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by mbetter 14y ago
There is, it just isn't invoked for a .csv file. As someone who basically lives in Excel for 40 hours a week, I find my quality of life to be much improved when I keep my text files tab delimited.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Lookups and if/then statements, wow. God forbid you ever have to audit a program with a loop.
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by mbetter 14y ago
You can't, actually. Use Pandoc.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Thank god that "regular people" are smart enough to not care what you think.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Anything of value, anyway.
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by mbetter 14y ago
> but the FSF/Richard Stallman doesn't the DWG library on the earlier version of their own open-source license. I think they an important word.
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by mbetter 14y ago
I go for grey socks. You can wear grey with basically any pair of dress pants. With non-dress pants, I just don't wear socks.
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by mbetter 14y ago
CWWWWW we w W SSS Crrr rrrrrr vv sda Sdf That means "more anything can mean anything descriptivist nonsense." Please let me know when your model has been adjusted.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Just remember that this is mega.co.nz and not mega.co.ns, the world's largest Lisp repository.
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by mbetter 14y ago
It can't be, no jokes are allowed on Hacker News.
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by mbetter 14y ago
CNet hasn't been a reputable download source for some time.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Everything that isn't a Star Wars reference in that response is fantastic and actually a little inspiring.
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by mbetter 14y ago
I can't get to the second page.
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by mbetter 14y ago
If Silicon Valley can't absorb the additional capital gains tax, why is it located in California?
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by mbetter 14y ago
This DCI stuff sounds like a quick way to make an app CPU-bound, if it wasn't already.
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by mbetter 14y ago
You could have just said that you don't understand what money is.
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by mbetter 14y ago
"Come over and get kicked in the nuts! Free car service and short lines!"
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by mbetter 14y ago
I'm not clever enough to write that "plain, sequential machine code" in a sufficiently correct fashion.
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by mbetter 14y ago
He gave concrete examples for all of his points, unlike you.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Gold is not money.
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by mbetter 14y ago
This isn't a strong case at all.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Detrimental to what?
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by mbetter 14y ago
No.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Listening to a Petersen Quartett performance right now, quite brilliant.
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by mbetter 14y ago
If taxation is theft, property is theft. Or in other words: what gives you the right to compel me to defend your property?
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by mbetter 14y ago
You may want to take direct moral responsibility for your circumstances, but that would be very dishonest. Whether you like it or not, you are part of a society and the very existence of society makes your circumstances possible.
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by mbetter 14y ago
Because having a simple and logically consistent system to decide what is right and wrong in any given situation absolves one of the responsibility to make complicated moral decisions on their own merits. I understand libertarianism and I v
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by mbetter 14y ago
He may wear a kilt, but he doesn't play the bagpipes, so he's no true Scotsman.
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by mbetter 14y ago
> why do you think it's a bad idea to argue with a libertarian? Every time I argue with a libertarian, it's an endless series of "No True Scotsman" arguments.
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by mbetter 14y ago
My thoughts, yet expressed more eloquently than I ever could. Would you happen to have an opinion on which of your books I should read first?

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