I have the opposite problem. I try to use Ctrl+F (well, grep actually) in the real world. Don't tell me you haven't. I can't recall the number of times I've been reading a book, deciding I want to search for something, and caught myself thinking "I'll just grep for.... oh shit."

It happens less and less now, since I've started using the iPad as a book reader. Now the only really annoying thing is getting a non-searchable PDF, which is fortunately pretty rare.

From 2005:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/05/02/14/1519212/The-Cure-for-Cancer-Might-be-HIV

I thought the subject of this story sounded familiar. Seems like they've made progress! Let's hope it stands up to further studies. Many, many promising treatments turn out to be fools' gold.

With such a hefty price tag, Apple clearly must have serious plans for the cloud in the pipeline..."

Considering the size of Apple, 4.5 mil is chump change. I don't really think that indicates anything about "serious plans."

I just ditched cable this winter. The hardest part for me wasn't giving up cable, but the nice MythTV DVR PC I bought from components and installed when it still meant something to install your own Myth box. (Not really bragging, I'm just proud of my accomplishment. Ok, so yeah, I guess that means I'm bragging, so sue me.)

Now I have an old Mac mini with Boxee on it hooked up to the TV (36" LCD 720p, nothing special at all) and can control it all with an Apple remote, which I like. (Well, I have a BT keyboard/mouse if I want to browse to something not available as an app on Boxee.) I also moved my home media collection to a smaller, quiet PC that also serves as the home Samba share, in another room. Not that the myth box was loud, but now my living room is super quiet.

So far, I really haven't missed cable, and I'm quite happy with the setup.

You can save a step (well, several) and you don't even need to be root, at least with gun-coreutils installed:

touch -t 196901010000.00 ReallyOldFile

ls -l !$
-rw-r--r-- 1 damogan king 0 Jan 1 1969 ReallyOldFile

One time I witnessed one of these explosions in Boston, and let me tell you, it's quite impressive! It was a hot August day and I was standing about 20 ft away from it, when out of nowhere, BOOMBOOMBOOM! There were actually a series of explosions that knocked the manhole cover a foot or two in the air each time, and each time the cover came back down perfectly on the hole, as if nothing ever happened. There was a college kid who was even closer to it than I was. He was just a few feet away when it happened and I could see that it shook him up pretty badly.

I asked the workman who was there a short time later what exactly had happened and he said a transformer had blown.

What we really need is a computer for people that can't think!

All of the above!

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Just a typo. It was supposed to be http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/11/oracle-sun-pains

> This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any application of funny "Fixed that for you" jokes will be most welcome.

Fixed that for you!

Sounds like you want to drive our country into the ground. The one distinct advantage the US has is that even though you may be a "late bloomer", your entire future is not decided the moment you turn twelve. If my future had been decided by the time I was in junior high, I'd be a hell of a lot worse off than I am now. I went from a basically mediocre performance in high school (possibly due more to social issues than intelligence), to obtaining a PhD in mathematics. I'm definitely not saying that having this degree means I'm smarter than those who don't have such a degree, but it does show that, in my case at least, my parents were right not to give up on being "110% supporting" of me (Oh, but how I frustrated them when I was young!) In closing, let me just say fuck you, and fuck what you said.

Hmm, a colleague of mine had the same question from Google a while back. Are you sure they were looking for "ls"? (i.e., did she say that?) The answer of course, is "stat". (To be honest, that was a command with which I was unfamiliar until my colleague told me about the question. Since then, I've found it to be quite handy in certain situations.)

Heh, I guess I belong here. I just spent a moment trying to figure out which were the "geek city states"...