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Common Lisp is also not case insensitive. Rather, everything is translated to upper case by the reader by default. But you can intern symbols yourself, or change the reader behavio…

If you don't mind a video format, this talk by Robert Smallshire includes that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-UcUs7IMIM

That's not a trivial feature that "every other editor" can do, though. > I'm sure there are plenty of others. Emacs, for one.

This is the kind of humour that we should be able to enjoy here. Accept the patch allowing unlimited period lengths and laugh at this joke. Why does everything have to be so seriou…

And this is also part of why transport method diversity on technical teams matters.

The author has made every effort to make it about men vs women, rather than just her vs Fitbit. I've "known" a great many women but had no idea a period could last a month. Even if…

Can you prove that? I don't believe it. Are there any theories supporting the end of all life on Earth?

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 …

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 t…

Women like this who hate men should just stop using technology created by men. Start with things like Fitbit that you don't actually need. Then work up to cars and other things. Sh…

The irony is that the journalist is implicitly saying that pushing a pram is a "woman thing" which is sexist.

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.

> 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. > Nothin…

> 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 o…

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 ad…

Describing Emacs using English is necessarily an understatement. It can only be properly described using Lisp.

I don't really know when the editor wars took place or when (or if) they finished, but I started to look for a serious text editor around ten years ago. Before that I was using dif…

No. We're talking about highly specialised tools for professional engineers, not some dumb electronics made for children and old people. You're using the tool wrong. Emacs is not v…

Or maybe vim is massively over represented in those other polls. Lots of people claim to use it. Few customise and really live with it and thus are not likely to subscribe to a sub…

Very difficult to do with free software and completely irrelevant really. At some point in your life it's OK to accept that you're the weird one. We're the weird ones. Donald Knuth…

Stupid poll. Due to the limited options, people who use neither editor seriously have voted vim simply because they know about it. Also it can't be denied that vim is the hipster e…

You use it wrong. You're supposed to keep your local emacs running and use tramp to login to the remote server. That way you still have your emacs config with you and don't have to…

Money is power. Money is quite literally the ability to make other people work for the things you want.

Decentralisation is hard because people crave power. As long as people crave power, people will build centralised systems of control.

> But people only want to use centralized services. That's not true. "People" don't care whether the service is centralised or decentralised. They just want the practical benefits …