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It does indicate a concept of future. What it doesn't do is use a different tense—the key verb is the same as when talking about the present. It's a subtle distinction, but he is a…

Moreover, pressing alt while in insert mode causes the next key to run as if pressed in normal mode. I usually use this instead of escape for those times when I don't want to go in…

Because in SL, they can be the person that they really want to be in the real world.

Indeed. Which is why pcwalton is answering Thomas' conjecture about C++'s STL containers.

Because there is equally no reason that the statement should be false.

I may be mistaken, but I believe that Chrome uses ctrl+shift+R to refresh everything.

Glad I could help. Scheme is great for introducing oneself to many concepts not commonly present or used in more common imperative languages. That, and the SICP is just a ton of fu…

TCO refers to tail call optimization , which is a useful optimization for languages such as Scheme which encourage heavy use of recursion. TCO allows the interpreter to reuse the c…

Those social promotions are clearly screwed up, especially as old as eighth grade. As a counterpoint anecdote, however, my mother is a kindergarten teacher who holds back (on avera…

> a lot of assessments (too many, IMHO) I definitely agree there. Just the other day, one of my mother's kindergarten students was drawing pictures of her and her teaching assistan…

Of course that class would be worthless. Not all (and in my experience, almost no) classes, however, are like that when one selects a college which has a quality program for the de…

Similarly, at least in much of the US, teaching special needs teachers requires extra certification on top of a normal teacher's license. Without all kinds of extra classes on the …

Text posts are always grayed out here. If you check out the Ask[1] portion of the site, you'll see that all of those are as well. There's no meaning to it, unlike when a comment ge…

I didn't start using Linux (and therefore LibreOffice) until after I stopped using Office 2003 on any computers, so I don't know about its support for ODT. 2007 did do fairly poorl…

Office can open Open Document types pretty much universally. More complex formatting is generally screwed up though, just as it is when opening MS types in LibreOffice.

Looks like schiffern answered that an hour ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3774010

You're missing a lot of information here. Design Like Whoa is the person who made the racy video in question. The woman who got pointed out the sexism on Twitter is Shanely Kane, w…

I don't know the answer myself, but if you head on over to http://arclanguage.org , I bet the people there can point you in the right direction.

I'm just guessing, but it would make sense for large paper maps not to use this fold so that you can partially unfold it and look only at the portion in which your are currently in…

The level of care and thought put into creating a secure encryption scheme doesn't matter if the cryptography is broken. There's a reason you constantly hear cryptographers telling…

Facebook, Mozilla, Google, and lots of other companies encourage this with exploit bounty programs.

Ah, so instead of having to hand-roll your own really complex regex that would limit the scope every time, VS automatically limits the scope of the renaming for you. That is pretty…

How so? I haven't used VS since a couple of versions ago and never got to know it very well, so I based my above comment on the OPs description; if there's more to the feature than…

"* no easy refactoring. In VS i love how i can just hit F2 on a method name, rename it, VS shows me all the places where it will rename it and pressing OK. This works flawless ever…