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Re:Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance
on Sunday May 15, 2011 @06:54PM (#2550993)
Exactly. Emacs doesn't need an elaborate case for its defense; non-modal is more natural/easier-to-learn/BETTER (control-this, control-that) than modal. Not merely my 2 cents -- it's the TRUTH!
Re:Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.
on Sunday August 29, 2010 @07:59AM (#1643666)
There's evidence that toy preferences of girls and boys are in part hardwired (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18452921). It's analogous to career choices. It's what we all know intuitively, but political correctness pressures us to invent alternate explanations. Even esr succumbed: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2118#more-2118.
Re:Ask HN: Summer Reading Recommendations?
on Monday August 02, 2010 @07:04PM (#1569442)
Coma, by Alex Garland. Choose a day when you can read it in one sitting.
Re:You Can’t Take It With You
on Monday July 26, 2010 @07:21PM (#1549676)
"Perhaps the OP would have been more effective describing a less controversial field."
Exactly! As I read the article, my feeling was he was being disingenuous, condescendingly mocking the lawyer and his profession.
Then the final two sections, generalizing his advice to the lawyer for other professionals, seemed like a gloss.