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Comment · 8 years ago
That's not a trivial feature that "every other editor" can do, though.

> I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Emacs, for one.

Comment · 8 years ago
Can you prove that? I don't believe it.

Are there any theories supporting the end of all life on Earth?

Comment · 8 years ago
This is surely the case. Nobody really thinks humans have the ability to wipe out all life on Earth do they? We might be able to destroy ourselves, but life will probably continue at least until the Sun turns into a red giant. Life on Earth has survived far more catastrophic events than anything we can manage.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's quite difficult even for trained programmers to make their pipelines reproducibile. Just look at how much effort goes into build pipelines and the like. There isn't any good tooling for doing it so people build their own systems ad-hoc which they never document, that is if they use a system at all.

Big governments need to fund it and solve this problem once and for all. At the moment most grant procedures require something more concrete than just "solve the reproducibility problem", though.

Comment · 8 years ago
The irony is that the journalist is implicitly saying that pushing a pram is a "woman thing" which is sexist.
Comment · 8 years ago
Not a problem. I can't remember that ever happening, but if it did I would just close the tab. Pi-hole works as intended.
Comment · 8 years ago
> You need to learn to open a file, edit it, move around and exit and the edit/view mode. Everybody learns how to do it. At first it sucks but you can learn this in 5 min.

> Nothing too hard, and yes, do use the direction keys, it's not the 70s anymore.

All of that applies to emacs too. What's the difference?

> Usability problems are never the fault of the user.

That's contrary to the old saying: a bad workman always blames his tools.

Comment · 8 years ago
> One of the reasons is that almost every other editor has the ability to use vim commands.

Really? It would have to be a modal editor to use vim commands. Emacs commands, on the other hand, could work with the vast majority of editors out there, and actually do work in many cases. readline, for example, which is used by bash and many other CLI programs uses emacs bindings. fish and zsh use them too.

Comment · 8 years ago
I meant to say vim is the "hip" thing, as in, it's in fashion with a certain type of programmer for some reason. Fashion definitely exists in our world, even though it's hard to admit. In my (purely anecdotal) experience, vim gets a lot more lip service than actual use.

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