borkabrak

Works on Ubuntu for me.

Interesting all around, for discussion of a technique I haven't been fully aware of before. The mention of the depiction of lettered documents caused me some pensive ruminations on the fine detail involved in painting typefaces.

There seems to be something very Japanese about this to me. I get that there is a humorous component, but there's also something precious about putting so much time and focus into doing something obsessively well. This point is made more apparent in this case by the choice of pencil sharpening -- a practice that is easy to see as less important than many other things he could be doing. But that's kind of the point. It helps to bring the focus away from the utility of the practice, and point it more towards the idea of doing something well, regardless of what that thing is.

Wow, I use Google like, a lot.

Ask him about that twenty bucks he still owes me.

Yeah, I took that to be a dig a Paul Graham, whose early essays all seemed to have unlinked footnotes.

Thanks for the idea. I just wrote a similar thing, based on this. Credited you in the header. :)

I don't agree with it; I think time is proving him wrong.

But that is hilariously written. I love a well-executed embittered screed.

The regular 9 to 5 is what some people want. And that's fine. They get their satisfaction in ways we may not -- (stereotypes coming).. a kid to play with, buddies at the bar, plunking a guitar, reading John MacDonald.

This is not necessarily even a lack of ambition -- we're all allowed to aspire to whatever lifestyle we think will suit us best.

You can't say one way is better without describing what better looks like -- and when we have different descriptions of that, the best thing to do is just tink your drinks together and keep your "How can he live like that?!" to yourself.

Almost signed up until they required a phone number, with no explanation why.

At $10 per cigarette, in a neighborhood where you're likely to get shot.

But they're illegal in order to keep us safe.

Right.

I feel like I've missed something. What, exactly, are they teaching?

I don't mean to be confrontational -- this is a genuine question.

In my work, it's generally better to optimize for clarity rather than performance. I suspect this is true more and more as compilers grow in sophistication. In this vein, use:

x = x / 2

To DIVIDE, use the DIVISION operator.

The directory ~/.config/fish should be there. However, you'll have to create the file config.fish inside that directory, if you want to use it.

I'd hazard a guess that fish_config may do that for you.

I don't get it.. why was he upset?