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And now at twelve he gets compliments on his articulation and engagement, and he treats me as a normal human being with all rights and privileges. Although I expect that treatment to stop any day now, as he approaches his teens. Nice while it lasted though. :)

I would have thought they're both basically version control, since one of the decisions in version control is whether to use svn or git or something else.

So what use cases are svn appropriate for (and not git), and what use cases are git appropriate for (and not svn)?

Nothing but a maze of twisty little passages.

Zuckerberg's is a good link. Schrage's is not found.

Bad link, or item three for tomorrow's meeting?

Edit: typo.

Wait, what? What plugins operate when I'm not logged in? What did I miss?

Vice President for Public Policy.

What does "Public" mean? If I hide him from my friends, is he then invisible to my friends but still "public" and accessible by facebook's partners and affiliates?

I'm so confused.

Email is a good example. You carry on a conversation about rectal surgery with email correspondents (maybe your doctor). You may have a vague idea that system administrators or men in the middle may be able to read those emails, but you have the conversation anyway because you assume (with some justification) those are unlikely circumstances. You have just posted about your rectal surgery on the internet (over which email travels).

If you were to find your emails publicly searchable you'd be rightly upset.

I originally thought my posts on facebook were only visible (using the English definition of visible, not facebook's co-opted definition) to my specific friends. Many people probably still think so, and it's not an unreasonable leap.

"Schildt's books have a reputation for being written in a clear style that is very easy to understand.[10] Their technical accuracy, especially of the earlier works, has been challenged by reviewers, including ISO C committee members Peter Seebach,[11] and Clive Feather,[12] Steve Summit, author of the C FAQ[13], and numerous reviews in C Vu from the ACCU.[14]"

I'm not an expert on C, writing, publishing or proof reading. Over the last twenty years, whenever Schildt's name or books have come up in conversation online or off, there has always been an associated foul odor.

There are so many good books on C, it's just not worth it to waste your time and space on his books.

Different definitions of "efficiency" notwithstanding ...

A privatized road doesn't have to be paid for by toll, that's merely how we mostly do it. We could easily contract maintenance and operation of a road to a company, and that company is paid by the government from tax funds.

Kadin in another reply to your comment describes the trucks that use the road "for free," paid for by all the other tax paying saps. In reality the receivers of the trucker's goods also benefit from that truck on the road (and the truck company and its employees pay into the same tax funnel as the receiving citizens).

Imagine a village not connected to the main highway. Some of the villagers walk out early one morning to the highway, and flag down a truck full of stuff.

"Mr. Trucker, we sure would like to buy some of your stuff, if you would only drive your truck to our Small Mart."

Mr Trucker replies "I surely can't drive my truck over your unimproved land. I'll be back next year; if you have a proper road, I'll drive my truck over and you can buy some stuff."

The village people delay construction on their YMCA and redirect their efforts to building a beautiful road. The next year they flag down the trucker and say "Mr. Trucker, we now have a road that goes directly to Small Mart. Just $10 to drive your truck over it."

Mr Trucker says "I don't see why I should pay $10. I'm not going to do it, I'll just drive down the highway and find another village."

The village people look at each other, admit that they could really use some more stuff in Small Mart, and agree to let the trucker drive "for free."

While waiting for his truck to be unloaded, Mr. Trucker buys a big soda and a burger, $2.99 plus tax and thus helps pay for the road a little bit at a time. The trucker is happy, and so are the village people.

http://www.startbreakingfree.com/

A real hot bed.

The Grand Finale was pretty weak though. I have no idea what ICE Webinar is, and whether it relates to the poster's business. That's a separate issue. But to choose poor (OK, really poor) grammar as the Grand Finale is ungracious. There are many non-native speakers working on the web and in cube farms; cut them the same slack you'd mostly get if you were walking around in their country.

Vim will increase your productivity by allowing you to manipulate large or small pieces of text at will, in ways you've probably not thought of, while your hands rarely leave their position of hovering over the home row. The arrow keys work, but you'll rarely use them. You'll be fast, not from fast typing but from less typing.

Once you've become reasonably proficient with vim, the difference between arrow key-based editors and vim begins to feel like the difference between chisels on stone and telekinesis.

It's easy to become minimally proficient. After you've installed gvim, run it and run these two commands:

[ESC]:help

[ESC]:help tutor

You should know about the first command, but the second is more important for you right now. It shows you how to start the interactive vim tutorial on your system, which will teach you just enough to use vim better than you can use Notepad++. Follow the tutorial, it won't take long and you don't have to do it all at once.

Now use vim whenever you edit a text file. You'll be a little slower than Notepad at first (but not much). You'll quickly gain speed.

The vim screencasts mentioned elsewhere in the comments are good for people learning vim, but I don't think they're a great advertisement for vim. The best thing for you is to run the tutorial.

Note: everything said here goes for emacs as well. It's a personal choice, and most people are either a vim person or an emacs person. I've never liked the chord-like commands of emacs, but emacs has more integration with the world outside of text editing and compiling than vim. Whichever type of person you turn out to be, you should be using one of these instead of Notepad.

Note note: I like vim so much that I've installed a firefox addon that lets me quickly edit web page text fields (like this one) with vim. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125

Subjectively agree on point 2, I find it a little disorienting not to be anchored to a page in the result set.

DDG is my default searchbar site.

Certainly Facebook is within their rights to prohibit this kind of thing. You can even see why they'd want to do it: to make Facebook more friendly to the paying customers (advertisers).

But it's an interesting question, how far down this road Facebook or any other site can travel before the utility of the site is reduced to the point that there aren't enough active users to attract paying customers.