I feel your pain... I left my previous bank because they "improved" the UI with a brain dead design, that required pixel hunting and clicking "next page" until all the records had been displayed for the selected month before being allowed to save as CSV. Btw, the bank I'm talking about is the CGD of Portugal (Caixa Geral de Depositos). Fuck you CGD, please slowly die in a fire.

I made a small script with xdotool to dump all my data before I switched to another bank. It was ugly, but did the job.

Sure, just as not long ago murder was an alternative to solve personal conflicts. Fortunately, the evolution of society made it a more costly alternative, as in you'll pay with the restriction of your liberty if you choose it.

To solve the problem of war we would need transparency and real accountability for those who command it, and to remove incentives from the war industry. In other words, remove the opportunity Dick Cheney had, when he made a fortune by making Halliburton's stock skyrocket with his crimes in Iraq.

Perhaps. But right now, not in the bad old days, I do a "git diff my_file_with_tabs_different_than_8_spaces.c" and get a wonderfully beautiful output [/sarcasm].

Yes, I love CLI, now get off my lawn.

Psychopaths sympathize with that statement.

I'm sorry you're too simple minded to realize how flawed your justice system is, and how many innocents had their lives taken by it.

The UK never really wanted to be part of Europe. It even tried swimming away, but quickly got tired after just some kilometers away from the continent.

FTFY. But I bet they still eat shellfish.

That's what Jesus would say. You are indeed a good Christian (I mean, if by "God" you meant Yahweh).

I don't think Bazaar can be included in the NIH set, as upstart and mir can. When they started working on Bazaar, there was no distributed VCS that was as simple and intuitive as what they had implemented. I've used Darcs before switching to Bazaar, and though I don't remember specifics, I remember feeling much more comfortable using bzr. In the end, git is the clear winner of the DVCS race (Mercurial folks might disagree with me), but you can't blame Canonical for investing in their solution (a very good one, imho). Btw, bzr was first released two weeks before git's first release.

Stupid snarky comment aside, the GP was referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
I've been reading too many Asimov books lately... :p

I prefer Asimov's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Not mentioning Asimov's work on satellites.

Ok, in this thread there are already C++, Ruby, and Perl 6 versions of your snippets, so I'll add the Python ones.

lines.sort(lambda a, b: a.name < b.name)
or
lines.sort(key=lambda o: o.name)

from glob import glob
files = glob("c:/Windows/*.exe")

I think a good analogy would be Perl is Finish, Python is Esperanto. When you have hundreds of thousands of LoC to maintain, I guess a more direct and unambiguous language is preferred.

It occurred to me that perhaps Perl is an attempt to seduce the computer... too bad it will take some time before it can appreciate language nuances... ;)

No, the OP does not have a point. Why are you focusing on one specific instance? Violence is widespread, and is committed by all kinds of people. Christians of all denominations in the US were quite content with the fact their government torture people (or offshore the task). The loads of innocent people that are killed in drone attacks are also not victims of muslim terrorists.

Religions are stupid and should be extinguished, but the correct way to achieve that goal is through education. With violence you'll only get more violence.

If by "normal" you mean the normal curve, I guess you're right... probably the majority of the population is ignorant people that can't analyze the facts for themselves. Easier to watch Fox News and hate the other group.

It is not the full beta. Just the tip.

Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure
Say, "I do believe."
Uncross your arms now
Take 'em to it
Say, "I do believe
I do believe."