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by sofal 17y ago
Am I correct in assuming this is impossible on a machine for which you do not have root access?
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by sofal 17y ago
I was confused about that too, but then I discovered that there are some alternate definitions for the word 'beg' which are (from dictionary.reference.com): "to fail or refuse to come to grips with; avoid;" "to take for granted without basi
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by sofal 17y ago
I dunno, I think middle/high school just gives you the social skills you might need in case you go to prison.
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by sofal 17y ago
Now you've got it passive again. Final draft: "Murder kills."
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by sofal 17y ago
I've switched from Terminal.app tabs to screen for a couple of reasons: 1) It's obvious why you'd want this for remote sessions, and I want a consistent feel whether I'm sshing into remote machines or just on my local machine. 2) I like to
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by sofal 17y ago
The big question is: does B have a thirst for learning and improving himself? I have seen a lot of type B people in a big corporate environment. They make good corporate team players and good friends. They put their head down and do whateve
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by sofal 17y ago
The opinions of people who have resources are always going to matter. That in itself is not a bad thing. The bad thing is ill-informed opinions.
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by sofal 17y ago
I haven't noticed anything to suggest that elitism is more prevalent among those without elite credentials. Two distinguished professors from my school come to mind. Both of them have very impressive track records and yet both of them are o
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Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki(windley.com)
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by sofal 17y ago
I thought I was a Vim master and I just looked at that and discovered once again how stupid and inefficient I've been this whole time. This sort of thing keeps happening to me with Vim.
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by sofal 17y ago
I never noticed that definition of 'beg' before! Thanks for that explanation. My world is a little more coherent now.
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by sofal 17y ago
It could be that part of the reason why no one knows what it means anymore is that, at least in my case, the definition of the word 'beg' does not give any intuition about the meaning of the logical fallacy. I have read the Wikipedia articl
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by sofal 17y ago
There are reasons for wanting to hide that you're gay that don't come from feeling ashamed. For example you could have close friends and family members who have severe homophobia, but whom you actually love and respect (people are multidime
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by sofal 17y ago
Does one have to know all of the pathological corner cases in language X in order to be allowed to state "I know X" without being categorically wrong? Does the fact that it is possible write funny little gotchas in language X make a point a
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by sofal 17y ago
I have often wondered that myself. It does seem like engineers have less angst about it because they have been trained since school to play by all the strict rules, standards, and best practices that have been drilled into them. It's possib
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by sofal 17y ago
The strange thing about monotonous corporate programmer jobs is that the only things you can get passionate about are your tools. They speak of things like IoC, DI, and TDD as though they were at the core of what they are accomplishing at t
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by sofal 17y ago
Oh I absolutely agree. Karma is definitely little more than an odometer and not useful for reputation purposes at all outside of an individual comment, and even then it doesn't say a whole lot.
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by sofal 17y ago
I don't buy into this whole pure non-contextual ideal, as though the only possible result of attaching a name and a reputation to a comment is an ad hominem argument or fan-worshiping. When you're making an argument or counterpoint, you wou
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by sofal 17y ago
Quick summary: Web developers are not stupid.
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by sofal 17y ago
I have used both Zed's code and _why's code and have benefited a lot from both. That being said, I would much rather that Zed had left the Ruby community in the same way that _why did than vice versa.
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by sofal 17y ago
The largest technology company in the world is Hewlett Packard. The largest software company in the world is IBM. Clearly that proves IBM never did anything "hopelessly clueless" then, right?
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by sofal 17y ago
Well, that's just a single anecdote isn't it? Was it presented as data? I didn't realize that. Also, I didn't see any real data on your theory of Arab nations being at half speed because of the lack of women in the work force. The fact t
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by sofal 17y ago
For some people (not sure how many) there is just a small barrier to downloading movies illegally. You have to dip just below the 'honesty' layer and search for links in slightly questionable places. There's that feeling of being subversive
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by sofal 17y ago
I can just see myself now... "It's a pretty nice day. Hasn't been too humid lately." "Yeah. Hey so what are you passionate about?"
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by sofal 17y ago
My experience with MSDN is one of the biggest reasons why I avoid Microsoft tools. Now you're telling me that Apple's documentation is much worse, and that depresses me.
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by sofal 17y ago
This is not a question about whether an interviewer needs to customize the questions for each interviewee. This is about a possible mismatch between the environments of the interview versus the workplace and the relevance of the questions t
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by sofal 17y ago
Are you saying that the context and type of the problem in the interview doesn't matter at all? I think you'd understand how I can take your argument to its extreme conclusion and justify posing psychotherapy problems to candidates. You're
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by sofal 17y ago
Customers are endeared by this sort of thing because it's genuine. Simulating this effect with a fake trick may work, but it is not cool. And don't excuse it with "companies everywhere do this all the time" either. Everywhere and every time
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by sofal 17y ago
Good point. There is a difference between saying "Apple made a bad business move here" and "Apple crossed the line in my opinion and I will not buy from them in the future."
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by sofal 17y ago
It's a red herring because the problem that the OP is trying to get at is not about factually incorrect comments. The important message is that you shouldn't downvote comments you disagree with, and instead we're nitpicking about how to be

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