nocman

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by nocman 10y ago
Fair enough. I'm all for having the program do some intelligent prompting of the user, as long as it doesn't become annoying (like Microsoft's "Clippy" :-D). There is a sweet spot with most software between being b
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by nocman 10y ago
"having non-standard configuration is inherently more complex" I disagree. It can be more complex, but it is not at all inherent. If I configure my shell, my editor, my whatever software to work more like other software I use
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by nocman 10y ago
Got some data to back that up? (not saying you don't, I'd honestly like to know if you do). I personally have not heard any users say anything wildly positive about recent changes. And I think the steady decline in users is in
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by nocman 10y ago
"If Mozilla thinks this is the best route for them they should do it" I'm all for Mozilla having the power to make good technical decisions, but it sounds like you are suggesting that Mozilla ignore their user base completely
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by nocman 10y ago
"It being popular you say, implies it's good?" ^ I never said "popularity of belief" in any way implies the correctness of belief. I could find and list many popular beliefs that I am certain are blatantly false. I
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by nocman 10y ago
"Just because someone believes something does not make it true". ^ That is correct, and I never said that it was true because people believed it. Of course the same could be said of your statement that "The people who wrote t
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by nocman 10y ago
"> faith of atheism I used to entertain this idea, that you need faith to believe there is no god just as much as you need it to believe there are 1000. ..." "Atheism isn't a belief that there is no god" ^ actual
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by nocman 10y ago
"The people who wrote the Bible did not actually have any 'privileged information about the end of the world.'" Well, you might believe they did not, but many people in the world believe they did. If you do not accept th
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by nocman 10y ago
There's a big difference between "a best selling book", and "the most widely distributed and best-selling book in the world." And I was not addressing whether people think that studying the Bible advances technology
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by nocman 10y ago
"Physics seems to us a promising thing to work on, and alchemy and theology obvious wastes of time." I'm not sure which "us" pg is referring to, but the essay gives me the impression that he meant something like &qu
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by nocman 10y ago
Amen to that. I used slicehost for years and was totally happy with them. Then Rackspace bought them and killed them off. Needless to say, Rackspace did NOT get me as a customer after that. I switched to another provider.
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by nocman 10y ago
Believe it or not, I actually deal with Progress too. I feel your pain. :-D
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by nocman 10y ago
At what point did I say "most data will live in cons structures"? And I explicitly said I would not use them for everything. And no, it isn't just "Lisp-the-mathematical-model", cons cells have real-world implicat
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by nocman 10y ago
Hahaha -- I saw this and immediately thought it was that crazy "Timecube" guy again! :-D http://timecube.2enp.com/
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by nocman 10y ago
'Most flat taxes do not land in the "you make more, you pay more" scheme': I think you are missing the point. If it is truly a flat tax, the number of dollars you are taxed goes up (in a directly proportional way to the
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by nocman 10y ago
While I understand the need to use other data structures (and even in Lisp, I would not use cons pairs for everything), I think "stupid cons pairs" is pretty extreme. If you don't understand why cons is important, and the app
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by nocman 10y ago
Not everyone who lives in the U. S. wants to live in a city. Are you suggesting we should give up our right to chose where we want to live so you can have more small cities?
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by nocman 10y ago
I wonder if this is just a coincidence of timing between your visits. I went to the link in a normal browser tab, an d it was $699 the first time. Perhaps Amazon just happened to change the price between your visits.
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by nocman 10y ago
Except that (as I recall) the floppy drive was completely obsolete when they did that, so almost no one cared. And the CD drive was not very painful either. The story is completely different for the headphone jack. It is not in the least
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by nocman 10y ago
Wow, the first thing that sentence made me think of was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 xD
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by nocman 10y ago
yeah, and with the only Ctrl-[ option that I would consider, you are having to use both pinkies simultaneously. I have a feeling I would just end up missing all the time and getting irritated. xD
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by nocman 10y ago
"Did you try it with one hand or two." ^^ was this supposed to be a joke? (I laughed at first when I thought you meant stretching the left hand between the left CTRL key and the [ :-D ). I guess I could see someone trying to type
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by nocman 10y ago
yeah, see my reply to the parent below. :D
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by nocman 10y ago
Ah, this should really be easier to find in the vim docs. I did ":help ^x" and only came up with: CTRL-X Subtract [count] from the number or alphabetic character at or after the cursor. {not in Vi} After trying again to
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by nocman 10y ago
Pretty funny. I found myself asking "What does C-x do when autocompleting?" I took the 'x' literally, instead of realizing you meant C-n, C-p. xD
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by nocman 10y ago
Yeah, I've seen that suggestion for many many years, but unlike evidently almost every other programmer in the known universe, I still use Caps Lock for its intended purpose (and yes, I know all of the ways I could avoid using it, but
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by nocman 10y ago
"Hitting Escape is usually unnecessary; Ctrl+[ is a lot closer, and more comfortable." I agree with a lot of the things in this article, but wow, I could not possibly disagree with this quote more. Ctrl+[ is WAY more uncomforta
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by nocman 10y ago
Most impressive. :-D (sorry, watched Empire again recently and couldn't resist)
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by nocman 10y ago
Thank you, Thank you! I'd never heard of this before. That's freaking awesome! xD
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by nocman 10y ago
Or what if the purpose is "because it was fun to make", or "it was a great learning experience".

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