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Re:Linux for Lettuce on Monday May 26, 2014 @04:33AM (#7799091)
TL;DR :-(
Re:The Weird and Wonderful Characters of Clojure on Monday May 19, 2014 @12:28PM (#7768275)
A big Thanx for this!
Re:First Atomic Clock Wristwatch on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @08:31AM (#7597323)
Someone who needs that, seriously!
In level 10 ambush I set

        function (me) {}
for the red and yellow drones and

        function (me) {
            var r = 'right:'+me.canMove('right');
            var l = 'left: '+me.canMove('left')
            alert(r+'; '+l);
        }
for the green drones. But I always get 'right:true; left: true'. WTFFFFFF? :-( Please please fix that, please!!!
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to. :)
GREAT!!!
Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:45PM (#7003716)
Haha, but the race is long :)
Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:30PM (#7003682)
> Poaching the lead dev to work on your own fork is a hostile move

That's an argument one can use when asked to spend more time with kids.

> it provides a reasonable excuse for the delays, since nobody was able to take his succession immediately

Huh?!? Open Source model not working or what?

RLY? OMG, who would expect that?!?!
Re:HTML: font color=”red” becomes green on Friday November 29, 2013 @08:59AM (#6819395)
Mean!
Re:The myth of NASA's expensive space pens on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:33AM (#6533751)
Water landing means that the spacecraft is limited to a certain volume/mass ratio in order to float (preferably not upside down), withstand some waves, under/over pressure and 'salty water conduct electricity' problems etc. or alternatively turn to a submarine. I doubt water landing is so much easier than ground landing. And what you gonna do in case of crash-landing or some hull cracks?
Re:The myth of NASA's expensive space pens on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:10AM (#6533601)
I can imagine Russians let the Americans invent the pen and then just stole it. Total costs much much smaller anyway :)
Re:My Friends and I Bought an Island on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @01:49AM (#6403765)
Property is an illusion. Still confused?
Re:My Friends and I Bought an Island on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @01:45AM (#6403752)
> Having a really sovereign country is kind of difficult.

No it isn't. All you need is a nuclear missile and you can tell anybody, including US President to piss off. And they will do it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea for details.

Re:Fractal Machine on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:31AM (#6173076)
Very nice!
So the time not wasted on facebook goes wasted in you pseudo solution... rite?
Re:German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents on Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:22AM (#5873631)
Let's sing along: There's a long way to Tipperary, there's a long way to gooo. Sincerely Hans der Lobbyist
Re:The Shortest Crashing C Program on Friday May 24, 2013 @09:12AM (#5762457)
:) works as intented
Re:Induction powered LED lit engagement ring on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @01:35PM (#5752424)
Good luck at airport security checks :)
Re:American Dialect Map on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @09:56AM (#5668122)
+1 Exactly this was my first impression!
Re:Light Table 0.4 released on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @07:10PM (#5635477)
nice!
Re:Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally on Sunday April 21, 2013 @07:45PM (#5586963)
I use Alt-numpad keys. In my case it works quite fast:

    "  Decrease height / width
    nnoremap <A--> <C-W>-
    nnoremap <A-/> <C-W><
    " Increase height / width
    nnoremap <A-+> <C-W>+
    nnoremap <A-*> <C-W>>
Re:Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally on Saturday April 20, 2013 @11:00AM (#5581586)
I think I solved that problem quite elegantly :) However I still have a small TODO regarding printing from cygwin:

    set encoding=utf-8
    " TODO check if printing of utf-8 chars works with 'set fileencoding=utf-8'
    set fileencoding=utf-8


    " {{{ Diacritic characters: <Leader>char (keyboard switching doesn't work in cygwin)
    " Use the same keys as on a keyboard
    inoremap <Leader>; ö
    inoremap <Leader>: ö
    inoremap <Leader>' ä
    inoremap <Leader>" Ä
    inoremap <Leader>[ ü
    inoremap <Leader>{ Ü
    inoremap <Leader>- ß

    " Comment/Uncoment following as you need:
    "inoremap <Leader>`A Á
    "inoremap <Leader>`Ae Ä
    "inoremap <Leader>`C Č
    "inoremap <Leader>`D Ď
    "inoremap <Leader>`E É
    "inoremap <Leader>`I Í
    "inoremap <Leader>`Ll Ĺ
    "inoremap <Leader>`L Ľ
    "inoremap <Leader>`N Ň
    "inoremap <Leader>`O Ó
    "inoremap <Leader>`Ou Ô
    "inoremap <Leader>`R Ŕ
    "inoremap <Leader>`S Š
    "inoremap <Leader>`T Ť
    "inoremap <Leader>`U Ú
    "inoremap <Leader>`Y Ý
    "inoremap <Leader>`Z Ž
    "inoremap <Leader>`a á
    ""inoremap <Leader>` ä " defined already
    "inoremap <Leader>`c č
    "inoremap <Leader>`z ž
    "inoremap <Leader>`e é
    "inoremap <Leader>`i í
    "inoremap <Leader>`l ľ
    "inoremap <Leader>`n ň
    "inoremap <Leader>`o ó
    "inoremap <Leader>`ou ô
    "inoremap <Leader>`r ŕ
    "inoremap <Leader>`s š
    "inoremap <Leader>`t ť
    "inoremap <Leader>`u ú
    "inoremap <Leader>`y ý
    "inoremap <Leader>`z ž
    " }}}
Re:Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally on Saturday April 20, 2013 @10:54AM (#5581563)
Google helps when you don't exactly know what's the name of the thing you're looking for. That's in my case 85% of all searches.
Re:Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @10:55AM (#4809499)
Uhm... now we just need some other plants that turn desert sand to fertile soil.
+1. This button looks like a too much pimp to be useful. And let's coin that term: TMPTBU!
Re:Coursera's Functional Programming - Cheating Discovered on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @11:13AM (#4631940)
Thanks to some cheaters I just discovered Coursera. And you want to punish them now... uhm :)
Re:Maily: Your Kids' First Email on Monday October 01, 2012 @12:00PM (#4597694)
This is Tom. One day Tom realizes instead of siblings he's been having gadgets... Great work guys.
Re:Real time map of trains in Japan on Monday October 01, 2012 @09:17AM (#4596785)
Not true. Today morning "We appologize bla bla", last Saturday evening "We appologize bla bla aprox. delay 60 min". In the end it was about 120 min. In Germany trains do have delays a way TOO OFTEN.
Copyrights well... it's like you make up some deals (in your western family) and then you go somewhere else (to the east) and ask people there to live by your deals. Because you see yourself as the One everybody must follow. And it works as long as you have a (military) might to protect your interests. BTW this is the principle how any legal system works, all over the scale from a family law to international law. And now imagine yourself loosing that might: two lost wars, economic crisis... well, deals made up by clowns have never been taken seriously.

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