"> People will shoot each other anyway, should we legalize that? Reddit is also very pro-gun. So they'd probably say yes to that."
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
"> I'm curious if this might pave the way for a transition away from AppleScript in future versions of OS X. People already tried this awhile ago: http://www.latenightsw.com/freewar... idk, I'd rather Apple just worked on improving AppleScript instead of replacing it entirely..."
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
"Haven't ever seen the Sopranos (I've been meaning to though), but I've wanted to take a trip along the east coast of Canada for a while now... it's been a few years since I've last been (I'm from New Hampshire so my family's crossed the border into Canada on vacations to Maine sometimes)"
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
cooljeanius on One interesting thing about the voters who think Benghazi is the biggest political scandal in American history is that 39% of them don't actually know where it is. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I thought the relevant quote was: > Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed: > > golem$ ed > > ? > help > ? > ? > ? > quit > ? > exit > ? > bye > ? > hello? > ? > eat flaming death > ? > ^C > ? > ^C > ? > ^D > ? > > --- > > Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity."
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
cooljeanius on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why." [xpost from /r/technology] - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"That's the same hash he posted. So I guess you're saying it checks out then?"
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
cooljeanius on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why." [xpost from /r/technology] - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"> A small and rotating subset of people are constantly pissed off, but the rest of the community and the platform moves forward free of suboptimal cruft. And as someone who is **not** a utilitarian, I find this unacceptable."
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
cooljeanius on Benghazi is a bigger scandal than Watergate! If you think otherwise, you've just been duped by the big media conspiracy! - http://www.reddit.com/r...
cooljeanius on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why." [xpost from /r/technology] - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Wait, you can use `pv` at the beginning like that? I always assumed it had to go in the middle of two pipes, like: cat /dev/urandom | pv | xxd > foo.txt"
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
cooljeanius on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why." [xpost from /r/technology] - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"He said: > Our build tools run way faster on linux and macos. Which I interpreted to mean, "Our build tools run way faster on Linux, and they **also** run way faster on Mac OS, too." It looks like you took it to mean "Our build tools run way faster on Linux/MacOS," and if he *did* mean that, then your correction would be correct."
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
cooljeanius on If I get a computer shipped from America, will it connect to australian internet? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"To be fair, the same thing could be said about needing Wine for stuff on Linux..."
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
cooljeanius on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why." [xpost from /r/technology] - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"> That is one of the biggest complaints any time a new OS comes out. People seem to start bitching about how old apps don't work I'll admit that I'm usually one to make those complaints. I'm still kind of annoyed by the removal of Rosetta..."
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
"> Only because you've used that method for so many years. I actually only learned the magic of unix pipes within the last year or so. So it's not an experience thing. It just "clicked" all of a sudden..."
- Eric 'E-money' Gallager
cooljeanius on "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why." - http://www.reddit.com/r...