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(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? 702

Posted by timothy from the make-it-roll-over dept.
haroldag writes "I thoroughly enjoyed the recent post about Unix tricks, so I ask Slashdot vim users, what's out there? :Sex, :b#, marks, ctags. Any tricks worth sharing?"
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Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap 621

Posted by kdawson from the head-out-of-the-clouds dept.
stevedcc writes in to tell us about an interview with RMS in The Guardian, in which he gives his views on cloud computing, with a particular focus on user access to data and the sacrifices made for convenience. "'It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign,' he told The Guardian. 'Somebody is saying this is inevitable — and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.'" Computerworld has a summary of some of the blogosphere's reaction to RMS's position.
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Submission + - Vatican Says Life on Mars Plausible (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to BBC, the director of the Vatican Observatory stated in an article titled "Aliens Are My Brother" that intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. "The search for forms of extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God. — Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God." Mind that this is not the same director who said that evolution is more than a mere theory — he was Father Coyne. I myself agree. There might be intelligent beings created by God in outer space even if there are none here on earth.

Comment Re:So don't hire them. (Score 2, Insightful) 107

by greyhill (#18369705) Attached to: What Game Companies Want From Graduates
I got into programming in 3rd grade because I wanted to make games. I've taken tons of computer science courses through high school and college, looked into programming books, the works. But none of that has been as educational or fun as spending a few hours a night trying to figure out how to work OpenGl works, reading other people's code and writing my own stuff. I haven't read TFA, and I'm not looking to go into the industry, but I have the feeling that the good game programmers do their jobs because they love it and they'll put in their own time to learn something - simply because they enjoy it.

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