jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
And if I purposely inflate a party balloon too far? If I smack an inflated brown paper bag? Would you defend describing those things as "bombs" as well?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well you are certainly participating in this one.....
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I understand that perspective, but what I know is either public knowledge, or behind a few NDAs. Furthermore, my employer politely asks that I don't, and I'd rather not anyway. Online PR, no matter how unofficial, isn't som
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Considering these flamewars typically involve at least one person who admits to being a Microsoft employee, I don't think that "false-flags flamewars" is something that we are seeing in practice.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This is PG. If he doesn't think it is just a bunch of well-meaning commenters coincidentally behind the same NAT, then I am inclined to believe him. Anyway, do you know what I do when there are discussions online about my employer? I
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> i do think MS stories/products tend to have a short life on frontpage. [...] That particular thread ticked off flamewar detector though. If you look back on times that people have complained about Microsoft posts being persecute
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> if you're doing nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide. How is this a mentality that people sincerely still hold? It has been so thoroughly refuted and mocked so many times, I honestly though that was sarcasm and had to
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Speculating: maybe the Chinese like the audit train bitcoin naturally provides.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
To be fair, is there really another way to eat potatoes? ;)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Sure, but are they marketed to nerds ? That I can think of, products like this tend to be marketed towards health enthusiasts, gym goers, body builders, hikers etc. Techies may be any or all of those things, but those products don't
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Exactly. Eating a potato is fine. You can even survive eating only potatoes (so long as you vary the preparation, I believe) , that isn't too controversial. The problem comes if you try to tell me that surviving on only potatoes is
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Better that than patent drugs. Now, the FDA process may be inefficient or unnecessarily expensive, but long term clinical trials are not something that we should be eager to dispose of.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> People are concerned about the hype? Not the product? Where 'the hype' includes claims of total meal replacement over long periods of time.. yes. I don't think many, if any, people are concerned that this stuff is lite
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If McDonald actually advocated the diet the Supersize Me guy had, then I suspect far more people would be concerned. I don't think the food substance is what has people concerned here; rather the hype and claims surrounding it are con
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There are plenty... nano/pico/joe if you want to work in the terminal (though who is trying to woo newbies with terminal based text editors?) , and gedit/kate/kwrite in the GUI department. The idea that Linux is someh
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by jlgreco 13y ago
As far as I can tell, only modern equivalent of the terminal (a generic input/output device/program that can be used as the standard front end to an endless array of applications) that has gained any appreciable traction is the
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Soylent is the first... to specifically target the market segment that is fawning over it. Ensure and the like are not seen as products for young active SV desk jockeys; instead it is that shit that old or ill people drink. It doesn't
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Even if they counted PHP's lines of code, that would only throw on less than a million more lines. I strongly suspect that somebody is full of shit.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
My first thought was the exact opposite.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The last time I used either (5 or 6 years ago), Kate seemed perfectly comparable to Notepad++. http://kate-editor.org/about-kate/ It's "vi imitation" mode is shit though.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If this was actually a problem that pycassa experienced, then I doubt he would have the affinity for the mapping that he obviously does.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> Learning muscle memory for nonstandard mappings is a bad idea. People, especially vi users (compared to Emacs users, who in my experience have few qualms about heavily customizing their editor) , like to say that, but in my many yea
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Technically no, the standard for Vi says nothing about syntax highlighting. In practice, maybe? The 'Elvis' implementation of Vi adds syntax highlighting for instance.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Not necessarily in line with what the SO question is asking for, but this is by far the best thing I have ever added to my .vimrc: " make space execute the 'q' macro (press qq to start recording, q to stop, "
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> I could probably simulate a turing machine on a TI-81 graphing calculator depending on if it fit in memory. Well of course. A TI-81 is "a computer" in the layman's sense of the term. It has a general purpose Zilog z8
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Background on the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line_Encyclopedia_of_Integer... Very good video on Sloane's Gap, for the impatient: http://www.youtube.com&#x
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Sloane's Gap.(arxiv.org)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I certainly don't mean to imply that any of the moderators have malicious intentions.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't know what Philip did or did not think of. I think you are misunderstanding the nature of my complaint however. This isn't an issue of somebody using a tool that I don't prefer.. use Vim, or use Emacs, or use Nano for
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It is not entirely clear to me what advantages moving in that direction would provide. IIRC however mosh sort of moves in that direction for latency improvements while remoting. Of course mosh's design also has some implications I a

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