since viins i
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    by dbbolton 14y ago

    Contrary to this Stack thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1143498/difference-betwee...