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When you submit an article that you wrote to HN you could at least have the decency to spend 5 minutes proofreading it, couldn't you?

oh-my-zsh is a great way for lazy people to get fancy features without having to look at the easily accessible manual ( http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/ ) or even the user friendly guide ( http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/ ).

I never said I expected you to list every feature. That's a pretty ridiculous hyperbole on your part.

I also wasn't "trying to give [you] a hard time". I was merely expressing my opinion. I'm sorry that you can't handle any criticism.

I suppose having and stating an opinion that isn't kissing someone's ass makes me a douchebag according to richardlblair. I think I can live with that.

All Mr. Grouchy did was give a couple examples of completion and oh-my-zsh. I think you would have to be really fed up with bash or whatever default shell your system has to take that bait. I never said I expected him to write a complete job. I just think there are better arguments to be made.

In fact, there are hundreds of posts on HN that give someone's evangelical tale of trying a new program, and several about zsh. This one is far from exceptional in my mind.

To me, it was like saying "You should buy a Tesla Model S because they are really fast."

Due to the poor spelling and grammar, gross oversimplification of zsh's advantages, and the inclusion of oh-my-zsh as a reason to switch, I found this post insulting (as a long time zsh user). And I actually want more people to use zsh, because that would mean more collaboration, more tips, and better script compatibility.

Satiety is mainly due to dietary protein intake because of its glucagon activity.

This is partially why the "glycemic index" is bogus.

"Sugar" isn't the problem. It's fructose. Hard on the liver, can't even be used by muscles.

Technically, it is energetically easier to store dietary fat as adipose as opposed to carbohydrate.

The problem most people have is that they eat enough carb to satisfy their daily energy demands, and the fat they've eaten will be stored. Keep in mind that almost all muscle tissue and the brain prefer glucose (which usually comes from starch) over anything else, although some vital organs run mainly on fat, particularly at night.

Our digestive system is very efficient. The bottom line is this: if you eat more calories than you expend, you will gain weight.

Hmm. http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/oiv7s/cool_fraction/

webgl.disabled is false by default. I switched the force-enabled on but it dodn't make any noticeable difference.

I should have mentioned I'm using the nouveau driver. I get slightly better performance with the proprietary nvidia driver. In my experience most games will either work about as well with nouveau or not at all.

GLX gears is a pretty unreliable benchmark: I've gotten anywhere from 300 to 600 FPS on this machine at different times. I usually get around 90 FPS when playing fairly recent games like Modern Warfare 2 (on windows). Perhaps you meant glxinfo, which reports whether direct rendering is enabled (and it is).

3 (sic, three) FPS here-- Linux Mint 12 amd64, Firefox 9.0.1, nvidia Go 7300 with 512MB RAM and 4GB system RAM. Also only about 60% of the frame is visible at a time on my 1280x800 display.

I made a FOSS gnome icon theme whose sole host was megaupload (the tarball was too large to upload to gnome-look.org). I hope I have the original on an old computer somewhere.

Except for that stubborn 504...

So a guy who doesn't like to read manuals discovered oh-my-zsh. Am I missing something?

I liked this one even better: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/11/reddits-so...

Every week there's some post like this, or "why I switched back and forth between Vim and Textmate 17 times", and, frankly, I just don't see the merit in it. Are you trying to get other people to use the editor you like?

I don't think this is better than any of the other thousands of git tutorials that any web search would uncover.

Don't hire 20 developers of a single language. Got it.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to pander to non-mathematicians.

Context: fair point. I can't say I'm familiar with Aaronson, however (of course I studied math and not CS).

So, it's a blog post that announces a paper. Why not just post the link to the paper?

Please look up "where" and "were" in a dictionary. I couldn't focus on the content of the article because I had to reread every sentence containing one of those words.

I hope this means that there will be an actual Doom package for Debian in the near future.

Did I say it wasn't useful? Maybe you missed my point.

I could post a link to a perldoc page for some builtin function, and that would be useful, and it's probably been around for awhile, and probably nobody knows who wrote it. Would you defend that too?

Anyone who knows who sjl is could have easily found his vimrc through his website. According to the bitbucket history, the file has been hosted there since at least 2009.

I'd call it some sort of desktop environment, like de.js or so.

A nice thought, but I honestly don't think it's worth the 30 seconds it would take me to follow the link and sign it.

I would say so. I have a hard time imagining that a person who giggles at advice animals also understands hashing.

I remember an example similar to this from high school algebra-- when we had started learning about conic sections and polynomials. A barber's profit was modeled as a function of the price he charged per haircut. It turned out that the graph was an upside-down parabola. If he charged too much, no one would come and he wouldn't make any profit. If he charged too little, he wouldn't be able to cover his expenses, and he wouldn't make any profit. Our job was to find the function maximum in order to find what he should charge in order to make the most money. This article surprised me be cause it suggests the price-profit function is not only linear but horizontal over an interval. One possible explanation is that we don't have continuous data, and the actual function is some kind of complicated polynomial that has a lot of waves, which would allow a horizontal line to intersect the function at several points.

Interesting. I actually tried a few different variations of Jupiter's symbol (like making the curve more or less exaggerated, higher and lower, etc.) and couldn't get it to work.