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by mcantor 15y ago
This is one of the most sublimely hilarious and soul-crushing things I've read recently. It's like an Onion article.
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by mcantor 15y ago
Yeah, maybe even Jersey! I know , I know ! Right?!
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by mcantor 15y ago
My favorite part: "... Now, Mr. Peltz sits on the boards of Heinz and Wendy's, which his holding company, Triarc Cos., bought in 2008. "Mr. Peltz declines through a spokesman to comment on the packaging change, saying it wouldn't be appropr
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The Politics and Logistics of Ketchup Packet Innovation(online.wsj.com)
2 points by mcantor 15y ago|1 comments
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The Bathroom Monologues: Making Ideas(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
1 points by mcantor 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/137/
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by mcantor 15y ago
Somehow I had managed to completely miss the term "polyfill" until just now. Handy!
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by mcantor 15y ago
I never really saw the utility of the plugins. The functionality you described in your post, for example, is already implemented by C-6.
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by mcantor 15y ago
You can use :ls to view all buffers, and if you do :b and start typing the filename of a buffer, you can get completion suggestions with tab, or just hit enter to jump to the first file that matches what you've typed so far. Use Ctrl-6 (als
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by mcantor 15y ago
I map H and L to custom functions that navigate to the next or previous tab or buffer, depending on what's open. https://github.com/mcantor/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/.vimrc#L...
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by mcantor 15y ago
> What's up with the jaw thing? Women don't have especially fragile jaws. I guess you are saying that women have especially fragile emotions? Other way around. It's a bit of a tortured metaphor, but it's not about women being weaker.
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by mcantor 15y ago
I see what you're saying--if (and it seems likely) women really aren't at greater risk, we don't want to go around saying that they are. But, that's what I meant by "this is about emotions". For the purposes of this issue, it doesn't ma
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by mcantor 15y ago
This is in line with the philosophy espoused in Donald Norman's book, "The Design of Everyday Things". Mr. Norman phrases it as, "a product ought to afford being used correctly", that is, one cannot help but use it without being confused
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by mcantor 15y ago
I know this is utterly mad, but, maybe some people enjoy working 40 hours per week, and some people don't.
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by mcantor 15y ago
Be careful about the term "should", it implies a lot of assumptions that are probably not shared by your audience.
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by mcantor 15y ago
Sorry, I should have written that a little more clearly. I wrote "By definition, privilege is a lack of perspective," but what I meant was, "By definition, privilege implies a lack of perspective." I feel like you may have misinterprete
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by mcantor 15y ago
By definition, privilege is a lack of perspective--that includes [straight] [white] male privilege. That's why it's so hard for many guys (not just programmers) to understand.
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by mcantor 15y ago
This is very clever. Is there supposed to be a practical application, or is it simply a "look at this neat thing I did with CSS" demo?
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by mcantor 15y ago
Did anyone else find this rather rambling? I lost interest after a few paragraphs because it basically read like a recapitulation of easpouse. I'm not saying it was a bad article or anything; to be honest, I'm surprised that it didn't hol
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by mcantor 15y ago
> As a result, Google is in some ways less and less useful as a programmer's tool - not because Google is getting worse, but because there are more and more layers of obsolete information out there. This is bloody brilliant.
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by mcantor 15y ago
As opposed to explicitly "programming" your thermostat, you just use it and it programs itself.
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by mcantor 15y ago
It blew my mind when I truly realized that a couple having two kids does not constitute a net increase in human population. What makes this amazing is wondering where all of these couples having 3-or-more kids are.
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by mcantor 15y ago
Why don't we compromise and just say that everyone involved is an asshole?
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by mcantor 15y ago
I was also strangely annoyed by the typoes ("you'l", "bajilion"...)
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by mcantor 15y ago
Perhaps you can link us to all of the wonderful things you are doing for other people commensurate to everything you do for your own benefit, as you seem to have this "modesty and humility" thing figured out.
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by mcantor 15y ago
> He's not morally wrong, I'm saying the nature of what he's doing is shameless. So...?
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by mcantor 15y ago
Well, "If you don't remember why onions are in there, investigate carefully as to why they were added in the first place, then take 'em out if they're no longer relevant" wouldn't fit in the title!
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by mcantor 15y ago
If our highest priority was always "Don't break anything", we would never ship to production after the first move. "Make it better" is often a higher priority.
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by mcantor 15y ago
I am widely regarded by friends & colleagues as an obsessive command-line junkie (often to a fault). I still love and use Dropbox regularly. I think you are incorrect that the problem was solved years ago! Dropbox takes 5 minutes to i
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by mcantor 15y ago
Just FYI, I love your articles. I routinely forget who wrote them and where to find them again, then fail to find the link in my bookmarks, so I spend a half hour Googling phrases I vaguely remember being included in the essays ("how to de

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