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And what if I have already incurred the cost and am happy with my decisions, and they differ to yours? I now cannot use your potentially useful tool, even if 90% of our decisions do accord with each other. That's disappointing.

And if you can't depend on it, why have it?

That's a bit rich. There are other conventions in programming that you can't depend on technically but serve a real purpose. Identifier naming and comments are the first that come to mind.

If a language gives you a choice of token that has no semantic distinction then different people will adopt different semantics by convention.

As an aside, calling a tool "opinionated" is code for "my conventions are better than yours". That's fine if I don't have any conventions or I can't decide, but if I have decided, then it's just offensive.

An Amaz-ing Resume 13 years ago

"No copyright infringement intended" means "I have no idea what copyright is". Altogether a dumb thing to put on a resume.

Thanks for telling us about your favorite hobby, how many you have played, where it fits in your personal spectrum, that it has been around for many years, and giving us some titles!

But, what is a German-style board game?

And now it just doesn't make sense at all:

We found 1140 results for "Obama" and an additional 6 that contained "Romney"" - likely because Obama's been president for four years.

Plagiarism 14 years ago

Which I see you've added, and very nicely too. This is how it should be done: it tells a random visitor following a random link who you are and why to trust your words. Very minor point: if it were at the top (e.g. sub-heading), we see your bona-fides before reading the article.

"Lighten up" 14 years ago

No, it's very much active aggression, only covert. See also "politics".

SSH tricks 14 years ago

Really? Where are they? Article index is empty.

And article needs a date before any award is bestowed.

SSH tricks 14 years ago
    host *%*
        proxycommand ssh $(echo %h | cut -d%% -f1) nc $(echo %h | cut -d%% -f2) %p

usage:
    ssh gateway%target