sixtofour

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by sixtofour 15y ago
Vim and Emacs are first and foremost text editors, and they're really, really good at that. Each can do a small bit of passable project management. IDEs are project managers [1], and they're really, really good at that. They generally have
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Finally, I feel that there's no need to try to lure more Windows users to migrate to Linux. Linux has already passed the threshold of immortality and it will stay alive and well whether it attracts more user from Windows or not." It would
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by sixtofour 15y ago
He's probably referring to this, from the article: "Isn’t it better, less cryptic, and more pythonic? a[:] feels a bit too much like Perl. Unlike with the slicing notation, those who don’t know Python will understand that b contains a lis
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by sixtofour 15y ago
He'a an historian. It's what they do.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I was automatically banned awhile ago, after doing something silly (checking all my bookmarks for dead links). The explanation was that the server thought I was DDOSing. It was OK after a week or so. Maybe it'll work out for you too.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
You, and the other respondents, are probably right. Sometimes I'm too quick on the draw.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
From the comments: > here’s a strange little story that happened to me a while ago – I set up a gmail account to deal with nigerian letters and such (I wanted to collect some data to report the spammers/thieves, without compromising my
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by sixtofour 15y ago
IANAL, and I realize this is probably laughable from an IP lawyer's point of view, but ... Why can't OverbearingCompany send a letter stating something like we notice your logo or other IP is similar to ours. We recognize that we are in dif
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by sixtofour 15y ago
This is OK if you don't have vim installed, but the best way to learn vim is to use vim, and the best way to use vim to learn vim is: vimtutor which comes with vim and is basically a file that you edit, with progressive instructions on the
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by sixtofour 15y ago
If you listen very carefully, you can almost hear "We realize that Google Reader is not for everyone ..."
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Yep, key bindings plugins are a poor substitute for Vim itself. Vim is more than keys. I long ago gave up on any kind of Vim/vi plugin to anything. My first inclination, when I have to use a tool that wants to own the text, is to open Vim a
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I have typed more keystrokes into Vim than any other application in the last twenty years. If I live to ninety and lose my mind, I will still be able to type in Vim.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I couldn't sign the petition (two petitions actually) with Firefox. The maddening thing is that I was already logged in (the telltale at the bottom said so), but the Sign button was disabled. Sent a complaint.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Did you notice there's a Facebook Like button? So Facebook knows when you go to a government site. I imagine Facebook also knows which petitions you sign, or at least which ones you click on. I say imagine, because although I'm signed in, i
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by sixtofour 15y ago
(bump) Would be great to hear an answer to this.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
And they'll answer that petition by pointing out that they've made petitions available.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Of course they're ignored. Everything that comes across a politician's attention is an opportunity for him to reinforce his message. The petitions are not there for us to influence them. They're there ( they spent effort to put them there)
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by sixtofour 15y ago
They don't mind Operation Payback or Anonymous much at all, because their actions are inconsequential relative to the unimaginable amounts of money they're making. You can't attack Big Content in any meaningful way, because the unimaginable
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Yes, me too, I'm a programmer. That's how I think of myself, regardless of what infinitely varied tasks I may do. And me too, that's what I blurt out when people ask me what I do. In more formal contexts, like resumes and job apps, I call m
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Shuttleworth said that power users want to have things just work," And yet ...
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by sixtofour 15y ago
If I had the time I'd probably try it out, it looks pretty slick. Where it says play anywhere on your front page, I didn't know what that meant. Web on your server? Web on my server? Cross platform? I was reluctant to sign in and find out.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I don't know why it takes so long to grant a patent when all they do is slide it under the rubber stamp machine.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The author cites Williams. Is it plagiarism to discuss someone else's work? The blogosphere would look pretty empty. "There are at least four key principles of visual design that have an important impact on usability. These four principles
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Not for me. I've already gone to Lubuntu, and I'm starting the thought process of moving to Mint or Debian. My thirteen year old has asked to go to Mint, we'll probably do that next weekend. "Dad, you can't even change the panel." The "teac
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by sixtofour 15y ago
There's an assumption that those anecdotes would trigger memory of your own experience, and that you'd come to a similar conclusion (or assumption) as the author. I think.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
freecode makes me think of freeware/shareware sites, i.e. there's a fair amount of dodgyness implied.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Who decides whether he gets the beating, and who administers it? Sounds like a step backward in civilization to me. Should we ignore this kind of problem? No. Should we go full vigilante on it? No.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Make sure you keep your taxes up to date. Make sure the local government knows that your taxes are up to date. Make sure you follow the rules in your neighborhood covenants. Make sure you know when the neighborhood council have charged yo
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by sixtofour 15y ago
That would be recursive, since IE is the tool of choice for downloading Firefox.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Times out in a normal browser at the moment. If you use a text browser like elinks it looks like any other normal page. Although in text mode it would have looked better if everything was lined up left with minimal spacing between lines. Ah

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