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The TV stuff tends to be. The radio programmes are not. This is because one needs to pay a license fee in the UK to watch television, which funds the BBC. Listening to the radio is…

I think `man readline' is more appropriate for the keyboard shortcuts, since it is the readline library that provides many of them.

Would there not have been an address on the mail?

Interestingly, nearly all ATMs (with the exception of privately-owned ATMs in bars, etc.) in the UK don't charge for services (for about five years now). However, I wonder whether …

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary" -- Thomas Carruthers

It depends entirely on how many people you're teaching. If you're sitting in a lecture hall full of 250 students, asking continual questions is just not going to get any response. …

"Also: The Emacs mouse support is not great. It probably hasn't been a high priority." In what way? It's certainly as good as it is in any other editor, with the addition of severa…

Yes and no. When I first started off with Emacs, I used the CUA bindings (Windows-esque bindings for C-x/C-v/C-c). That was great to begin with, but inevitably a change of settings…

"How is a non-hacker end user supposed to run a tarball?" How about they wait until available through their distribution's package manager?

"used to apply the concept of a stack" Do you really need something as complicated as a stack? n = 0 for (char in string) if (char == '(') n++ if (char == ')') n-- if (n

Interesting way of hiring! I don't think there was any point in listing the demographic observations he did, the sample is way too small for anyone to try to draw conclusions.

A brilliant idea! Would love to see a blog post overviewing how it works.

Works perfectly for me now. Maybe the training's working!

... and have to take your car door with you into the supermarket?