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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:22AM (#29634211)
It's because many more people are vaccinated. Assume 100,000 people are vaccinated and 10,000 aren't. If the infection rate in vaccinated population is 5%, and in the unvaccinated population is 50%, then out of 10,000 infected people, 5,000 will be vaccinated and 5,000 won't.
It's a gated community - if you place the Streetview pointer on Lake Worth Rd, you can even see the gates.
Re:Use Zsh on Friday September 28, 2012 @01:18PM (#4586630)
Just like bash.
Re:NGINX: The Faster Web Server Alternative on Friday January 20, 2012 @04:34PM (#3491316)
zavulon was joking. It's an old Slashdot meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture
Since they're both AOL properties, I bet something's wonky with their reverse proxy/load balancer.
Re:Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg Still Writes Code on Thursday April 15, 2010 @02:43AM (#1267172)
He claims to have written much of the firmware in the TRS-80 Model 100, released in 1983: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm...
I'm fine with this being reposted every month or so. In fact, I wouldn't mind if it were pinned to the top of the page.
Re:AGPL != Awesome GPL on Saturday February 20, 2010 @11:02PM (#1140083)
> If I'm not allowed to make a derivative of the LICENSE DOCUMENT, how am I able to create a parody interpretation?

I think you've got it right there. A cursory search of Wikipedia shows parodies may fall under fair use, never mind the copyright notice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody#Copyright_issues

Re:Hivelogic - Top Programming Fonts on Saturday October 31, 2009 @10:43PM (#914571)
> I tried it in Emacs. Your definition of correct does not agree with mine.

Yes it does. In Emacs, with a proportional font, if I'm on the 10th character of a line and press "up", I do not necessarily move to the 10th character of the previous line. I move to the character visually above the current one.

Sorry it doesn't work for you - we must have differing Emacs setups. I'm using Emacs 23 in GUI mode.

Also, I'm a big fan of Haskell in general, but sometimes when I'm coding I think its whitespace is a bit too significant.

Re:Hivelogic - Top Programming Fonts on Saturday October 31, 2009 @10:12PM (#914537)
Scintilla-based editors, GTKsourceview-based editors (I just tried with Scite and Gedit) and Emacs all correctly position the cursor when using the arrow keys and proportional fonts.

As for lining up similar constructs, I mostly code in Python, and the PEP 8 style guidelines explicitly forbid that.

Re:Hivelogic - Top Programming Fonts on Saturday October 31, 2009 @09:58PM (#914522)
When I hit "Return", it duplicates the current line's leading whitespace on the next line. That will still work perfectly with a proportional font. When I hit "cursor-down", most text editors that allow proportional fonts know how to put the cursor where it visually belongs.
Re:Hivelogic - Top Programming Fonts on Saturday October 31, 2009 @09:55PM (#914514)
I really tried to use proportional fonts for coding, but the kicker for me was selecting text with the mouse (or trackpad). I find it easier to position the pointer when all the letters are the same width. "i"s and "l"s are especially tricky to select accurately with a proportional font.
If only. He's like this all the time. And he tied scarves around his monitor stand. And he brought in a fog machine.
So, if the number modulo 13 is 0, a taunt, "Maybe you could try drawing something," shows up. Any other easter eggs?