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nVidia and ATI: It's not their fault you have to choose between the configuration options. As a user, you shouldn't even have to see that screen. That's the OS's job.

PieSquaredon Wish List: 8 Ways to Improve Google Maps

Agreed, but I wouldn't say it that way. Who knows, he might be lurking here. And I wouldn't say that in person.

PieSquaredon 20 Ways to Attack Shyness

It may be similar to the "its easier to be an asshole online than in person" phenomenon. It's easier to talk about personal things online than in person, or so my experiences show.

PieSquaredon I have finally seen the Emacs light

I was the one asking the parent question (something about a comparison between Vim and Emacs). I have, since then, spent at least 20 or so hours struggling with Emacs...

And although I wasn't sure at first, I'm pretty sure it's worth it. Though many of the things in Emacs are nowhere near perfect (like the in-buffer terminal, blech!), it feels like something that can go much farther than Vim in terms of I'm-going-to-turn-my-text-editor-into-a-full-fledged-IDE type stuff. I still don't know if I'm going to stay with it, but I've promised to myself that I'll use nothing else to edit text for a month. When that's done, I'll decide, though I suspect by then I won't want to switch.

PieSquaredon We've been working really hard on our startup and now this

It says you'd be open to other names, so here's my suggestion: flashiefind. It describes what you're doing, has a sort of alliteration and ring to it, and feels natural. And the domain name is open. Eh?

PieSquaredon I have finally seen the Emacs light

I'm trying to do the same thing right now. After about an hour of using it though, I start wanting to beat my head against the wall because I haven't yet mastered everything in Emacs that I used to be able to do in Vim.

PieSquaredon After c/c++ what should I learn?

And sometimes not so secretly, too. Good advice, good advice.

PieSquaredon Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular

>And yet I would not drop napalm on anyone in any effort to fight commies. It is not worth it.

That reminds me of a brilliant quote from the Vietnam-era fighter pilots, who were at the time dropping Agent Orange on the country-side.

  Original: "Remember, kids, only you can prevent forest fires."
  Pilot:    "Remember, boys, only you can prevent forests."

PieSquaredon Programmer Competency Matrix

Um... Why did someone downmod every single comment on this page?

PieSquaredon Programmer Competency Matrix

I find myself to be mostly in the 3rd column, and sometimes in the fourth. This just gave me some specifics of what to focus on. What columns are you people at?

PieSquaredon Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular

I sincerely hope you're joking.

PieSquaredon Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular

I read it in 8th. I hated it, since I had no idea what it was talking about, and seemed like just more of the usual crap they fed to us and tried to make it look as if it was very 'deep'. You just don't get poetry if you're forced to read it, and if you don't have a feel for what it's talking about beforehand.

PieSquaredon Revealed after 50 years: The secret of the greatest-ever student prank

Why is it that almost all of these pranks have happened 10 or more years ago?

PieSquaredon Top ten essential Emacs tips

Ahem. Somehow I missed that, though I've been here for some time... Thanks.

PieSquaredon Top ten essential Emacs tips

"Depends, try both and see" isn't that bad of an answer. Given that I have tried one, and gotten used to it, I suppose it's time to try the next.

>unless you have the time to dedicate to both I do. I'm only in high school, so I have loads of free time and plenty of time until I actually need to do productive work. Well, in a sense. Also, as an unrelated side note, I wish I knew how to italicize, like for that quote above.

PieSquaredon Top ten essential Emacs tips

Thanks. That was probably the first time I have heard an honest comparison of the two editors (well, honest-seeming at least ;-P), although I've been looking for one for a while. Also, I think you just got me to give Emacs a try. Hopefully I'll still be able to switch into Vim-mode at need (heh, so now my life is modal too... Curse you, Vim, you have invaded my soul!) Anyway, thanks.

PieSquaredon Top ten essential Emacs tips

I've been using Vim for about a year and a half now and actively trying to learn it well, and I think I am somewhere near knowing most of what it can do. Not all, of course, but definitely most. However, I've been thinking about trying Emacs as well, because unlike Vim (it seems) it has a [more] complete scripting language and a few other neat things. On the other hand, it's hard to give up a year's worth of experience of learning one editor, just to stop using it and go to another one.

Does anyone have significant experience in both, enough to know the peculiarities and such of each editor? I'd love to hear what you have to say on how they compare. Is learning Emacs worth it any more than learning everything Vim has to offer? Since I plan on using this for many years, I'd like to choose the optimal tool, even if it means wasting a year of experience.

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No. And such use of accounts should be discouraged. This is supposed to be a community, so you should know who you're talking to. I'd rather not have 'Anonymous Coward' all over the place.

PieSquaredon Random Questions & Answers From Real People

Useful...

  You asked:
    What is the most popular programming language for business application development?

  The other user says:
    Fuck knows, I only just started my IT course. Apologies.

PieSquaredon The Choice of Work

It's not necessarily dismissing them. Face it, some people are mediocre and unambitious. It doesn't say anything about what kind of people they are, but it says something about how they are intellectually and how pleasant working with them will be.

PieSquaredon Microsoft's first explicit anti GNU/linux ad

If only I could understand German.

PieSquaredon Ask YC : [Optionally] Statically typed languages on the JVM?

"but its GPL"

What's wrong with the GPL? Are you planning to modify the language itself?

PieSquaredon Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus

So, um, I'd love to know the answer to that question. Did they tell you? Or is it a trade secret?

PieSquaredon Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus

Eh, you're not Microsoft, it seems.

PieSquaredon How a Man-Made Tornado Could Power the Future

This is the type of thinking we're going to need to get humanity out of the mess labeled as 'global warming', not environmental rallies, or teaching all kids to conserve energy or whatever.

PieSquaredon ICANN approves relaxation of TLD rules

From the ICANN's perspective:

  1. Announce that URL's can now contain different TLD's
  2. Make sure the people buying them have at least $100,00 to half a million, if so, let 'em register!
  3. Profit!

PieSquaredon Get Ready for Limitless Domain Names

Perhaps the title should be "Get Ready for Limitless Domain Names! ...Assuming You Have Limitless Cash"?

$100,000 to half a million per name, says the article. Yeah, I'm not getting one of those any time soon.

PieSquaredon SymbolicWeb: Ajax and Comet with Lisp

That was... weird. I read the article, then clicked on the demo... and it was a chat-place, where there was no one except me. And a few moments later there appeared the guy who wrote SymbolicWeb. He was in Norway, and it was 4:05 for him, and 10 o'clock for me. These sort of encounters remind me what the internet can really do.

PieSquaredon Faceparty tells critics to F*** Off, suspends entire site

Maddox being the author of the link, I suppose that yes, I was. Sorry if that sounded too aggressive -I just don't think that the link really added anything or was appropriate to the parent.

PieSquaredon Faceparty tells critics to F*** Off, suspends entire site

No, actually, the phrases "pun intended" and "no pun intended" don't mean anything of the sort. Stop whining, they're just a friendly gesture. ;)