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Re:Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) on Monday July 09, 2012 @06:16AM (#4217446)
No-one is qualified to have children. If the OP thinks of himself as "unqualified" probably it really means that he doesn't give them as much attention as he thinks he should.

The modesty, anyway, is false, because clearly the OP is proud of his children. However he is wrong not to consider it an accomplishment - it's easy to have children, but difficult to bring them up well. I have met so many people who put their career before their children, who are not prepared to give something up (e.g. money or career prospects) for their children.

Didn't the parents of Gandhi, for example, accomplish something for having brought up Gandhi?

Re:Vim clutch on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:30PM (#4149194)
There are two other advantages to using hjkl, that hardly anyone ever mentions:

1. Ctrl-H is Backspace, one of the most used keys, and much more conveniently placed than, er, Backspace. It's right next to the index finger. It's intuitive (in vim) because H is "go left". Ctrl-H works everywhere, in the shell, in OS/X all over the place, it even works in the Windows shell. It's some sort of fundamental mapping to Backspace such that can't actually be re-mapped.

2. Ctrl-M is Enter, another one of the most used keys, and also more conveniently placed than Enter. As with Ctrl-H, it fits under index finger, it's an ancient mapping, underrated, works in lots of places, even in Windows shell.

If you use the crappy arrow keys, your fingers are totally in the wrong place!