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by imd 16y ago
This gradual construction and refinement of exactly what you want reminds me of a certain TNG episode where they do just this: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Schisms_%28episode%29
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by imd 16y ago
Arrow keys work for (almost) everyone.
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by imd 16y ago
Probably older, as "hack mode" in the Jargon File: http://people.kldp.org/~eunjea/jargon/index.php?idx=hack-mod...
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by imd 16y ago
Helmets don't stop you from falling.
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by imd 16y ago
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right” — Thoreau, _Civil Disobedience_ ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Civil_Disobed... )
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by imd 16y ago
It's not as idiomatic as with Acme, but you can program text transforms in any language with Emacs too. Just use C-u M-| (shell-command-on-region).
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by imd 16y ago
Maybe using the software maliciously is a bad idea, but this seems to have exactly the same functionality as those programs people put on their laptops in case it gets stolen.
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by imd 16y ago
http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html
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by imd 16y ago
Evolution requires survival of the fittest. If the name got more enticing over time then it would be evolution.
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by imd 16y ago
Undergrad here; not true. I'm currently building a scanner because I hate carrying my textbooks around campus, and any one book is heavier than my laptop. I did search for pre-existing scans, but most of them don't exist. By the way, scanni
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by imd 16y ago
Doesn't work with NoScript. What happened to graceful degradation/progressive enhancement?
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by imd 16y ago
I'm no expert on the antiquities of English, but they were interchangable in English in Shakespeare's time. Here are some asciified lines from Macbeth: I goe, and it is done: the Bell inuites me. Heare it not, Duncan, for it is a Knel
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by imd 16y ago
Jesse Schell ( http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-the-bo... ) said convergence doesn't generally happen, except for the "pocket exception", which includes swiss army knives and mobiles. He predicted the failure of the iPa
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by imd 16y ago
I may be reading it wrong, but it sounds like a px is a pixel—until you zoom in. If you define a web page’s default font size as 12px, and it stayed at that no matter how much you zoomed in, it wouldn’t be much of a zoom feature, would it?
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by imd 16y ago
This needs to be updated to compare against Word 2010. It's not there yet (and will probably always do line-by-line breaking, because who wants their text to jump around while editing?), but it can also do things that are not easy in LaTeX
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by imd 16y ago
It links to a different article discussing a camping ban near a large city, but the article itself says "It is currently banned across the vast majority of England and Wales".
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by imd 16y ago
"Defaulting" to dismissal isn't a default, it's a decision. They could just say, hmm, interesting.
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by imd 16y ago
A while ago this was posted: http://www.kk.org/quantifiedself/2009/10/the-false-god-of-co... I found it interesting, if not very rigorous. It shows that one man's productivity did not suffer after quitting coffee.
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by imd 16y ago
I think hygiene is important, but Zed was not remiss in leaving it out of a health article. A separate article about programmer social issues would be great, though.
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by imd 16y ago
> Today most people don't think it's that remarkable that you can cram a bunch of flowery crap into something, or make it super-intricate and fragile and still transport it. jQuery
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by imd 16y ago
What I'd like to hear is of Apple publishing some guidelines for its reviewers to follow to ensure this kind of thing happens less often. Something like, if you have to confirm that you're over 17 to use it, it's OK for it to have nudity,
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by imd 16y ago
Seconded, it was a great book. I recently read a meta-analysis of salt studies that concluded that there was no clear answer, but I can't find it. Instead, here's another NYT article that talks about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/s
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by imd 17y ago
I'd like to hear how the code of the new commercial space companies, like SpaceX, compares.
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by imd 17y ago
Who else thought this would be a hall of shame for Unix apps that don't work with files that have spaces in their names?
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by imd 17y ago
That's like asking "What's wrong with pepperoni pizza?" Nothing's wrong with it, but I like lots of pizzas.
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by imd 17y ago
Reminds me of The Terminal Man, especially the line: "I would assume that extended use would cause you to slowly condition yourself to keep your brainwaves at a low frequency, probably impeding concentration and cognition." Of course, The T
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by imd 17y ago
ActionScript may be based on ECMAScript, but they look very different: package com.example { import flash.text.TextField; import flash.display.Sprite; public class Greeter extends Sprite { public fun
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by imd 17y ago
This is why Emacs-lovers love Emacs.
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by imd 17y ago
What's that do? Unless you change the order, I'd expect it to delete two files: foo and -rf. How does the Mac get it wrong? I don't have a Mac at hand.
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by imd 17y ago
Imagine there's no Youtube.

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