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by lelele 16y ago
While I agree on all OSes being exploitable and therefore on despicable "smug Unix weenie attitude", I still think that while *nix were just exploitable, Windows "welcomed" viruses (think about ActiveX, autorun, administrative privileges by
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by lelele 16y ago
It's not just popularity. "Admin by default" and "Easy-to-use over everything" is what doomed Windows. In *nix you always had to exploit bugs, in Windows you hadn't to. Nowadays Microsoft has built layer of abstraction over layer of abst
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by lelele 16y ago
Move away from overcrowded big cities, and you will have all the room you desire.
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by lelele 16y ago
Whilst I agree that no intellectual property whatsoever promotes progress, I think that intellectual property protects the interests of people whose main asset is their intellect. Think about someone who have spent years to develop some in
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by lelele 16y ago
It is because people don't want to feel they are thieves. "Cognitive dissonance" at work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
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by lelele 16y ago
I agree that all users rely on plugins for doing real work. However, seeing how much can be accomplished by using just vanilla features can be enlightening.
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by lelele 16y ago
Pointy-haired boss thinking. What are you doing on HN?
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by lelele 16y ago
Some people - myself included - follow a style of developing code which requires you continuously moving code around, therefore speed in doing that is important. Does Erlang mode in Emacs understand Erlang's "sentences"?
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by lelele 16y ago
Because then it would be consistent ;-) Of course I have remapped Y to be consistent with C, D, etc.
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by lelele 16y ago
What? Viewing/counting keystrokes? Then "C-h l".
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by lelele 16y ago
or Vim mode: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VimMode
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by lelele 16y ago
Never understood how Emacs users manage to compare two directories. Diffing with Emacs always seemed cumbersome to me. Would you please post a video of a directories diff session of yours? Thank you.
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by lelele 16y ago
Mmh, Dropbox may be at 1.0, but their site makes me download nautilus-dropbox-0.6.7.tar.bz2. Confusing.
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by lelele 16y ago
> Thus, even if the sample code is simple and elegant, a real-world implementation would surely be a bit longer than the given example. Nice thought. What's the purpose of showing code which you won't be using in a real-world applicati
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by lelele 16y ago
If you don't train your employees, they will learn on their own and they will make mistakes... at your expense.
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by lelele 16y ago
What? Are you talking about proportional fonts?
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by lelele 16y ago
The ultimate Vim tip? Use GNU Emacs. Seriously. Vim is a great editor, it just lacks a decent implementation; GNU Emacs is a great OS, it just lacks a great editor. GNU Emacs + Viper + Vimpulse is what you should learn and use for maximu
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by lelele 16y ago
If you have to create a LOOP clone, why not creating an ITERATE one? ITERATE is cleaner, and it would follow the Clojure trend of bringing out the most modern features of Lisp. http://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/doc/Don_0027t-Loop-It.
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by lelele 16y ago
Could anyone please explain why I'm being downvoted? A compiler/interpreter which can compile/interpret two versions of a language is out of this world? I think it's the most pragmatic approach: let people use old libraries while allowing
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by lelele 16y ago
I'm missing the point. What's the deal with language designers wanting to have just one version of a language? Why can you mix and match Python and C while still not being able to mix and match Python 2 and Python 3? Just stop improving
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by lelele 16y ago
What do you mean by "hard time"? Thanks.
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by lelele 16y ago
> The best programmers I know make mistakes constantly, but have developed ways of working that ensure they get found early. That's what I do. You don't make the same mistake twice in the same section of code: sometimes the code is wro
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by lelele 16y ago
Giving private feedback seems like a wasted opportunity to share your knowledge widely. Would you consider publishing somewhere both the CVs and your assessments, after removing personal data and companies names? Thanks.
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by lelele 16y ago
The article is not talking about applications: it is talking about applications which fulfill requirements.
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by lelele 16y ago
> Opera works incredibly faster than Firefox on low-memory machines. Just tried it. Indeed it does! So sad it allows for very little customization and has different shortcuts than other browsers, otherwise I would have jumped on it rig
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by lelele 16y ago
This will always be old news: people flock to the same place until local resources can't match. Smarter people work around the problem (in this case: by telecommuting) or seek greener pastures; other people keep complaining.
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by lelele 16y ago
Do you have any explanation for this? Thanks.
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by lelele 16y ago
Oh, no, you don't have to look for any signatures. Windows will look on your behalf and warn you if needed.
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by lelele 16y ago
Obligatory Machiavelli's quote: "For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allow
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by lelele 16y ago
This attack would screw only Opera users. It would not work for users of IE and Firefox and Chrome, who at least know to look for the signature checking, because all such browsers will flag the downloaded executable such that Windows will

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