sofal

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by sofal 14y ago
With no justification of how you think a military helicopter cockpit is user friendly, I suspect you're just trolling now.
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by sofal 14y ago
I don't think you'd find a military helicopter cockpit very "user friendly" either: http://www.helis.com/h/h53ecab.jpg We're talking about a general-purpose text editing tool used by experts for hours, days, and years on end. I understand
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by sofal 14y ago
Ctrl+w for switching split windows. Ctrl+u,d for page up and down. Ctrl+e,y for shifting the screen up and down. Ctrl+],t for moving in and out of tags (with ctags). Ctrl+v for visual block mode. Ctrl+[ instead of escape. Ctrl+p,n for autoc
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by sofal 14y ago
This is exactly the point where the art starts disappearing up its own butthole, absolved of any and all responsibility to speak for itself ("if you don't appreciate it then you're lacking context") while at the same time completely indepen
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by sofal 14y ago
When you're looking to buy a product that isn't the kind of thing reviewed by sites you already know, it can be hard to find where credible sources are. What I generally try to do is start by adding "forum" to my search query with the goal
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by sofal 14y ago
Substitute numbers for letters that look similar (for example, substitute “0″ for “o” or “3″ for “E”. Am I correct in thinking that the amount of entropy added with cute tricks like this is essentially nil? Is this advice even remotely va
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by sofal 14y ago
I would love to hear what my drum set sounds like in there. Has anyone ever practiced a musical instrument in a chamber like this? I wonder what the advantages and disadvantages would be.
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by sofal 14y ago
I really don't understand why people need to nitpick humorous little blog posts like this. I mean, it's a joke -- the point is to have some fun picking apart the technical details of a movie that clearly went above and beyond in that aspect
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by sofal 14y ago
The culture I grew up in is mainstream enough to produce a serious presidential candidate. I don't think you realize just how entrenched this kind of culture actually is in this country. Favorite past-times? Decrying the hedonistic, worldly
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by sofal 14y ago
I have kids. Shall we skip the lame ad hominem circumstantial now and move straight on to the no-true-scotsman? The comment you're responding to raises perfectly valid points. Sorry, but in my experience having children does not change your
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by sofal 14y ago
You're entire rant against rationality is misplaced. "The only objective truth is that there are no objective truths." Please. You may argue that your feelings of love and devotion as a parent are irrational in nature, or even that they're
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by sofal 14y ago
So the logic is: you wouldn't understand because you're not a parent, but if you are a parent then you're not a good one (i.e "you haven't been able to take the same things I have from this experience").
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by sofal 14y ago
It actually feels good to me to see you talk about the idea of society pushing you to have kids with such incredulity. You clearly haven't experienced the religious culture that I have, which pushed my wife and I to have children ASAP, and
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by sofal 14y ago
Yes, there is a "you" who went to the facility and then went home. There is also a "you" who went to the facility and subsequently blacked out only to wake up later somewhere else. An outside observer sees you walk in, a scan made, and you
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by sofal 14y ago
There are three states of being here, and you're confusing two of them. First, there is pre-you: the you before the cloning point. After that there is the original and the clone, both of which share the exact same pre-you experience. Just b
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by sofal 14y ago
I don't know where you're getting the idea about a psychic connection. That's a strange idea, and I don't see anyone suggesting that. What I see you doing is presupposing the "I" and "it" beforehand as if the future clone does not share all
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by sofal 14y ago
It wouldn't be me that woke up as a copy. Here is where you're wrong. You presuppose the "he" and "I" when they are perfectly interchangeable right up until the cloning process. You can't presume that because you're the original now that
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by sofal 14y ago
What if you wake up as the copy? Are you going to be depressed that you're not you?
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by sofal 14y ago
What is this "sensation of identity" and what makes you think that it is something that can't be duplicated, and instead has to be transferred?
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by sofal 14y ago
Are you making the unlikely assumption that you would actually be the original? More likely you'd black out during the brain scan and wake up as one of the copies. You have no good reason to simply assume that you are going to be the origin
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by sofal 15y ago
If that is so then I guess there are a lot of people writing crappy 80s code.
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by sofal 15y ago
The file download was a bad example. I understand the file download progress bar to mean how much of the file I have downloaded. No more, no less. Next to that progress bar is the current rate and an estimate of the remaining time. This is
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by sofal 15y ago
Comparing vim+console to an IDE is always going to be all about personal preferences That's been my point from the beginning. Tradeoffs between personal preferences is a hallmark of apples-apples comparisons. I mean apples-apples in the s
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by sofal 15y ago
You can already setup Eclipse to be an external service to vim using eclim. I tried that for a while and it works, but then I realized that all the disadvantages of using a heavy IDE (project setup, project switching, startup/shutdown, inco
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by sofal 15y ago
I fully realize the advantages that an IDE has over vim: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938995 If your point is that this handful of advantages is a slam dunk, and that it makes IDEs and vim+console incomparable such that whoever
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by sofal 15y ago
If I thought an IDE was better for large Java projects than vim, then I'd use an IDE instead of vim for large Java projects. You'll find that many vim users do not use an IDE because they've found it to be more productive for them to use vi
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by sofal 15y ago
Never saw the point in wasting time to learn an arcane editor from the '70s. Well apparently you wasted your time learning an arcane command line interface from the 70s.
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by sofal 15y ago
I'm with you. I want tabs, I want multiple windows, I want an easy list of project files, and I don't want to waste time thinking about editing. That's why I use vim.
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by sofal 15y ago
In my experience what is being reviewed by your peers are the feature diffs, not the individual commit diffs. What the actual history looks like is entirely up to you as the coder.
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by sofal 15y ago
This probably comes down to discipline, meaning that when you rewrite history in git you may want to take care that you're keeping the useful bits of it and not just squashing everything down to get fat feature-rich commits. Do you think th

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