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by nocman 5y ago
As an experienced vim user, I find vim to be superior to nano in pretty much every important way, and am glad it is set as the default editor. In my opinion, setting nano to the default editor would seem like a prank. I'm not saying
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by nocman 5y ago
Some people don't like sigils on variable names, and I get that. Personally I find them useful. As far as the perldsc page example, I think that comes down to having a better personal style that makes your code readable. I would make
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by nocman 5y ago
Maybe so, for some, but I find: {width:, height:, x_pos:, y_pos:} to be much more pleasant than {width: width, height: height, x_pos: x_pos, y_pos: y_pos} And the more items you add the more I find it useful. Yeah, it took some getting use
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by nocman 5y ago
I'm well aware of the decades long "feud" between emacs users and vi/vim users. But that isn't always just harmless joking around either - there are people in both camps that can be quite nasty about it. At any rat
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by nocman 5y ago
"public nuisances like vim" Others here seem to have taken this as tongue-in-cheek. On the first read I took it as "I think vim is ridiculous". I'm honestly curious to know which it is (or if both are inaccurate).
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by nocman 5y ago
I would say I'm "wise enough to not use spaces in filenames". It's not about fear, it's about making good decisions, and avoiding unnecessary complication.
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by nocman 5y ago
Missed the 's', it's: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames
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by nocman 5y ago
> I can't quite resolve "beloved" and "XML" in the same sentence... You mean, it's possible to take that as being NON-sarcastic ??? If so, I share your lack of resolution.
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by nocman 5y ago
Affectionately known as "MIMPCO 365 ESWPB 2021" Hey! That's my Windows 10 product key! (not really, but felt like it could be).
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by nocman 5y ago
> For reasons I don't fully understand, barewords preceded by '-' are still allowed, even with "use strict". I believe the primary motivation for this is so you can pass argument lists to subs in a key => valu
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by nocman 5y ago
A lot of advice I hear is that it takes about 30 days of doing something daily to form a habit. Perhaps you are stopping just short of the necessary number of days? Also, given that you have been diagnosed with ADHD, maybe it would take yo
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by nocman 5y ago
Or, maybe they thought someone on HN would be able to explain it better than the Wikipedia article. It did not seem like an unreasonable request to me at all.
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by nocman 5y ago
> By now we should be ready to accept that free software with no strings attached just isn't sustainable except for projects with big corporate backers. That very much depends on who the authors of the software are and what their go
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by nocman 5y ago
Seems to me it would be much more straightforward just to say "concentrate your efforts on the most important things". But I guess it doesn't sound as good to some people without an analogy. Meh.
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by nocman 5y ago
"The only limit -- is yourself!" -- after all these years, I still love that site. Still good for a laugh.
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by nocman 5y ago
Oh, I was close (guessed the animal), but I was kind of expecting an article about being tired of learning new Javascript frameworks (not making that up, I honestly was expecting that). :-D
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by nocman 6y ago
One issue is indeed when people are trying to project the whole "I'm realy into this whole software development thing!" vibe. Genuine excitement about something can almost always be differentiated from this, in my experien
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by nocman 6y ago
> the author should realize that "passionate" as used in this context is effectively synonymous with "cares" I think that largely depends on who is using the word. Personally, I'm sick of seeing the word "p
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by nocman 6y ago
I hear what you are saying, but in fairness to the author of the article, he did say he would like people to care about their vocation. Also, I'd rather have a surgeon who was skilled, cared about his profession, and also was not b
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by nocman 6y ago
It did that for me at first, but it was due to my impatience. I tried again and waited, and after 10 or 15 seconds, the page finally loaded.
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by nocman 6y ago
Hi Mark! I love how you say "Here's the same guy..." like it was someone other than yourself. I was going to point out that the beginning of the article says that this was a "five minute long talk" given at YAPC, an
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by nocman 6y ago
That was the first thing that came to mind for me. Shouldn't it also have a companion utility named peek? :-D
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by nocman 6y ago
"Nearly every worker in the US is covered by an employment agreement that says they have to get pre-approval for moonlighting." This is not true. I've can think of one employer my entire career that had conditions regarding w
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by nocman 6y ago
> (Mind you, we do not consider American-style coffee to be "coffee" in the strictest sense of the word, because it's too processed/diluted/mixed). Out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean by "American-sty
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by nocman 6y ago
> All the commands he/she mentioned have classic counterparts with Home/End/etc keys, available pretty much everywhere. I use them a lot even now, writing this comment. Many of those keys require you to move your hands far
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by nocman 6y ago
> That's why I wrote "To me Vim seems...". That's fair. I was left with the impression that you did not think it could be useful to anyone. >Beyond the fact it's impossible to start using it right away withou
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by nocman 6y ago
> I can hardly imagine that. They would hate me for wasting their time they could use to learn something practical. To me Vim seems a crazy alien technology of particularly questionable usefulness (even for a keyboard-centric user) I kno
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by nocman 6y ago
Oh, dang. Here I thought this was going to be 80's Commodore computers saving programs to cassette tape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette Oh, well. Looks interesting anyway :-D
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by nocman 6y ago
No, the reason this is done is so that details of the law can be hidden in plain sight, to force people to vote 'yes' on the bill (for the things in the bill that will cause them political problems if they vote 'no'). M
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by nocman 6y ago
> there is such a strong brand of "anything new must be snake oil" that runs through the HN community. I would say there's at least as strong a "brand" of "if it is a new way it is probably a better way&quot

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