grampajoe

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by grampajoe 14y ago
You missed the point of those koans. Vim can use external tools like awk to edit CSV and markdown to process markdown. The author was discouraging use of vim itself for things like that. Edit: And I missed the point of your comment.
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by grampajoe 14y ago
It matters from a security perspective. A bad or inconsistent URL, especially a hostname that isn't instantly recognizable, makes phishing easier.
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by grampajoe 14y ago
They'll have to add that to the unit tests.
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by grampajoe 14y ago
The client-side approach would work great if they didn't try to cram in so many features.
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by grampajoe 14y ago
TED can't show this because they're supported by advertisers, which means they'll never really be free to spread ideas if they go against the will of these companies: http://conferences.ted.com/TED2012/sponsors.php
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by grampajoe 14y ago
It doesn't matter whether you agree with a company's technical choices, whether it's Paydirt, Microsoft, or anyone else. If you don't like their choices, you're free to not use their software.
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by grampajoe 14y ago
There's definitely a better context than social: personal. You are not your friends.
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by grampajoe 14y ago
For me, Hulu's death came when they added subscriptions, but still forced subscribers to watch ads.
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by grampajoe 14y ago
The site's way too wide on my netbook, 1024x600. Also, the list of domains removed from the results covers up part of the results themselves.
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by grampajoe 15y ago
Writing skills are always relevant. The lack of them in this article made me stop reading before getting to any actual content.
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by grampajoe 15y ago
You may be confusing "shitty code" with prototyping.
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by grampajoe 16y ago
Then your grandmother should pick up a $2 film camera at a thrift store. This is a scam designed to get old people to opt-in to a mountain of spam.