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by dsrguru 14y ago
Note: this post assumes Vim, not other implementations of VI If you type fast, you don't want to have to spend time correcting for line estimations that are slightly off as a result of thinks like 20h. For navigation, just use forward slas
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That's partly true. The PRC and the Guomindang (the Nationalist Party) of the ROC both officially claim that they should be ruling all of China, but the Minzhujinbudang (the Democratic Progressive Party) of the ROC views Taiwan as having d
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I live in the U.S., and I've never heard "populist" used pejoratively. Where are you from and what does it connote when used pejoratively in your country?
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I spent half a year in China, and I didn't find the word Taiwan as a location offensive to anyone. Could it have been the case that you weren't allowed to say Taiwan specifically when referring to it as a political entity? I was under the
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Sorry for the tangent, but did the author really have to assert his or her endorsement of Chinese nationalist politics and write "Taiwan, China" instead of the neutral "Taiwan"? Taiwan is not currently controlled by the PRC, regardless of
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Do GTK and Qt work on it? Do desktop environments and window managers compile and run? Does most graphical software that compiles and runs on Linux, the BSDs, and Mac OS X compile and run on it? If so, this would be perfect.
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It seems like the main advantage of the Surface will be Windows 8's ability to be used both as a mobile OS and as a desktop OS. In your case, Android doesn't let you run unported Linux programs and Debian, if you booted into it, wouldn't s
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Keep in mind this was proposed by someone at a business school and two people who work at phone companies, not by government officials.
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People who have lived in big cities in the U.S. would strongly disagree with you. There are entire areas that are dangerous to walk in thanks to drug gangs. Legalize the stuff and dealers can't continue forcing out the competition with gu
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While that would reduce violent crime, it would also sanction people using recreational drugs besides alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine. Many voters and politicians find it against their religious or moral beliefs to allow other people to d
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by dsrguru 14y ago
The "Make me pretty" section doesn't render properly for me under Firefox 13.0 on Arch Linux, but it looks right in Chromium. Here's what it looks like in Firefox: http://oi46.tinypic.com/29ptdtk.jpg
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While VCs may very well misjudge prospective startups far too often, choosing not to invest in a company because you have a negative impression of the founders is not a bullshit reason for passing. Reading people is a very important skill,
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The author mentions that ack "allows you to use Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE)" in contrast to grep. I want to point out that grep does too, or at least the versions on Linux and Mac OS X, when the -E flag is used. I don't kno
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I've been using GNU screen for years and am happy with it. A brief bit of Googling suggests to me that the main advantages of tmux over screen are that its code is designed better and that it's actively maintained and, therefore, less bugg
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Just did, and I'm mentioning that here so the OP won't get multiple correction votes. :) Nevertheless, I don't really agree with fleitz. Haphazardly throwing cheese, sauce, and pepperoni together on dough never makes good pizza (in my not s
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In addition to the wide variety of foreign cuisine available in many parts of the U.S., there are many different "native" cuisines in different regions of the country. I'm inevitably going to leave out a lot, especially from the places I h
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1) I don't disagree that funding the development of powerful open source tools can have a very positive effect on the success of future businesses, but how does the investor in this tool's startup profit from said businesses? I assume the
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Have you witnessed any problems resulting from Scala "integrating every single academic PL research feature of the last 20 years"? (I was under the impression that aside from the actor model of concurrency, Scala typically gets used just li
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As brilliant a business model as Heroku has, trying to do the same with one specific and not-yet popular development language/library/framework seems really unlikely to work out in a way that will justify the 9 million investment. If VCs h
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I wonder if by neapolitan style they mean what New Yorkers call neapolitan pizza (what other Americans call New York style) or literally pizza from Naples. I assume the former, but either way this is making me hungry. Apple should make thi
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by dsrguru 14y ago
LaBerge proved that people can have lucid dreams at will as part of his doctoral research at Stanford. Even if you haven't mastered the at-will inductions like MILD or WILD (see Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by LaBerge or consult
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If we assume "100% improvement" means "100% increase," the most common definition of the latter is simply 2x the former amount. So a 100% improvement in performance likely means 2x the former speed.
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They work for Scala...
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Do you happen to remember what Richard Stallman said?
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Microsoft polices Google more than Bing(pcmag.com)
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After Elon Musk explained that it would be too dangerous to outsource the production to China because "rocket technology is [...] considered an advanced weapons technology," I'm surprised the interviewer didn't ask about potential dangers i
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We don't want the government restricting our freedoms (i.e. libertarianism is cool), but trying to implement that with anarchy gives bad guys the freedom to take away our own.
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California state Senator Alan Lowenthal said of the autonomous car he rode in, "I have to say that there are some still [sic] issues with it, but it's a better driver than I am." I just read this after hearing Larry Page tell Charlie Rose
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The idea is that ambiguous search queries would default to the meanings related to your normal search behavior, and if on a particular occasion you discover Google resolves the ambiguity incorrectly, you could make your query more precise.
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Imagine how useful a location-based video chat site would be for online speed dating.

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