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This is true, to a certain extent. But it doesn't mean that masters for vinyl always have more dynamics left intact. More often than not these days, the same compressed master is u…

> Robert Redford, Sydney Poitier, River Phoenix, James Earl Jones, Dan Aykroyd Don't forget Ben Kingsley, another Oscar winner.

> I find the contrast to be perfectly fine. Which is why you chose to write your comment in a low contrast colour.

I use Gitit [1] as my personal wiki for notetaking. I've been pretty happy with it so far, as it uses the excellent Pandoc as the backend. I have not heard of Vimwiki until now - c…

The article brings to mind this wonderful short story by Ray Bradbury, "Pedestrian" [1] "What are you doing out?" "Walking," said Leonard Mead. "Walking!" "Just walking," he said s…

> But in absence of this conflict, or the external meaning that is the cause of the (perceived) conflict, they wouldn't know what to do with their own existence What nonsense. > "G…

I'm interested to know how you manage the risk inherent in project-based billing. In my experience it is simply unworkable: the client will provide the vaguest of specifications an…

> underline an arbitrary line of text with '=' characters. In vim that's 11 keypresses across 3 operations Sounds like a vimgolf challenge to me. Here's my entry: YpVr=

I would imagine that it would be much easier for Stripe to acquire local Stripe equivalents and rebrand, rather than trying to navigate the labyrinth of financial regulations in ea…

OO is a subset of imperative. Can you name me an OO language which doesn't support imperative programming?

No, the analogies are spot on. Anything in the preceding comments which seems ridiculous has been introduced by the concept of "zero tolerance", which precludes common sense. Zero …

More than any other here, your post makes me nostalgic about the old days. Kudos.

> And how is Apple waging war against openness? This does not need to be an either / or proposition. _Both_ Apple and Google are doing "evil", in their own way. Along with a bunch …

> Mandatory urine testing I don't think these are the "IP issues" to which he was referring.

In my experience, one of the most significant hindrances has been access to and communication with medical personnel: - Medics, especially specialists / surgeons, have extremely bu…

+1 for Pandoc. It's awesome. Also, it needs to be mentioned that Pandoc supports its own set of (IMO) sensible extensions / defaults to Gruber markdown [1]. [1] http://johnmacfarla…

This is one which had escaped me for years: private static bool GreaterThanOne(int @int) { return @int > 1; } However, it would seem to me to fall into the "never, ever use this" c…

I agree 100%. I too walked the Camino de Santiago, in 2009. Probably the best thing I've ever done. I came back centred, happy, relaxed and motivated. I met great people, had great…

The rage these days seems to be to keep your own dotfiles repo, complete with some kind of install mechanism. My own is here [1] but it covers my whole homedir, not just VIM. I use…

I agree. But, I must say: no matter how repetitive these articles, I pick up something new in the HN comments every single time.

Every time an article like this comes up, snipMate seems to be mentioned. This particular author even pointed to the old repository which appears unmaintained and has not had a che…

Not to mention VIM has been available on Windows for many years, so the gp has probably already eliminated it as an option.

I have the same thought process as you, and I find it quite debilitating. It often manifests as a need to know everything about a problem space before even starting on a solution. …

Absolutely. After all, that is what most employers will do when the pendulum swings their way.

Ahh, the "What every programmer should know about X" articles. So, Ulrich Drepper thinks everyone should know about the intricacies of DRAM refreshing. Zed Shaw thinks we should al…