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The dynamics of Minecraft are incredible. Last night, my friend showed me his "zombie grinder". He found a zombie spawner, so built a room around it with the floor on an incline. The room is filled with cacti, so any zombie that spawns immediately takes damage from the cacti until it dies. He poured water in the room, so any feathers that drop are delivered to him via a slot at the bottom of the room.

You'd have a hard time describing what a program or an application is to someone, but if you said the word 'app' they'd immediately know what you are talking about, because apps are these little icons that live on their phone.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone looking at Launchpad for the first time would be surprised that their macbook "has apps now", even though they are looking at the same applications that have already been on their mac for months.

'App' is definitely a better term than 'application' or 'program' from a UI perspective if more people can so easily understand it, but I don't understand why or how this happened. They're the same thing! It's strange.

I hope people understand that you can also use a cable.

Most novelty holidays are like this: on Wear a Hat day, you may wear a hat. On Yoghurt Day, you may eat yoghurt. What's the purpose of a holiday that only exists in name, and has no traditions to go along with it?

Did you mean 1945? If not, were Jeeps made before 1995 comparatively simple?

If so, the hard part is predicting things that will be invented in your lifetime, so that you can actually make money.

I think this is an excellent idea, but, as many are thinking, what's to stop me from cheating? Tasks assigned to oneself privately are sometimes very abstract. If I assign myself a task, "be a good person today," I'm very likely to rationalize into thinking that I completed the task, whether I did or not.

  <?php
  require_once('Lisphp.php');
  $env = Lisphp_Environment::full();
  $program = new Lisphp_Program("(echo 1)");
  $program->execute($env);
  ?>

For example, after learning that ^R let me paste to the command-line, I sometimes would copy and paste text with the mouse. When I would catch myself doing this, I'd delete the newly pasted text and use ^R" instead.

The vim wiki and blogs like the Daily Vim helped out a lot with learning a new thing every day.

Also, the docs are excellent. Start reading them (:help toc for the table of contents).

Learn how to use regular expressions in vim efficiently! Turning on hls (:se hls) helps out a lot in learning regex, because you can interactively see what atoms are doing.

Learn how to script vim (:help vim-script-intro). Vimscript kind of sucks, but being able to automate tasks using it is great.

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