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The Emacs welcome screen links to a tutorial, a guided tour, and manual, all of which are inside Emacs. I would say its help functionality is potentially its greatest strength.

Dude, incredible work. I've only discovered CL in the last couple of months and everything I learn and discover brings me so much joy after being solidly disillusioned with program…

Mineshaft! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y

Microsoft's interview loop was the easiest I've ever had, it's the only job I've had where I've felt my ethics challenged, and my org's leadership was comically ruthless. You joine…

Yes, but they left out explicit murder-for-hire charges in the indictment for that trial. They filed a separate indictment with those charges in a different state which they droppe…

Why would I spend any time stepping through lines I'm not interested in? I set breakpoints on the important parts and let the program run until a breakpoint is hit. I stop at a bre…

This is the only argument for print debugging I can understand. Given the debugger experience I've had at every job in the last 10 years (IDE-driven, set breakpoints in editor, ins…

I'm getting the impression a lot of people don't know basic debugger features like "continue" or setting breakpoints while paused at a breakpoint.

Why would one step through the whole program? Use the approach you describe for print statements, but for breakpoints instead. Set them, inspect the relevant state when one is hit,…

Yeah, but what's the cost? RAID5's striping with parity is a cost-saving approach compared to mirroring. If you can afford to mirror all your data that will always be the better op…

What is the mdadm use-case that requires lvm? I've used mdadm happily for over a decade and never used lvm.

If you can afford to purchase 2x the disks for RAID10 you will certainly get better performance and availability. RAID5 is an approach that gives you lower cost in return for slowe…

No, e2scrub_all is a filesystem-level check which serves a different purpose. mdadm scrubbing is in various states of broken across major distros. It used to be that each distro ha…

I like to think most people in our field are naturally curious, so make sure your environment doesn't stifle that attitude. Hold group learning sessions for new technologies, code …

Given his comment it's a good bet he's running Linux. There is no Silverlight for Linux so his complaint is pretty legitimate .