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Writing maintainable, comprehensible code is truly the greatest challenge when creating software.


This is the definition of a gimmick. How is this superior to the various existing bluetooth-based solutions. Need to navigate without looking at a screen? Bluetooth headphones or a bluetooth connection to your car. Need to skip a track when listening to music? Bluetooth headphones or a bluetooth connection to.... Need to "handle a call"? Bluetooth head-


Particularly the question(s?) about list mutability. That is such a language specific property.


They also just released "Getting work done" for vim


That one can write elite in elisp is why one can write gnus, eww, CEDET, slack-mode, magit and thousands of other packages yet unwritten in elisp.


True, I think half the point of emacs is _not_ doing work but hacking on emacs instead :-)

See also:

M-x butterfly

M-x doctor

M-x tetris

M-x hanoi

etc. etc.


also M-x dunnet

is a text based adventure game in most versions of emacs.


And see here I was about to go and change all my passwords...


The TSA is just an expensive, time consuming infringement on civil liberties.


I honestly like the sites that block adblock. I only use adblock because it is so easy and has such massive benefits, but I still feel guilty than I am not supporting content creators.


Stuff like this often makes me question using any DRM or platform-locked services, particularly steam. If valve decided to make a shady decision there is very little that its users could do about it.


Isn't this already how much documentation is structured implicitly?

For example if you have a technical article which references some concept there will likely be a link to another article which explains that concept.

Thus each page already acts as a node connected to other nodes by the links within it. No need for a more formalized graph.


Ah yes the multitude of people who have lyft on one phone, and uber on another.

And then of course they have their twitter phone, and their facebook phone and...


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