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msoucyon Vim plugin to disapprove deeply indented code

It's also good at making extremely simple things incredibly complex... but then provides some high level "functions" to do weirdly specific things.

msoucyon Python 3.6.0 released

According to the Python 3 Wall of Superpowers[1], almost every commonly-used library has adopted 3. Now the problem is getting people to realize that... I was talking with someone just a month ago who said that there were no numeric processing libraries on 3 and so they couldn't switch.

[1]: https://python3wos.appspot.com/

msoucyon Why I switched from Vim to Emacs

As long as they're completely optional...

- Gestures might not make sense in many locations (tiny cubes with limited space, for instance), or prove problematic for Deaf individuals (learning, effectively, another signed language). That said, I totally want to select text, make a yanking motion with my hands, and have it get put onto the clipboard. - Eye tracking would be an immediate no-go in any sort of closed facility - Voice input is also a no-go in closed areas, and would be extremely annoying in cube farms - far more distracting than they already are.

msoucyon Interview with Ted Chiang

To elaborate, Arrival is based off of the story "Story of Your Life" from that collection.

msoucyon Lesser known Git commands

I was under the impression that you needed to use !-form if you wanted git to use the shell itself, and that not using it basically just does an exec on the subcommand? Is that inaccurate?

msoucyon Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat

Meanwhile many phones (especially vendor-locked ones like the Droid Turbo...) are still stuck on Lollipop.

msoucyon The Internet of Poorly Working Things

Or SparkleShare, which is essentially a Dropbox clone backed by git. IIRC it doesn't use anybody else's servers

msoucyon LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux

What I find interesting, is that I can't find any references to Microsoft Office having that functionality...

msoucyon The 19th Century plug that's still being used

My neighbor at work listens nearly exclusively to country music, using Apple buds. I was actually concerned for his ears, until he demonstrated that it was just sound leakage. Now I'm just concerned for my own ears.

I hate country.

msoucyon The Power of Ten – Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code

Haskell's type system protects from a certain class of bug, but it can't prevent logic errors - something like using < instead of > won't trigger a build error, but it certainly is a bug.