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One of the core principles of JavaScript is to avoid errors whenever possible. Using + on arrays bothers me less than the fact that there is no error for division by zero.

You hit the nail on the head. As an Arch user, I find pleasure in configuring a clean system, and indeed I've been continually doing it for years. Since it's natural behavior for me, I find it all too easy to forget that most people, including the technically inclined, consider such constant tweaking to be undesirable. So as much as I want to say, "Folks, stop using Apple products -- for their SOPA support, for .DS_Store, for being un-Unixy, for an endless list of other reasons", I have to recognize that my values as a computer user are completely out-of-line with the people who find Apple's selling points to be attractive. The OP, however, sounds like he may be ready for a Linux or BSD.

That's cool. I'd love to live in the bay. Underwater dwellings are awesome. I've always assumed that I'd have no Internet access down there, though, so I never seriously considered the move until now.

That's 1 down, 141 to go. Who's next? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...

I disagree. A black background on a backlit screen is less eyestrain for the same reason that a white background on printed paper is. In both cases, the significant information is on while the background is off.

Reading black on white from a backlit screen is akin to reading the wattage information from a glowing lightbulb. It hurts.

I was prepared to buy until the page loaded. Yikes.

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I hope there are some other publications on the subject of greater or equal quality that have yet to go out of print.

I'm reminded of this story of the folks who worked on LEO hunting down a similarly difficult-to-find bug that was eventually found to be caused by an unrelated external machine: the manager's elevator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrn24SdW64I&t=2m50s

Quibble: A curses based application uses a TUI, not a CLI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface

Here's my Google Verbatim search engine plugin for your browser. http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+ve...

You can. Append:

  &tbs=li:1

Ugly, but it works.

That's the symbol for logical negation, which would make it a confusing replacement for +.

What you're proposing is basically the analog of DNS. We would have seen this years ago if only there was any real competition in the postal space.

What a waste of time it is to complain about the way someone else configured your system. You're the one who chose to use a window manager that doesn't offer custom keybindings. If you can't live with it, then either write your own window manager or switch to a OS that doesn't impose its dogma on you.

OSX is a non-contender in my book because of its complete disregard for the standard Unix directory structure, its use of registry files, its ancient BSD utilities last updated in the '90s, and its lack of a package manager that actually integrates with the rest of the system. Of course the window manager sucks too, but that's only if you judge according to functionality. To be a Mac aficionado, you've got to judge only according to how slick the UI looks. Right?

In terms of the average quality of their content, G+ : FB :: HN : /. That's just my experience, and YMMV, but if it's globally true then I expect G+ to win in the long run.

I wish Simple the best of success, but it seems clear that a more technically correct name for the company would be Complicated.

I understand that your goal is to create the appearance of simplicity via complicated obfuscations. Those of us who are concerned about where our accounts live, and how they're structured, are not your prospective customers. So while I have no need for an invite, I wish you the best of success. Certainly some people will enjoy your service.

That's true in the Bay Area at least, but not necessarily everywhere. Back when I was their customer I recall visiting NYC, and asking several random strangers if they knew where I could find a "B of A", and none of them knew what I was talking about, until I clarified, "Bank of America".

I had the same reaction at first, but its pith became a selling point as I learned the flags. Of course there's nothing stopping you from wrapping the command.

My first Arch install took well over a couple hours, and was a pleasurably educational hassle. I think it took me over a day to get the system completely working back then. And that was despite my background using Slackware. But every time I've installed since then, the duration has more-or-less halved, and my most recent install was easily under 30 minutes.

The biggest gotcha for me as a newcomer was trying to install on a laptop, having no ethernet access handy, and not knowing that I'd need to install wireless_tools when running through the initial setup in order to get online.

The amount of time it takes varies greatly according to what you consider to be complete. I never stop tweaking my system, and there are always some points of dissatisfaction with it. But Arch is a great distro. It's very well-documented, and is pretty much delightful to configure.

Yes, the dashboard / HUD could be a sweet mobile device if only manufacturers thought of it as a computing platform.

They could ship with a package manager (or "app store", what have you), and offer an API to the car. If they allow competition amongst app makers then usability standards should naturally increase.

Of course it would be necessary for car-makers to set high minimum standards of safety in app design, and to enforce those standards strictly.

I've considered starting a car company around this principle, but the barrier to entry is daunting.

The Anarcho-Capitalist position has been thought through fairly well. You may disagree with it, but based on your questions it sounds like you haven't made much of an attempt to learn about it.

The Pyramids and the Colosseum were both build by slaves. With a tax rate of 100%, it's easy to believe that money was wasted.

Never pipe `find` to `xargs rm -f`. All you need is a malicious empty file called / and you're screwed. That's why `find` has a -delete flag.