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Ask HN: How do you avoid people distracting you at work?
7 points by nastygibbon 8y ago|14 comments
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by nastygibbon 9y ago
> ... if you start with selected text, does it fill the buffer with it > There's an outstanding PR that does preciesly that Just to be clear, I believe that PR will fill the newly-opened Vim buffer with text from the clipboard -
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by nastygibbon 9y ago
Completely agree.
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by nastygibbon 9y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by nastygibbon 9y ago
This looks interesting. I'm going to assume that you add whatever temporary buffer you use while editing the files to your gitignore? E.g. Vim will use .swp files. Does this get annoying if you want to commit something specific? Let&#x
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How Google Book Search Got Lost(backchannel.com)
2 points by nastygibbon 9y ago|0 comments
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by nastygibbon 10y ago
Yeah. This is the classic example and obviously is interesting to think about. Some people still defend telling the truth if you're hiding Anne Frank and the Nazis are at the door. We might go down a rabbit hole here but your example (
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by nastygibbon 10y ago
Yeah. I understand that. But by telling your boss the truth you gave him a real gift in that he could trust you. If he (or the higher-ups) thought about that a little bit they would realise that your honestly was valuable. You could come up
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by nastygibbon 10y ago
> I also do not swear, for obvious reasons, in front of my three year old or any children for that matter. Again, it's just common sense. Why is this obvious (I'm not being facetious)?
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by nastygibbon 10y ago
> Straight honesty isn't always a virtue. I find this an interesting statement. Would you mind providing some clear examples of a real-life situation where honesty isn't a virtue? I often find that lying is convenient (for the
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Ask HN: Does knowing the history of a programming language or technology matter?
7 points by nastygibbon 11y ago|7 comments
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by nastygibbon 11y ago
As a so called 'European', I'm kind of shocked/dubious that this would also be acceptable in American culture. My guess is most people would agree that if you put your feet on the table and take credit where it isn'
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by nastygibbon 11y ago
Can someone give us an ELI5? Pros/Cons etc.
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by nastygibbon 11y ago
They sometimes fill them with different colours, too. Here is a link to a picture. http://goo.gl/ZDnSE0
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by nastygibbon 12y ago
This. I'd love to subscribe to more than one lesson at a time.
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by nastygibbon 12y ago
No info as to how this was exposed. Were they storing data as plain text?
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by nastygibbon 12y ago
> A search of LinkedIn profiles turns up more than 60 former Tesla employees now employed by Apple. I can't tell - is this a lot or hardly anything?
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by nastygibbon 12y ago
I really like this. Good work.
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Why did North Korea's Internet go down?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by nastygibbon 12y ago|0 comments
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by nastygibbon 12y ago
Big thank you for this. Great shots.
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by nastygibbon 12y ago
Emily Howell.
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by nastygibbon 12y ago
Amen.