zikzak

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   by zikzak 8y ago

   I love Emacs but earn my living in Visual Studio writing C# code for e-commerce sites and vendor integrations, etc (same business for years). I use Emacs on my vps (quite a bit, actually) and used Emacs extensively until 15 years ago or so
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   by zikzak 10y ago

   Came here to find out who else uses leading commas. I learned this several years ago at my current job and love it. I find it much more readable and also makes adding to the list clearer for some reason. Plus if you ever need to insert like
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   by zikzak 12y ago

   Here is another good example of that in a different medium: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/adayinthelife.html
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   by zikzak 12y ago

   Use green tea (you can make iced tea with it if you don't like the flavor) to get off coffee. It provides just enough caffeine to prevent withdrawal. Then after three days you can go cold turkey. This method has worked for me several t
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   by zikzak 12y ago

   Thank you for responding. I am still looking for that thing for me. :)
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   by zikzak 12y ago

   Do you get paid for the programming that you do this way? I've always dreamed of a world where I can "take a contact when I feel like working" or "just work a few hours a day" but if someone hires me they want as mu
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   by zikzak 12y ago

   I went back to school at 25 to get a CS degree in 1997. My first year I would hear stories of people about to complete bachelor's degrees being flown from Halifax to Boston (Canadian, here) to be courted (hotel, dinner, etc) by IT comp
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   by zikzak 12y ago

   I always thought the popularity of Twilight was a good second order approximation of the growing zombie population...
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   by zikzak 12y ago

   I could say the same re: Flamingo. Small world.
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    by zikzak 12y ago

    It may not matter for some but this article is advocating trying to instantiate an email address to see if an exception is thrown. This is likely far more expensive than a decent regexp based on the email address specifications.
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    by zikzak 12y ago

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/21/use-of-ad... Maybe 30%, worst case?