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I switched from windows to linux as my main OS a little while back. Currently, I run only linux, but I have previously run a dual boot setup with windows 7. That was just a speedbump.

Now, if I want to update anything I type the following in the command line:

sudo apt-get udpdate sudo apt-get upgrade

... And that is all. Unless you meant some other kind of pain and suffering?

So I'm on Linux - specifically Debian. Where do I start with LaTeX? Do I have to use a specially created editor such as Lyx?

I disagree with your opinion of the liberal arts, but I will certainly agree that getting practice writing unit tests for your code on homework assignments will be a boon in the long run.

The book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! sounds like it would be a great read for you.

http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Char...

As far as mailing lists go, I also would be interested in this.

OO in perl is a little bit weird if you aren't used to it.

That's almost as bad as telling a depressed person that they are overreacting and to just "cheer up". Incredibly stupid.

I still don't have access. I emailed someone, got no response, so I gave up on it.

Is anyone still using this in a production environment? I don't think I've ever seen a language like this one before.

What is really the saddest thing, is that wikileaks is absolutely the only oversight/resistance that we have towards abusive American foreign policy, or abusive policy in general around the globe.

The average citizen has absolutely no say in anything.

If you think the United States "try to act ultimately for good and that there be minimal self-enrichment", then I am just going to have to frown.

American foreign policy has a very rich history of being very abusive to other countries when their agenda is at odds with ours. The irony of us going after Saddam Hussein recently was thick enough to cut with a knife, after all, we did in fact forcefully put him into power.

I welcome the release of the diplomatic wires personally, because right now all we get is a facade of fake transparency. We only know what they want us to know after all.

Wow, something from coding horror where he isn't trying to sell us something?

Dancer is very easy to get started with, and very simple to deploy. If you have a small project with using perl in mind, it might be worth checking out. The documentation is okay, but getting better surely. If you have any quick questions about Dancer, I'd recommend checking out the project's IRC channel.

Ignorance is bliss.

I'm going back to C. I've always wanted to learn it so I could contribute to the FOSS that I use everyday. It's a great language.

Admittedly, there seem to be better solutions out there, but I suppress the "start" page in my .emacs file and start with an empty scratch buffer, or a shell prompt instead. I can just switch the buffer to use the prompt.

This is a frivolous lawsuit. There is no reason anyone would sue a private company for not using their software.

I think Paul is wrong about further stratifying the Lisp community.

Why were they collecting this information in the first place? I don't understand how they could just accidentally grab passwords.

What about running a command prompt from within emacs? I spawn one in my .emacs file with: (shell).

I would like to try to make one just to experiment a little bit; I've never really made a javascript driven website before.

Yes it does. Thank you for the explanation.

For anyone unclear about REST, try this: http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife

Sorry, I'm a little late to the party with respect to javascript. Could someone please explain to me what this means in english?

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

check out http://www.linuxcertified.com/, I got a decent laptop from there for pretty cheap. I am very happy with it. They come preloaded with your choice of linux distro, including the ubuntu option.

Perl is still very much alive and well.

I could believe this. I feel like most of my discomfort just comes from sitting in the same position over a certain stretch of time, maybe an hour or two.

I feel like I would absolutely hate standing for any extended period of time. Doesn't this tire you out?

Even when I'm wearing glasses, which admittedly, is mostly when I'm on the computer, I always find myself slouching forward, or really tensing up my shoulders. I should probably just strap myself to my chair.

The article was also a pretty weak criticism.

Or, why the best numbers to choose are just 1,2,3,4,5. (Or really, 33,34,35,36,37 (so you don't have to split the money with people choosing dates).

When I see a pop up on an article, I generally close immediately. It is pretty clear that they are simply trying to monetize my visit, and whatever content is there is just more bait for that. I will put up with banner ads to some extent, but as a general rule if there are more ads than I feel like there need to be, or if the content of the article is broken into different 'parts', I'll just close on general principle.