djur

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by djur 13y ago
In idiomatic English, "actually" in the context you used it suggests a contrast to something else. "I'm considering asking Bob to do this job." "You should ask Sally, she actually knows what she's doing.&q
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by djur 13y ago
In the US, the opposite is true. The average American is somewhat to the right of the median Senator on social issues and somewhat to her left on economic issues. A lot of people like to identify as "fiscal conservatives", but tha
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by djur 13y ago
Stricter laws but much better access. If you can get a government-subsidized first-trimester abortion at a nearby clinic, it makes the availability of late-term abortions much less politically contentious. That's not a compromise that&
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by djur 13y ago
There are identifiable philosophical positions of "left" or "right" that don't necessarily indicate slavish adherence to any particular left-wing or right-wing party's platform. A given policy (welfare programs
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by djur 13y ago
That isn't a historical certainty. Even leaving the social axis aside and sticking strictly to economics, the American party system only started to fit a left/right model during FDR's presidency. Progressive Republicans start
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by djur 13y ago
Being able to set a very high limit for my history file and to share history between instances is a major usability feature in zsh for me. Not being able to do that is honestly reason enough to rule out an alternative shell.
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by djur 13y ago
Neither your characterization of the mating behavior of primitive man nor your explanation for low birth rates in affluent societies are consistent with reality. Age of first pregnancy and number of children both tended to be higher in earl
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by djur 13y ago
Actually, a lot of that 99% would respond "it's called the Democratic Party".
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by djur 13y ago
What mechanism do you suggest for a genetic predisposition for interest in a technology that was invented in the last handful of generations? How could there possibly be a "car gene"?
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by djur 13y ago
What we're seeing now in Congress is the risk of having a considerable number of new members. We now see a substantial minority which cares more about ideology than maintaining the function of the institution. If everyone in Congress i
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by djur 13y ago
Term limits and repealing the 17th Amendment are pretty bad, and it just gets worse from there.
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by djur 13y ago
Please tell us more about your fantastic accomplishments.
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by djur 13y ago
How are "different fonts, text styling, page layout" relevant to a programmer's editor?
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by djur 13y ago
A programmer's text editor and a word processor have much different requirements and should be different tools. There are much better options than vim to author formatted documents.
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by djur 13y ago
The reason there's no project-wide find and replace in vim is that vim has no concept of a project. It's designed to be one of many tools, which works really well for some workflows and not for others. #5 is the same deal -- they&
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by djur 14y ago
I don't think it's proven yet that Bitcoin is or will be successful as a currency.
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by djur 14y ago
A handful of anecdotes about hyperinflation do not amount to "plenty of historical data". Inflation has the important role of decreasing the value of debt, which is something demurrage does not provide. Neither does a constant rate of 'infl
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by djur 14y ago
The slides present a few well-known cases of hyperinflation accompanying economic and social breakdown, but doesn't demonstrate causation. It then shifts to discussing the inflation trend of the US dollar, even though the USD is not experie
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by djur 14y ago
There's been a substantial retreat from modifying builtins in library code in the last 1-2 years anyway.
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by djur 14y ago
Ruby doesn't have an equivalent of Perl's 'local'.
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by djur 14y ago
There actually _is no_ "normal, index-based" for loop in Ruby, only a for ... in iteration construct. Most C-style for loops can be implemented as #times or #up_to/#down_to/#step iterations.
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by djur 14y ago
Apple created "WebKit", but before it was WebKit it was KHTML. Let's not lose sight of history here.
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by djur 14y ago
"Scalable" and "reliable", perhaps. "Robust" actually means something, though, and PHP is not it. Its wretched approach to error handling prevents that.
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by djur 14y ago
I got my start with Ruby web development using ERB in a CGI script. Same with Perl before and Python after. The option to do that has not been taken away.
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by djur 14y ago
"Rails" isn't a language, and PHP has fundamental design flaws that those other languages don't have. It's not that it has flaws, it's that it has unavoidable flaws.
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by djur 15y ago
"They use Node.js because that language is JavaScript, and JavaScript is fun." Which is why one of the most widely used node.js applications is an alternative language that keeps you from having to write JavaScript.