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mcantor

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Devout software hater.

http://www.maxcantor.net

my name is max cantor.

my email is firstname at firstnamelastname dot net

purveyor of vim cheat sheet posters

http://www.vimcheatsheet.com

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mcantor··on Show HN: My Vim Cheat-Sheet Poster
Indeed, I ship internationally!

`:e` and `:E` are separate commands; `;e` stands for `:edit` and only opens a directory explorer if you pass it a directory. Otherwise it just opens the file.

mcantor··on Show HN: My Vim Cheat-Sheet Poster
Howdy HN. This is my first ever internet commercial venture, but mostly, I just wanted to share the fruits of my labor. Do let me know if there's anything you think I missed on the cheat-sheet! :-)
mcantor··on Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes
Someone needs to be fired over this.
mcantor··on You're not the CEO - You're the Fucking Janitor
Nitpicking. The loss of punch with the more accurate title would not be worth the hat-tip to pedantry.
mcantor··on Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business
Now listen here, "jquery", if that is your real--oh, whoa, wait, jquery? The javascript framework!? Dude! Oh I'm sorry, man. My bad, I was just... I didn't... I'm really sorry!
mcantor··on Show HN: Weekend project, Political Screaming Match
Agreed. Steps #1 and #2 should be reversed.
mcantor··on Craigslist, LinkedIn, Netflix, and others don't owe us anything.
> they have not incentive to make their data freely available

How about the convenience and enjoyment of their users?

I kid, I kid.

mcantor··on A better git log
Looks like Inconsolata [1] to me. The slashes are set slightly higher than the pipe, the asterisk is vertically center-aligned (as opposed to super-positioned as with Consolas, Monaco, Vera Sans Mono and others), a distinctive upward curve on its lowercase 'y', and it has a looptail lowercase 'g'.

[1] - http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

mcantor··on Sorry Cheapskates, But HBO Doesn’t Want Your Money
It has nothing to do with being a cheapskate, and everything to do with wanting to access content that I paid for on my own terms.
mcantor··on Your Startup Needs a Dashboard
If you suddenly see a huge cluster of API calls in a single geographic area, that might point to an issue, such as a problem connecting to the local CDN. The stuff you're talking about is actionable from a business standpoint, but the stuff in the article is meant to be actionable from a performance and problem resolution standpoint.
mcantor··on How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation?
I accidentally downvoted you due to sausage-like fingers being incompatible with my phone touchscreen, so I'm just letting you know that your story delighted me.
mcantor··on Reddit founder aims to build bat signal for the Internet
Honest question: Does calling your representative not count as getting involved?
mcantor··on How not to ask questions at a conference
It would be rad if conferences hyped these guidelines before talks. I bet at least a few people would get the hint.
mcantor··on Evernote CEO to entrepreneurs: "don't do it"
Dude, if I invented toilet paper or shoes, I would be pretty fuckin' proud.

Just saying.

mcantor··on Hasbro offers free merchandise to blogger, sends lawyers instead.
I disagree on the first point. I do love a good Simpson's reference.
mcantor··on Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft
"... my communication style was flagged as inappropriate and antagonistic."

That's from the anecdote about the beginning of his tenure at Microsoft. Ironically, I think the excerpt from his "resignation" letter shows that his communication style is inappropriate and antagonistic. Sure, he was angry when he wrote the "last laugh" letter, so the emotions were likely quite different. But he did not express himself very effectively, instead focusing on his feelings and his certainty that he's correct. If he did that in his initial suggestion, no wonder no one listened.

mcantor··on Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft
Very truetruetrue.
mcantor··on Pebble smartwatch breaks record for Kickstarter funding
Isn't every successful Kickstarter project a counterexample to your point?
mcantor··on Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, and What I'm Doing
"That woman was sexy...Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won't screw you, don't do it for them."

Source?

mcantor··on The (un)importance of gender in programming
Experiences differ. The same solution won't work for everyone.
mcantor··on Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
> If the door to a meeting is ever locked, I would assume that they could get by without me and never show up for a meeting on that subject again.

Unless it was a meeting that you wanted, or needed, to be there for!

mcantor··on Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon
Why would you ever write that
mcantor··on Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap
And where, I might add, no one rushes to the defense of men with a "cut the sexist crap" article.

Why would they? Men aren't being oppressed by sexism!

mcantor··on How Can A Free Conference Call Be Free?
How do you know...?
mcantor··on Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but, I wasn't going to upvote you, and then I saw you wrote 'downvote me if you feel like it' so I knee-jerk upvoted you to counteract someone else's knee-jerk downvote without reading the rest of your comment. I'd read it now, but a vegetarian friend of mine just texted me about the salad he's eating, so I have to go get a burger to make up for it.
mcantor··on The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode
Once enough time passes, HN explicitly allows duplicates.
mcantor··on Don't change the world
All this post says is that it's easy to do something predictable and hard to do something novel.
mcantor··on How I Designed Code Year in 1 Hour
Title should actually be "How I Re-designed Code Year in 1 Hour".
mcantor··on TVs are all awful
I thought this was going to be an alarmist article about getting rid of your TV and doing something else with your time.
mcantor··on The Dangerous Effects of Reading
In my experience, speed of filtering ("is this thing I'm reading cool enough to continue reading?") and fear of being filtered ("is this thing I'm creating cool enough for other people to read?") are 100% orthogonal. They are simply not related even a tiny bit, which makes this post seem kind of hilariously inane.
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