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Are you implying that compromised security is harmless?
https://www.facebook.com/dan.ariely/posts/10100833467156938
yeah
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs) both vi and Emacs are from 1976. 40 years this year!
> So for me the question is why there are still people that enjoy working as if their computers are using a 25 year old developer experience.

I use Vim for several reasons: First, it's language neutral which is good if you use many different languages. Second, I touch-type and like to avoid as much as possible the use of the mouse/trackpad. And finally, it's available everywhere.

But yes, I agree it has its limitations. A lot can be done with plugins, but it then becomes more fragile and a mess to maintain. I think it still makes sense to use Vim (+ a few light-weight plugins) for smaller projects .
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If I want to put parens around a word I do, ciw()<ESC>P (change word pulls it into the default register, insert the parens and then paste from the register back between the parens).

You can use the same pattern for any selection you have visually highlighted, such is the wonderful power of vim.
First of all, the key point of emacs is extensibility and customizability. So as new stuff comes up, e.g. new programming languages, debuggers, file formats, emacs can be extended without too much pain to work with them (and often, somebody has already done that for me).

Secondly, working mainly as a sysadmin and only sometimes doing some development, I do far more with emacs than coding. I edit configuration files, look at log files, keep a "diary" using org-mode, use it for looking at directories with dired, I run a shell inside it (on Windows, eshell makes my life a lot easier). Having a single, consistent environment across many different languages, tasks, file formats and whatnot, with all my customizations working the same, is valuable to me.

If I had to code in Java, I would probably be using eclipse, too or JetBrains' Java IDE, and if I had to code in C#, I would most likely use Visual Studio, but I do not. So I stick with Emacs because it works well for me.
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Ironically, not available in Soundcloud's home country (Germany).
Seeding a userspace CSPRNG from /dev/urandom or getrandom(2) is actually the right approach. The kernel pool is a resource shared among all processes, with the locking and therefore scalability constraints that implies.
I still don't get it. It's like the city randomly testing drinking fountains for lead, then issuing penalties to businesses, when the city municipal supply is the issue. Sure, shut down the water, but don't penalize victims.

That same scraper that's flagging the site can see the adsense block, see that image url for the offending image is "googlesyndication.com/some/image", etc. As far as I can tell, enough info to map directly back to the entity paying for the ad to show.
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What you're actually asking is: Would I hire a "programmer" without a degree and with zero work professional programming experience on their resume.

Yes. But only if that programmer had a good portfolio and showed a lot of promise. They'd have to interview well and be able to explain what their code does and why. Oh, and I'd only ever hire them as a junior developer, which of course means that the company has to be willing to handle that situation.

Once they've had a few jobs, the experience portion completely replaces the need for a degree and the question is obviously 'yes'. The rest of the interview is much easier for someone with actual experience, degree or not.
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In the USA, the overwhelming majority of terrestrial radio is owned by ~3 corporate behemoths with profit-sharing arrangements with the Big Three labels and their thousands of subsidiaries. What used to be decentralized to the local market level is now mostly inaccessible to unsigned / independent artists. Instead radio is just a distribution network for the major labels and their subs.

Consider this typical everyday sort of press release we see in the industry all the time these days:
http://www.musicrow.com/2014/03/clear-channel-bbr-music-grou...

Payola: Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on commercial radio in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast. Under U.S. law, 47 U.S.C. § 317, a radio station can play a specific song in exchange for money, but this must be disclosed on the air as being sponsored airtime, and that play of the song should not be counted as a "regular airplay".

Revenue sharing agreements? SMH.

Imagine you're an independent artist. That's the hurdle you have to be able to cross in order to get access to discovery platforms. This includes access to choice Spotify or YouTube playlists, satellite and Internet radio, and other conventional discovery mechanisms.
Why is there just 1 contributor listed at https://github.com/vim/vim?
>One LSD-affected baboon or chimpanzee in a group of unaffected animals creates havoc by disregarding the hierarchies of the group.

:)
With the age of their respective codebases, I'd love to know what lurks beneath? Immaculate, well factored code? A hornets nest of hacks - what do you expect from such old codebases - or have they been re-written so many times you'd never guess their ages from the codebase.
It doesn't represent imminent physical danger, so the analogy fails.
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Give it another 10 years and people will still be arguing over this, just that there will be more of them on both sides.

There's deep muscle memory involved.

It's very hard to contemplate switching and, once you do, it takes a lot of commitment before you can cross the line where you are more productive than before. Like learning a new language.

So people tend to stick with the one they learn first and reverse-engineer arguments for its superiority.
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Why was the title changed from "ECHO PAPA EXPOSED:
Inside Erik Prince’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force"

Perhaps it should at least be just the subheading?
That's actually the main reason I try to move all my workflow to emacs. Most probably it will be maintained 40 years more and the time I invest in learning to use it it's not going to be wasted.
When people in Germany get their bank accounts seized by the FBI because they bought Cuban Cigars from a shop in Denmark, and it's justified with "US Embargo of Cuba", it becomes easily noticeable that it's not the laws of the UN governing the world.

Instead, more and more, the US is trying to become a world government, with 6.7 billion people affected by their choices, indirectly taxed by their choices (US corps replacing local companies and transporting the profit out of the country), without any representation.

This is a very unbalanced situation, and is just asking for a revolution. Which will end up making life worse for almost everyone.

We need a fair world government if we want to do these things, and that means representation of all people.

Obviously, the US, which would lose the most from this, objects.
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That's not what I'm asking. I'm currently working at a Russian company as a Java EE developer. So, "professional programming experience" is the thing I'm getting right now.

Update: I was hired with no experience. But here's another country, different people, different companies. I came up with this question to find out if other countries are better or worse with such thing as hiring an ungraduated employee.
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Banana Pi? Galileo?
Not to mention the French Foreign Legion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion or the UK's use of Nepalese Ghurkas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha
Someone posted an article a while back about working to calculus using functions, I think it was titled something like "If Socrates knew functions"? I'm not sure. Does it ring a bell for anyone?
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It looks like the author takes patch submissions and applies them, rather than pull requests being merged. Detailed in: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
I don't understand the obsession with third-party apps implementing Google's style guide for non-android things.

Also, this is a perfect example of why I think the PSR autoloading system supports unnecessarily confusing code layout.

Their PSR4 autoload config has:

- "Pagekit\\": "app/modules/application/src"

- "Pagekit\\Installer\\": "app/installer/src"

- "Pagekit\\System\\": "app/system/src"

- "Pagekit\\Config\\": "app/modules/config/src"

- "Pagekit\\Console\\": "app/console/src"

- "Pagekit\\Migration\\": "app/modules/migration/src"

I use a rich IDE for writing code so I rarely have to worry about finding a file manually (open by name, go to symbol, etc), and I still wouldn't want to try to keep even a summary of that ridiculous structure in my head.
Arright, even more impressive :)
For a lot of people, "bicycle defining parts" probably means "two wheels and a seat", which is what all the drawings have in common.

I wonder what a machine learning algorithm would do with those renders if asked to identify pictures of bicycles, since all the drawings and renders are unmistakably bicycle-ish to people but also not "perfect" bicycles.
Is there a way how I can copy blocks of code outside the vim window to another application without also copying the line numbers?

Also is there one simple key combination to [un]comment a line or a selected block?

I found out how to do many simple operations with this ancient tool, what can be really fun if you have nothing else funny in life (too many people have no other sources of fun, really) - but I am still not convinced. Many operations that are a no-brainer in e.g. geany take serious planning and studying in vim - this is absurd.

I fear that we are wasting many potentially good programmers because they accept the primitivism and stupid limitations of vim as something "cool" and will never again in their lives be able to program a user-friendly GUI because their brain is "vimed out". Maybe that is one of the reasons why we still have so much really bad software.

Once I was totally impressed by programmers, they were the wizards of today, superbrains, uber-humans. Then I learned programming and understood how many uncreative and cognitively limited people are just repeating stuff that somebody else has told them, without ever asking. Basically the typical obey-guy, the perfect follower who never questions any order will be that kind of a good programmer, reading manuals and getting happy that he is able to reproduce - there is no creative moment here. Only very few of them are part of a creative elite that actually brings new ideas to life - most of them are totally dumb rat soldiers just following the orders. This is the reason why such ultra-primitive tools like vim still exist.
On paper this looks really interesting, and I really hope it does well. Immunotherapy is one of the most promising recent success stories of cancer therapy. However I remain skeptical of any efforts to get academic researchers to work together, because (a) the pressure to publish-or-perish is so great that I can see them retreating back into their silos, and (b) academic researchers just aren't used to collaborating. The closest they get is to meet up once every few months to discuss each research group's progress. For this to work, they'll have to find new ways to share their progress, which can become part of their working culture.
Which examples are you thinking of where a anarcho-capitalist society ended up as a stable feudal-like state?

I'm not saying it wouldn't happen, I just don't remember such an ancap society existing in the first place.
I don't know if this device works, but this is just wrong:

>"I'm sorry to say, but the Brussels attack, this would have instantly sorted out the terrorists before they came into the terminal, and similarly the concert in Paris," he says.
"If it had been on the doors there, it would have stopped people getting in."

The terrorists who attacked the Bataclan didn't arrive as simple concert goers, they had AK-47s and shot their way in.
That's actually I meant by permanent member of the UN security council. A club of 5 members which list will never be revised and who aspire to rule the world.
What about web services that are consumer related?

You could start a business if you like and charge people, maybe they pay.

But if you wait till someone "asks" you to take her money, you'll wait forever.
Yes, you can get hired without a degree. Even at places like Google and Facebook. Most people don't care about your degree if you can deliver (i.e. have results to show for it). The older you get and the more you have accomplished, the less important it gets.

Since it seems like you're living in Russia at the moment, one thing that could be problematic is the visa issue. You might not be able to get a US residence visa without a degree (depending on your personal situation).
I find crazy the amount of resources we deploy to fight something:

- that causes little deaths compared to most diseases or social issues.
- cost little compared to most economical or educational issues.
- has little long term consequences on the country compared to internal and external policies, laws, politics and visions;
- is a direct consequence of social, economical and educational issues and a by product of policies, laws, politics and visions.

But what's astonishing me the most is the fact that a lot of people don't see this and just freak out, despite that almost all of them have never been in direct contact with it or suffer direct consequences from it.
Are you 100% sure subdomains count against your limit? I just asked that question on letsencrypt recently and was told there is no limit to subdomains.
Sure. But you seemed to be implying that just being a mercenary - regardless of whether you committed any war crimes - ought to be in and of itself a crime. Perhaps I misunderstood.
This story is written with such an incredibly obnoxious and sensationalist slant, like most things written about Erik Prince and Blackwater. You'd think they had uncovered evidence he was working on contract for ISIS or something.

America's use of PMCs is as old, actually older, than the country itself. Many of the issues that led to Blackwater's infamy from their time in Iraq were directly caused by State Department incompetence (I doubt anyone would want to argue that the US State Department is an efficient, well-run, non-politicized entity). Erik Prince is not some crazy Christian zealot out to wage a holy war; if anything, he provided the US government with unique capability that they desperately needed, and things would have probably been far messier if he hadn't been involved in Iraq.

I see nothing evil or nefarious about a defense contractor commissioning efficient tactical aircraft for anti-terrorism and civil defense operations. The fact that it's Erik Prince, and the mass media has painted him as the evil overlord that caused all of our problems in Iraq, doesn't make it any different. It would be strange if someone who was highly competent and specialized in defense operations, who had enough money, WASN'T building these sorts of things.

Look, I'm mad about what the US government did in Iraq. Everyone should be. We shouldn't have even gone there. But none of this is Erik Prince's fault.

Venture capital firms have "scouts," giving them access to deals they'd otherwise overlook or couldn't access. The US defense and intelligence communities have people like Erik Prince.
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I'm about to dive into org mode for the first time today. Do you have any tips for learning it?

My plan was to open up the manual and start reading, but maybe you found an article or tutorial that helped kickstart your org mode knowledge, so I thought I'd ask.

(Apologies if the question is a bit offtopic.)
Nice use of the buffer. Is there a nice hack to remove the parentheses around a word as well?
No one can work all day like a machine. Everyone needs some healthy distractions to a reasonable limit.
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Yeah if only there was a way of changing that page to say something else.
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I uninstalled it as well, and noticed that the mobile website for facebook is much better in performance than the so called 'native' app.
most recently http://www.nature.com/news/second-chinese-team-reports-gene-...

added http://snpedia.com/index.php/Rs333 for HIV immunity.

the embryos were pre-non-viable.
:set nonumber removes the line numbers so you can copy without them
The problem with that theory is: name a city where one can rent in a high-rise affordably.
> Is there a way how I can copy blocks of code outside the vim window to another application without also copying the line numbers?

If you're running vim in a terminal, there is an option to add native clipboard support to your yank registers. If you use vim under OS X and have installed it with brew, it will be added automatically.
To check whether your current vim installation has clipboard support, try running `vim --version | grep +clipboard`.

You might also find this to be helpful: http://vimcasts.org/blog/2013/11/getting-vim-with-clipboard-...
Fake evidence. I'm not advocating the placement of cocaine baggies in anyone's hoo-ha.
I love attempts to shake up maths education, and I reckon the first passage is a pretty neat explanation, but it seems to slide quickly downhill from there.

The first three chapters are a bit airy-fairy - I get that that's its schtick, but they're also pretty light on content.

The fourth reads like it's been taken straight out of a maths textbook by a "cool" teacher - engaging but not fundamentally simpler than what one learns in class.

The fifth teaches how to use Wolfram Alpha to perform calculus. I could teach a dog to use Wolfram Alpha.

It all seems to suffer a bit from the "Dummies guide" syndrome - it's easy to simplify the first few lessons on a subject, but you pretty soon hit a wall when you reach the parts that actually require a bit of mental legwork.

Calculus is not a simple subject. By teaching it better, you can probably improve the situation by, like, 20%, but you can't magically make a complicated subject trivial. It just doesn't seem like the way forward for education. We need to make the difficulty more rewarding, not pretend that it doesn't exist.
Yes, sorry that was a terrible reference; I should have been more careful. But take instead the murder rate from Wikipedia (which gets stats from the UN): Sweden is in place 205 out of 218 countries and no other nordic country is lower except Iceland (and the rate in Iceland is not accurately measurable since they had only a single murder).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

This despite the fact we're in the top ten for gun ownership: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_c...
I'm curious, why does he call them "men's bicycle"?
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What about the hackers who remotely stopped a Jeep on the freeway? I'm pretty sure that's "imminent physical danger."
most terminals support "rectangle copy" - just keep ctrl pressed and you can select a rectangle from whatever top-left starting point - easy way to copy only content without deactivating line numbering.
There are plugins for that.
Check out vim-easyclip, and for comments theres vim-commentary(barebones) or nerdcommenter(loads of advanced features).
I never got calculus.

I mean, I got the ideas behind it and could talk with my professors about it, but I couldn't solve much of these equations.

It was a strange time at university...

I even helped friends to get these exams done, but I myself always failed. Luckily we only had one math lecture about calculus, the 4 others were about different stuff.

And it was always the fundamentals which got me. The whole rearranging an equation stuff all the school life is about totally eluded me. And this is what the calculus exams were about. At least the professors saw that I got the other math exams right, so they knew I wasn't an imbecile, haha
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Nothing really to offer, but I'd be well interested in this too.

I've seen some good video series on youtube in the past, but primarily focused on Game Development. I'll try to track them down so I can update this comment.

I'd be keen to see some vlogs from other areas though, especially from developers for:

- highly visible open source projects (Firefox, Atom editor)
- linux kernel / distro maintainers
- hardware and electronics (arduino / embedded)

I always gain the most insight from watching over someone's shoulder, or listening along to their thought process while they think over the problem and build a model of the domain.
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Yep, just like what happened with CPAN and PEAR / PECL. Perl and PHP were / are popular too (so are ruby and node and go and Java and C++ and ...) and yet they still have their own independent package managers despite sometimes having very outdated versions of some modules in an distro's packaging system.
A "men's bicycle" is a bike with a diamond frame (as opposed to step-through for a woman's bicycle), but it's a silly name really. More to do with comfort vs. performance than gender.
We'd hire three of them, tomorrow, if they had the right skills we were looking for.
I guess you could do a similar thing: ci(<backspace><delete><esc>p
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Because there are also "female's bicycles".

Historically these bikes were designed for women. See the top two answers here:

http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/13826/what-are-t...
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A technical solution [1] to a legal problem. If it got big enough to be targeted by copyright holders, it would fall afoul of the "What Colour are your bits?" problem: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

[1] large copyright holders will not care that a 'weak hash' might match multiple blocks. They will take the fact that the 'weak hash' matched a block in their copyrighted movie to assert that the downloader was, in fact, requesting and downloading the movie. And given the recent raid on a tor exit node operator where the judge was not even told the IP was a tor node, even though the police knew, means that big copyright will ignore the fact that there 'might' be plural matches and simply argue before a judge that 'weak-hash' matching block X of movie Y is evidence of copyright infringement. And because of the 'What colour are your bits?" problem, arguing that weak-hash X might also match open source file Z isn't likely to get very far due to lack of technical knowledge on the part of the judges.
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Selling arms solely to law enforcement, however, sounds reasonable.