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by read_wharf 15y ago
And if you use set -o vi in .bashrc, or set editing-mode vi in .inputrc, then 'v' will do the same thing, e.g. $ blah blah[ESC]v puts you in vim with the command line thus far.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
But what if you don't have that network?
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by read_wharf 15y ago
My conjecture on top of the general value of a more connected network. What is Facebook's motivation for connecting people? Or Google's? Or LinkedIn's. A newspaper sold millions of individual pairs of eyeballs to advertisers. I would think
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by read_wharf 15y ago
The network effect says that a person that's connected to five family members is not as (measurably) valuable as someone connected to fifty people. If you were Google, which would you rather sell to advertisers, correlations between groups
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Don't put your stuff in there, because they are not going to treat it with the same importance that you do.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Probably not within mine, depending on which side of the family I favor.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Well that's the weirdest thing. I've seen this kind of thing before, so I guessed that <--> would work. But the page asks my browser to store information. If I ignore the question and just allow the query to continue to display at t
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by read_wharf 15y ago
The guy was sounding really credible and forthcoming until he made that claim. Although, if you read his claim with the right squint, maybe it's true: No security agency on earth is as bad as the TSA. And if they really are good, and unfair
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"Well... I'd like to suggest that you do not pre-reject yourself. Let them decide." Everyone post that on your wall above your monitor.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
The last example, where the code called within a block is shown to its right, is something that I've often tried to do statically, manually when first trying to learn a large code base. I would want this for that alone. The fact that what's
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by read_wharf 15y ago
There was a warning box/advertisement at the bottom of the page that my download manager is out of date, with an X to close the box. But it's not an X, it's just pixels, and clicking it pops up a window to download a download manager. Which
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Linode and Slicehost will be the two most common answers. They are similar to each other. I am a happy Linode customer. You say that performance can be low, so you might look here: http://www.lowendbox.com/
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by read_wharf 15y ago
No. They essentially want employees to be near, while they're sleeping during off time. Fully staffed, on the cheap. If it's that important, then pay for a 2nd and 3rd shift. No.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Isn't most corporate charity a form of tax management anyway? If charitable donations were not deductible, I think corporate charity would effectively disappear.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
And I've found that text mostly meets my needs too. But that's partly because I'm technical and willing/able to deal with formatting codes for things that should be rendered as more than text: html, restructured text, markdown, etc. In a se
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"maybe clean and simple UI will return to the Office suite" Laws never disappear from the books, swords are never beaten into plowshares, and Word never, ever loses a feature, although some of them do get hidden.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I've never worked anywhere that they didn't use Word. I've never worked anywhere that they didn't despise Word. Why won't it die? Why? Why?
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I use Lubuntu for my desktop, and this line of thought has occurred to me. I expect sometime in the near to medium future I'll be using LXDE on Debian. Unity was the writing on the wall for me. No grudges toward Canonical, I'm just graduall
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by read_wharf 15y ago
But there is an interface for cars that has evolved into something that is intuitive, and all new cars are designed with that in mind.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
You used to have to type in 1s and 0s on a keyboard, or cut little square holes in a piece of cardboard with an Exacto knife. You had to learn what opcodes were represented by those 1s and 0s, in which contexts, and reverently hand your sta
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"Further, a car is simple to use out of the box" Exactly my point. They didn't use to be simple. Crank, choke, throttle, water in the battery, where's the next fuel repository, where are my goggles, where is the rug for my legs, etc. Now th
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by read_wharf 15y ago
For us, but not for people who don't program otherwise, yet would like to casually do more with their computers than what the installed apps do. Thinking of what you want to do is the more important part of doing something; it seems like, i
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by read_wharf 15y ago
For now.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"It's not as if Python or Ruby have set out to be deliberately difficult. They've grown difficulty because they're used to solve real problems, and real problems are hard." The problem of getting from the East coast to the West coast has no
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Maybe, sorta. Why don't people use VBA more for casual programming? Is it because it's Office-centric-ish? Or, why don't more people do casual programming of any kind? Certainly lack of tools is one. Another is probably that most people d
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by read_wharf 15y ago
URLs should be shortened and expanded in the browser, according to an RFC scheme. No third party and they live as long as the RFC's implementation does. I would prefer to hover over a link and have my browser tell me where the link goes, no
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by read_wharf 15y ago
You make some excellent and interesting points, but don't discount the number of smart, competent hacker/technologists who are also ardent believers in specific religions. I believe they are a significant if quiet minority.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I think he's got 3) down.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Your ten minutes are up. I just tried to use your site. I created a board, claimed it (and created an account). The response page to claiming the board said "Success: The claim has been filed. It will normally be processed within 24 hours (
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I lean a little more toward liking the landing page than not. It's not great, but I like the simplicity. Maybe a bigger default font size would be good for me personally, but that's a small problem that I can easily solve.

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