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91.
by tripa 10y ago
I'd have thought Europe as half or Eurasia is less of a continent than America as North+South.
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by tripa 10y ago
Third person I see running last macro with C-x e. In my setup, and I think it's standard, repeating f4 is enough.
93.
by tripa 10y ago
To be fair, most do. To be meta-fair, most means those who have a brand name (those you could distinguish when you buy).
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by tripa 11y ago
Ok. $_ isn't trivial to understand, let alone explain. But nobody's claiming that. Well not me at least. What irked me is that's just about all the author's got to say about Perl in the article. Other languages inherite
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by tripa 11y ago
I recognize this as wrong, and am surprised by how he could have gotten that idea. Good job with the correction.
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by tripa 11y ago
> [Perl] has a magic argument, $_, which means something like, "the return value of the previous call". What?!
97.
by tripa 11y ago
And as soon as the crows understand the way to do it, their development will accelerate drastically too.
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by tripa 11y ago
It's about Unix read() and write(), not human linguistics as I thought when I clicked. Very interesting nonetheless.
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by tripa 11y ago
A bit like Tim Berners-Lee, web developer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ug...
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by tripa 11y ago
Being legitimate "for the NSA to do" and legitimate "in the grand scheme of things" are not the same thing. It [could be argued that it']s legitimate for the NSA to spy on France, just like it[...]'s legitimate
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by tripa 12y ago
> Are you seriously arguing that the USA is more suppressive of coimmunications and publications that China? Really? He never was. And as seen from the outside, you're completely making his point.
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by tripa 12y ago
> knowing fully well that a patch is to be rolled out in 2 days. I haven't come across a source for that. Does one exist? For all I know, Microsoft announced it in reaction to the publication, but I have no clue Google could have b
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by tripa 12y ago
It's quite possible he was not familiar with 2000 at the time (consumer vs enterprise), and conflated the both afterwards, because no one really talks about ME anymore.
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by tripa 12y ago
I'll premptively add a bit of precision before a pedant comes along: my is lexical all the way; our defines a lexical binding over a global variable, and local defines a dynamic binding (of lexical extent) over a global.
105.
by tripa 12y ago
my is lexical, our is global, local is dynamic.
106.
by tripa 12y ago
To add to that, IMHO self-hosting for VCSs is closer to the original meaning of the phrase than for compilers.
107.
by tripa 12y ago
And I still know most of the retorts after all these years. Way too much time spent on those!
108.
by tripa 12y ago
Shift-space scrolls up a page. Thank you! I come from Unix, I'd have expected b or backspace to scroll up a page, been disappointed by browsers numerous times, and just lived without it.
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by tripa 12y ago
Use the keyboard! Once you got the focus out of the instant search box, all of the following work almost as you expect: UuRrLlFfDdBb for face rotation, MmEeSs for slice rotations and XxYyZz for cube rotations. (upper-case for clockwise, lo
110.
by tripa 12y ago
To protect your readers' privacy.
111.
by tripa 13y ago
If it had, the tormentors would just back up the drive before attempting to access the data.
112.
by tripa 13y ago
You've only claimed it had value to Uncle Sam here, we're far from “intrinsic”.
113.
by tripa 13y ago
I'd be surprised if mercurial didn't have a similar “feature”.
114.
by tripa 13y ago
It used to take an order of magnitude less time than that to create a pseudonymous YouTube account.
115.
by tripa 13y ago
Yet Windows updates are a conveniently globally shared problem. For real embarassment, nothing beats the unpaid software nag.
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by tripa 13y ago
Named pipes are filesystem objects you create with mkfifo. What's in use here is more widely known as “process substitution”.
117.
by tripa 13y ago
AFAIK, Sweden doesn't host gmail or facebook servers.
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by tripa 14y ago
Iùl not deep enough in photographer jargon to be sure I interpreted your mention of "low exposure" correctly, but as I'd see it, that photo is of low average exposure, and "normal" exposure on the light sources. And the fireworks do look s
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by tripa 14y ago
I wrote that in a spirit of "put ingredients in the machine on one side, collect ammo on the other." I just meant to say it's just as sensible to regulate ammo than it is to regulate guns, and (IMHO) easier. That doesn't mean home ammo is
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by tripa 14y ago
There's still a bit of time before we can print ammo. Gun control could evolve into ammo control.

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