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> Your arguments are inconsistent and frequently plainly wrong.

It's too bad you're unable to find any examples to support this claim. On that topic, here's just one of your outright lies:

[ my remark ]

>> All to avoid using any control keys. The reason? vi must be able to work with a keyboard that doesn't have any control keys, and vim must work exactly like vi.

[ your reply ]

> That's what you wrote. It's all false.

As a matter of fact, more key entries are always required in vi and vim compared to a modern editor, and two, the control scheme in vi and vim arises from the requirement that it avoid the use of control keys. That was a design requirement, because the original machines it was designed for did not have control or navigation keys. How do I know this? I used those computers, and I used the early versions of the programs under discussion.

Since then, the machines have changed, but vi and vim have not changed.

Stop lying.

> I wanted to, but I think I won't comment on the rest of what you wrote, because it carries no substance whatsoever.

I already used repeated and substantial evidence to prove that that you are lying, and you just lied again.

> And that's all modality does, by itself - replaces a few modifier keys with a single one. It has no impact on average count of keystrokes.

I and others have already proved that this lie is, in point of fact, a lie. Mode-limited editors require more keystrokes than those without modes. Mode-limited editors require you to be aware of, and to change, modes. Those mode changes require extra keystrokes.

* Vi/vim, switch from moving the cursor to editing text: Esc, Esc, :, i, fist text entry. Four additional keystrokes. Newer versions have s shortcut in which you can just press i, to switch modes, one additional keystroke. But all version of vi and vim always require additional keystrokes, compared to a modern editor.

* Modern editor, switch from moving the cursor to entering text: Just start entering text, no additional keystrokes required.

You are lying.

> We're really not interested in ed, ex and vi early history

First, based on the positive votes on my posts, there is no "we" that lacks interest, and second, one of the the reasons your post is so misguided is because you don't know anything about the history you feign disinterest in. The other reason is that, like a religious True Believer, you cannot be persuaded to argue in good faith.

> Anyway, if keystrokes count remains the same, why bother with modality?

One, I just proved that keystroke count doesn't remain the same, and two, the reason for modes is to avoid use of control keys, for the reason that those keys didn't exist on the keyboards for which vi and vim were designed.

The designers of vi and vim had no choices about modes, it resulted from a limitation of 1970-era computers and terminals, and such modes have been abandoned by all modern editors without exception, as a clear hindrance to efficient use of a computer.

Stop lying.
We'll it's what the observations converted to audible sound, sounds like.
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No need to waste money on a "beasty bag."

Desiccants are the generic name for water-removing substances:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiccant

Amazon has silica gel (the most common desiccant) at $13 per 25-pack of 3"x1" 10 gram bags. That's a crap ton of desiccant.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003DKQB02/B004D9R9OM...
> The sooner you give up on the attempt on the peak, the more likely you are to survive it.

Are you implying giving up (or in fact not trying at all) is the best approach?

Are you implying that surviving is more important that reaching the summit?
I doubt Rich Hickey is interested in those few remaining CL stalwarts that won't come over because he doesn't open up the reader. It's just a non issue.
I always keep an eye on: http://github.com/twitter lots of awesome stuff ranging from frontend stuff to distributed services. Having 100 open source projects and judging by the rate they are putting things out they do have a good engineering team.
the prospect of future profit allows them to get funding..
Default search engine for gnome isn't it? Or is it something else?
I don't know about other places, but I'm almost 36, with about 10 years of Java and web experience, and I keep getting more and more offers (from around the nation) from both enterprises and startups (twitter, amazon, rackspace, apple, google, netflix, Oracle, NCR, banks etc...).

I talked to a friend who works at Twitter (he is 37) and he told me it's not a "college graduate world" as some depict it, he said most people he works with are around his age (which was very encouraging for me).

Here in Atlanta there are tons of Sr. Java jobs, both enterprise and startups, at least based on the recruiter spam I get in LinkedIn.

When you say "too old in this industry" which industry are you talking about? SV? Web Startups (Ruby / Python / Node)? Gaming? Mobile? perhaps for these you are right. But for the companies I listed above, or any enterprise company in the country, your age is just about right, and your experience years are in demand. Again, don't know about C++ specifically, but if you had 10 years of Java, you would have easily landed multiple offers from various good companies around the country, at least this is what me and people I talk to in the Java community seem to experience.

I don't know if it's C++ that is different, but the "if you are 30+ then your career is over" situation is not something I see even close to the reality at least here in Atlanta.

Hope it encourages you a bit.

P.s. If you want to increase your spectrum of possible jobs, I recommend learning "less cool" technologies, like Java EE 7, Spring, Hibernate, or if you need to choose between Haskell / Go or Scala, go with Scala, it will be perhaps less cutting edge, but will give you much more job opportunities. Also learning Hadoop, Storm, MongoDB will make your resume look very attractive.
Also you should pick up good github projects that show you are full stack, do some AngularJS projects, write a jQuery plugin, the jobs offers will follow (I got more than a few solely based on some nonsense plugins I wrote in github that look as if I know what I'm doing)

YMMV, all based on my very subjective experience here in Atlanta...
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I guess that the difference is the failure mode for friction pads is more gracious than for gears, making survival more likely.
So what's the problem with the CL culture?
Sort of, but only as a suffix, and only for specific types of securities: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=CQSsymbolconventi...
> Advertising today is just moving to the Internet, and by dollar amount that means it is falling.

Do you have a reference for that? I would be extremely surprised if aggregate advertising budgets were falling down. It might be cheaper on the Internet but my gut guess is that more companies are advertising or are advertising in more places.
i forsee twitter handle squatters.
I think I understand now, thank you for explaining!
Ask HN: How exactly do you get a job interview?
I've been sending my resume to websites and recruiters all day long. The recruiters will call back but always mention how unqualified I am. The company jobs websites never call back.

I hear rumors of "Fizz Buzz" questions but never been asked because nobody really calls me back. I also hear rumors about how there are so many unqualified candidates there are out there and judging from what the recruiters are saying, I probably am unqualified as well but I'm trying not to be unqualified but no matter how much I learn, it feels like I'm still unqualified from the responses I get.

What exactly does it take to become qualified to just get a job interview? What do you need to do to become qualified for a job? How do you go from being incompetent to competent?
Speaking of which, I can't for the life of me unsubscribe from DDG, no matter how many times I tell them to stop pestering me on the unsubscribe service.

Does anyone else have the same problem?
How do you securely share the AES key?
We live in a crazy world where it is a federal crime to transport raw milk across state lines, yet cigarettes you can get at any corner shop kill 500,000 people every year, 50,000 of them from secondhand smoke. But yes, protect us all from the evil raw dairy.
You are correct, they switched from google pretty recently
Robot Car Wars: Nissan Jumps Into the Fray With Driverless Car by 2020
Wouldn't it be in the best interest of memes to never let us figure them out though? To never obtain this view of the world where memes are exposed for the parasites that they are? Maybe "theory of memetics" is a next-generation meme that took over our collective consciousness to exterminate all the other primitive memes and gain world domination :)
Regarding your footnote, there are already several examples of evolution evolving itself more efficient ways to evolve. The first example that comes to mind is sex, then passing knowledge between generations through non genetic means (IE a parent teaches its offspring).
Any thoughts given to moving towards a Solution Architect role? Within the right organization, you could be doing some hands on but mostly involved with designing and leading the solution.

You are definitely not too old to continue to do development but it seems like you would like to move on from that.
And for some reason, Google Chrome (conspiracy theorists erupt!) thinks this page isn't in English: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6vq7ubvff7x4g55/2013-09-...
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Is "bot" a malay word, or a word they use in their stats (as they list the words multiple times).
Would it account for the major surge though?
As someone who works remotely, I think the really key things are institutional, rather than individual. They discuss moving everything to online, and that's essentially the biggest part of what you need. When "showing up to work" no longer includes going out to coffee in the mornings, but instead means logging onto the chat room and wishing everyone good morning, you've achieved a measurable step.

Isolated office space, all those things are nice to have, but without having everything available via TCP/IP, it's a nonstarter.

I've worked from many an airport that essentially fits none of these criteria without too many problems aside from reliable power supply - the nice thing about working remotely is that you can tune your environment to your own tastes.
I've tried DDG before on several occasions, but always got frustrated with the quality of the search results and changed back. After PRISM, I started finding Google's results less and less accurate, so I tried again. I now find that for most of the searches I do, DDG results are letting me find what I need faster than I can with Google... Kudos to them! I applaud both their technical achievements and their principles.
> every complex AND specialized adaptation

The ones that stay around long enough to be studied perhaps.
What an incredibly ignorant response. America's issues go a wee deeper than just the Iraqi fun and instigating the global economic crises of the past decade. Like the invasion of Iran in the 1950s, as but one of endless examples going back to the founding. And Putin never made the direct claim that he was doing it better than America, merely expressing how the states need to get off the high horse. Of course Russia has issues. But they're not insisting at gunpoint that the world get down on its knees and open wide for American business interests. The gobstoppers response is no better than trailer trash rubbish.
This seems like a lot of rules... and kind of unfriendly. Especially for just a short stint working remotely.

Whats the worst that could happen if one of the workers has a less than ideal setup while temporarily working remotely for a few days? Would it really affect company outcomes? If not, I think developer happiness would be improved by having a more laissez-faire attitude from management.
> I've read that there are over 10,000 pages to Obamacare.

The widely-available bill[1], which takes all of five seconds to find with Google, is 906 pages with legislative (huge margins) formatting. Consider not getting your "facts" from people with an axe to grind.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590enr/pdf/BILLS-11...
Can you stop promoting you crappy search engine here. It returns junk results and looks like Godzilla's poop.
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Am I reading this correctly:

"EXTREMELY WEAK. FAULT OF POT[ATO] SEED."

McCandless wrote "POT SEED" and the author inferred that he meant potato seed? Is that a given...?

Also, doesn't this author seem a bit sloppy? First, he asserts in an 8400-word article that McCandless died from sweet pea seeds, which he shrugs off because he was on a tight deadline. Then he says he made a "rash" decision to suggest in his book that the wild-potato seeds contain swainsonine?
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It's been my default search engine for a while. My observations:

1. The bang syntax is rather convenient. I'm an Alfred user (Mac OSX), and I can easily get nearly everywhere with !.

2. The results are getting much better. I often search for something and think "these results aren't good enough" and do !g for google. The top link on google is the normally the second or third link on DDG.
Ah, I see. Perhaps you can use Analysis & Design tasks not to estimate the actual work, but further research tasks necessary to get to a more solid answer. Setting the expectation that all issues can be analyze and designed in 6 hours seems arbitrary.

Many times the Analysis and Design of a solution encompasses trying things out and actually experimenting with changes. By the time you're done with Analysis and Design you've virtually implemented the solution. Of course there is the documentation and reviews that you could also estimate separately.

This is a classic human problem - we suck at estimation. And if some pointy haired boss is demanding perfect estimates, you should give him or her good estimates for the next piece of work you can predict rather than the finished task.
This video is easily 10 years old, maybe 15. Come on guys, really?
No it does not, and the right against self-incrimination also holds when you are called for testimony under grand jury. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Hubbell.

Perhaps you are confusing the first and the second clause of fifth amendment?
That kinda sounds like iTwin http://www.itwin.com/

It comes in a pair with 2 USB ends and can be mated together to share a key.
http://www.collegeanswerz.com/discipline-and-understanding
Yachts and mansions don't build themselves. Jobs are created by their construction. Then that money is spent somewhere else, etc. Multiplier effect. Better that things are bought than the money sitting in a money market account.

In regards to the island purchase in Hawaii, it sounds like he is putting funds into improving the infrastructure on the island. (I don't want to get into an argument on whether that is a good or bad thing. Just pointing out that money is being put into the economy by him doing so.)
Is this the same blowup that happened a week or two ago?

I think this is great news. But the headline may be misleading, it made me think there had been a third blowup.
Can you whine some more?
I mean, how "extremely difficult" are we talking? So long as it isn't esoteric, it can't be so difficult... otherwise no one would learn it, and it would become by definition esoteric...

I guess "real hard but still non-esoteric" could include
* Functional ones like OCaml or Haskell (so I hear... "What are these monads you speak of?")
* Super legit ones like C/C++ for systems programming
* Rare and majestic ones like Lisp
* Ones that require outside math knowledge like Julia or Fortran
* Really new ones that don't have many packages / docs / community members yet
Default switch happened in August https://people.gnome.org/~csaavedra/news-2013-08.html while spike appeared to start 2 months previous.
Wow. This is a really great insight. I've worked in advertising and never thought of it this way.
Yep :)
Spot on, need to buy one of those. Good to know someone is doing this!
often, even though I normally work in my office, I will take a few hours to go work under a tree in a park. I used to worry a lot about my wifi hotspot situation but I've found that sometimes, not having the internet at all is good to get you ultra-focused on the task you are working on, especially when you've got your entire dev environment on your laptop. no coworker interruptions, no HN, no Twitter, not even if you wanted them. Also, being in real sunlight (although in the shade) & outside is great for the mind.
No browser is going to even look at the X-DuckDuckGo-Locale header.

Edit: Crome doesn't do that for me.
> ... you said he was too young to know vi/vim better than you.

At this point you have two choices. You can locate where I said that and quote my words directly, or you cam post your apology for making a false claim in this public forum.

To cut to the chase, I never said what you claim, your claim is false.

Ah -- I just figured out why you can't quote my words directly, to discover that I never said what you claim. You're using vim to compose your reply, and vim is so damned inefficient that the task of accurate reporting is consequently entirely beyond your energy or patience.

> If you haven't used it in 30 years how would you know vim any better than a younger person?

False premise, false conclusion. Locate where I said I had never used vi/vim for 30 years.

> Why would age have anything to do with recognizing the benefits and drawbacks of various text editors?

I never made that claim, so I don't have to defend it. Since you have obviously lost track of the thread, the OP used words to the effect that I might be suffering from a neophyte syndrome (not his words). I replied by pointing out that I am hardly a beginner, that in fact I was probably using these editors before he was born. Perfectly apt reply, one having only to do with experience, not age.

> ... your arguments here could be better.

A non sequitur. Ellen Page could also be better looking, even though that's a bit hard to imagine:

http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/ellen_page-wide.jpg

Summary. You need to post real quotes of real words, things people really said. Obviously if you're handicapped by using vi/vim to compose your replies, such trivial actions as copy and paste are -- well, by no means trivial -- so the content of your posts becomes more understandable.
You can do this already - just take two flash drives and mirror the same random data to each one. Just make sure you never use the same part of the random data twice.

Of course, I have to ask: why bother? If you're giving them a flash drive anyways, just exchange public keys. Also safer, as if someone loses/etc. a public key it's no big deal whereas if someone loses the OTP then all of the data you sent is trivially decryptable.
So, you're saying that you don't want ads but want to see ads to notify you of campaigns to make games ad free?
It's interesting that the vast human intelligence that created all of these vaccines may be neutralized by vast human stupidity.
Determination
I'm glad you said this, because it was the reason I stopped also. I'll give it another try at home.

However there are a lot of times at work where having search results relevant to me is essential. Since DDG is all about not being the search bubble, to use them all of the time, I'd have to change the way I worked to bookmark my projects and search for my blog entries in the blog's search bar instead of just using the omnibox in Chrome (that is using Google) for everything.

Reason #2 is that search advertising helps pay for the GMail service that I rely on. I don't want to go back to my cable company's email accounts. Yuck. Terrible spam filtering and much worse webmail UI.

But, I'd like to stop using Google as much as the next guy. I'm waaaay too reliant, and I'd be surprised if the U.S. hasn't infiltrated their employee ranks, along with other countries, for greater influence and access to data than is even currently known by congress. Using Google is like living in a whorehouse.
Hyro - a cross-platorn, real-time HTML5 editor
Analyzing the Price of Mobility: Desktops vs. Laptops
If the record is ever recovered and studied by aliens, I'd love to hear the RIAA try to explain to a star-hopping intergalactic civilization why they can't share it amongst themselves because it hasn't been licensed for their "region".

With our luck, they'll be Vogons and vaporize our entire planet for infringing on their patent for watering lawns with a garden hose.
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Also switched to DDG for about 2 months, and more often than not had to preface every search with !g

I really want to like and use DDG, but....
> try to understand why the person thinks the idea is good rather than try to figure out why the idea is bad

That should be on the HN faq regarding "Show HN" posts.
To me this isn't about seeming friendly or unfriendly, it's about defining boundaries of what is vacation time and what isn't. It's about saying "No, what you're doing isn't working from home, it's vacation. Don't feel guilty about not getting anything done, just go and have a break." Compare that to being fuzzy about it - you're not really having a decent break (because you're trying to get work done) and you're not getting any work done (because your 8 year old niece is pulling on your shirt, your brother wants to go golfing and your dad has the TV up extra loud).
Hello, I'm the creator of this app. If there's any confusion, I did in fact change the name from 'Hyper' to 'Hyro'. This was for many reasons (some of them legal). However, it is the same app, just a different name.
In addition to the secular anti-vaccination folks like McCarthy, there is also significant evidence of religion-based anti-vaccination movements, most recently seen in the measles outbreak in Texas which was traced back to a megachurch[1].

[1] http://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/217746942/texas-megachurch-at-...
I get the same unfriendly feel from this piece, but I guess this is a company in transition from not allowing remote work at all to allowing it now. Hopefully, as it becomes more common, they will relax the rules a bit.
This is an excellent point. Sure, Facebook has the biggest audience, but somehow I only ever see a few companies in my ad rotation.
Oh wow, thank for reminding me to switch my default search engine back to Duck Duck Go.
If they had a time-machine, yes. But MS today has Nokia and WinPhone, they don't need BB anymore.
Do most rich people have their money under their mattresses?

Apple has a hundred billion dollars sitting around not doing very much.

Landlords in The Bay Area are capturing extra money available to FaceLinkGoogTwitIPO Heads and pocketing it themselves.

Most rich people aren't investing in startups. Most rich people are probably corrupt doing borderline, if not flat out, illegal things, and are only interested in hoarding more wealth for themselves.
Is this "culture of drinking in the programming profession" any different than the general culture of drinking in other business environments? It does not seem that way to me.
Is the email being forwarded from another account? I work for a service that sends marketing emails to a large userbase, and that's the most common issue with unsubscribing -- that your email address isn't the one subscribed.