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mbetter··on Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere
There is, it just isn't invoked for a .csv file.

As someone who basically lives in Excel for 40 hours a week, I find my quality of life to be much improved when I keep my text files tab delimited.

mbetter··on Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere
Lookups and if/then statements, wow. God forbid you ever have to audit a program with a loop.
mbetter··on Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text
You can't, actually. Use Pandoc.
mbetter··on The Importance of Excel
Thank god that "regular people" are smart enough to not care what you think.
mbetter··on Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals
Anything of value, anyway.
mbetter··on FSF Wastes Away Another "High Priority" Project
> but the FSF/Richard Stallman doesn't the DWG library on the earlier version of their own open-source license.

I think they an important word.

mbetter··on How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
I go for grey socks. You can wear grey with basically any pair of dress pants. With non-dress pants, I just don't wear socks.
mbetter··on Ill-founded arguments about grammar
CWWWWW we w W SSS Crrr rrrrrr vv sda Sdf

That means "more anything can mean anything descriptivist nonsense." Please let me know when your model has been adjusted.

mbetter··on Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users
Just remember that this is mega.co.nz and not mega.co.ns, the world's largest Lisp repository.
mbetter··on SPONSORED: North Korea Is Asia’s New Start-Up Hot Spot
It can't be, no jokes are allowed on Hacker News.
mbetter··on Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows
CNet hasn't been a reputable download source for some time.
mbetter··on This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For
Everything that isn't a Star Wars reference in that response is fantastic and actually a little inspiring.
mbetter··on I want the world to scroll this way
I can't get to the second page.
mbetter··on Silicon Valley's Fiscal Sacrifice
If Silicon Valley can't absorb the additional capital gains tax, why is it located in California?
mbetter··on "DCI" in Ruby is completely broken
This DCI stuff sounds like a quick way to make an app CPU-bound, if it wasn't already.
mbetter··on Central bankers rethink their devotion to slaying inflation
You could have just said that you don't understand what money is.
mbetter··on Freicoin: a P2P digital currency delivering freedom from usury
"Come over and get kicked in the nuts! Free car service and short lines!"
mbetter··on Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer
I'm not clever enough to write that "plain, sequential machine code" in a sufficiently correct fashion.
mbetter··on Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer
He gave concrete examples for all of his points, unlike you.
mbetter··on Central bankers rethink their devotion to slaying inflation
Gold is not money.
mbetter··on Central bankers rethink their devotion to slaying inflation
This isn't a strong case at all.
mbetter··on Milton Friedman's Thermostat
Detrimental to what?
mbetter··on You Are Naturally Short Housing
No.
mbetter··on On Being Not Dead
Listening to a Petersen Quartett performance right now, quite brilliant.
mbetter··on Ron Paul’s Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government
If taxation is theft, property is theft. Or in other words: what gives you the right to compel me to defend your property?
mbetter··on Ron Paul’s Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government
You may want to take direct moral responsibility for your circumstances, but that would be very dishonest. Whether you like it or not, you are part of a society and the very existence of society makes your circumstances possible.
mbetter··on Ron Paul’s Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government
Because having a simple and logically consistent system to decide what is right and wrong in any given situation absolves one of the responsibility to make complicated moral decisions on their own merits.

I understand libertarianism and I very much appreciate that it is built on a foundation of reason. However, being an imperfect being, a wise man tempers his reason with empiricism.

mbetter··on Ron Paul’s Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government
He may wear a kilt, but he doesn't play the bagpipes, so he's no true Scotsman.
mbetter··on Ron Paul’s Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government
> why do you think it's a bad idea to argue with a libertarian?

Every time I argue with a libertarian, it's an endless series of "No True Scotsman" arguments.

mbetter··on Ron Paul’s Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government
My thoughts, yet expressed more eloquently than I ever could.

Would you happen to have an opinion on which of your books I should read first?

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