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901.
by philh 13y ago
In particular, "linux users" in context doesn't include anyone with a smartphone.
902.
by philh 13y ago
Perl lets you choose whatever index you like for the first element, including negative ones.
903.
by philh 13y ago
I suspect that "gendered term" is not very well-defined, and certainly I don't have a very good model of what it means. Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure: > there are lots of male and trans-gender prostitutes. It does not
904.
by philh 13y ago
If you know why people behave like they do, it's easier to make them stop.
905.
by philh 13y ago
> Even if you can't swap out the entire windowing system, you can certainly go ahead and install Arch or any other distro. What's that got to do with > Are we still talking about how OS X doesn't give you "full con
906.
by philh 13y ago
> If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense. There are people with dwarfism, and there are people who are just short. The latter don't have a physical abnormality, but they
907.
by philh 13y ago
> It changes how people feel as they walk about their day, because security of their data is in the back of their minds. Not necessarily. I'm confident there are people who do backups not because they actively worry about data secur
908.
by philh 13y ago
SF from the sixties and seventies is also filled with predictions which were not nearly ambitious enough. (Two examples that come immediately to mind: I recall one of Heinlein's characters describing something that seemed a lot like a
909.
by philh 13y ago
> But the UX is terrible and this is objectively so, just sit a new computer user in front of Gimp and watch his agony when trying to use it. This is not the only objective measure of UX.
910.
by philh 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure I follow your argument, but you seem to be claiming A implies B, where in fact A is true and B is false. > Open-source also means: The entire planet's population is the pool (of developers). This is curren
911.
by philh 13y ago
Glancing at the first page of that study, it looks like * People trained mostly in camelCase (also, nonprogrammers) read camelCase more accurately, but snake_case faster. (Previous study which I didn't follow up.) * People trained most
912.
by philh 13y ago
> I would bet good money they already have working quantum computers How much, at what odds, and under what conditions of settling?
913.
by philh 13y ago
Please don't be so dismissive. Rich people tend to have it better than others. But that doesn't mean they don't in some ways have it worse, it doesn't mean they don't deserve sympathy for those things, and it doesn&
914.
by philh 13y ago
To paraphrase you... what was Parker really supposed to do? Every time he wants to have an event on private property, he has to check that the owner isn't violating any of a myriad regulations imposed by countless regulatory bodies? Th
915.
by philh 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that when we get aroused from porn, that's not an empathetic response. (There may be empathy involved, but it's not primarily empathetic. We can test this: do sociopaths get aroused by porn?)
916.
by philh 13y ago
That doesn't seem relevant. If it wasn't for hunter-gatherers, we wouldn't have much of anything; but that doesn't mean hunter-gatherers have much to contribute to particle physics. There are times when it's importa
917.
by philh 13y ago
> I would not have traded her for what I have gained. It sounds like you and bcgraham are in agreement, just meaning different things by the word "gift".
918.
by philh 13y ago
> The rent for my 17th century cottage with garden in a Yorkshire village wouldn't get me a room in a shared house in an undesirable part of London. Maybe I'm only confused because I've never lived in a village, but... You
919.
by philh 13y ago
It's worked out very well for me - I got my first (=current) job through one of those threads.
920.
by philh 13y ago
"Um, no?" - American businessmen I'm probably overreacting, but your post really reads like "you should wear less comfortable/more expensive footwear because I don't like looking at what you currently own", and that sort of thing kinda piss
921.
by philh 13y ago
Breathable air.
922.
by philh 13y ago
> In both examples, 99% of the population won't watch either for free. FWIW, Transformers 3 took about $350m in north America, which at $10/ticket (is that reasonable?) is 35 million viewers. Not all of those are in the US (but I think
923.
by philh 13y ago
> somehow in real statistics the average age when successful entrepreneurs start their companies is 40+. Given just this information, it's still possible that people who start companies in their twenties are more likely to be successful
924.
by philh 14y ago
Benefits include things like "fewer children getting abused". Costs include things like "children in formative years being told that a beat up child looks perfectly normal". (And, as hawkw mentioned, "opportunity cost of not being able to i
925.
by philh 14y ago
I just got two out of 18 that I was familiar with, but I'm not sure whether I was supposed to spend time thinking about it. Sometimes I was sure that I recognised the face, but couldn't place it, and said that I didn't know without really t
926.
by philh 14y ago
Mostly they make things better, and nobody notices. Sometimes they make things worse, and people complain.
927.
by philh 14y ago
I'm curious what they did to fix this.
928.
by philh 14y ago
That breaks if the file to include contains a line with just a ., unfortunately. But it's still ridiculously simple, and that's likely not to be a problem in a lot of cases.
929.
by philh 14y ago
FWIW, I did not notice that.
930.
by philh 14y ago
zsh has RPROMPT, which displays on the right of your prompt and gets overwritten if you write a long command. I use it to show the last command's exit status and my current git branch, effectively without taking up space.

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