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Yes, you are correct! Thanks.

Shame though that neither common lisp or scheme are present.

I think this survey was populated without any thought.

1. it does not specify to whom this website belongs to, neither what the purpose of this survey is

2. in programming languages, there's not even one lisp dialect. In a survey. For Emacs. :p

[Edit]: correction for 2, as there's clojure. Thanks anamexis.

Too pricey. They could buy more spambots with less $$.

<irony> Because wearing glasses makes me feel insecure. </irony>

Yes, a person with disabilities can be ridiculed and feel like crap. A fat one can too. Also one with glasses, long hair, or long nose (or very short, let's include them too, it's the PC thing to do).

Where do you draw the "disadvantage" line?

As much as you are being offended when people are using a series of letters that forms certain words, so do I when people act like irresponsible children putting blame on random words.

Are people with myopia discriminated against in society?

Yes. I am offended by the small letters in ads.

Call it what it actually is: short sighted, greedy, foolish, etc. Don't use a word that puts down people with disabilities.

No. Language is a liging thing and the meaning of a word can change overtime.

"Greedy" is not the word that applies in this case. Nor is "short sighted". This is a retarted and dangerous behavior, and you should not be afraid to call it for what it is.

See above example with the car and try to imaging is the following happened: you have to drive immediately to a hospital and your car doesn't start because your tire was changed by a non-authorized service.

"Greedy" and "short sighted" are not the words that come in mind. It's a trully retarted and dangerous decision, initially driven by greed (because let's make computers like black boxes, no-one can open it, no-one can mess with it).

The sad thing in this (politics) is that no one gives a sh!t about real people and real situations besides imaginary currency.

Over the last few years, while Greece sinks slowly due to financial situation, IMF and Germany won't back on austerity measures demands. Even if, in reality, those measures are making the country sink even deeper due to very low income and chopping away peoples' pensions.

As I live in Greece, I can say for sure that the situation is getting worse and worse over time. While Greece took huge loans over the last few years, almost everything went to fuel German and French banks so they won't collapse. Very little -if anything- was used to help the situation. But not even those same countries acknowledge that fact. They demand "their" money that used to fuel their banks. Smart thing (not).

Of course I could be a troll and mention that after WWII Germany received a lot of help to be able to reconstruct the country, even if they slaughtered millions across Europe. But that's politics. ;)

Personaly, I'm tired of all that bs. Europe is _not_ a union and this situation is getting out of hand. Supposedly "friendly" countries demanding everything from another member of the "union" is not what Europe was -supposedly- all about.

At least with a new government that is able to say the word 'no' for a change, almost anyone can see the true face of European "union".

Introduced to his music ver yearly in my age. Loved (and still love) this kind of music (even if I live outside the states). After him, I discovered and appreciated so many artists.

His music will live on, reminding people why expressing yourself through arts is so great.

While I'm not going to comment on the programming side of this project[0], I'm going to say that it's very beautiful. Trully.

It runs beautifully on an i386 1.5GHz in surf browser. :)

/request_mode on mode with 90 degree turns. _Exactly_ like Tron. :p /request_mode off

[0]: just because I only want to experience this from a purely user perspective and I'm enjoying it.

Thanks!

edited: format

I'm a bit skeptical about this "feature".

While as a developer I can understand _why_ companies scream against adblock (and that applies also to simple blogs/etc), as a user I understand perfectly that this is their own fault completely.

After so many years of companies serving pop-ups and ads that were not only huge in size (pre-adsl era, yes I'm old :p) but also giving multiple seizures and brain aneurisms, the only sane option is to just disable everything until they find a sane model (for example, something that's not as intrusive, something that does not cripple the site's layout nor it is so abstracting that messes up with the user's reading).

Also coding in the browser has been a miserable experience.

Basically that ^.

Having tried some web IDEs, I can say it's not a pleasant situation when browser crashes or hangs.

Putting aside local tools or whatever, the editor must must be available at all times, with or without internet connection. At least that's my view. :)

I'm sitting in front of my keyboard for like 10 minutes trying to find where to start from... Honestly, I cannot.

Can you imagine in the year 3,000, when the NSA's documents are ancient history, what kind of insight into the human condition, machinations, good guys, bad guys, plans, history, humanity can gain by seeing every single person's complete activity down to the second, down to when they were composing their thoughts?

Yes, it will be very pleasant - and exciting at the same time - to be able to view - and perhaps enjoy the same - activities of a person that searches for tentacle/eel porn.

vim ftw. (there is an incorrect solution at link) :)

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  :g/creditcard\":null/d   # to get rid of null credit cards :)
  gg
  qa
  9x
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  d/creditcard
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  j^q

edit: fix format and add gg after null deletion.

I agree. The situation with "safety" is getting out of hand.

What could possibly be the danger from reading in a bus? Even if some car crashes with the bus, due to the mass of the bus, there's little chance of getting hurt, let alone the chance of getting killed from the book or something.

Police who won't let children walk home from the park.

I suppose this is happening at the States? Can you provide some info on this? The only word to describe the above that comes to mind (at least for me) is alien. :)

When I saw this thread, the initial thought I had was "pff, another emacs thread about vim users".

But this is absolutely perfect (either for transition, or for someone like me that just wants to try a transition but does not know where to start).

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful work. :)

Is this only about facebook tracking users via the like buttons on websites?

If so, I'm expecting the same reaction in the future about google analytics.

From the other hand, {facebook,google,random company} did not force someone to put the appropriate {buttons,code} in their site. Me thinks there's going to be some kind of settlement without too much fuss and they'll keep doing business as usual for an even more sucky web.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

Except when it's not truth but a random rant.

You say:

If you want to discuss the collections programs, lets start with how you expect police to actually deal with modern criminals (ie: Swatters) if they didn't have the ability to track the location of their phone calls.

Notice "THEIR phone calls", not "EVERY phone calls".

Truth is, views like yours are clueless and/or dangerous and fail to see the big picture.

I'm sure you embrace the "I've got nothing to hide, so I don't care" stance. So yeah, fk the rest of the people, don't give a sh*t.

Educate yourself.

Safety trumps all and there simply isn't a compelling need (that I can think of) that requires the need to tinker with the auto software.

So you won't have any problem in <x> years if all PCs are coming with default configuration 'cause "safety trumps all' and "you don't need to tinker with the auto software". You don't need to change your shell. You don't even _need_ a shell anymore. The _company_ will provide you with everything you need. And of course, no choice for what OS you're going to install.

I imagine an answer would be "but my PC isn't going to run over a child". No, but an insecure OS can cause you to lose all your credit balance and many more (which I imagine you can guess being an hn member). All that just because "you don't need to tinker with the auto software".

I'm sorry, but people with views like yours keep the world behind.

There is no slavery on Foxconn plants[..]

While it's not slavery in the traditional way, it sure is when you pay workers virtually nothing for a product that's overpriced.

Think a situtation where you'd be an administrator for Amazon and you're getting $10/day just because you live in <x> country, while your other _only_ option is to - as you said - "go away and grow some rice".

While this is a completely legal action, would you say that it's also ethical?

But no, whenever a f*cked up situation is not near our own precious asses, it doesn't matter. They can go out and grow some rice.

Besides the domain name there's not a lot to suggest that this is a 'parody' site

I think it's just a trolling site based on stuff like this[0]. "amd64 only ~ no 64-bit intel". :p

Joking aside, I can't even understand why this was posted here.

[0] http://www.trollaxor.com/2013/12/openbsd-why-do-not-use.html

I'd like more to see how these editors are handling big files (>1G) and performing substitutions.

I feel editors are taking a step backwards recycling and repackaging the same ideas many previous editors had before plus eye candy.

I've tried a number of things like wget to "offline" a website and had mixed success. Does anyone know of a proven way to do something like this?

What about httrack[0]? From description in OpenBSD ports:

HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

Or, you can use wget for downloading a single page or recursive download. :)

[0] http://www.httrack.com/

The OS is optimized for firewall and security. Not for desktop or anything like that. It lacks both hardware and software in almost every respect for anything more.

I'm doing web development for the last 4 years and programming for almost 2. My desktop and laptop have only OpenBSD as an OS.

What do I miss?.. apart from some more recent games (which is the reason I have a console), nothing[0]. ;)

As for hardware problems? Well, if you want to run some new (for you) OS without doing some homework (will it run? what problems are unresolved for X hardware? what hardware do I already own? will it cause problems?) you're out of luck even with Linux in some cases.

Hell, even my x41 single core laptop can play 1080p video files.

[0] http://openports.se/

[edit]: also, upgrade process => ~3-7mins (depending on hardware). Can't beat that. :)

Probably doesn't matter as a comment (there are so many great comments expanding way more), but when all classical composers composed music, they didn't assume something like "Tempo: 70bmp". They were referring to it as "Adagio" (same for other tempos, see here for reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo#Basic_tempo_markings ).

That gives the conductor the freedom to play with the tempo (example: one conductor may decide that a specific part noted as "Allegro" is better sounded at 120bpm, an other one at 125bpm which may give a little more aggressive touch), giving the audience a much more pleasing experience.

Nice!

Proposal: I'd like to have an ssh multiplayer so I can kill the other players' systemd's. :)

Nice. While Philae landed in a comet after a ~10 year trip, some people still killing each other because they believe/insulted an imaginary god. sigh

Don't get me wrong. Almost every big religion did the same (crusaders anyone?). But for me, this kind of behavior (regardless the religion), leads me to believe that these people are Uruk-Hai in human form.

2015 and instead of chosing to actually educate people, that sh*t keeps happenning.

I understand this is just a funny page with some metrics, but seriously calling people who added most LOC the most “productive” developers is somewhat disingenious.

@bottom you can see the real productivity:

  lines added     1192696
  lines deleted   3484520
  files added        2653
  files deleted      9995

So it's been a really productive year.

(edit: updated to fix codeblock :) )

And love that the first site was trully responsive. :)

How I wish there were sites styled like that (no irony, and I know it doesn't has any style). Get in, grab your info, maybe see an image and get out.

Good times.

[..]and skilled enough to be hired at Sony (presumably in IT)[..]

As I see it, after the three (if Im not mistaken) last successful attacks at Sony, I wouldn't say they're skilled _enough_. Not even skilled basically.

Again, as I see it, it's Sony's fault: after the first attack at playstation network, the least they could do is stop using plaintext files to store passwords.

But no. Second attack with the same results and now a third.

So no. They're not even close to be characterized as skilled (and that goes especially for the managers/whoever did not decide to leave the I-store-passwords-as-plaintext practice).

Those should be available on almost any Linux system, even on minimal installs:

[..]

Bash

Maybe I'm nitpicking here, but why Bash _should_ be available?