dmhouse

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by dmhouse 15y ago
The TV stuff tends to be. The radio programmes are not. This is because one needs to pay a license fee in the UK to watch television, which funds the BBC. Listening to the radio is free, however.
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by dmhouse 15y ago
I think `man readline' is more appropriate for the keyboard shortcuts, since it is the readline library that provides many of them.
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by dmhouse 16y ago
Would there not have been an address on the mail?
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by dmhouse 17y ago
Interestingly, nearly all ATMs (with the exception of privately-owned ATMs in bars, etc.) in the UK don't charge for services (for about five years now). However, I wonder whether an ATM owned by bank A charges bank B itself when bank B's c
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by dmhouse 17y ago
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary" -- Thomas Carruthers
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by dmhouse 17y ago
It depends entirely on how many people you're teaching. If you're sitting in a lecture hall full of 250 students, asking continual questions is just not going to get any response. No-one wants to embarass themselves in front of an audience
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by dmhouse 17y ago
"Also: The Emacs mouse support is not great. It probably hasn't been a high priority." In what way? It's certainly as good as it is in any other editor, with the addition of several very Emacs-esque mouse-driven commands. For example, right
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by dmhouse 17y ago
Yes and no. When I first started off with Emacs, I used the CUA bindings (Windows-esque bindings for C-x/C-v/C-c). That was great to begin with, but inevitably a change of settings as big as CUA never quite sat right with the rest of Emacs,
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by dmhouse 17y ago
"How is a non-hacker end user supposed to run a tarball?" How about they wait until available through their distribution's package manager?
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by dmhouse 17y ago
"used to apply the concept of a stack" Do you really need something as complicated as a stack? n = 0 for (char in string) if (char == '(') n++ if (char == ')') n-- if (n < 0) print "Unbalanced" if (n != 0) print "Unb
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by dmhouse 17y ago
Interesting way of hiring! I don't think there was any point in listing the demographic observations he did, the sample is way too small for anyone to try to draw conclusions.
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by dmhouse 17y ago
A brilliant idea! Would love to see a blog post overviewing how it works.
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by dmhouse 17y ago
Works perfectly for me now. Maybe the training's working!
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by dmhouse 17y ago
... and have to take your car door with you into the supermarket?