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"Every foot-peddle trash can I've ever owned has broken not long after acquisition." - Avdi Grimm

"Yeah I was confused about the branch thing too, anyone familiar with Darcs shouldn't have been surprised by that." - Avdi Grimm

"Is it faster than fastercsv?" - Avdi Grimm

"I think your other commenter is right about the "glib headline", unfortunately. It's the nature of the reddit beast. Thanks for the very informative comment." - Avdi Grimm

"As I read the quote, he's *encouraging* people to do nothing but complain. "We have to be in his ear"." - Avdi Grimm

"So, going from "the bottom up" means going straight to the top? I got excited for a second there, I thought a public figure was actually advocating tackling problems with constructive local action. But no, it's just more "fix problems by telling someone powerful to make everything better"." - Avdi Grimm

Expert recording and networking services for conferences, seminars and workshops. - Avdi Grimm

"In your opinion, what's the most important thing we youngsters can do to honor the elders in our families and in our lives?" - Avdi Grimm

"> and you both have character That last bit is key." - Avdi Grimm

"I see someone beat me to it, but back in the day before the term “wiki” came to be synonymous with WikiMedia the place to discuss online community-building was MeatballWiki: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin.... I don’t know how active it has been recently though." - Avdi Grimm

"Well summarized." - Avdi Grimm

"Something that was brought up in a thread which I think deserves more attention: **there are consequences to waiting to have kids as well**. As I mentioned in another comment, while we had stepchildren from a previous marriage I waited to have kids with my wife for 7 years after getting married, largely because our relationship was rough for a while. In retrospect I still think this was a good decision... but not one without consequences. My wife is not in her twenties or even early 30s any more, and now she's pregnant with our second child together. And I see the consequences of delaying having children every day. It is **hard** on her. The older a woman gets, the harder it is on her body to carry a baby, and the more possible complications there are. Now, ours is a somewhat unusual case because my wife is older than me. And I'm not saying that this is a reason to rush into having kids; I'm saying that there are consequences to either choice. Guys, when you keep telling your GF/wife..." - Avdi Grimm

"This is such BS. I don't condone rushing into marriage but I'm convinced the myth of "true compatibility" is the cause of more divorces than anything else. Here's a hint: you're not compatible with *anyone* you spend 90% of your non-working hours with. I don't care how much you have in common, you will eventually drive each other up the pole and become *convinced* that you are completely incompatible after all. Which is where most couples today start thinking "gee, guess I picked wrong"." - Avdi Grimm

"Yay, more protips on marriage from a young single person. As a 29 year old software engineer, allow me to return the favor by giving you some pointers on commercial chicken farming." - Avdi Grimm

"May I suggest you work on developing such relationships? The kind that are sufficiently close that they *would* see you lapsing into bad habits despite it being hidden from the public. Therapy is great and I agree with the people who have recommended it. But the sustenance of long-term stability requires having friends who will both support you and keep you honest. And for a hetero male with problems relating to women, that means male friends." - Avdi Grimm

"Do you have any close male friends that you can talk to about stuff like this? Did they see the behavior? Did they say anything about it?" - Avdi Grimm

"The willingness to split the world into "people who I shouldn't abuse" and "people who are fair game" is part of the cycle." - Avdi Grimm

"Could be a configuration issue? I've never noticed the kind of slowdown in Mono apps that I've seen in Java and Python apps. And Do in particular is noticeably snappier than it's inspiration Quicksilver on the mac." - Avdi Grimm

"Yeah I know what you mean, I refuse to use any programs by programmers with middle names starting with "P"." - Avdi Grimm

"I can imagine that too. What I can't imagine is wanting a splash screen to be tiled along with other ordinary windows." - Avdi Grimm

"I can imagine that too. What I can't imagine is wanting a splash screen to be tiled along with other ordinary windows." - Avdi Grimm

""Latter Days", by Over the Rhine" - Avdi Grimm

"No one's suggesting that the ability to configure splash windows be taken away - only that they have sensible defaults out of the box." - Avdi Grimm

"No one's suggesting that the ability to configure splash windows be taken away - only that they have sensible defaults out of the box." - Avdi Grimm

"Exactly. I clarified above." - Avdi Grimm

"It might be worthwhile to bake in special support for apps as popular as GNOME Do - I don't think I know a single Ubuntu user who *doesn't* use it. However, there doesn't appear to be any need at all for a special case here. According to xprop, my GNOME-Do window has the following property set: _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH According to [Freedesktop.org](http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec...): > This property SHOULD be used by the window manager in determining > the decoration, stacking position and other behavior of the window. > [...] > _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH indicates that the window is a > splash screen displayed as an application is starting up. It seems reasonable for XMonad to default to setting the ignore flag for any window with this property set. I can't imagine ever wanting a splash screen to be managed and tiled. This is one of the things that eventually caused me to move away from XMonad - it took configuration simply to..." - Avdi Grimm

"I remember doing this back when I was trying to switch to XMonad. You mean you *still* have to do this manually? Lame." - Avdi Grimm

"Suddenly I am seized with the desire to plot out a complicated itinerary which will spell out "F U FEDS" when seen from space. See also Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged." - Avdi Grimm

"Glad it's useful!" - Avdi Grimm

"You're quite right, in some more recent scripts I've taken the next token into account." - Avdi Grimm

swissinfo - The Swiss have approved a ban on the construction of minarets, according to incomplete results of voting on Sunday. - Avdi Grimm

Rack-Shell - script console for Rack apps - Avdi Grimm