Does the percent key in vim work?

The most important thing about braces to me is that in vim a single keystroke (%) allows me to bounce back and forth between the start and end of a block.

I haven't tried python yet but it would definitely be a big minus to me if the percent key no longer lets me bounce to block start/end points.

No, certainly not. What's the point of a shitload of money if all you do is save it? Are you going to swim in it like Scrooge McDuck?

There's no point in earning or saving money if you aren't going to do something with it. Spending money on children (and grandchildren) is something that a lot of people (though obviously not 100% of all people) get a lot of enjoyment out of.

Feel free to spend your money on whatever you like if you dislike children, but you're just ignorant if you think that raising children isn't an excellent way to make use of hard earned cash for the vast majority of the human race who like children.

Saving money so that you have lots of funds for spoiling grandchildren is also highly popular and a worthwhile way to spend money for many people, but it's a bit more difficult to have grandchildren if you don't have children (though not impossible obviously.)

It's a typical geek tendency to see everything in black and white. I have an iPhone 4s and a Samsung galaxy siii. I like the iPhone better but carry both all the time since I have to have to separate work and personal phones. I can easily distinguish between "the iPhone is better" vs "I like the iPhone better"

Too many geeks say the former when they mean the latter (s/iPhone/android as needed) and utterly failing to realize that "I like better" != "is better".

What is your source on the "Tech Salary" percentage? Is that the "standard" salary increase given on average across everybody for doing the same job overall? If so then it should be as close to zero as possible after accounting for inflation. If you're doing the same job today as you were doing six years ago then you SHOULD be making the same amount after adjusting for inflation.

Salary increases that beat inflation year over year should only be for those people who increase the quality and/or quantity of their work year over year.

If you increase the pay of everybody regardless of their performance we have a word for that. The word is "inflation" and the old phrase "a rising tide lifts all boats" is relevant.

Generally what people are interested in is how to increase their pay relative to other people, but in order to do that in a fair and honest economy requires increasing your own output relative to other people. You shouldn't expect "everybody" to receive increases that beat inflation because if RELATIVE wealth doesn't change then the numerical values of the pay figures don't matter.

Except for a handful of people, who's going to see it? If there are more than a couple people in a datacenter you're doing it wrong. Rack the equipment (preconfigured), plug in the cables and switch it on. From that point on no one should touch it until it breaks and needs to be RMA'd or scrapped.

How much money are you going to invest in beautifying a space that very few people will see?

That being said, there is some nasty stuff going on on wall street that very much needs to be strangled. Manipulations with total return swaps and similar instruments that put cash into the hands of folks with massive investment holdings without having to report the cash as income. I certainly don't understand all the machinations, but I fully support giving the IRS teeth to dig into the results, not the methods.

If you've got three yachts, five mansions, and twenty three luxury cars you'd better have paid income tax consistent with your level of spending. If it looks like income and it smells like income then as far as I'm concerned it's income. I don't care what elaborate financial transaction ultimately resulted into that valuable asset finding it's way physically into your hands.

If your houses collectively are worth 1000 times what my one house is worth and you're paying 1000 times the property taxes then I'm happy. If you're playing some trickery where they're not "really" your houses, you merely have exclusive access to them and control over them but they're "actually" expenses on the balance sheet of a Burmuda Corp that you own through seven subsidiaries then I've got a problem with that.

As long as the money just circulates through and never falls into any person's hands, who cares? At some point some human being is going to want another mansion or yacht. When they reach their hand into the pot that's when you grab them and take the government's cut.

Nobody is going to waste their life shuffling funds around and endless loop of shell corporations with no intention or method of eventually extracting some of it.

Imagine a Kennedy or Romney getting a house foreclosed on because the local government requires property taxes to be paid in cash. Or unable to restock on champagne and caviar because the clerk at the checkout doesn't accept "I own umpteen offshore corporations" as a valid method of payment. Or cleaning their own pool because every pool boy wants cash, no numbered Swiss accounts please.

The folks running these tax scams aren't doing it for kicks. They're doing it because they want to live high on the hog. As long as the taxes on their luxury lifestyles are in fair proportion to the taxes on us regular folks and our regular lifestyles who cares how the corporate books are structured.

Incidentally all those offshore shell corporations are setup by lawyers and accountants who ultimately want a cash paycheck to buy stuff with. If the CEO can buy another yacht by laying off the hoard of lawyers/accountants that spend their days fabricating shell corps he/she certainly will.

BTW, I support taxing cap gains same as income. If you had X dollars yesterday and X+Y today you owe tax on Y. I don't care where it came from or how you got it. If you're a human being you owe your fair share tax on $Y.

Well, that was a much longer and carefully structured comment on the preview screen. What's the point of a preview if what's on the preview gets truncated when you hit submit?

Oh well, I'm not going to retype that long and detailed dissertation.

How about we just eliminate the corporate taxes altogether. Instead ensure that all money paid out to individuals is properly taxed as income, apply sales tax to all purchas

So do dogs. Cats yawn too. I'm not sure about mice.

What's the point of this story, is there some burning question as to what organisms yawn? A yawning controversy I haven't heard of perhaps? Or some prospective line of in inquiry into the science of yawning?

This story seems like a puff piece devoid of any significant detail or content worth posting to Slashdot.

The UI on the SIII spends a much larger percentage of its time annoying me than the UI on the iPhone does. Among other things:

Autocorrect was so bad I had to turn it off.

Getting the insert point where I want it when editing text is much more cumbersome than the iPhone's magnifying glass mechanism.

It's not always clear why some functionality is available on screen while other functionality requires using the off screen button on the bottom left.

Way more preloaded junk apps than iPhone.

It doesn't handle my blue tooth keyboard as gracefully as my iPhone does.

The two types of app launcher screens aren't actually a problem but they seem to me like an indication of lack of a unified approach to UI design.

The main good point about the SIII is the voicemail to text feature, but if I remember correctly I had to locate and install the application to do that. Out of the box I don't think it could even do visual voicemail. Even now, tapping the little cassette tape icon on the phone screen initiates a voice call to a pre-iPhone-era touch tone driven voicemail system rather than bringing up a list of voicemails on screen.

That's nonsense. Do you even know what lockout/tagout is? How did those "suits" remove your coworker's lock? Did they cut it off or did he not put it on? Every person working on that circuit should have had their own lock and tag on that breaker.

I assume if they had cut his lock off you would have mentioned it since that's a much more serious offense than simply flipping a breaker that isn't locked/tagged.

Your coworker definitely should have been fired if he was working on an industrial power circuit without following lockout/tagout procedures.

BTW, for those not familiar the slash in this case means AND. It is always mandatory to use both a lock and a tag, it's not an either or choice.

I wonder if the definition of city limits (which is what those densities are based off of) has any general usefullness anymore. The only US city on that list is Union City which turns out to be in New Jersey. I've lived in New Jersey for 38 years and never heard of Union City and certainly wouldn't have recognized it as being bigger than New York City.

On the other hand, I wouldn't be able to identify any city limits between the northernmost part of New Jersey and at least halfway down the state. Things get a bit more spread out further south, but from central Jersey on up it's pretty much all contiguous. From residential to commercial to industrial it all pretty much flows together without any obvious boundaries.

I didn't see any contradiction in that person's post. Maybe you should re-read it. I don't have any personal knowledge of teachers' salaries, but the claim that was made is that they consist primarily of union guaranteed annual salary increases regardless of skill or talent. That is entirely consistent with the claim that during a budget crunch it would be difficult for new teachers (or even experienced teachers who have moved around rather than staying at one school for 40+ years) to get a job because the entire budget is consumed by paying large salaries to the small number of teachers who have been collecting annual increases for decades and are guaranteed continued employment and salary increases even if their performance falls short of the new teachers (whether they're fresh out of school or starting teaching after a decade or two of work in private industry.)