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Comment · 8 years ago
The story of Phineas Gage is a lot less common than that of a company undergoing routine changes in leadership, so it's a bit of a silly comparison.
Comment · 8 years ago
Haha, sorry, I know my question was begging for that response. But even if you (and many others) appreciate tighter integration, others would appreciate the flexibility of being able to pick and choose what they like from emacs without being overwhelmed by what is an incredibly foreign environment.
Comment · 8 years ago
How does this fit in with the Unix philosophy?
Comment · 8 years ago
What if you just want a stable row ordering, and don't care what that ordering is?
Comment · 8 years ago
My guess is that it just applies a CSS filter on the entire page.
Comment · 8 years ago
I guess humans, being the temporal creatures we are, have an easier time debugging procedural programs because they have a "story", an expected sequence of "events" (calls, reassignments, etc.), that naturally goes with the program. Functional programming inherently obscures that.
Comment · 8 years ago
What about .gz.tar, in which all the files are gzipped, then tarballed? It seems like it would be a slightly fatter .zip file.
Comment · 8 years ago
what about high-level-language-to-high-level-language compiler?
Comment · 8 years ago
Yes, in the same way I'd argue for an abstinence-only education when it comes to repeatedly bashing your own head against the wall.
Comment · 8 years ago
When your field of interest is the reals, those complex eigenvectors don't matter.
Comment · 8 years ago
Not a very useful addition but hypercube is to cube as parallelotope is to parallelepiped.
Comment · 8 years ago
> or the Latin/Roman angle?

I think the parent thought of that.

Comment · 8 years ago
As a person who just started university, I have to ask: how else do I get employers to not entirely ignore my application on account of "insufficient qualifications"?

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