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I'd have thought Europe as half or Eurasia is less of a continent than America as North+South.

Third person I see running last macro with C-x e. In my setup, and I think it's standard, repeating f4 is enough.

To be fair, most do.

To be meta-fair, most means those who have a brand name (those you could distinguish when you buy).

Ok. $_ isn't trivial to understand, let alone explain. But nobody's claiming that. Well not me at least.

What irked me is that's just about all the author's got to say about Perl in the article. Other languages inherited this "feature" (Ruby anyone?) or equivalents, but no mention of that. Why even mention Perl if he's got nothing (solid) to say about it?

I recognize this as wrong, and am surprised by how he could have gotten that idea. Good job with the correction.

> [Perl] has a magic argument, $_, which means something like, "the return value of the previous call".

What?!

And as soon as the crows understand the way to do it, their development will accelerate drastically too.

It's about Unix read() and write(), not human linguistics as I thought when I clicked.

Very interesting nonetheless.

A bit like Tim Berners-Lee, web developer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ug...

Being legitimate "for the NSA to do" and legitimate "in the grand scheme of things" are not the same thing.

It [could be argued that it']s legitimate for the NSA to spy on France, just like it[...]'s legitimate for the french NSA to spy on the US.

That's not the same question as whether or not it's legitimate for allies to spy on each other. Oh, sorry, for the US to spy on France and for France to spy on the US.

> Are you seriously arguing that the USA is more suppressive of coimmunications and publications that China? Really?

He never was. And as seen from the outside, you're completely making his point.

> knowing fully well that a patch is to be rolled out in 2 days.

I haven't come across a source for that. Does one exist?

For all I know, Microsoft announced it in reaction to the publication, but I have no clue Google could have been made aware of it beforehand.

Edit: nevermind, I've found one.

It's quite possible he was not familiar with 2000 at the time (consumer vs enterprise), and conflated the both afterwards, because no one really talks about ME anymore.

I'll premptively add a bit of precision before a pedant comes along: my is lexical all the way; our defines a lexical binding over a global variable, and local defines a dynamic binding (of lexical extent) over a global.

my is lexical, our is global, local is dynamic.

To add to that, IMHO self-hosting for VCSs is closer to the original meaning of the phrase than for compilers.

And I still know most of the retorts after all these years. Way too much time spent on those!

Shift-space scrolls up a page. Thank you!

I come from Unix, I'd have expected b or backspace to scroll up a page, been disappointed by browsers numerous times, and just lived without it.

Use the keyboard! Once you got the focus out of the instant search box, all of the following work almost as you expect: UuRrLlFfDdBb for face rotation, MmEeSs for slice rotations and XxYyZz for cube rotations. (upper-case for clockwise, lower-case for counterclockwise)

I got it down to 19 seconds using the optimal solution from http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?47666-Googl...

I'm not doing it again, the interface is too frustrating.

To protect your readers' privacy.

If it had, the tormentors would just back up the drive before attempting to access the data.

You've only claimed it had value to Uncle Sam here, we're far from “intrinsic”.

I'd be surprised if mercurial didn't have a similar “feature”.

It used to take an order of magnitude less time than that to create a pseudonymous YouTube account.

Yet Windows updates are a conveniently globally shared problem.

For real embarassment, nothing beats the unpaid software nag.

Named pipes are filesystem objects you create with mkfifo.

What's in use here is more widely known as “process substitution”.

AFAIK, Sweden doesn't host gmail or facebook servers.

Iùl not deep enough in photographer jargon to be sure I interpreted your mention of "low exposure" correctly, but as I'd see it, that photo is of low average exposure, and "normal" exposure on the light sources. And the fireworks do look superposed: that hints at long exposure, which "cameras" have been able to do before we even had camera lens.

I wrote that in a spirit of "put ingredients in the machine on one side, collect ammo on the other."

I just meant to say it's just as sensible to regulate ammo than it is to regulate guns, and (IMHO) easier. That doesn't mean home ammo is out of reach. Just like I don't think home-built guns are.

I admit not having considered it in as much detail as you did :-)

There's still a bit of time before we can print ammo. Gun control could evolve into ammo control.