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> It's not that philosophy is dumb. It's just that it's useless. If I take a moment and think through that statement, I highly doubt you even believe this. And if it is sincere, th…

When working with a larger code base, there will always be parts that you don't remember writing and you'll inevitably have to read the code to understand it. That's just part of t…

My post was mainly in regards to the recommendation of having someone just pick up a primary source and just start reading it. But I agree that, if you're taking a class and you ha…

It's an unpopular opinion depending on what you're recommending. Telling someone "read the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle" will lead someone to just pick up any copy of the Nicoma…

> Our next major challenge: We are dealing with 21 million lines of code. I think I just fail to understand the true complexity of a browser, but how is Firefox 21 million lines of…

Sure, I don't think anyone would disagree with you on that. But still, how is the initial comment an example of the Hegelian Dialectic?

How is this an example of the Hegelian Dialectic?

Right. But what I was saying is that, I wouldn't throw that into a beginner's tutorial right away.

Definitely. Beyond vimtutor, I've found Practical Vim to be a fantastic book. I strongly recommend that book once someone has the basics of vim down.

It's true, but since vim is a bit old, copy/pasting can be a bit awkward due to having an internal clipboard with the buffer and not using the system's clipboard. I wouldn't put th…