I remember when my mom's machine started sending spam with my name in the address field. Clever Trojan.
Parsing C++ is a nightmare....
Yep- I'm actually a pretty old hand when it comes to git, and I know most of what git can do, but... I'm lazy, so when I use git at the command line I do caveman git. Magit lets me remain lazy and do subtle git things,
No... I mean I hear you about not liking emacs/vim/evil-emacs. I happen to like evil-emacs, but I can see why other people would prefer VSCode. That's a matter of taste, and I won't tell people to switch. But when it…
It's an interesting award. Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for denying the holodomor, and he was awarded a Pulitzer for his work, a Pulitzer that the Times has yet to address. The reality that Duranty denied was…
Awards could be made to matter, I suppose, but if they are simply a matter of culture war signaling I'm not inclined to take them very seriously.
Note that the linked story is _about_ the fact that a female philipino undergrad won a Pulitzer, but does not explain much about about the story she reported on that won a Pulitzer I'm not arguing that she shouldn't…
Oh plz... just as Obama was given the Nobel peace prize before becoming President (and killing a lot of people by bombing them once he was President.) Did we just award the Pulitzer to an undergrad? OK- but let's not…
Interestingly it is very difficult to figure out what the story she reported on is about given all the hoopla around a Latina winning the Pulitzer.
Yep- I was reminded of how much I like magit by this thread so I just made a $100.00 donation to its development. I hope it inspires other people to at least give magit a try (if I'll donate that much it must be good,…
There's an old joke: "Emacs is a great OS, but it lacks a decent text editor." Only vi users are allowed to tell that joke with a straight face, IMHO. Evil-mode solves that, and just as magit is better than git…
I keep hearing good things about VSCode. If I weren't essentially married to emacs I'd definitely try it out. I'm not sure I'd recommend emacs to everyone at this point, though I think it remains a really solid choice…
Interesting. I prefer to write in high-level strongly dynamically typed garbage-collected languages when I can. But of course I can't always do so and get the performance I want. My approach is generally to prototype in…
Who's 'she'? Anyway, I think you ought to rethink your claim that Chomsky is the father of cognitive science and of modern linguistics.
Hmm- gonna get flamed here, no matter what I say, so... I'll try to be a bit delicate, but not going to put too much effort into delicacy. I understand loving CL. CL was, I think, the first programming language I really…
Indeed. But I'll be dead, wicked old, or immortal by then, right?
See above.
Except that is what it means. The term is used mainly in certain contexts these days, so you might have gotten the impression that it only applies in those contexts, but 'fiduciary' has a broader meaning. To quote from…
New England (not a state, but let's not get too specific here,) but off the beaten track. Small town with a big University. There are really only about four companies around here who could credibly offer me offer me a…
Probably not. But, in practice, yes.
Yep- don't hate the player, hate the game. I'm legally obligated to do so in some cases. That's what fiduciary means.
I've literally never gotten a job by sending out resumes. Every single job I've had I got through some connection or another. I actually refused to send my current job a resume. The conversation went like this: Can you…
At 45 I might not be as quick, in some respects, as I was twenty years ago, but I know a lot more now. A _lot_ more. That's enough to make me far more valuable, even if I've lost a step here and there.
As an older programmer, here's one drawback to hiring me: I'm unlikely to live in the office, and I'm unlikely to sleep under my desk. I'll put in extra hours, when actually necessary, but if I'm perfectly honest I just…
I remember when my mom's machine started sending spam with my name in the address field. Clever Trojan.
Parsing C++ is a nightmare....
Yep- I'm actually a pretty old hand when it comes to git, and I know most of what git can do, but... I'm lazy, so when I use git at the command line I do caveman git. Magit lets me remain lazy and do subtle git things,
No... I mean I hear you about not liking emacs/vim/evil-emacs. I happen to like evil-emacs, but I can see why other people would prefer VSCode. That's a matter of taste, and I won't tell people to switch. But when it…
It's an interesting award. Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for denying the holodomor, and he was awarded a Pulitzer for his work, a Pulitzer that the Times has yet to address. The reality that Duranty denied was…
Awards could be made to matter, I suppose, but if they are simply a matter of culture war signaling I'm not inclined to take them very seriously.
Note that the linked story is _about_ the fact that a female philipino undergrad won a Pulitzer, but does not explain much about about the story she reported on that won a Pulitzer I'm not arguing that she shouldn't…
Oh plz... just as Obama was given the Nobel peace prize before becoming President (and killing a lot of people by bombing them once he was President.) Did we just award the Pulitzer to an undergrad? OK- but let's not…
Interestingly it is very difficult to figure out what the story she reported on is about given all the hoopla around a Latina winning the Pulitzer.
Yep- I was reminded of how much I like magit by this thread so I just made a $100.00 donation to its development. I hope it inspires other people to at least give magit a try (if I'll donate that much it must be good,…
There's an old joke: "Emacs is a great OS, but it lacks a decent text editor." Only vi users are allowed to tell that joke with a straight face, IMHO. Evil-mode solves that, and just as magit is better than git…
I keep hearing good things about VSCode. If I weren't essentially married to emacs I'd definitely try it out. I'm not sure I'd recommend emacs to everyone at this point, though I think it remains a really solid choice…
Interesting. I prefer to write in high-level strongly dynamically typed garbage-collected languages when I can. But of course I can't always do so and get the performance I want. My approach is generally to prototype in…
Who's 'she'? Anyway, I think you ought to rethink your claim that Chomsky is the father of cognitive science and of modern linguistics.
Hmm- gonna get flamed here, no matter what I say, so... I'll try to be a bit delicate, but not going to put too much effort into delicacy. I understand loving CL. CL was, I think, the first programming language I really…
Indeed. But I'll be dead, wicked old, or immortal by then, right?
See above.
Except that is what it means. The term is used mainly in certain contexts these days, so you might have gotten the impression that it only applies in those contexts, but 'fiduciary' has a broader meaning. To quote from…
New England (not a state, but let's not get too specific here,) but off the beaten track. Small town with a big University. There are really only about four companies around here who could credibly offer me offer me a…
Probably not. But, in practice, yes.
Yep- don't hate the player, hate the game. I'm legally obligated to do so in some cases. That's what fiduciary means.
I've literally never gotten a job by sending out resumes. Every single job I've had I got through some connection or another. I actually refused to send my current job a resume. The conversation went like this: Can you…
At 45 I might not be as quick, in some respects, as I was twenty years ago, but I know a lot more now. A _lot_ more. That's enough to make me far more valuable, even if I've lost a step here and there.
As an older programmer, here's one drawback to hiring me: I'm unlikely to live in the office, and I'm unlikely to sleep under my desk. I'll put in extra hours, when actually necessary, but if I'm perfectly honest I just…