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by sbmassey 14y ago
Oh well, if you're fixing them, I've a couple more issues: '^' goes to the first character in the line, not the first non-whitespace character 'o' is not undoable using 'u' (those most other things are, strangely) Thanks!
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Pretty darn nifty, but vim stuff like 'ciw' doesn't work, and also 'C' leaves you in an insert state where your next keystrokes are entered just before the last letter in the line, rather than after the last letter in the line.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
The Swiss are flush with money at the moment, because of everyone trying to avoid the possible Euro crash. Other parts of Europe may not be in the same bubble.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Pish-posh. What if you wanted to go into insert mode with an 'a' or an 'o' rather than an 'i'? It needs more pedals.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
As soon as you start using reflection in Java, you're doing non-statically-typed programming. Since a lot of popular Java frameworks use reflection implicitly - such as Spring, Hibernate, etc - that includes a lot of Java code that's out th
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Haskell type classes are sufficiently flexible to represent things like 'does this type have a next method' without having to instrument the actual type.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
What "Unix friendly features" has Apple locked away?
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by sbmassey 14y ago
He should rename it "Another Programming Idiom I Had Never Heard Of".
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Its not too good at C++. Apparantly, template <typename T> T foo(T t) { return t; } looks like DJANGO or XML.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
I haven't tampered with it in real life yet, but I don't really understand why people think Metro is visually attractive. It appears to be a grid of icons in two different sizes, laid out at random, with the Microsoft app icons being block
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by sbmassey 14y ago
It doesn't seem to have any data for "The Beatles", oddly enough.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
The 'ghoti can be pronounced as fish' thing is a bit unfair to English orthography, where you must take the surroundings of the letter cluster into account.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
It is the "AVA" avatar from http://airportone.com
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Anyone can plan an invasion. Planning a successful invasion may be a little trickier.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Even more amazingly, he made a boat from another broken 2CV on another occasion in Africa. My, those 2CV's sure do break a lot. http://chameaudacier.free.fr/bato1.html
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by sbmassey 14y ago
Idiomatic REBOL code avoids the shift key for its commonest syntax. Code grouping (where necessary) uses '[', ']'; multi-word variables are separated by '-'; etc.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that health conditions are worse now than in 1900?
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Education is one of the things that democratic states should not get involved in: there is a troubling feedback loop when a state whose claim to legitimacy is the votes of it's citizens gets involved in activities which determine what those
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by sbmassey 15y ago
It depends what I'm trying to do. The question is like asking a carpenter what their favorite tool is. It'd be more enlightening to (somehow) ask what kinds of problems people apply each language to.
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You're crap and paid too much for the little work you actually do(theregister.co.uk)
252 points by sbmassey 15y ago|109 comments
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Assuming that private enterprise isn't getting us into space fast enough, we will need a new cold war to get the world's governments fearful enough to throw money at the problem, and to demand solutions. Perhaps China will do the honors?
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by sbmassey 15y ago
With the Mac, a lot of people (i.e. me) will have the Dock in the way when you drag off screen: keeping the window buttons onscreen wouldn't help much, since they'd be behind the Dock, and sliding the buttons to keep outside the Dock area w
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro works for that.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Unless they have some new control scheme, I don't think my hands will stand up to the intense mouse clicking this game needs.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Iwwelewant Cowwection! Actual Bayes law is: P(W|A) = P(A|W)P(W)/P(A)
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by sbmassey 15y ago
"On second thoughts, don't come work in New York, for it is a silly place."
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by sbmassey 15y ago
All primes > 3 are of the form (6n + 1) or (6n - 1) where n is a natural number. Therefore the square of a prime will be of the form (36n^2 + 12n + 1) or (36n^2 - 12n + 1). The "interesting" properties pretty much follow from that.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
All mass media outlets should be considered suspicious, even if you happen to mostly agree with their bias. That's not so much 'false equivalency', as an understanding that broadcasters with a large audience are inevitably going to be used
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Pay is determined by supply and demand, not by a cabal of fat cat plutocrats agreeing how much to dole out to different positions. The idea that people be paid "proportionally to the value they create" is an obsolete Marxist idea. Check o
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Even a declined America would still have a pretty big presence on the world stage. This article seems to be assuming America would cease to exist.

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