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Is there a case where you can do something with a named pipe that you couldn't also do with a regular text file?

Maybe this language should be called "Dufuq?" for reasons that become clear when the name is read aloud.

Has anyone figured out how to throw fireballs yet?

I'd say it's certainly unethical to hoard wealth, because you've taken money out of the pool, so no one else can access it, and you really have no use for it (except maybe as an in…

"I could feed thousands of people, but instead I think I'll eat a common food that was created in a ridiculously expensive way." --the mindset of the first person to try one of tho…

The title is misleading, since only one of thousands of BOA's branches will do this. Also, here's a tip: :%s/\([a-z]\)\.\([A-Z]\)/\1. \2/g

I didn't know all those special chars were part of ASCII.

Judging by how frequent and popular these "baby steps with Vim" type posts are, I'm guessing that not many people on HN both use Vim and care enough about it to use :help.

A person could easily get into the habit of using oh-my-zsh plugins and themes without reading or understanding them. I'm not saying that it's universally the case, just that it's …

When you submit an article that you wrote to HN you could at least have the decency to spend 5 minutes proofreading it, couldn't you? oh-my-zsh is a great way for lazy people to ge…

I suppose having and stating an opinion that isn't kissing someone's ass makes me a douchebag according to richardlblair. I think I can live with that. All Mr. Grouchy did was give…

Due to the poor spelling and grammar, gross oversimplification of zsh's advantages, and the inclusion of oh-my-zsh as a reason to switch, I found this post insulting (as a long tim…

Satiety is mainly due to dietary protein intake because of its glucagon activity.

This is partially why the "glycemic index" is bogus.

"Sugar" isn't the problem. It's fructose. Hard on the liver, can't even be used by muscles.

Technically, it is energetically easier to store dietary fat as adipose as opposed to carbohydrate. The problem most people have is that they eat enough carb to satisfy their daily…

Hmm. http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/oiv7s/cool_fraction/

webgl.disabled is false by default. I switched the force-enabled on but it dodn't make any noticeable difference. I should have mentioned I'm using the nouveau driver. I get slight…

GLX gears is a pretty unreliable benchmark: I've gotten anywhere from 300 to 600 FPS on this machine at different times. I usually get around 90 FPS when playing fairly recent game…