Here's one that no one seems to know for some reason. You can hit Ctrl-C instead of Esc for switching from insert mode into command mode. I find it much more convenient.
I wonder if you were thinking of this quote from Carl Sagan? It's one of my favorites as well.
"It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works--that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it." -- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, pp.159-160
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Here's my favorite Vim trick that I somehow went years before discovering, even though I read through the entire Vim documentation. You can use Ctrl-C instead of ESC to get out of insert mode! Much nicer for keeping your hands close to home row.
Yeah, I was pretty sure I had a Slashdot account way back when. I was at Hope with those guys and I remember Rob typing away in the back of the classroom - Stegink hated it. I've been trying without success to remember even the username ever since. Maybe I'm thinking of a little BBS thing Nate wrote, but I could have sworn it was Slashdot. Ah well.
No, he's not responsible for the brain-dead version of Hungarian Notation (Systems Hungarian). That came later, as people took a basically good idea and applied it in brain-dead ways. Simonyi is responsible for the much more useful version of Hungarian Notation, now called Apps Hungarian. Wikipedia has an an explanation of the difference.
Sheesh, I read the headline and thought Intel had developed some buggy chip that somehow stomps on flash memory. Nice, well, at least it got my attention.
I, for one, welcome our Slashdot joke template posting, ignorant instead of insensitive, non-naked and non-petrified, using we instead of I, for one, welcome our Slashdot joke template posting, ignorant instead of insensitive...
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
365 for a single play is just the American record... in 1982 in the UK, a man named Karl Khoshnaw played the word CAZIQUES for 392 points. It means "native chiefs of West Indian aborigines".
WTF? I've known the word since I was a kid. It's a perfectly common word in English. Most of the rest of the words used in competitive scrabble are just plain bullshit.
That's what most people say about their own particular vocabularies. Everybody knows words that are "perfectly common" in their own minds, that many people would say are "plain bullshit". In fact, flatfish is a great example. Just because you don't know a word doesn't mean it's not a word.
No, just use the Dvorak mappings of HJKL anyway. I've been using Vim with a Dvorak keyboard for years without problems. J and K are still right next to each other; H and L are still relatively left and right of each other. As with anything, once you get used to it, it's not a problem.
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Hard to believe it's been 14 years. Well done, sir. Take a nice long break; you deserve it.
Hey, me too! I thought I must be the only one. Ah well, I may not have a nice UID but I know I was there.
Your English is fine... there was nothing wrong with that sentence. It was perfectly understandable. That guy is just being an asshole.
"You're just not thinking fourth-dimensionally!"
"Right, right, I have a real problem with that."
Yes, we wouldn't want anyone to upset the app cart.
Netcraft confirms it: Osama bin Laden is dead.
Well crap, I had my money on Perl 6.
Solar physicists have also threatened to melt every city on earth with liquid hot "plasma" unless we give them... one million dollars!
Sure, it's roguelike.
I love that Stephen Wright quote.
Here's one that no one seems to know for some reason. You can hit Ctrl-C instead of Esc for switching from insert mode into command mode. I find it much more convenient.
"Hex" is just a fancy name for binary, just like "backslash" is just a fancy name for a slash.
I wonder if you were thinking of this quote from Carl Sagan? It's one of my favorites as well.
"It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works--that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it." -- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, pp.159-160
Here's my favorite Vim trick that I somehow went years before discovering, even though I read through the entire Vim documentation. You can use Ctrl-C instead of ESC to get out of insert mode! Much nicer for keeping your hands close to home row.
I just ran that simulator for an infinite amount of time (in another dimension of course), and it still ended up with an infinite bankroll. Weird!
$20 buys a decent amount of beer, or whatever Apple users drink
Apple juice.
Yeah, I was pretty sure I had a Slashdot account way back when. I was at Hope with those guys and I remember Rob typing away in the back of the classroom - Stegink hated it. I've been trying without success to remember even the username ever since. Maybe I'm thinking of a little BBS thing Nate wrote, but I could have sworn it was Slashdot. Ah well.
No, he's not responsible for the brain-dead version of Hungarian Notation (Systems Hungarian). That came later, as people took a basically good idea and applied it in brain-dead ways. Simonyi is responsible for the much more useful version of Hungarian Notation, now called Apps Hungarian. Wikipedia has an an explanation of the difference.
Sheesh, I read the headline and thought Intel had developed some buggy chip that somehow stomps on flash memory. Nice, well, at least it got my attention.
I, for one, welcome our Slashdot joke template posting, ignorant instead of insensitive, non-naked and non-petrified, using we instead of I, for one, welcome our Slashdot joke template posting, ignorant instead of insensitive...
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
365 for a single play is just the American record... in 1982 in the UK, a man named Karl Khoshnaw played the word CAZIQUES for 392 points. It means "native chiefs of West Indian aborigines".
WTF? I've known the word since I was a kid. It's a perfectly common word in English.
Most of the rest of the words used in competitive scrabble are just plain bullshit.
That's what most people say about their own particular vocabularies. Everybody knows words that are "perfectly common" in their own minds, that many people would say are "plain bullshit". In fact, flatfish is a great example. Just because you don't know a word doesn't mean it's not a word.
Ummm... the English alphabet only has 24 letters?
No, just use the Dvorak mappings of HJKL anyway. I've been using Vim with a Dvorak keyboard for years without problems. J and K are still right next to each other; H and L are still relatively left and right of each other. As with anything, once you get used to it, it's not a problem.