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by sofal 13y ago
Missions orient you much more towards multi-level marketing sales, where you're pushing a one-size-fits-all solution onto everyone you meet using any tactic that could possibly work. This is a big part of the reason why MLM companies f
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by sofal 13y ago
Well-moderated subreddits can often rival HN for more niche topics.
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by sofal 13y ago
I've found that when teaching people Git, the most important thing is that they understand the state of their DAG, since that is at the core of everything we do in Git. A confusing DAG full of unnecessary merge commits is much worse for a b
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by sofal 13y ago
I did not downvote you, nor do I think you deserve a downvote. I think your scenario highlights something to be careful about when rebasing, but I wouldn't say to avoid rebasing because of it. You could, for example, do an interactive rebas
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by sofal 13y ago
Okay. I took your statement "You will be hard pressed to find philosophically educated gnostic atheists" to imply that most people who go by that label are likely not philosophically educated, presumably because realizing that true certaint
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by sofal 13y ago
I'm not sure you understand what I said. Let me explicitly state what I tried to imply about your use of the word "gnostic": people who call themselves gnostic atheists are not generally being philosophically ignorant or dishonest.
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by sofal 13y ago
Using the label "agnostic" as a philosophical weasel word to give a nod to solipsism every time it is politically convenient is a form of lopsided pedantry. Unless you think a specific religious god is more likely to be real than, say, vamp
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by sofal 14y ago
I try to go down to parallel, and I do sit back on my heels and spread my knees apart. I have not done the video thing but I have researched it and had it critiqued by people at the gym and by physical therapists. The amount of time I've sp
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by sofal 14y ago
The knee pain is just below or possibly right under the kneecap. I try to go to parallel, even though the deeper I go the more likely one of my knees is to crap out. I'm doing regular squats AFAIK, not box squats or anything out of the ordi
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by sofal 14y ago
I can do body squats fine (lots of popping, though). I've worked up in weight (though not quite from empty). One week I'll be able to do semi-heavy squats (not even my bodyweight) with no problems and then the next two weeks I can't even ad
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by sofal 14y ago
Now just hold on a second there. As long as we're throwing out anecdotes, let me say that I've been lifting for a few years now and squats completely devastate my knees. I've tried over and over again and no matter what, my knees get a stab
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by sofal 14y ago
You're commenting on a vim post in order to help lost young programmers understand that there are other options besides vim? Speaking about vim as though it's an obvious choice in 2013 would be like insisting that everyone code in Fortran
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by sofal 14y ago
At Stack Exchange, one of the tricky things we learned about Q&A is that if your goal is to have an excellent signal to noise ratio, you must suppress discussion. Stack Exchange only supports the absolute minimum amount of discussion n
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by sofal 14y ago
As the artictle says, it was the gradual scaling of the router cluster that eventually led to the request routing being effectively random on the Bamboo stack.
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by sofal 14y ago
Chalk me up as unreasonable then, as I had never bothered to remember that rule.
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by sofal 14y ago
Are you saying that people who do not know that rule of thumb are not reasonable people?
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by sofal 14y ago
You've moved the goal posts from random Jeopardy-esque trivia to facts like what country borders your own, skipping the entire argument.
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by sofal 14y ago
Is it important in this context to know exactly what the speed of sound is in feet per second without looking it up, or is it more important to be generally aware that sound travels through air via compressed air waves and that it is quite
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by sofal 14y ago
Serious question here, not even joking: do you care about the mobile visitors to your site? Do you care that there is an obnoxious floating "contact" widget popping out from the side covering the text I want to read? This sort of thing happ
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by sofal 14y ago
"git stash --keep-index" to stash everything except for what is in the index, or "git stash -p" to choose what changes to stash.
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by sofal 14y ago
Just so you know, I'm looking at this from my Android 4.1 stock browser and the entire page is blinking on and off randomly like some kind of joke. I can't scroll down because it seems as if it's constantly reloading itself.
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by sofal 14y ago
I disagree for the following reason: I think of :w and :q as two concepts, and :x adds a third, which I personally feel adds some cognitive load, like I now have to differentiate between wanting to write, wanting to quit, and wanting to do
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by sofal 14y ago
I would imagine that with something like TextMate you'd soon reach a point where you pretty much know all the shortcuts. With Vim, it seems like this saturation point never happens, even if you use Vim proficiently for years there is still
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by sofal 14y ago
Yes, the second definition was added because people lazily try to leverage the first definition to intensify the exaggeration of their figurative statements. The problem is that the second definition now masks the first (because it is essen
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by sofal 14y ago
Yes, trolling. Really. In every sense of the word. He didn't even respond to my argument. It's whining about downvotes, about how he doesn't have time for this argument, more repetition of the same irrelevant text-editing-is-unimportant arg
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by sofal 14y ago
Trollish nonsense. You haven't even really read my comment, or you'd know that the leverage ratio I mentioned, which you're challenging me to justify, was actually about the efficiency of the tools you yourself were touting, not vim. Your "
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by sofal 14y ago
Yeah, but the efficiency gains are not mutually exclusive. Why would you think they are?
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by sofal 14y ago
Your first couple of paragraphs are spot on, but they in no way justify your assertions about vim. Your last paragraph suggests that learning an editor like vim takes up enough time that it detracts from learning important software engineer
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by sofal 14y ago
I've noticed that HN is particularly good among online forums about not squashing comments that go against tribal beliefs. Your first few comments, unlike this one, don't contain any justification whatsoever for your assertions. I don't dow
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by sofal 14y ago
Start here: http://www.vim.org/docs.php

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