And while on the subject, please feel free to discuss non-paying Internships...
Or people that do things as a hobby or charity or simply because they enjoy doing it - w/o any monetary considerations for themselves. No one is forced to participate in a hackathon (which Firefox suggests should be spelled "Shackleton").
Have you seen photos of our World Leaders and Corporate Overlords? Many of them probably keep really young spouses hostage so they can leech youth from them while they sleep.
Of course, like all reptiles, they love their sunshine.
I know why you use vi for quick edits and emacs for long ones. It's because 30 years ago vi fired up and emacs took its time, right?
Not really. I would normally start Emacs and suspend it -- remember, back then it was all VT100 ASCII terminals (or such). I used/use Emacs for development as it was -- and still is -- way more capable and sophisticated than Vi / Vim. The latter are good for making quick, simple edits, like to config files, etc...
Thanks for the info. I do have 30+ years of experience w/Emacs so it's not really cumbersome for me. I think I'm still pretty cool, or at least productive.:-)
And extensibility and Emacs LISP programming capabilities. Perhaps not bit draws for a lot of people, but I've written a bunch of LISP programs for Emacs to help me out with various things (and done coding in LISP as a research assistant, back in college).
Actually black powder and gunpowder are very sticky legal subjects in the US. Know your state and federal laws well before even looking into playing with them.
I would argue that the problem stems from using the words "black powder", "gunpowder" and "playing with them" in close proximity.
Linux Journal reader David Harrison points out another great thing about Vim "is that it's basically everywhere. It's available on every major platform."
So is Emacs ding-dong.
My $0.02 - I'm a long-time Emacs and Vi user - since the mid 1980s. I use Vi/Vim for short/quick edits and Emacs for things I want more of an IDE. Vim is a fine, fairly simple, text editor and Emacs is, well, Emacs. Granted the learning curve for Emacs much higher to really take advantage of it, but it's well worth it over the long run. If I could only have one editor, it would be Emacs - no question.
AFAIK that only counts the days actively golfing. Not the number of days Trump spends on a golf course...
Yup. But ~100 times of just actual Golf in one year still pretty telling for a guy who lambasted Obama for playing golf -- reportedly about 330 times over eight years -- and also said, "“I'll be too busy to play golf..."
When God looks down and sees that the men with the little dimply white balls are still out in the open playing that stupid game, He sends more strikes. But they keep doing it, day after day.
Too bad the Secret Service won't let people play golf in the rain.
Thanks for the info/link. I'm not really a fan of the GNOME 3 interface -- I use MATE w/Ubuntu 16.04 -- so it doesn't really matter what they've done, but I'll look over the page you referenced anyway to reinforce my dislike.:-)
As in Pennsylvania, Verizon has been neglecting its fixed wired infrastructure in its bid to first sabotage copper service, then force customers to adopt alternative solutions.
I had Verizon for a home POTS (copper) landline until a few years ago - ('cause it works through all but an extended city-wide power outage). I started having problems with reliability and the tech said they wouldn't fix it and I'd have to "upgrade" to FiOS. Since I already had TV and Internet service with Cox, I just switched to them for phone too -- addition reason, there was no where to easily/nicely mount the new Verizon gear near the exiting hook-up and the TV/Internet hook-up is on the other side of the house. Also, not enough of a Verizon fan to put all my eggs in their basket.
FYI, if you missed it: You are responsible for paying for the replacement backup battery in your FiOS modem.
Can it translate a Chinese Reporter's "eye-roll"? 'Cause one apparently broke China's Internet
With a fellow reporter’s fawning question to a Chinese official pushing past the 30-second mark, Liang Xiangyi, of the financial news site Yicai, began scoffing to herself. Then she turned to scrutinize the questioner in disbelief.
Looking her up and down, Ms. Liang rolled her eyes with such concentrated disgust, it seemed only natural that her entire head followed her eyes backward as she looked away in revulsion.
Captured by China’s national news broadcaster, CCTV, the moment spread quickly across Chinese social media.
...
On Chinese social media, GIFs and other online riffs inspired by Ms. Liang’s epic eye roll quickly proliferated, and by evening they were being deleted by government censors. Ms. Liang’s name became the most-censored term on Weibo, the microblogging platform. On Taobao, the freewheeling online marketplace, vendors began selling T-shirts and cellphone cases bearing her image.
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And while on the subject, please feel free to discuss non-paying Internships...
Or people that do things as a hobby or charity or simply because they enjoy doing it - w/o any monetary considerations for themselves. No one is forced to participate in a hackathon (which Firefox suggests should be spelled "Shackleton").
Now the TSA will want to download data from my underwear along with my laptop and phone.
... thinking there will still be a United States in 2020.
So... can you articulate why you use vi for quick edits? emacs has various vi-modes. So - why vi at all?
To quote that Almond Joy / Mounds commercial, "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't."
... Reptilians Rule the World ...
Have you seen photos of our World Leaders and Corporate Overlords? Many of them probably keep really young spouses hostage so they can leech youth from them while they sleep.
Of course, like all reptiles, they love their sunshine.
I know why you use vi for quick edits and emacs for long ones. It's because 30 years ago vi fired up and emacs took its time, right?
Not really. I would normally start Emacs and suspend it -- remember, back then it was all VT100 ASCII terminals (or such). I used/use Emacs for development as it was -- and still is -- way more capable and sophisticated than Vi / Vim. The latter are good for making quick, simple edits, like to config files, etc...
I imagine working for Google or Facebook is like working for "The Circle" -- which, I also imagine, was the implied point.
Thanks for the info. I do have 30+ years of experience w/Emacs so it's not really cumbersome for me. I think I'm still pretty cool, or at least productive. :-)
And extensibility and Emacs LISP programming capabilities. Perhaps not bit draws for a lot of people, but I've written a bunch of LISP programs for Emacs to help me out with various things (and done coding in LISP as a research assistant, back in college).
Actually black powder and gunpowder are very sticky legal subjects in the US. Know your state and federal laws well before even looking into playing with them.
I would argue that the problem stems from using the words "black powder", "gunpowder" and "playing with them" in close proximity.
Linux Journal reader David Harrison points out another great thing about Vim "is that it's basically everywhere. It's available on every major platform."
So is Emacs ding-dong.
My $0.02 - I'm a long-time Emacs and Vi user - since the mid 1980s. I use Vi /Vim for short/quick edits and Emacs for things I want more of an IDE. Vim is a fine, fairly simple, text editor and Emacs is, well, Emacs. Granted the learning curve for Emacs much higher to really take advantage of it, but it's well worth it over the long run. If I could only have one editor, it would be Emacs - no question.
AFAIK that only counts the days actively golfing. Not the number of days Trump spends on a golf course ...
Yup. But ~100 times of just actual Golf in one year still pretty telling for a guy who lambasted Obama for playing golf -- reportedly about 330 times over eight years -- and also said, "“I'll be too busy to play golf ..."
When God looks down and sees that the men with the little dimply white balls are still out in the open playing that stupid game, He sends more strikes. But they keep doing it, day after day.
Too bad the Secret Service won't let people play golf in the rain.
95 days and counting...
... make Alexa respond with a short, beeping sound
Have her (it) *say* "Beep".
Nowadays I mostly use it to read the time when I'm in a hurry. That's it.
Maybe 1500 fresh engineers will result in something more useful.
Like adding motion sensors to notice when you're in a hurry so your Echo Plus can proactively tell you the time.
The prosecution argued that, by cutting the chip out of the card, the ticket was invalidated.
Next time, implant the entire card.
Pics or it didn't happen.
[ What? Don't look at me like that; you were thinking it too. :-) ]
Thanks for the info/link. I'm not really a fan of the GNOME 3 interface -- I use MATE w/Ubuntu 16.04 -- so it doesn't really matter what they've done, but I'll look over the page you referenced anyway to reinforce my dislike. :-)
Just in case anyone thought that a bug-free world would be a wonderful thing.
And imagine how deep we'd be in elephant shit w/o the dung beetle.
As in Pennsylvania, Verizon has been neglecting its fixed wired infrastructure in its bid to first sabotage copper service, then force customers to adopt alternative solutions.
I had Verizon for a home POTS (copper) landline until a few years ago - ('cause it works through all but an extended city-wide power outage). I started having problems with reliability and the tech said they wouldn't fix it and I'd have to "upgrade" to FiOS. Since I already had TV and Internet service with Cox, I just switched to them for phone too -- addition reason, there was no where to easily/nicely mount the new Verizon gear near the exiting hook-up and the TV/Internet hook-up is on the other side of the house. Also, not enough of a Verizon fan to put all my eggs in their basket.
FYI, if you missed it: You are responsible for paying for the replacement backup battery in your FiOS modem.
Intel will incorporate "protective walls" in its hardware ...
Big, beautiful walls and Intel will get AMD to pay for them. :-)
... having is credit history maintained by Equifax.
Can it translate a Chinese Reporter's "eye-roll"? 'Cause one apparently broke China's Internet
With a fellow reporter’s fawning question to a Chinese official pushing past the 30-second mark, Liang Xiangyi, of the financial news site Yicai, began scoffing to herself. Then she turned to scrutinize the questioner in disbelief.
Looking her up and down, Ms. Liang rolled her eyes with such concentrated disgust, it seemed only natural that her entire head followed her eyes backward as she looked away in revulsion.
Captured by China’s national news broadcaster, CCTV, the moment spread quickly across Chinese social media.
...
On Chinese social media, GIFs and other online riffs inspired by Ms. Liang’s epic eye roll quickly proliferated, and by evening they were being deleted by government censors. Ms. Liang’s name became the most-censored term on Weibo, the microblogging platform. On Taobao, the freewheeling online marketplace, vendors began selling T-shirts and cellphone cases bearing her image.
First, and most significantly, GNOME's default interface font (called Cantarell) has undergone a significant update.
You updated the font? Can't wait to hear about the subsequent and less significant changes.