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ctrl-d Emacs keybindings work just about everywhere on a Mac.

It definitely hurt the telescope optics market, there is no longer an affordable supplier of borosilicate optical blanks.

Then it wasn't Windows, Emacs crashes every so often on Windows XP/7

It was still repoze.bfg back then

I recall Slackware Linux requiring 13 disks

Don't worry about it too much. It's just a way to configure your Emacs with some niceties while you're busy learning the editor. I've spent a bit of time digging through the starte…

I was a long time vim user too. I switched to emacs after witnessing slime and clojure. I can't image life without org-mode anymore.

HISTCONTROL="ignorespace" now you can keep a given command from history find ... !! -delete

find ... !! -delete

Actually, it's an easy way to: - add two numbers - build the project with dependencies - display stack traces - deliver static files - generate html from code - validate user input…

So, you'll depend on the rest of the world to vaccinate so you can benefit from herd immunity and not chance the impossible odds that anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are correct? …

What! No Paredit?

"Data from the British Chiropractic Association..." I'd trust data from the Tooth Fairy Association as much if not more.

No, but I regret it after having my top cover replaced to resolve a dead trackpad. I never buy extended warranties, I'm probably ahead nonetheless.

Why demonize HFCS (over sugar) before science shows any of the conspiracy theorists claims are true? It sounds like the vast majority of anti-HFCS claims have no supporting evidenc…

You forgot Incanter :)

The FDA has the power to prosecute for unproven claims. Regulating woo could give it more credibility.

So far only one video appears from 2010. The audio is great, much improved from last years audio.

No. Water can poison and kill you at a large enough dosage. Oxygen too. Treating cancer with homeopathy is harmless until the cancer kills you. All medicine (supported by science o…

$ emacs -q works pretty well for quick edits too

Sadly, this will only put a small dent in the anti-vaccination cloaked as autism advocacy movement.

And yet, this RCT shows that it has no effect. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19296870