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org-mode is also software. The difference is just that it runs on Emacs platform and comes with the default distribution.
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Without getting into an argument that is very far off the topic: Especially those two things are only made into problems. The first is easily solved by partial legalization and the second is just protectionism.
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Who do you mean by "We"? Recent news make me believe that there has been no lesson learned from anything. Right-wing terrorists sponsored by the Verfassungsschutz, Bundestrojaner, police violence, and Voratsdatenspeicherung. And most of the
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The issue always confuses me. The committee puts in a lot of effort to avoid introducing new keywords or repurposing obsolete keywords. This introduces some horribly overloaded keywords and awful syntax. Of course, new keywords break old co
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I recently finished "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and this post resolves an issue that the book did not settle for me: What is the relation between quality and our own doings? The book made an impressive point why Quality is a
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Enter auto-fill-mode.
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You make a good point here. Future transport system will have to leverage existing infrastructure to be successful. Multi-modal transport, like you are proposing, has are not easily solved. The time required to switch from one system of tra
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So should we just stop developing technology because all those jobs have to be preserved? You seem to take jobs as something that is inherent to the existence of the individual. The book recommended by the parent (and some others) question
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It's shocking that only a minority of people in technology know about post-scarcity concepts. Un-employing others is our main goal and when we cannot sustain an income from supporting an application, technology has done exactly that to us.
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But isn't teaching 'lowish-level graphics programming' the point of this book? If you learn it with the fixed function pipeline it is actually harder to understand the low-level concepts. Simply consider the color issue: calling glColor onc
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Is see the freedom of choice as one of the core benefits of Open Software. But losing power users to other distributions is bad for software that depends on user contribution and support. If the people that contribute most of the knowledge
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The C++ standard comes at an impressive page count of 1300+. The print version seems entirely useless to me compared to a searchable PDF with links and chapters. Why on earth would you get it?
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This reminds me of the very early days of C++ were people would use the size of a compiled "Hello World" to argue their point. C++ targets a completely different domain from JS where the size of the runtime etc. is somewhat important and it
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I think you have it backwards. To not comply with US diplomatic interests doesn't mean the US stops exporting into the country but means that US will make it harder for the country to export to them. The US is a huge factor for every countr
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I have to admit that the first time I got really aware of Bletchley Park was while I was reading Cryptonomicon from Stephenson and started looking into its actual history. One of the few monuments in reality the digital age actually has. Ni
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I actually found one change to the Start Menu the enabling change for me: Typing the name of something and (often) just getting the application that I wanted to start. Just saying what I want and let the machine to the finding for me just f
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The mind bogging part is that this should still be faster than just rendering the damn page and executing the JS.
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Possibly I'm overly optimistic in regard to the altruism of the Linux vendors. The old 'the whole ecosystem is going to suffer' argument is still pretty strong with the OSS community but you certainly could be right.
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I'm even more so terrified at the idea that the vendor of my hardware may decide what operating system I should and should not boot on it. Linux logo programs (for at least RedHat) From mjg's posts I had the feeling that RedHat is
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Black Swan Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
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Also the process showed him his lack of knowledge very clearly: He can't read error messages. This is an useful skill in every language although it transfers not at all to any other activity (even reading compiler messages of a different ve
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I noticed this when for the first time when I was playing with small children. Practically the only way to keep them from destroying Origami toys is to involve them in building them and help each to make his own toy. I had the impression it
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About variable length arrays: Scott Meyers pointed out that this code std::vector<int[n]> a; // n is a runtime argument has no real meaning in C++. Also std::vector and std::array already cover the use case.
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I have a very similar setup, although zenburn styled: https://github.com/bo0ts/dotconfig
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If I have a URL in my clipboard and want to prefix it I use: git clone `xclip -o` Much simpler and no customization needed.
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It always struck me as odd that man pages tend to have the EXAMPLES section as the last section of the document. I really would like it the other way around but this kinda fits with a bottom-up approach to learning. Look at the small detail
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I thought so at first but artist-mode is way superior in most features and the feature set is a lot larger. The table drawing is better but still has a very long way to go to match anything in org-mode. And then you can only draw and don't
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On the other hand the clear list of features made me realize it offers nothing I don't already have or want.
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I was going to suggest Snow Crash but I'm really unsure after all. Cyberpunk almost always requires you to adopt some kind of esoteric thinking, which is not a bad thing per se but makes it harder to immerse yourself in the story if you are
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Ironically this is shaking the trust of users in a sound platform and not in their network provider is not able to _not_ break something when modifying it.

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