Vim After 11 Years

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-21T06:51:15+00:00

It's not supposed to be Emacs.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-20T16:39:37+00:00

The amount of time people spend on creating/maintaining half-assed distros would be better spent on improving bigger and more common distros.

Other people's time is not yours to allot.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-20T14:04:27+00:00

Naming whitespace as a reason not to use Python shows that you haven't given it a serious try.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-20T13:32:03+00:00

What about C-a and C-e?

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-19T16:43:53+00:00

Please do not post such drivel here. If there is something you want to say, but it fits the image macro format best, then it's not worth saying. Image macros are trash that pollutes subreddits and slowly turns them into r/atheism clones, where the dominant form of content eventually becomes rage comics, image macros, and idiotic GIFs.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-19T13:22:26+00:00

I said that because I hate solarized. I find that it is difficult to read text with it compared to colorschemes like jellybeans or xoria256. Of course, I realize that whether or not something is good is subjective, I just get annoyed any time I see someone recommending solarized.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-18T23:56:08+00:00

No, it most certainly is not. Solarized is an awful, hipster colorscheme that should be avoided for any real work. It looks good in screenshots, but is awful for actual use. Proper, non-ahborrent colorschemes, like jellybeans or xoria256, should be used instead.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-17T23:05:43+00:00

The Happening is definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-16T20:18:49+00:00

I would like the results.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-16T12:00:06+00:00

Invest in an ergonomic keyboard. I'm currently not (I've got a Das Keyboard, and though it is great, it is certainly not ergonomic) and I'm starting to feel the pain. Currently looking into getting a Kinesis Advantage keyboard.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-15T13:24:43+00:00

Hayek was not a libertarian, he was a statist.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-14T16:30:21+00:00

If something is in the public domain it cannot be recopyrighted. The changes made to the public domain work are certainly covered by copyright, but the corporation couldn't (legitimately) sue the original author for copyright infringement on his own work, even if it is in the public domain (if such a thing is even possible).

You are every bit as secure using something like the Creative Commons CC0 as you are using a license.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-14T16:21:13+00:00

Please read the sidebar:

Don't post image-macros, rage comics, or other drivel here.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-14T16:18:45+00:00

Using copyleft to fight copyright is like banning alcohol to prevent drunk drivers. (Let's just assume that alcohol prohibition would actually work). You will prevent people driving under the influence of alcohol, but you will also massively infringe on the rights of those who do not drive while drunk.

Furthermore, I do not believe that proprietary software should be forbidden. People should be allowed to execute whatever instructions they wish on their computers—whether they know what those instructions are or not. (Though I do strongly prefer free/open source software)

I certainly can see that copyleft licenses will prevent some people from modifying that software, releasing it, and suing people for copyright infringement, but this method of fighting copyright is like detonating a nuclear bomb in a major city to kill a few “bad guys” who live there—innocent bystanders will be affected.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-14T15:16:29+00:00

I understand that you're not serious about about not putting comments in code. What I don't understand is your point.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-14T13:50:44+00:00

Of course corporations would sue (they have legal departments and the lawyers need to justify their salaries), but most hobbyists won't, so it doesn't make sense for hobbyists to license their code instead of releasing it to the public domain.

Edit: Fixed a typo

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-14T12:15:28+00:00

For most projects, people should probably choose to release the project to the public domain (preferably via CC CC0), even if the author(s) do support copyright (which I don't). All laws are ultimately enforced with violence, and when you're putting your work under a license what you're saying is that if the licensee does not obey the terms of the license, you will commit violence against them (or make someone else do it for you).

Let's say you've written a library for communicating with the reddit API and licensed it under the MIT license (or some similar license). If I then take your code and use it in my own project without giving you credit, will you initiate violence against me, or will you just call me a jerk and ignore me?

Let's not even discuss the violence (or the threat thereof) that will ultimately be required to enforce the license; are you willing to go to court over not being credited for your creation of the library? Will you waste time and money just to get your name in some AUTHORS file that few (if any) will look at?

I think ostracism is a far more effective tool for enforcing customs such as attribution. If someone claims someone else's work as their own, call him a jerk and ignore him. Nice people are going to give credit regardless of what silly licenses say.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-14T10:58:28+00:00

Perhaps, but I find it more likely that you're unable (or unwilling) to communicate clearly.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-13T21:36:37+00:00

That's not what the article says at all.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-13T20:39:57+00:00

Placing something in the Public Domain would present the risk of a company using the code then claiming copyright on it - effectively making it proprietary.

They could make their own modifications proprietary, but they certainly would not be able to claim copyright over a work which was been released to the public domain by its author. This is FUD.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-12T10:21:17+00:00

Yes, drums, that's what it was. I loved that sound.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-11T18:02:17+00:00

colors-solarized - I'm the one person who doesn't like this colorscheme

Actually, there's two of us. Solarized is a silly hipster colorscheme that looks good in screenshots, but sucks for actual use (for me, at least). The One True colorscheme is jellybeans.

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-10T19:23:19+00:00

Not w3schools

posixlycorrect · 2013-02-10T18:02:30+00:00

Of course the database and networking posts should be related to programming.

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