Sometimes, every once in a while, a programmer feels like I do. VIM should be more efficient, more effective for editing text files yet I find myself reverting to the modern mouse-based approach more often than not.
A rather famous question on Stack Overflow asked for tips on how to be more productive with VIM – and he got one of the best answers I’ve ever seen. Not a list of tips but a working, detailed explanation from Stack Overflow user Jim Dennis. It’s so good, I am copying his answer’s raw source here, running it through the Markdown parser and copied it here. …
Well, if you must know - the mod internal room is called the Teacher's Lounge. At school, we had assemblies - where the whole school comes together and the teachers made announcements or some such thingy. So sticking on the school theme, I chose the name.
It's a bit rubbish, but hey. It hardly matters and the tagline isn't too confusing.
@Ninefingers I just assumed it was from a 'gathering of people, coming together for a purpose' - now I'm even more amused. Makes me want to call the DMZ 'behind the bike sheds'
This is somewhat related to this discussion, but different enough to deserve its own thread, I think.
What would be the site policy regarding questions that are generally considered "easy", but may be asked during the first semester of studying computer science. Example:
"How do I get the symme...
@Gilles The profile is "Just a guy." which is a paraphrase of what Gag Halfrunt says of Zaphod Beeblebrox. The double meaning is that Yannis went by that name on Programmers for a while.
This is somewhat related to this discussion, but different enough to deserve its own thread, I think.
What would be the site policy regarding questions that are generally considered "easy", but may be asked during the first semester of studying computer science. Example:
"How do I get the symme...
